Showcase Presents: Green Lantern #3
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis massive black-and-white volume reprints Silver Age Green Lantern stories from the late 1960s, including Hal Jordan's adventures as the Emerald Gladiator battles cosmic threats and Earthbound menaces. It collects issues from the original Green Lantern series, showcasing the work of writers like John Broome and artists such as Gil Kane, with tales that expand the sci-fi mythology of the Corps and introduce classic villains. The collection also features the early team-ups with the Flash and other Justice League members that defined the era's interconnected storytelling.
"Practice Makes the Perfect Crime!" delivers a sharp, pulpy adventure from the early days of the Green Lantern mythos, spotlighting Hal Jordan and Tomar-Re alongside the newly minted Charley Vicker in a high-stakes mission on a prison planet. With Gil Kane’s dynamic art and John Broome’s crisp storytelling, the trio confronts a dangerous alien fortress where Earth criminal Al Magone leads a revolt powered by Mini-Nucleo weapons that exploit the weakness of the Green Lantern ring. The cover by Gil Kane and Murphy Anderson captures the tension with bold, classic flair.
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Green Lanterns Hal Jordan and Tomar-Re are assisted by newly deputized Green Lantern Charley Vicker as they find and disable a fortress of aliens on a prison planet. The prisoners are lead by an earth criminal Al Magone, and are using one of the alien robots as the power source for Mini-Nucleo weapons that neutralize the emerald power and allows them to kill Green Lanterns across the universe.
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