Set Description:
Green Lantern one of my first superheroes I truly enjoyed playing when I was a kid – having powers that are limited by your will power and imagination…awesome for a kid with a crazy imagination. I first started collecting Green Lantern during the re-boot and return of Hal Jordan in the 90s. I enjoyed the series but tried collecting the Silver Age series which I easily found issues #100 and up, finding the older stuff was a lot harder. These days my collection is growing thanks to conventions and most importantly online sites.
Unlike my other sets this one will be a challenge but looking forward to it, isnt that the reason why we are collectors...the hunt / challenge and most importantly the satisfaction of a complete collection.
Collection from 1960 to 1988.
After World War II, when sales of superhero comic books generally declined, DC ceased publishing new adventures of Alan Scott as the Green Lantern. In 1959, at the beginning of the Silver Age of Comic Books, DC editor Julius Schwartz assigned writer John Broome and artist Gil Kane to revive the Green Lantern character, this time as test pilot Hal Jordan who became a founding member of the Justice League of America.
In 1970, writer Denny O'Neil and artist Neal Adams teamed Green Lantern with archer Green Arrow in groundbreaking, socially conscious, and award-winning stories that pitted the sensibilities of the law-and-order-oriented Green Lantern with the populist Green Arrow. Several cosmically-themed series followed, as did occasional different individuals in the role of Earth's Green Lantern.
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