Leonard's Lantern
Green Lantern 21
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COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Green Lantern 21 Universal
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Grade:
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9.8
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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0962782010
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Owner:
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Mississippi Mudcats
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Issue #21 features the first appearance of Doctor Polaris, a scientist who is an expert in magnetism. Polaris initially becomes a media sensation, but he also develops a split personality. His negative personality becoming the costumed criminal known as Dr. Polaris who ends up robbing the venues he attends in his positive personality.
After battling Green Lantern during his first heist, Dr. Polaris manages to escape, however Hal follows him to his home and finds Polaris passed out at the door. Taking him to a hospital he uses his power ring to probe his mind and learns that he developed his split personality in a magnetism experiment that had him bombarded with magnetic energy.
Dr. Polaris manages to escape the hospital and go on a rampage through Coast City. After a brief battle, Green Lantern manages to defeat Polaris by shielding himself while creating a power ring fashioned football player to knock him out.
Our pictured copy is one of two 9.8s in the Census. We did own both copies for several year. Both were acquired in private transactions in 2017. This one is actually much better centered, while the other is a Twin Cities Pedigree. It was a tough decision, as both copies have white pages, but we sold the latter copy in the September 2024 Heritage Signature Auction. We bought this one from Pedigree Comics shortly after buying the other copy, which had been the single highest graded. Basically, we averaged down.
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