VOLUME 1 1959 - 1967
COMICS INDEX
VOLUME 1 1959 - 1967
COMICS INDEX LEONIDAS FRAGIAS
The Arts & Charts Index to Green Lantern The format and design of this book is based on George Olshevsky's Marvel Index series and Murray Ward's DC Index series. Their books have a beautiful layout which was an inspiration for me. The Official Marvel Index is a series of comic books released by Marvel Comics which featured synopses of several Marvel series. The books were largely compiled by George Olshevsky and featured detailed information on each issue in a particular series, including writer and artist credits, characters who appeared in the issue, and a story synopsis. The Official Marvel Index was preceded by the Marvel Comics Index (also compiled by Olshevsky) and distributed by Pacific Comics Distributors sporadically from 1976-1982. These books were magazinesized as opposed to comic-sized. The first Official Marvel Index titles were published in 1985, and produced regularly through August 1988. A similar series of indices was published for DC Comics. The Official DC Index was released by Independent Comics Group (an imprint of Eclipse Comics) from 1985–1988. The books were edited by Murray Ward. The data for this book is taken from various sources. I fill the gap of the missing data, since I have the complete collection of DC and Marvel comics from the 1930s to the present. Also I made some corrections, when the data is wrong. The book series cover the silver age (from the mid-1950s to 1969) and the bronze age (from 1970 to 1986) of DC Comics. This is my favorite era, when it comes to comics. Many thanks to DarkMark, George Olshevsky, Murray Ward, Mark Waid and Mike Tiefenbacher among others. Leonidas Fragias
THE GREEN LANTERN COMICS INDEX Volume 1, 2018. Published by Arts & Charts. Editor: Leonidas Fragias, Writers: Various. Green Lantern is trademark of DC Comics Inc. All art and cover reproductions Š2018 DC Comics Inc.
Showcase #22
Showcase #23
September-October 1959 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Joe Giella Story: “SOS Green Lantern” (6 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: A dying alien from the planet Ungara bequeaths to test pilot Hal Jordan his Power Ring and green Power Battery, and gives him the responsibility of being the Green Lantern of space-sector 2814.
November-December 1959 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Joe Giella Story: “Summons From Space” (13 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Green Lantern is summoned by a voice from his Power Battery to Venus, where he must save the inhabitants from a band of yellow pterodactyls.
Story: “Secret of the Flaming Spear” (9 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: A group of enemy spies tries to destroy an experimental plane, and Green Lantern swings into action to stop them.
Story: “The Invisible Destroyer” (12 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Green Lantern encounters the Invisible Destroyer, a foe who appears as a bodiless uniform and who can defy his Power Ring’s beam.
Story: “Menace of the Runaway Missle” (10 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: A yellow-colored missle is aimed at Coast City, and Green Lantern must find a way of stopping it.
Showcase #24
Green Lantern #1
January-February 1960 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Joe Giella Story: “The Secret of the Black Museum” (13 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: When top-secret plane plans are lifted from Hal Jordan’s pocket, Green Lantern traces a spy ring down to a museum.
July-August 1960 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Joe Giella Story: “The Planet of Doomed Men” (15 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Hal Jordan’s energy-duplicate is summoned before his masters, the Guardians of the Universe, for the first time. Later, he learns he must save the people of the planet Calor from a giant gorilla-like monster called the Dryg.
Story: “The Creature That Couldn’t Die” (12 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Green Lantern faces a monster made of cosmic rays, against which even his ring seems useless.
Story: “Menace of the Giant Puppet” (10 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Green Lantern encounters the Puppet Master, whose mindcontrol device allows him to force any victim to do his bidding.
Green Lantern #2 September-October 1960 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Joe Giella Story: “The Secret of the Golden Thunderbolts” (13 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Green Lantern learns from an escapee from Qward about the existence of an anti-matter universe in which the guiding principle is evil, and whose inhabitants wish to invade the Earth-One universe. Story: “Riddle of the Frozen Ghost Town” (12 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: When Hal Jordan finds out that his mechanic, Thomas “Pieface” Kalmaku, is quitting to return to his native Alaska, Green Lantern investigates and finds a gang of crooks in search of a gold mine.
