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Issue Details

Issue #40
Published November 2009
Cover Price 2.99 USD
Pages 36
Editing Adam Schlagman
Notes U.S. on sale date: 2009-09-10. Copyright © 2009 DC Comics.

Cover Details - "[Cover A]; Blackest Night: Feast!"

Characters Green Lantern Corps [Green Lantern [Arisia Rrab]; Green Lantern [Guy Gardner]; Green Lantern [Kyle Rayner]; Black Lantern [Green Lantern; Ke'Haan]; Black Lantern [Jade; Jenny-Lynn Hayden]]
Genre Superhero; Science Fiction
Pencils Patrick Gleason
Inks Rebecca Buchman
Notes U.S. on sale date: 2009-09-10. Copyright © 2009 DC Comics.

Cover Details - "[Cover B - Variant Cover]; Blackest Night"

Characters Green Lantern [Kyle Rayner]; Black Lantern [Jade; Jenny-Lynn Hayden]
Genre Superhero; Science Fiction
Pencils Billy Tucci
Inks Billy Tucci
Colors Randy Mayor
Notes U.S. on sale date: 2009-09-10. Copyright © 2009 DC Comics.

23 page Green Lantern Corps story "Heart of Darkness"

Characters Green Lantern Corps [Green Lantern [Arisia Rrab]; Green Lantern [Barreer Wot]; Green Lantern [Brik]; Green Lantern [Grojamm] (death); Green Lantern [Guy Gardner]; Green Lantern [Isamot Kol]; Green Lantern [Kilowog]; Green Lantern [Kyle Rayner]; Green Lantern [Princess Iolande]; Green Lantern [Salaak]; Green Lantern [Soranik Natu]; Green Lantern [Turytt]; Green Lantern [Vath Sarn]]; Alpha-Lantern Corps [as Alpha Lanterns; Alpha-Lantern [Chaselon]; Alpha-Lantern [Green Man]; Alpha-Lantern [Varix]]; Star Sapphire [Miri Riam]; Guardians of the Universe (hologram); Black Lantern Corps [Black Lantern [Green Lantern; Bzzd]; Black Lantern [Green Lantern; Fentara Rrab]; Black Lantern [Green Lantern; Galius Zed]; Black Lantern [Green Lantern; Katma Tui]; Black Lantern [Green Lantern; Ke'Haan]; Black Lantern [Green Lantern; Mirata Rrab]; Black Lantern [Green Lantern; Santara Rrab]; Black Lantern [Jade; Jenny-Lynn Hayden]; Black Lantern [Tri-Eye]]; Sinestro Corps [Kryb]
Synopsis "Blackest Night continues on Oa as the honored dead of the Green Lantern Corps and the recently deceased Sciencell convicts who lost their lives in the riots have all become Black Lanterns and will not rest until the bloody hearts and minds of the Green Lanterns are literally in their hands. Kyle Rayner, Guy Gardener and John Stewart resort to their most brutal fighting yet as the Blackest Night threatens to envelop Sector Zero and send the universe reeling into chaos!" [per solicitation]
Genre Superhero; Science Fiction
Script Peter J. Tomasi
Pencils Patrick Gleason
Inks Rebecca Buchman; Tom Nguyen; Prentis Rollins
Colors Randy Mayor; Gabe Eltaeb
Letters Steve Wands

6 page R.E.B.E.L.S. promo (ad from the publisher) "A Preview of R.E.B.E.L.S. Annual #1: Starro the Conqueror!"

Characters Starro
Genre Superhero; Science Fiction
Script Tony Bedard
Pencils Karl Moline
Inks Mark Pennington
Colors Jose Villarrubia
Letters Travis Lanham
Editing Brian Cunningham; Rex Ogle (assistant)
Notes 6 page preview of R.E.B.E.L.S. Annual (DC, 2009 series) #1.

1 page DC Nation promo (ad from the publisher) DC Nation [182]: ["Funny thing, she doesn't look a day over thirty"]

Characters Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]
Script Dan Didio
Letters typeset
Notes Dan Didio talks about the possibility of renumbering the Wonder Woman series to #600 with issue #45 of the current series.