Green Lantern
#88
(February-March 1972)
DC,
1960 Series
- Volume
- 13
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1971-12-23
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Superman DC National Comics
- Editing
- Julius Schwartz
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #77.
Special Surprise Issue!
Green Lantern / cover / 1 page
- Job Number
- S-1084
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]
Indexer Notes
Cover art credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Summons from Space!
Green Lantern / comic story / 12.7 pages
- Job Number
- S-1102
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Green Lantern [Hal Jordan] (brief origin); Carol Ferris; A Venusian Pterodactyl; Venusians
- Synopsis
- Green Lantern travels to Venus to save a blue-skinned caveman-like race from attack by yellow Pterodactyl-like creatures.
- Reprints
-
from Showcase (DC, 1956 series) #23 (November-December 1959)
-
Indexer Notes
Some sources incorrectly credit Murphy Anderson on inks. The Schwartz pay records list Joe Giella, and art spotter Gene Reed agrees. Schwartz pay records provided by DC Comics.
The Menace of the Marching Toys!
Green Lantern / comic story / 12 pages
- Job Number
- S-1101
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Green Lantern [also appears as Alan Scott]; Tin Soldier [Eric Knowles]; Molly Maynne
- Synopsis
- GL fights the Tin Soldier, a disgruntled toymaker who has built an army of mechanical toys that steal for him.
- Reprints
-
in Green Lantern Album (K. G. Murray, 1976 ? series) #2 ([October 1976])
-
Indexer Notes
This Golden Age Green Lantern story was originally intended for Green Lantern (DC, 1941 series) #39 but was never published due to the cancellation of the series with the previous issue.
[no title indexed]
Green Lantern's Mail Chute / letters page / 3 pages
- Script
- Julius Schwartz
- Pencils
- Gil Kane (illustration)
- Inks
- Joe Giella (illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- S-1092
Indexer Notes
letters submitted by Mark Colella; Glen Martin; Dwight R. Decker; Barbara L. Carroll; Martin Pasko; Randall Way; Roderick Fong; Joseph Quinones; Steve Weprin; Andrea Boazmen
The Origin of Green Lantern's Oath!
Green Lantern / comic story / 9.67 pages
- Job Number
- S-1103
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Pieface [Thomas Kalmaku]; Carol Ferris; Mr. Burbank (banker); Hank (bank robber); Mr. Davis (jet mechanic); Hank (safe-cracker)
- Synopsis
- Green Lantern tells Pieface the story of his first three cases, on which his oath is based.
- Reprints
- from Green Lantern (DC, 1960 series) #10 (January 1962)
-
in Batman (Editorial Novaro, 1954 series) #656 (16 de noviembre de 1972), #656 (16 de noviembre de 1972)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Special Surprise Issue!
Green Lantern -
1.
Summons from Space!
Green Lantern -
2.
The Menace of the Marching Toys!
Green Lantern -
3.
Sorry -- I Have No More D.C. Comics!
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4.
[no title indexed]
Green Lantern's Mail Chute -
5.
The Origin of Green Lantern's Oath!
Green Lantern -
6.
An Epic of Our Time
Green Lantern
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- CTGarry
- Donald Dale Milne
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Per Sandell
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
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