Green Lantern #3 November-December 1960 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Joe Giella Story: “The Amazing Theft of the Power Lamp” (13 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: The Qwardians decoy Green Lantern away by a massive mirage of Ferris Aircraft Company, and steal his Power Battery while he is gone. Story: “The Leap Year Menace” (12 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Leap Year rolls around, and Carol Ferris is determined to propose marriage to Green Lantern, who creates a monster to distract himself from having to respond to her.
Green Lantern #4 January-February 1961 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Joe Giella Story: “The Diabolical Missle From Qward” (13 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Green Lantern manages to avoid being destroyed by a missle from Qward, but must go there to find a cure for Pieface’s radiation poisoning. Story: “Secret of Green Lantern’s Mask” (12 pages) Writer: John Broome Pencillers: Gil Kane (pgs. 1-3, 12), Carmine Infantino (pgs. 4-11) Synopsis: Hal Jordan crashes a party at Carol Ferris’s house and learns that the scheduled entertainment is provided by Green Lantern.
Green Lantern #5 March-April 1961 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Joe Giella Story: “The Power Ring That Vanished” (25 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: A group of scientists held captive and hyper-evolved by a man named Hector Hammond draws Pieface (changed by Hal Jordan into a duplicate Green Lantern) to them with a tractor-beam, hoping for his aid, but causes the ring to fly off his finger in the process.
Green Lantern #6 May-June 1961 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Joe Giella Story: “The World of Living Phantoms” (25 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: With dangers simultaneously threatening his world and the planet of Aku, the Green Lantern of Xudar contacts the Green Lantern of Earth for help.
Green Lantern #7 July-August 1961 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Joe Giella Story: “The Day 100,000 People Vanished” (16 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: A renegade ex-Green Lantern, Sinestro, exiled to Qward, teleports an entire city of Earth people to the anti-matter universe, and Green Lantern must rescue them. Story: “Wings of Destiny” (9 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Hal Jordan dreams so intensely about turning Pieface into a bird that his Power Ring carries out the command, just as Terga, Thomas’s girlfriend, arrives from Alaska.
Green Lantern #8
Green Lantern #9
September-October 1961 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Jack Adler Story: “The Challenge From 5700 A.D.” (25 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Green Lantern is transported into the year 5700 A.D. and given a false set of memories so that he may, as the Solar Director of that time, help save humanity from a race of ray-blasting mutant gila monsters.
November-December 1961 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Murphy Anderson Story: “The Battle of the Power Rings” (13 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Sinestro, using a yellow power ring of his own creation, escapes his imprisonment and captures Green Lantern, telling him he intends to revenge himself on the Green Lantern Corps and the Guardians of the Universe. Story: “Green Lantern’s Brother Act” (12 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: During a political campaign for Jack Jordan, whose brothers Hal and Jim give him all the help they can, reporter Sue Williams becomes convinced that Jim Jordan is secretly Green Lantern.
Green Lantern #10
Green Lantern #11
January 1962 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Murphy Anderson Story: “Prisoner of the Power Ring” (15 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: A scientist finds a way to transport himself and his family to a world without war and conflict--which exists on an atom within Green Lantern’s ring.
March 1962 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Joe Giella Story: “The Strange Trial of Green Lantern” (16 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: For derelictions of duty, the Green Lantern Corps strips Green Lantern of Earth of his insignia and power ring, and exile him to Qward, where he falls into the hands of Sinestro.
Story: “The Origin of Green Lantern’s Oath” (10 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Thomas Kalmaku asks Green Lantern how he formulated his ring-charging oath, and learns of the three early episodes that inspired him.
Story: “The Trail of the Missing Power Ring” (10 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Green Lantern’s power ring falls out of a hole in Hal Jordan’s pocket and is found by a boy who idolizes the Emerald Gladiator.
