Remembering Artist Irwin Hasen

Remembering artist Irwin Hasen on his birthday (July 8, 1918 - March 13, 2015) with a couple of his covers for All-American Comics (#41 and #45, August and December, 1942), featuring the original Green Lantern working with Doiby Dickles (who happened to have a Green Lantern costume of his own...).

Celebrating Artist Darryl Banks

Celebrating the birthday of artist Darryl Banks (June 7, 1964) with a couple of his Green Lantern covers (#98 and #99, May and June, 1998), where Kyle Rayner ended up in the 30th century of the Legion of Super-Heroes.  

Celebrating Artist Joe Staton

Celebrating artist Joe Staton on his birthday (January 19, 1948), here with his last two issues of Green Lantern Corps...#221 (February, 1988), featuring a Millennium crossover, and #222 (March, 1988), featuring what looked like a final end to Sinestro (which actually led to the end of the Green Lantern Corps!).

Joe was also busy at this time, drawing all eight issues of Millennium!

Celebrating Artist Bill Willingham

Celebrating artist Bill Willingham on his birthday (December 22, 1956) with a couple of his covers to the Green Lantern Corps (#218 and #219, November and December, 1987), featuring John Stewart in battle with Kilowog!

Happy Halloween 2025

A happy Halloween to all, as Flash, Wonder Woman and Green Lantern join in on this cover to Comic Cavalcade #12 (Fall, 1945), with the heroes drawn by E. E. Hibbard, Harry Peter and Martin Naydel.  

Celebrating Artist Hugh Fleming

Celebrating the birthday of cover artist Hugh Fleming (July 1, 1967) with some legendary covers featuring Green Arrow (and the painted work of the artist) from Legends Of The DC Universe and Legends Of The Dark Knight (that featured early tales of your favorite heroes, here, the first meetings of Green Arrow and Green Lantern, and Green Arrow and Batman).

Legends of the DC Universe #7 and #8 (August and September, 1998)

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Legends of the DC Universe #9 and Legends Of The Dark Knight #127 (October, 1998 and March, 2000)

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Legends Of The Dark Knight #128 and Legends Of The Dark Knight #129 (April and May, 2000)

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Legends Of The Dark Knight #130 and Legends Of The Dark Knight #131 (June and July, 2000)

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Remembering Artist Gil Kane

Remembering artist Gil Kane on his birthday (April 6, 1926 - January 31, 2000) with a special Showcase on two of his most fondly remembered characters...Green Lantern and the Atom....with their Showcase covers!

Green Lantern Hal Jordan began his career in Showcase #22 (September-October, 1959), with the Atom Ray Palmer following with Showcase #34 (September-October, 1961)....and comics were never the same!

Showcase #23 and #24 (November-December, 1959 and January-February 1960)

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Showcase #35 and #36 (November-December, 1961 and January-February, 1962)

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Planet DC Flash And Green Lantern

Even more coverage of the Planet DC Annuals of 2000, where DC's greatest American heroes worked with heroes from other lands.

Here, the Flash (Wally West) teams up with the members of Super Malon including sorceress Salamanca), while Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner) meets Sala.

Flash Annual #13 (September, 2000)

Here it is a whole team of heroes in Argentina, in this story by Chuck Dixon and Enrique Alcatena, but first we start out with one of the earliest heroes, Jay Garrick, the Flash, trapped in some mystical land, while Wally West, the Flash, plays chess with Oracle in the JLA Watchtower on the moon.  There, Wally gets a mystical summons from Salamanca, and beams down to Argentina, where he faces the Peteys (little hairballs that are super fast servants of Gualicho).  Gualicho entraps Salamanca in a mystic bottle, with one of the Peteys taking it, leading Wally on a chase through Argentina, where it finally disappears.  

Wally uses his super speed to follow the Peteys' vibrations, ending up in the mystic land, where he meets Jay and the rest of the Super Malon (Cachiru, wolf Lobizon, blue costumed Pampero, brown hooded Vizacacha,  swashbuckling Cimarron, jaguar styled Yaguarette and horse headed Bagual), where they explain that Flash must race los Peteys and win or become trapped in phantom form as they are (and do it before the solstice or the wizard Gualicho can free himself from this land Salamanca trapped him in).  Wally starts to race the Peteys, but instead confronts Gaulicho, freeing Salamanca from the bottle, so she can free the rest from their phantom forms, and combined, beat Gaulicho.

