Books : The Green Lantern Archives, Vol. 3 (DC Archive Editions)

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- Beware his power!
Green Lantern - arguably as powerful as Superman but back in the 1960s perhaps one of the more unsung super-heroes - returns in his earliest Silver Age adventures! Nobody did it better than John Broome and Gil Kane - the heroes, allies and villians are - out of this world!

This is one of only a handful of Silver Age archives in print right now - many of the others, especially those for Superman and Batman, showcase Golden Age stories. While these are classics, it is the Silver Age where comics really blossomed, and Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) is a prime example.

The Green Lantern archives published to date (#1-3) contain hard-to-find (and expensive!) issues of Hal Jordan's earliest exploits, including origins and battles with his yellow power-ringed arch enemy Sinestro, Hector Hammond and others, plus his classic, colorful and extraordinary team-ups with The Fastest Man Alive - Flash (Barry Allen).

This is a must-buy, must-own and must-read series for any serious fan of the Silver Age - or comics in general. Good reading for those darkest days and blackest nights!

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- GL's light
A bit of nostalgia, hardbound and reasonably priced. Read all the stories as a youngster and was just as enchanted by the skill of the writer and the marvelous art work of Gil Kane (may he rest in peace) even as a middle-aged physician.
Anyone who loved DC and the silver age of comics in the early 60's and was mesmerized by the possibility of space travel, life on other worlds, speeds faster than light, or the ability to shrink to submicroscopic size should buy the entire collection

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