Fanboy #2

The second issue of DC's six-part Fanboy miniseries promises "Higher Education" with a cover by Sergio Aragonés and Gil Kane that sets the tone perfectly: a confident, costumed Green Lantern soars through space alongside a wide-eyed, terrified kid decked out in his own Green Lantern T-shirt and miniature mask, ring glowing between them. It's a wonderfully absurd image — the polished hero and the overwhelmed superfan tumbling together through the cosmos — that captures exactly the comic's affectionate, comedic love letter to fandom. With contributors including Dave Gibbons, Kevin Nowlan, Wendy Pini, and Will Blyberg alongside Aragonés and Mark Evanier, this 1999 anthology-style issue clearly had no shortage of talent eager to play along.