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Cover: Gil Kane & Joe Giella

Showcase #23

Nov 1959 · DC · 0.10 USD

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Contains 3 stories

Summons from Space!

12.67 pp · Superhero

Green Lantern [Hal Jordan] (brief origin)Carol Ferrisa Venusian pterodactylVenusians

Untitled Non-Fiction story

1 pp · Non-Fiction

AndromedaPoseidonPerseus

The Invisible Destroyer!

11.67 pp · Superhero

Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]The Phantom Destroyer [aka The Invisible Destroyer] (introduction, villain)Carol FerrisDr. Phillips

ComicBooks.com Value

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Raw (VG) $206

CGC 9.4 · 2 in census $14,307*

CGC 9.2 · 1 in census $3,164*

CGC 9.0 · 2 in census $2,842

CGC 8.5 · 3 in census $2,156

CGC 8.0 · 12 in census $1,509

CGC 7.5 · 13 in census $1,313

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CGC 7.0 · 17 in census $1,048

CGC 6.5 · 29 in census $742

CGC 6.0 · 35 in census $474

CGC 5.5 · 35 in census $474

CGC 5.0 · 47 in census $415

CGC 4.5 · 60 in census $351

CGC 4.0 · 53 in census $351

CGC 3.5 · 47 in census $319

CGC 3.0 · 47 in census $193

CGC 2.5 · 34 in census $193

CGC 2.0 · 18 in census $147

CGC 1.5 · 9 in census $137

CGC 1.0 · 3 in census $100*

CGC 0.5 · 4 in census $92*

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VG $375 VG $480 CGC 6 $539.99 CGC 5 $625 CGC 5.5 $635 CGC 5.5 $650 CGC 5.5 $699 CGC 7 $1495

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Full credits

writer John Broome

artist Gil Kane

inker Joe Giella

letterer Joe Letterese

cover pencils Gil Kane

cover inks Joe Giella

Reprints

↩ Reprints Mystery in Space #5 (1951)

Reprinted in Groene Lantaarn Classics #2702 (1969), Groene Lantaarn Classics #2703 (1969), Green Lantern #88 (1972), The Super Heroes #5 (1981), The Greatest 1950s Stories Ever Told #[nn] (1991), The Greatest 1950s Stories Ever Told #[nn] (1992), Green Lantern Archives #1 (1993), Showcase Presents: Green Lantern #1 (2005), The Green Lantern Chronicles #1 (2009), The Green Lantern Omnibus #1 (2011), Green Lantern: The Silver Age #1 (2016), Green Lantern: The Silver Age Omnibus #1 (2017), Nuke 'Em! Classic Cold War Comics Celebrating the End of the World #[nn] (2020), Green Lantern: 80 Years of the Emerald Knight The Deluxe Edition #[nn] (2020), Top Comics #11, Top Comics #7

Key issues in Showcase

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#22 1st appearance — Green Lantern

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#4 1st appearance — Barry Allen

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#34 1st appearance — Ray Palmer

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#17 1st appearance — Adam Strange

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#8 1st appearance — Captain Cold

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#37 1st appearance — Lead

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#75 1st appearance — Hawk

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#6 1st appearance — Rocky Davis

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