Green Lantern #12
Green Lantern #13
April 1962 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Murphy Anderson Story: “Green Lantern’s Statue Goes To War” (18 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Green Lantern is transported to 5700 A.D. again to deal with the threat of a group of renegade generals who wish to seize power.
June 1962 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Joe Giella Story: “The Duel of the Super-Heroes” (26 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Green Lantern becomes mind-controlled by aliens, and the Flash must find a way to free him from their dominance.
Story: “Zero Hour In the Silent City” (7 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: In a town where all has gone silent, Green Lantern has only minutes to stop a gang of safecrackers before his ring goes dead.
Green Lantern #14 July 1962 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Murphy Anderson Story: “The Man Who Conquered Sound” (13 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: A villain who hopes to put his tiny country of Modora in the headlines strikes out at Green Lantern with sonic weapons of great power. Story: “My Brother, Green Lantern” (12 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Sue Williams sees an old green auto lamp in Jim Jordan’s house and becomes convinced that is his Power Battery. In the meantime, Hal’s ring gets mistakenly exchanged for a fraternity ring of Jack Jordan’s, and a millionaire auto collector kidnaps Jim to get his lamp.
Green Lantern #15 September 1962 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Murphy Anderson Story: “Peril of the Yellow World” (18 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Green Lantern becomes convinced that his old foe Sinestro is loose and attacking him from afar. But, when trailing him to the universe of Qward, he is lured into a world where everything but its inhabitants is colored yellow. Story: “Zero Hour In Rocket City” (7 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: In a city near Cape Canaveral, Green Lantern must face off a band of armed robbers while he believes his Power Ring is out of power.
Green Lantern #16
Green Lantern #17
October 1962 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Murphy Anderson Story: “The Secret Life of Star Sapphire” (15 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Carol Ferris is abducted by a band of alien Amazons who wish to crown her their queen Star Sapphire, but she refuses to leave without Green Lantern. So they endow her with a gem of power and mentally induce her to defeat him in battle.
December 1962 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Joe Giella Story: “The Spy-Eye That Doomed Green Lantern” (25 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Hal Jordan is hit with a ray that turns him into a living TV camera for a band of spies, and Green Lantern must recover the aircraft plans they steal. But the spies already have learned his secret identity.
Story: “Earth’s First Green Lantern” (10 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Green Lantern tells Pieface about the case in which his predecessor Abin Sur battled an energy-being in the conflict that ultimately led to his death.
Green Lantern #18 January 1963 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Joe Giella Story: “The World of Perilous Traps” (13 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Sinestro tricks Green Lantern into taking off his ring, claims it, and abducts his foe to Qward. Story: “Green Lantern Vs. Power Ring” (12 pages) Writer: John Broome Pencillers: Gil Kane (pg. 1-pg. 6 panel 4), Mike Sekowsky (pg. 6 panel 5-pg. 12) Synopsis: During a test, Green Lantern loses his ring, which falls into the hands of a drifter who uses it to gain power for himself.
Green Lantern #19 March 1963 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Murphy Anderson Story: “The Defeat of Green Lantern” (15 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: With Sonar on the loose, Green Lantern sees his power ring, acting without his command, drawing a scene of himself being shattered by his foe. Story: “The Trail of the Horse-and-Buggy Bandits” (10 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: An old woman mistakenly makes a call that connects her to Green Lantern’s ring, and requests him to admonish a group of men with a horse and buggy who turn out to be thieves.
Green Lantern #20 April 1963 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Murphy Anderson Story: “Parasite Planet Peril” (25 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Green Lantern and Flash team up to find a cure for a plague which makes people vanish, but Green Lantern himself is stricken and shrunken into a microscopic world.
Green Lantern #21 June 1963 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Murphy Anderson Story: “The Man Who Mastered Magnetism” (15 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Dr. Polaris, an advocate of “magnetic healing”, is taken over by the evil side of his personality and becomes a magnetic-powered foe of Green Lantern. Story: “Hal Jordan Betrays Green Lantern” (10 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: A telltale clue after an adventure he shares with Green Lantern convinces Carl Ferris that Hal Jordan is secretly the Emerald Gladiator.
