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Title: SHOWCASE No. 22
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: National Comics Publications, Inc.]
Date Published: 21885
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CGC certified: Good+ (2.5). Off-white pages. Cover: Gil Kane. Stories and art: Gil Kane, John Broome, Julius Schwartz, Joe Giella. 1st app: Silver Age Green Lantern. GPAnalysis: A 2.5 sold for $3000 in 6/23.

"Super-heroes faded in the postwar years, and GL lost his comic book in 1949. A decade later, when the heroes were coming tentatively back into vogue, Julie Schwartz conceived a souped-up post-Sputnik version of our ring-wielder: sleek costume, outer-space origin, jet-pilot secret identity, Gil Kane Art, John Broome stories.... Green Lantern himself is a minimal character, like all comic-book heroes of those days, but with intimations of uncommon depth. There's something in his masculinity, his emotional urgency, his playboy life, his fearlessness with foes and awkwardness with Carol, that has tempted other comic-book writers for twenty-two years to find the core of his personality." – Gerard Jones, Green Lantern Archives Vol. 1. DC: 1993, pp. 8, 10.

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