Green Lantern #75
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeGreen Lantern #75 holds a quiet but meaningful place in DC history as the final new Green Lantern story written by John Broome — the architect of virtually the entire Silver Age mythology of the character — before he retired from comics entirely. Published in March 1970 with a cover date just one month before the landmark #76 that launched the celebrated Denny O'Neil/Neal Adams era, this issue stands as the closing chapter of an unbroken creative run that had defined Hal Jordan, the Guardians of the Universe, Qward, and the Green Lantern Corps as readers knew them. It is simultaneously a swan song and a threshold: the last time the original Broome/Kane/Giella team would shape the character before a radically different voice took over and pointed the series toward social realism and the Bronze Age.
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The creative team of writer John Broome, penciler Gil Kane, and inker Joe Giella had been the primary architects of the Silver Age Green Lantern series since its launch in 1960, and their credits on this issue were confirmed directly from editor Julius Schwartz's editorial records as preserved by DC Comics. Broome — who had already written the great majority of Green Lantern issues across the decade — chose to close his tenure by returning to Qward, the anti-matter world that had been one of the series' signature settings since its earliest issues. Shortly after this issue shipped, Broome retired from comic-book writing altogether, eventually relocating to Japan to teach English, ending one of the most prolific careers in Silver Age DC history.
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- Cover date: March 1970 (on-sale date: March 10, 1970); published by National Periodical Publications (DC Comics).
- Creative team: script by John Broome, pencils by Gil Kane, inks by Joe Giella, edited by Julius Schwartz — credits confirmed from Schwartz's editorial records.
- Story title: 'The Golden Obelisk of Qward!' — Hal Jordan travels to the anti-matter world of Qward to rescue Olivia Reynolds, whose latent U-Mind power has been targeted by the Weaponers to unlock a giant golden obelisk.
- This is the final original Green Lantern story scripted by John Broome, who had written the series since its 1960 launch and who retired from comics entirely after this issue.
- The issue continues the Olivia Reynolds/U-Mind subplot that Broome had seeded starting in Green Lantern #71 (1969), where the character first appeared; her U-Mind connection was also developed in The Flash #191 the same month.
- The Weaponers of Qward — recurring Silver Age antagonists first introduced by Broome and Kane in the early run — serve as the primary villains, underlining the issue's thematic role as a closing statement on the Broome era's world-building.
- The issue was reprinted in Showcase Presents: Green Lantern Vol. 4 (DC, August 2009) and in the Green Lantern: The Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 2 (DC, May 2018), as well as in European editions (BSV-Williams German edition #113; Dutch Classics/Williams edition #2719, 1971).
- The very next issue, Green Lantern #76 (April 1970), relaunched the title as 'Green Lantern Co-Starring Green Arrow' with Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams, making #75 the direct precursor to one of the most discussed creative transitions in Bronze Age comics.
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Reprinted in Groene Lantaarn Classics #2719 (1971), Green Lantern #24 (1978), Showcase Presents: Green Lantern #4 (2009), Green Lantern: The Silver Age Omnibus #2 (2018), Top Comics Die Grüne Laterne #113
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