Green Lantern #22 July 1963 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Murphy Anderson Story: “Master of the Power Ring” (13 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Hector Hammond returns as a hyper-evolved, immobile villain with mind-over-matter powers, which he uses to take control of the Power Ring away from Green Lantern. Story: “Dual Masquerade of the Jordan Brothers” (12 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: A crook vowing vengeance is set to strike at Jack Jordan and his uncle, Judge Jeremiah Jordan, at a costume party, and Sue Williams, insisting that Jim Jordan is really Green Lantern, wants him to do something about it.
Green Lantern #23 September 1963 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Murphy Anderson Story: “Threat of the Tattooed Man” (13 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Green Lantern faces the Tattooed Man, a villain who can bring his own tattoos to life. Story: “The Green Lantern Disasters” (12 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Green Lantern goes to Xaos to help Xax, the grasshopper Green Lantern, against a gang of thieving wasps who dress in yellow and set atomic bombs to go off whenever he uses his power ring.
Green Lantern #24
Green Lantern #25
October 1963 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Murphy Anderson Story: “The Shark That Hunted Human Prey” (15 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: A hyperevolved shark with mind-over-matter powers sets out to stalk humanity, and chooses Green Lantern as his first victim.
December 1963 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Murphy Anderson Story: “War of the Weapon Wizards” (25 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Hector Hammond uses Sonar as a pawn to battle Green Lantern, but first induces a hallucination in the hero’s mind in which he loses to Sonar when their weapons are exchanged.
Story: “The Strange World Named Green Lantern” (10 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Green Lantern is drawn to a strange planet one of whose continents is shaped in his image, and, once upon it, is beset by disasters and illusions of his old foes.
Green Lantern #26 January 1964 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Murphy Anderson Story: “Star Sapphire Unmasks Green Lantern” (15 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Carol Ferris becomes Star Sapphire again and intends to get Green Lantern to agree to marry her and give up his heroic identity, which he says he will only do if she can unmask him. Story: “World Within the Power Ring” (10 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: After Green Lantern is attacked by an evil duplicate of Abin Sur, he learns of an evil wizard imprisoned within the Power Ring.
Green Lantern #27 March 1964 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Murphy Anderson Story: “Mystery of the Deserted City” (13 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: A crook’s dimension-plane-hopping gadget causes an entire town of people to vanish, putting Green Lantern on the case. Story: “Amazing Transformation of Horace Tolliver” (12 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: A subconscious wish to aid a meek person causes Hal Jordan to unwittingly use the Power Ring to give him the power to make his wishes realities, with dire results.
Green Lantern #28 April 1964 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Murphy Anderson Story: “The Shark Goes On the Prowl Again” (15 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: The Shark returnes to defeat Green Lantern by kidnapping his three best friends. Story: “The House That Fought Green Lantern” (10 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Pencillers: Gil Kane (pgs. 1-5), Mike Sekowsky (pgs. 6-10) Synopsis: On the trail of a robber, Green Lantern is beset by a house filled with booby traps.
Green Lantern #29 June 1964 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Murphy Anderson Story: “Half a Green Lantern Is Better Than None” (14 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Green Lantern comes to grips with Black Hand, a proverbslinging villain who uses a device to send half of the hero’s body into another dimension. Story: “This World Is Mine” (12 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Green Lantern must battle a huge animated statue of himself, then must fight the Protonic Force which inhabits it.
Green Lantern #30
Green Lantern #31
July 1964 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Murphy Anderson Story: “The Tunnel Through Time” (13 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: A race of intelligent alien pterodactyls teleports some of their Earth brethren to the modern era, and Green Lantern must stop them from taking over the planet.
September 1964 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Murphy Anderson Story: “Power Rings For Sale” (12 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Green Lantern exhibits irrational behavior, including selling people duplicates of his Power Ring for a dollar apiece, in the face of an impending alien invasion.