In the second story, also by Dixon/Alcatena, readers learn of the romantic ties between Salamanca and Cachiru, as the duo have to deal with a ghostly Mazorquero (a secret police member of a governor of Argentina long ago) who haunts the Dona Rosario Echeverria, an old woman who was dying....and, the love of Jose, who was that secret guard, who was waiting for her to die to be with her, leaving Salamanca and Cachiru to decide if they would resurrect their old affair.  Salamanca and most of the Super Malon appear again in Wonder Woman #186 and #187, with Salamanca attending a meeting of mystics in Infinite Crisis.

Green Lantern Annual #9 (September, 2000)

Meanwhile, in Tunisa, Sala is introduced in a story by Timothy Truman, Koi Turnbull and John Lowe (with a cover by Truman), starting with demons of the air decimating a small tribe, raising one of them from the dead to become Pazuzu (who will open the gateway).  Soon after, on an archeological dig in the area, Sala Nisaba and friends (including Assan) find an old well that is a passageway to the gates of hell, with local soldiers killing all but Sala and Assan, as Green Lantern appears to save them.  Sala recognizes Kyle (as they attended college classes together), and, along with the old man the soldiers were torturing, go to explore the well. 

There, they find the wall keeping the Kurnugi (Babylonian Underworld) from invading Earth.  Sala finds the ruins to explain the wall, that it keeps Nergal (lord of terror), his wife (Ereskigal) and her evil mother (Tiamat), the demon lord (Pazuzu) and Humbaba (entrail faced demon) away from Earth.  Istar (the lady of heaven) and her ring bearer (Ninurta) fought to keep them back there in ancient times...and, Kyle finds the ring bearer was an agent of Oa (and the Guardians of the Universe).  Then, the demons appear and take Sala and the rest to Kurnugi, where the family plots to escape (and against each other...), but needed the ring of one of the Guardians' agents (Kyle) as well as Istar's ringstaff to get free, which they now have.  They also reveal that Sala was a descendant of Istar and Ninurta, and has the power of Istar...

In the second story, by Tim Truman and Paul Ryan, the plans continue, with the family sending their demons into Kyle to try to get him to relinquish the ring, which they eventually do, but even as Nergal opens the gateway, Kyle continues to fight, with Sala fully embracing her new identity as the lady of battle.  Kyle gets Assan as Sala continues to fight the family, with Sala getting Kyle his ring, as he and Assan escape through the gateway, but leaving Sala behind.  Kyle would return to help Sala in the JLA: Gatekeeper mini-series, with Sala later appearing in the Infinite Crisis Special: Day of Vengeance.

Celebrating Artist Paul Pelletier

Celebrating the birthday of artist Paul Pelletier (February, 18, 1970) with a couple of his Green Lantern covers...

...featuring Green Lantern Kyle Rayner meeting with Flash Wally West as the duo faced a new Sonar in Green Lantern #66 and #67 (September and October, 1995).

National Quitter's Day

Happy National Quitter's Day!  

If you are going to give up your New Year's resolutions...today is the day!

You end up in good company...Hal Jordan quit the Green Lantern Corps on Oa in Green Lantern #181 (October, 1984, cover by Dave Gibbons), and Guy Gardner quit the Justice League America on Almerac in Justice League America #63 (June, 1992, cover by Dan Jurgens and Rick Burchett).

Merry Christmas With Green Lantern

A Merry Christmas to one and all...

...brought to you by Green Lantern and Doiby Dickles, as shown on this cover to Green Lantern #18 (Winter, 1945) by Paul Reinman.

Green Lantern, Flash And Wonder Woman Help Sick Santa

Here, in Comic Cavalcade #25 (February-March, 1948, with a cover by Bob Oksner) is Flash, Wonder Woman and Green Lantern, proving they've been good all year, as they have to take over for a sick Santa Claus at Christmas time

Remembering Artist Darwyn Cooke

Remembering artist Darwyn Cooke on his birthday (November 16, 1962 - May 14, 2016) with a look at his covers for DC: The New Frontier...

...a six issue mini-series that tells of the secrets behind the formation of the Justice League of America, involving the heroes of the early 1960s as well as others to combat invading aliens with the Martian Manhunter at the forefront, all while police scientist Barry Allen deals with his new lightning speed in becoming the Flash and pilot Hal Jordan comes to terms with becoming Earth's Green Lantern.

New Frontier #1 and #2 (March and April, 2004)

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New Frontier #3 and #4 (May and July, 2004)

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New Frontier #5 and #6 (September and November, 2004)

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New Frontier collections #1 and #2 (February and June, 2005)

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Justice League: The New Frontier Special and DC: The New Frontier (May, 2008 and August, 2016)

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A wonderful story, with the charter members of the Justice League of America (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Martian Manhunter, Flash and Green Lantern), along with a few others like the Losers, the Suicide Squad, the Challengers of the Unknown, the Blackhawks, Robin, Green Arrow, Adam Strange, Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen and members of the Justice Society...all based loosely on a secret origin of the JLA from long ago...

