Green Lantern #168

Space pirates meet their match in Green Lantern #168 (September 1983), as Gil Kane's cover captures Hal Jordan locked in fierce combat against a group of armored space buccaneers — their skull-and-crossbones flag flying ominously in the starfield backdrop. Green Lantern is bound by coiling tentacles while two orange-suited attackers press the assault, yet he's clearly fighting back with a surge of emerald power. With the promise of "more outer-space action with the Green Lantern Corps," this issue delivers exactly the kind of cosmic adventure that made DC's 1983 lineup such a treat.