Story: “Once a Green Lantern, Always a Green Lantern” (12 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Green Lantern has one day to convince the female Green Lantern of Korugar to change her decision to relinquish her duties in favor of marrying her lover.
Story: “Pay Up--Or Blow Up” (12 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: A renegade scientist threatens to use atomic power to blow up the entire city in which Jim Jordan and Sue Williams live, on the eve of their wedding, unless he receives a million dollars. Hal Jordan, in town for the wedding, becomes Green Lantern to deal with the problem.
Green Lantern #32
Green Lantern #33
October 1964 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Murphy Anderson Story: “Green Lantern’s Wedding Day” (12 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: While stopping a robbery at a science fair, Green Lantern receives a dose of radiation that merges him cyclically with the Green Lantern of a parallel Earth.
December 1964 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Murphy Anderson Story: “Wizard of the Light-Wave Weapons” (12 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: The Justice League’s foe Dr. Light now vows to tackle the members of the JLA one at a time, and the one he starts with is Green Lantern.
Story: “Power Battery Peril” (12 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Green Lantern is sucked through the Power Battery to another world where he must defeat the villain who has imprisoned the heroes of that planet.
Story: “The Disarming of Green Lantern” (12 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Pieface talks in his sleep and inadvertently reveals to a gangster the existence of the Power Battery at which Green Lantern charges his ring.
Green Lantern #34 January 1964 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Murphy Anderson Story: “Three-Way Attack Against Green Lantern” (24 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: By mentally trailing Green Lantern to the planet Oa, Hector Hammond learns of the existence of the Guardians of the Universe, and fabricates a phony one to attack him.
Green Lantern #35 March 1965 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Murphy Anderson Story: “Prisoner of the Golden Mask” (15 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: A costumed, flying man called the Aerialist destroys the plane Hal Jordan is testing, as part of a plan to bankrupt the Ferris Aircraft Company. When Hal becomes Green Lantern, the Aerialist thwarts him with a will-sapping golden mask. Story: “The Eagle Crusader of Earth” (10 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Green Lantern is called on to investigate happenings in the small town of Medusa, Nevada, where peoples’ minds are seemingly being exchanged with those of animals...and finds himself trapped in the body of an eagle.
Green Lantern #36
Green Lantern #37
April 1965 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Murphy Anderson Story: “Secret of the Power-Ringed Robot” (13 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Green Lantern transforms himself into a robot to survive the radiation in the hideout of a gang of spies, but is trapped by a magnetic device.
June 1965 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Murphy Anderson Story: “The Spies Who ‘Owned’ Green Lantern” (12 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Green Lantern finds himself a hypnoic pawn of spies to whom he mails secrets, so he gets the idea of turning himself into a letter and mailing himself to them.
Story: “Green Lantern’s Explosive Week-End” (12 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: While spending a “match-making” weekend at a lake, Hal Jordan learns that the woman he has been courting is secretly an alien refugee from a world dominated by big-domed Headmen.
Story: “The Plot to Conquer the Universe” (13 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Evil Star, a new foe of Green Lantern, battles and captures the Emerald Gladiator and impersonates him as part of a plot to destroy the Guardians and Green Lantern Corps.
Green Lantern #38 July 1965 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Murphy Anderson Story: “Menace of the Atomic Changeling” (12 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Tomar-Re comes to Earth to gain the help of Green Lantern against an atomic-spawned being that can take over the form of any object. Story: “The Elixir of Invulnerability” (12 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Green Lantern encounters Keith Kenyon, a villain who gives himself seeming invulnerability through an elixir of gold.
Green Lantern #39 September 1965 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Murphy Anderson Story: “Practice Makes the Perfect Crime” (14 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Black Hand breaks jail and uses his Power-Light to make everyone see Green Lantern as Black Hand himself. Story: “The Fight For the Championship of the Universe” (10 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: An alien prizefighter commits a string of robberies in order to get Green Lantern to fight him in the ring.
