| Slot: |
Showcase #22 |
| Item: |
Showcase #22 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.0 |
| Cert #: |
1027965002
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Owner Comments
Showcase #22 is the debut issue of the Silver Age Green Lantern, Hal Jordan, and one of the major Silver Age keys. With a career spanning from the 1940 release of All-American Comics #16 (and the Golden Age Green Lantern title) to the Silver Age relaunch of the series in Green Lantern #1, the groundbreaking O’Neil and Adams run starting in Green Lantern #76, through the controversial “Emerald Twilight/Dawn” story arc and right up to the recent blockbuster “Blackest Night”, Green Lantern is one of the most popular and dynamic characters in the DC Universe. Green Lantern is also just the third major DC hero to be featured on the silver screen-OK Ryan Reynolds was probably better as Deadpool, but poor Flash is still waiting.
Time has not been kind to my issue. When I acquired this book in the 3/13/2012 ComicLink auction, it was one of the three highest graded copies. Needless to say, it was not cheap. Shortly thereafter, in August 2012, a 9.2 emerged as was also auctioned off on ComicLink. It made about $20,000 more than I paid, a relative bargain. That book has had quite a history. It was purchased by a friend of mine who sold it for more than twice what he paid in 2017. But since then, the book has bounced around several auctions and just sold again for $87,000 plus the buyer’s premium on Heritage in their May 2020 auction. That is still more than what the book made when it first emerged in August 2012, but considerably less than what my friend sold it for in 2017. Of course, one major problem for that book now is that it is no longer highest graded, as out of nowhere a 9.4 has popped onto the census. Nobody I know has seen that book or knows it’s origins. But all this means that my book, which started out highest graded when I bought it in March 2012, is now tied with three other books for third highest graded with a single 9.2 and 9.4 above it. Oh well, it is still top six, at least for now........
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| Slot: |
Showcase #23 |
| Item: |
Showcase #23 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.4 |
| Cert #: |
0018765012
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Owner Comments
Showcase #23 is a rare one. It marks the second appearance of the SA Green Lantern and, IMHO, the most interesting of the three Showcase covers #22-24. Our WP 9.4 was owned for many years by a good friend and fellow collector and is the single highest graded copy. We acquired it in the December 2020 CL auction.
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| Slot: |
Showcase #24 |
| Item: |
Showcase #24 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.0 |
| Cert #: |
1059545009
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Owner Comments
The last of the three Green Lantern try-out issues, this book is tied with six others as highest graded as of 5/2020.
Purchased in the 12/4/2014 ComicConnect auction.
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