American Update: Earth’s Other Green Lantern! Guy Gardner’s Debut in GL #59
*DC: Before John Stewart, Kyle Rayner, and the multiplicity of later claimants to the GL mantle, the idea that anyone could challenge Hal Jordan’s supremacy as Green Lantern of Earth was a shocking concept. John Broome and Gil Kane explored that thought in 1968’s Green Lantern #59, showing what might have happened if an equally qualified candidate had taken the role instead of Hal Jordan. Originally a one-shot novelty akin to the Superman Family’s ‘Imaginary Tales’, GL #59 spiked in price after unexpectedly Steve Englehart brought back Guy as a recurring character almost two decades after his debut. Eventually Guy joined both the Green Lantern Corps and the Justice League, and remains a fixture of the current DC Universe. This copy of his first appearance is a lovely FN copy, cents with no pence price or overstamp, and the only drawback to a still higher grade being the short line in crayon in the upper left corner of the cover. On sale at £50. SORRY, THIS HAS NOW SOLD