Green Lantern #40 October 1965 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Murphy Anderson Story: “Secret Origin of the Guardians” (24 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: An ancient Oan who defied the ban on trying to learn the secret origin of the universe, and who was penalized for it, finds a way of having the Earth-Two Green Lantern set him free of his imprisonment and of carrying on his work, in defiance of the Guardians and of the Green Lantern of Earth-One.
Green Lantern #41 December 1965 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Murphy Anderson Story: “The Double Life of Star Sapphire” (14 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: After Carol Ferris becomes Star Sapphire again to duel another rival for the queenship of the Zamarons, she and Green Lantern agree to battle to see which one must give up his or her career after they marry. Story: “Challenge of the Coin Creatures” (10 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Green Lantern encounters a crook who is aided by creatures sprung to life from ancient coins, and later learns it is a ploy of his old foe, the wizard Myrwhydden.
Green Lantern #42 January 1966 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Murphy Anderson Story: “The Other Side of the World” (24 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Zatanna comes to Green Lantern for help in her quest for her father Zatara, and both of them must brave the powers of the Warlock of Ys.
Green Lantern #43 March 1966 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Murphy Anderson Story: “Catastrophic Crimes of Major Disaster” (24 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: A villain called Major Disaster, who causes disasters by scientific means, switches Green Lantern’s and Flash’s powers to make each of them think he is powerless.
Green Lantern #44 April 1966 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Murphy Anderson Story: “Evil Star’s Death-Duel Summons” (12 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Evil Star escapes his imprisonment, immobilizes the Guardians, deactivates the Central Power Battery, and challenges Green Lantern to fight him. Story: “Saga of the Millionaire Schemer” (12 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Jim Jordan’s uncle Titus Thomas Jordan invites the Jordan brothers to his estate to secretly prove Sue’s theory that her husband Jim is Green Lantern, but Hal thinks that uncle Titus could be Green Lantern’s latest foe, the Bottler.
Green Lantern #45 June 1966 Cover Artist: Gil Kane Story: “Prince Peril’s Power Play” (24 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: To keep from having to marry the wicked Prince Peril, an alien princess comes to Earth-Two to find a husband, and leads Peril into conflict with two Green Lanterns and Doiby Dickles.
Green Lantern #46 July 1966 Cover Artist: Gil Kane Story: “The Jailing of Hal Jordan” (12 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: A crook who inherits a fortune develops a crush on Carol Ferris and frames Hal Jordan for a robbery to take him out of the picture. Story: “The End of a Gladiator” (12 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: The Guardians of the Universe summon the Green Lantern Corps to view the body of Green Lantern of Earth, and to have his ring tell them the story of his death at the hands of Dr. Polaris.
Green Lantern #47 September 1966 Cover Artist: Gil Kane Story: “Green Lantern Lives Again” (24 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: A crisis in the 58th Century causes the Solar Council to transport Green Lantern there once again, where they discover a microscopic speck of life in his body, reanimate him, and have him battle the super-powered victims of a virus of evil.
Green Lantern #48 October 1966 Cover Artist: Gil Kane Story: “Goldface’s Grudge Fight Against Green Lantern” (24 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Keith Kenyon returns to plague Green Lantern as the supervillain Goldface, and challenges him to stop a series of robberies in Coast City.
Green Lantern #49 December 1966 Cover Artist: Gil Kane Story: “The Spectacular Robberies of TV’s Master Villain” (24 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Shortly after learning that Carol Ferris is engaged to marry another man, Hal Jordan must become Green Lantern to tackle the Dazzler, a TV super-villain sprung to life.
Green Lantern #50 January 1967 Cover Artist: Gil Kane Story: “The Quest of the Wicked Queen of Hearts” (14 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: After Hal Jordan is attacked by two clients he has taken for a plane ride, Green Lantern intervenes to stop them and return the valuable painting they have stolen. Story: “Thraxton the Powerful Vs. Green Lantern the Powerless” (10 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Davo Yull, Green Lantern of Pharma, summons Earth’s Green Lantern to do battle with him against a blue-skinned conqueror named Thraxon, who has a device which drains power from their rings.
