Green Lantern #62

The cover of this July 1968 DC issue puts Hal Jordan in a desperate spot — caught between two green-clad figures who appear to be Green Lantern's Golden Age counterpart, Alan Scott, as enemies or allies in conflict, while a massive Green Lantern power battery looms in the foreground. Hal's anguished declaration, "My power ring or my life — and I want to live!", crackles with tension and raises immediate questions about what impossible choice has been forced upon him. Jack Sparling's cover art delivers a punchy, kinetic composition that makes this Gardner Fox–scripted issue hard to walk past on a 1968 spinner rack.