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Issue Details

Issue #46
Published July 1966
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Julius Schwartz
Notes Includes a letters page.

Cover Details

Characters Green Lantern Corps [Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Green Lantern [Katma Tui]; Green Lantern [Tomar-Re]; Green Lantern [Stel]; other Green Lanterns]; Guardians of The Universe
Genre Superhero
Pencils Gil Kane (signed)
Inks Gil Kane (signed)
Notes Includes a letters page.
Reprinted in Green Lantern Archives (DC, 1993 series) #6 (January 2007); in Showcase Presents Green Lantern (DC, 2005 series) #3 (May 2008)

12 page Green Lantern story "The Jailing of Hal Jordan!"

Characters Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Carol Ferris; a lawyer at Witlow & Crane; Pete Claypool (villain); The Triple Plays (villians)
Synopsis Hal Jordan foils a bank robbery by the Triple Plays, but the fourth man they added for the job, Pete Claypool, completes the robbery. Pete later inherits a fortune and becomes smitten with Carol Ferris after moving next door, where he frames Hal for the robbery in an attempt to remove his romantic competition, but Hal forces Pete to confess to the police.
Genre Superhero
Script Gardner Fox
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Sid Greene
Notes Story takes place over a period of several weeks. Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics (April 2007).
Reprinted in Green Lantern Archives (DC, 1993 series) #6 (January 2007); in Showcase Presents Green Lantern (DC, 2005 series) #3 (May 2008)

2 page Green Lantern illustration "Best Power Ring Wishes, Green Lantern"

Characters Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]
Genre Superhero
Pencils Gil Kane (signed)
Inks Gil Kane (signed)
Notes Craig Delich believes Sid Greene inked this pinup [April 2007], but other art experts agree it was Gil Kane [updated June 2008 by Gregory Fischer].
Reprinted in Green Lantern Archives (DC, 1993 series) #6 (January 2007)

12 page Green Lantern story "The End of a Gladiator!"

Characters Green Lantern Corps [Green Lantern [Hal Jordan] (appears to die); Green Lantern [Katma Tui]; Green Lantern [Tomar-Re]; Green Lantern [Xax]; unnamed Green Lanterns]; Guardians of the Universe; Pieface [Tom Kalmaku]; Dr. Polaris [Dr. Neal Emerson] (in flashback; villain)
Synopsis The Guardians bring Hal Jordans body to Oa after he appears to be killed in a battle with Dr. Polaris, while using his rings power reserve to save Tom Kalmaku.
Genre Superhero
Script John Broome
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Sid Greene
Notes Story continued in Green Lantern #47. The power rings have a reserve of power that the wearer cannot usually use; this is what usually protects him from dying. The Guardians uncharacteristically cry in this story. Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics (April 2007).
Reprinted in Green Lantern Archives (DC, 1993 series) #6 (January 2007); in Showcase Presents Green Lantern (DC, 2005 series) #3 (May 2008)