Green Lantern #51 March 1967 Cover Artist: Gil Kane Story: “Green Lantern’s Evil Alter Ego” (23 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: In the 58th Century, Pol Manning, the fictitious alter-ego of Green Lantern, comes to life, turns evil, and threatens the Earth as Dr. Strangehate.
Green Lantern #52 April 1967 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Murphy Anderson Story: “Our Mastermind the Car” (23 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: When Green Lantern of Earth-2 brings Doiby Dickles’s cab Goitrude to Earth-1 as a present to Doiby, Sinestro takes control of it and uses it as part of a scheme to bring down the Green Lantern Corps.
Green Lantern #53 June 1967 Cover Artist: Carmine Infantino / Murphy Anderson Story: “Captive of the Evil Eye” (13 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Green Lantern finds himself trapped inside the body of a giant whose mission is to steal all the oxygen on Earth. Story: “Two Green Lanterns in the Family” (10 pages) Writer: John Broome Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: A theater holdup committed while Hal Jordan is babysitting his brother Jim’s son causes him to take action as Green Lantern.
VOLUME 1 1959 - 1967
An Explanation of the Comics Index In this series, we examine every issue of every DC and Marvel comic book of the silver and the bronze age and also provide you with a color reproduction of the comic’s cover, a complete listing of the creative people involved in producing the comic, a summary of what happened in each adventure, and various other information. All comics indexed in a series will run in serial order, beginning with the first issue or the earliest issue that features the series being indexed. Each of the index entries is as self-explanatory as possible. Some of the criteria we used to create an index entry are provided below. Cover Credits It usually takes many people to produce a comic book cover, from conception and design through coloring and production, and it is impossible to credit them all. The Artist, responsible for the basic execution of the cover, does the lion’s share of the work. If more than one artist works on a cover, some usually pencil and the others usually ink. Records of artists and letterers are sometimes unavailable, particularly for covers that appeared many years ago, so the identities of some cover artists and letterers are the best guesses that the indexers and DC’s and Marvel's current editors and art staff can make. Credits other than Artist or Artists and Letterer appear where known. Story Information Story titles are given as they appear on the title pages, not as on the covers or in coming attractions. When a story lacks a title or title page (a rare occurrence), a note to this effect appears as a Comment. Story credits are taken from the credits as published. As with cover credits, it is impossible to credit everybody who worked on a story, but whenever additional information is available, it appears in the Index. If the published credits in a story are incorrect, the Index corrects them wherever possible.
Chronology A time line for all of DC’s and Marvel's comics that allows proper chronological ordering of the appearances of every DC and Marvel character is far from complete. Nevertheless, some appearances are known to precede or follow others. Whenever chronological information is known reliably but is not obvious from the continuity of the stories, it is noted in parentheses. “First appearance” accompanies a character’s listing when the comic is the earliest one in which the character appears. A first appearance is not necessarily a character’s chronologically earliest appearance, which might occur, for example, in an origin flashback first told many years later. As a general rule, in the case of feature characters who are members of a team but who also appear in their own features or comics, issue-by-issue chronological notations for these characters are made in the indexes to their own features, not in the index to the team feature. For instance, Superman’s chronology is noted in The Superman Index, not in The Justice League of America Index. A casual reading of a few Plot Synopses will make it abundantly clear that a whole month does not usually pass for the characters in between monthly issues of a comic. Many issues begin hours or even minutes after the previous month’s story. Consequently, a character who has had his own feature for ten years will not have aged ten years in the time it took for those comics to come out. As for trying to determine in what year a given adventure takes place, there’s no conclusive answer. Specific dates that appear in stories, as well as mention of current events and popular culture, depictions of contemporary fashions, and usage of contemporary slang, are all what is known as Topical References. These are specific details added by a writer or artist to a story to make it seem current at the time the story is being published. They are not necessarily indicators of when — what year or even what decade — a story took place.