SHOWCASE #22
CGC FN: 6.0
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PUBLISHER: DC
COMMENTS: ow/w pages
origin & 1st app of Green Lantern (Hal Jordan); 1st mention of Green Lantern Corp; 1st app/death of Abin Sur, 1st Carol Ferris; COMIC BOOK IMPACT rating of 69 (CBI)
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origin & 1st app of Green Lantern (Hal Jordan); 1st mention of Green Lantern Corp; 1st app/death of Abin Sur, 1st Carol Ferris; COMIC BOOK IMPACT rating of 69 (CBI)
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ow/w pages
origin & 1st app of Green Lantern (Hal Jordan); 1st mention of Green Lantern Corp; 1st app/death of Abin Sur, 1st Carol Ferris; COMIC BOOK IMPACT rating of 69 (CBI).After the runaway success of the revamped Flash in Showcase #4, DC editors scrambled through the archives looking for Golden Age heroes to rework and repackage for the Atomic Era. Unsurprisingly, the next big hit of the DC Silver Age was a refurbished Green Lantern, who was upgraded to a devil-may-care hero with a science-fiction themed secret identity and origin tale perfectly suited to the Sputnik-era.
Crack DC draftsman Gil Kane turned in an extraordinary and timeless costume, and indefatigable scribe John Broome worked with DC editor Julius Schwartz to concoct a mystical, yet futuristic, and surprisingly moving debut. If the Flash was the hint of a Silver Age of heroes, this book affirmed its existence and assured everything that followed. Its importance to comic history cannot be understated.
Overstreet Guide 2019 FN (6.0) value = $5,100
origin & 1st app of Green Lantern (Hal Jordan); 1st mention of Green Lantern Corp; 1st app/death of Abin Sur, 1st Carol Ferris; COMIC BOOK IMPACT rating of 69 (CBI).After the runaway success of the revamped Flash in Showcase #4, DC editors scrambled through the archives looking for Golden Age heroes to rework and repackage for the Atomic Era. Unsurprisingly, the next big hit of the DC Silver Age was a refurbished Green Lantern, who was upgraded to a devil-may-care hero with a science-fiction themed secret identity and origin tale perfectly suited to the Sputnik-era.
Crack DC draftsman Gil Kane turned in an extraordinary and timeless costume, and indefatigable scribe John Broome worked with DC editor Julius Schwartz to concoct a mystical, yet futuristic, and surprisingly moving debut. If the Flash was the hint of a Silver Age of heroes, this book affirmed its existence and assured everything that followed. Its importance to comic history cannot be understated.
Overstreet Guide 2019 FN (6.0) value = $5,100