Green Lantern #173 [Newsstand]
(February 1984)

DC, 1960 Series
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Price
0.75 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1983-11-17
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Barcode
0709893051502
Editing
Len Wein (editor); Nicola Cuti (assistant editor); Tom Condon (managing editor)

Issue Notes

This issue is a variant of Green Lantern (DC, 1960 series) #173 [Direct]. There exist further variants:

Beware the Javelin, My Son! (Table of Contents)

Green Lantern / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Dave Gibbons
Inks
Dave Gibbons
Colors
Anthony Tollin
Letters
?
Job Number
C-601
Genre
superhero
Characters
Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Javelin
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Colors credit confirmed by Anthony Tollin.

Cover Thumbnail for Green Lantern (DC, 1960 series) #173 [Newsstand] Cover Thumbnail for Green Lantern (1960 series) #173 [Canadian] Cover Thumbnail for Green Lantern (1960 series) #173 [Direct]
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Old Friends, New Foes..! (Table of Contents: 1)

Green Lantern / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Script
Len Wein
Pencils
Dave Gibbons
Inks
Dave Gibbons
Colors
Anthony Tollin
Letters
Dave Gibbons
Job Number
J-9045
Genre
superhero
Characters
Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Carol Ferris; The Javelin (introduction, villain); Monitor (villain, cameo); Lyla (villain, cameo); Congressman Bloch; Bruce Gordon; Thomas Kalmaku
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Carol Ferris and the Earthbound supporting cast return to the strip. Bruce Gordon (Eclipso) is part of the new supporting cast. Non-advertised, pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths mini-series five-panel-sequence-cameo with The Monitor (only hands shown with voice) and Lyla [Harbinger].

Progress (Table of Contents: 2)

Green Lantern Corps / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Joey Cavalieri
Pencils
Dave Gibbons
Inks
Dave Gibbons
Colors
Jeanine Casey
Job Number
J-9058
Genre
science fiction; superhero
Characters
Green Lanterns (unnamed)
Synopsis
Silent (no word balloons) story in which one Green Lantern dies and passes on his ring to another.
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Letters by Lantern Light / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Len Wein
Pencils
José Luis García-López
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Job Number
L-1535

Indexer Notes

Letters from Kent A. Phenis, Mike Sopp, Sam Lemoine, Jef Peckham, and Mary Hartery.

Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Beware the Javelin, My Son!
    Green Lantern
  2. 1. Old Friends, New Foes..!
    Green Lantern
  3. 2. Progress
    Green Lantern Corps
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Letters by Lantern Light
This issue was modified by
  • Mac Herrmann
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Donald Dale Milne
  • Daniel Thingvold
  • Jim Van Dore
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