Remembering Artist Neal Adams

Remembering artist Neal Adams on his birthday (June 15, 1941 - April 28, 2022) with a couple of his most famous covers from his Green Lantern run with Denny O'Neil, Green Lantern #85 and #86, (August-September and October-November, 1971), with Green Arrow being confronted with his ward's drug problem..  

This was a big moment, not only for Speedy, but for comics in general, changing the dynamic of the kid partner forever...  

...these stories have been reprinted many times, with Neal providing even more raw emotion on the covers, but provided a wonderful window into the times they were made. 

Happy Birthday John Stewart

Today is considered the birthday of John Stewart, Green Lantern.  

To celebrate, here is his first appearance, and his last appearance in Green Lantern as Hal Jordan's backup.

Green Lantern #87 (December-January, 1971/1972)

Under a cover by Neal Adams, with story by Denny O'Neil, Neal Adams, and Dick Giordano where Hal Jordan is tasked by the Guardians of the Universe to train a new backup Green Lantern after Guy Gardner is injured, teaching architect John Stewart of the meaning of "Beware My Power".  

But, Hal learns when John deals with disreputable politician Jeremiah Clutcher, not every solution to a problem is as clean cut as he is used to dealing with, teaching the teacher a lesson as well.

John would have a few more appearances backing up Hal, including subbing for him once with the JLA during a Christmas tale, and working with Hal and Green Arrow Oliver Queen, before John and Ollie have a team up on their own...

Green Lantern #165 (June, 1983)

Under a cover by Gil Kane, with story by Mike W. Barr, Keith Pollard and Dan Adkins, John Stewart is pressed into service by the Guardians of the Universe after a long period of inactivity while Hal Jordan is banned from service on Earth for a year, to face "The Curse Of Krystayl".   

The Guardians also want Green Arrow to help against this menace, a living crystal being who absorbs human life (though Ollie is none too happy about how the Guardians have treated Hal).  After a few mistakes, John and Ollie get to working as a team, John finding the flaw in Krystayl, which Green Arrow is able to shatter, allowing the duo to defeat their foe!

Of course, John Stewart went on to do much more, working with the Justice League of America after that last appearance in their first annual facing Doctor Destiny, then, as shown with these Dave Gibbons' covers (here) taking over for Hal!

Celebrating Artist Keith Pollard

Wishing the best birthday to artist Keith Pollard (January 20, 1950), who, along with Green Lantern, spent some time in space in the 1980s, as these covers to Keith's run on the title show.

Green Lantern #157 and #158 (October and November, 1982)

Green Lantern #159 and #160 (December and January, 1982 and 1983)

Green Lantern #161 and #162 (February and March, 1983)

#161 inked by Mike DeCarlo

Green Lantern #163 and #164 (April and May, 1983)

#163 inked by Rick Hoberg

An odd time for Hal Jordan, as the Guardians exiled him from Earth, to better take care of the rest of Space Sector 2814, but at least for some of the run, Green Lantern had Dorine for company as Hal faced Hector Hammond, the Headmen and Evil Star.  Plus, the issues had back ups, with tales of the Green Lantern Corps (allowing Keith the ability to do Hal's stories in these issues).

Celebrating Artist Barry Kitson

Wishing artist Barry Kitson the happiest of birthdays today, and treating fans with a look at the covers for some of his greatest work, that of the covers to the 12 issue mini-series, JLA: Year One, starting with the wraparound cover to the first tradepaperback with all the issues from July, 1999, featuring the origins of the JLA in their earliest days (but, through a post-Crisis lens, with Black Canary replacing a not yet existing Wonder Woman as a charter member..., and Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman and Martian Manhunter as the other charter members, with Superman, Batman, Green Arrow, Atom, the Doom Patrol and more as guest stars).

JLA: Year One #1 (January, 1998)

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JLA: Year One (#2 and #3, February and March 1998)

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JLA: Year One (#4 and #5, April and May 1998)

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JLA: Year One (#6 and #7, June and July 1998)

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JLA: Year One (#8 and #9, August and September 1998)

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JLA: Year One (#10 and #11, October and November 1998)

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JLA: Year One (#12 and Deluxe Edition, December 1998 and July 2017)

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These aren't Barry's only later day trips to DC's modernized Silver Age, but more later!