Green Lantern #1

(July-August 1960)

Buzzy Says: Free Speech -- Free For All! (Table of Contents)

Buzzy / public service announcement / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jack Schiff

Pencils:

Win Mortimer

Inks:

Win Mortimer

Letters:

Ira Schnapp

Content Information

Genre:

teen

Characters:

Buzzy

Synopsis:

Tom is tearing down the campaign posters of the candidate his father opposes, until Buzzy shows him that his father is much more fair-minded.

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover; published in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly.
Previously published in DC comics cover-dated January 1953.

The Planet of Doomed Men (Table of Contents)

Green Lantern / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

John Broome

Pencils:

Gil Kane

Inks:

Murphy Anderson

Colors:

?

Letters:

Gaspar Saladino

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Green Lantern [Hal Jordan] (origin recap); The Guardians of the Universe (introduction); Green Lantern [Abin Sur] (flashback); Calorians; The Dryg (villain)

Synopsis:

Hal Jordan's energy-duplicate is summoned by the Guardians for the first time. After he is returned to Earth the Guardians send him to Calor, a nearby planet, to save the Calorians from the ape-monster Dryg.

Reprinted:

• in Secret Origins (DC, 1961 series) #1 (Summer 1961)
• in DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest (DC, 1980 series) #4 (September-October 1980)
• in Green Lantern Archives (DC, 1993 series) #1
• in Secret Origins Replica Edition (DC, 1998 series) #1
• in Showcase Presents Green Lantern (DC, 2005 series) #1 [black and white]

Indexer Notes

Origin recap. First appearance of the Guardians.

["National Comics proudly presents..."] (Table of Contents)

Many Loves of Dobie Gillis / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bob Oksner

Inks:

Bob Oksner

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

teen

Characters:

Dobie Gillis; Thalia

Indexer Notes

House ad for The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis #2 (July-August 1960), with cover art shown. No shipping info given. Located between page eight and nine of first story.

Nobel Prize Winners (Table of Contents)

filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Julius Schwartz ?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

fact

Indexer Notes

Four panels with text regarding Marie Curie; Albert Einstein; Albert A. Michelson; and Hideki Yukawa.

Black Magic! (Table of Contents)

filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

fact

Indexer Notes

Four panels with text regarding old superstitions.

["Dear Editor, I am 24 years old..."] (Table of Contents)

Green Lantern's Mail Chute / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Julius Schwartz

Pencils:

Gil Kane (logo illustration)

Inks:

Joe Giella (logo illustration)

Colors:

? (logo illustration)

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters of comment from Bob Saxon; Joseph Colasacco; Louise Lazarowics; Roy Thomas; Bob (Unsigned); and "Fatman".

Menace of the Giant Puppet! (Table of Contents)

Green Lantern / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

John Broome

Pencils:

Gil Kane

Inks:

Joe Giella

Colors:

?

Letters:

Gaspar Saladino

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; The Puppet-Master (introduction, villain); Carol Ferris; Biffy (small-time crook)

Synopsis:

The Puppet-Master invents a Hypno-Ray and commits crimes using others as puppets, until he attempts to capture Green Lantern, who instead captures him. Meanwhile, Carol Ferris daydreams of marrying Green Lantern.

Reprinted:

• in Wanted. The World's Most Dangerous Villains (DC, 1972 series) #1 (July-August 1972)
• in Green Lantern Archives (DC, 1993 series) #1
• in Showcase Presents Green Lantern (DC, 2005 series) #1 [black and white]

Indexer Notes

The Hypno-Ray is similar to an emotion controlling ray invented by Mind Games in Action Comics Weekly 611-613. Green Lantern uses a high speed stunt like The Flash.

Strange Satellites! (Table of Contents)

filler / 0.5 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Julius Schwartz ?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

fact

Indexer Notes

Two panels with text regarding moons Jupiter IX, Phobos, and Iapetus.