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Issue Details

Issue #88
Published February-March 1972
Cover Price 0.25
Pages 52
Editing Julius Schwartz
Notes All reprint issue. Cover art credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics

Cover Details - "Special Surprise Issue!"

Characters Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]
Genre superhero
Pencils Neal Adams
Inks Neal Adams
Notes All reprint issue. Cover art credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics

12 page Green Lantern story "Summons from Space!"

Characters Green Lantern [Hal Jordan] (brief origin); Carol Ferris; A Venusian Pterodactyl; Venusians
Synopsis Green Lantern travels to Venus to save a blue-skinned caveman-like race from attack by yellow Pterodactyl-like creatures.
Genre superhero
Script John Broome
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Joe Giella
Notes Some sources list this as inked by Murphy Anderson. The Schwartz pay records list Joe Giella, and art spotter Gene Reed agrees. Schwartz pay records provided by DC Comics. This issue may incorrectly credit Murphy Anderson; confirmation needed.
Reprinted from Showcase (DC, 1956 series) #23 (November-December 1959)

12 page Green Lantern story "The Menace of the Marching Toys"

Genre superhero
Pencils Carmine Infantino
Inks Bernard Sachs
Notes This golden-age Green Lantern story was originally intended for Green Lantern (1941) #39 but was never published due to the cancellation of the series

9 page Green Lantern story "The Origin of Green Lantern's Oath!"

Characters Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Pieface [Thomas Kalmaku]; Carol Ferris; Mr. Burbank (banker); Hank (Bank Robber); Mr. Davis (Jet Mechanic); Hank (Safe-Cracker)
Synopsis Green Lantern tells Pieface the story of his first three cases, on which his oath is based.
Genre superhero
Script John Broome
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Murphy Anderson
Reprinted From Green Lantern (DC, 1960 series) #10 (January-February 1962)