American Update: Green Lantern #1
*DC: From 1960, the debut issue of Green Lantern’s own title, following his three-issue tryout in Showcase. From John Broome and Gil Kane, the universe of the Emerald Guardian expanded with the first appearance of the Guardians of the Universe, the extraterrestrial organization whom the Green Lantern Corps served. GL’s finest nemeses were still mostly in the future at this point, but breathless science-fiction, his other speciality, was well-served in the lead tale, “Planet of Doomed Men”, superbly embellished by Murphy Anderson. This is an unabashed Poor (pence stamped copy at £75), with some interior tears and the covers detached and virtually separated, but complete and all interior pages clear and eminently readable.