Green Lantern #11

Before the assembled High Court of the Green Lanterns of the Universe, Hal Jordan stands at a cosmic tribunal alongside several alien GL members — including a fish-bowled aquatic Lantern and a bird-faced colleague — and defiantly insists he is guilty, demanding the court strip him of his powers despite their verdict of innocence. Gil Kane and Joe Giella deliver a cover that perfectly captures the dramatic irony of a hero arguing against his own exoneration, making this March 1962 issue a genuinely compelling courtroom puzzle. "The Strange Trial of Green Lantern!" promises exactly the kind of imaginative science-fiction storytelling that made the Silver Age DC line so endlessly inventive.