Leonard's Lantern
Green Lantern 1
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COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Green Lantern 1 Universal
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Grade:
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9.4
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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1027968001
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Owner:
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Mississippi Mudcats
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Green lantern #1 marks the first appearance of the Silver Age Green Lantern in his own magazine. In the featured story, "Menace of the Giant Puppet!" Green Lantern is puzzled by a series of bizarre crimes that have been plaguing the city. In each case, a law-abiding citizen tries to rob a place and is captured by the Green Lantern. In each situation the person caught claims to have been controlled as if like a puppet. After a series of "puppet master" crimes, Green Lantern is convinced that there is somebody controlling other people. Hal is suddenly snapped out of his thoughts when one of the balloons in the parade -- made to look like a puppet -- suddenly comes to life and starts shooting at him with a giant gun. Hal however, easily defeats the puppet with his power ring.
Later, the Puppet Master uses his hypno-ray to bring Green Lantern to his secret hideout. The Emerald Crusader manages to free himself and the Puppet Master is no match in battle against him and he easily captures him and turns him over to the police.
This book is one of three 9.4s making it tied for highest graded and boasts white pages to boot! We acquired the book from the November 2011 auction on CL of what was at that time the #1 Green Lantern registry set.
8/2019 Update: the census now shows only two 9.4s, which is probably bad news for me, as the copy that sold in the recent Comic Connect auction may have been upgraded to 9.6. I had a chance to buy that one, so I guess I blew it, but it is hard to fork out the money for a second highest graded book in hopes that it will be upgraded, especially when this one has superior pages. Oh well, as Forrest Gump said, it happens.....
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