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introduction of Qward Universe; 1st app. of Pieface; COMIC BOOK IMPACT rating of 7 (CBI)
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The most important distinction concerning Green Lantern #2 is the introduction of the Antimatter Universe, and the planet of Qward, which is a land of opposites, where no good deed literally goes unpunished.

Not all of the inhabitants are down with this program, and some long for an existence where evil is recognized as a bad thing, hence a group of rebels attempt to seek help from Hal Jordan through the personage of one Telle-Teg, who creates a portal between the dimensions to plead his case with the Green Lantern of Earth.

It is later revealed that the evil Weaponers of Qward seek to collect all of the positive matter Lanterns to further their insidious plot to dominate their realm. The implications of Qward would go on to loom large in the cosmic mythos of the Green Lantern, eventually becoming the safe haven for GL uber-enemy Sinestro.

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Artists Information

Joe Giella is an American comic book artist best known as a DC Comics inker during the late 1950s and 1960s Silver Age of comic books. Giella's career began in the 40's at Hillman and later working with C.C. Beck on Captain Marvel stories at Fawcett. He would also assist on Captain America, Human Torch, Sub-Mariner and other stories at Timely. It was the Silver Age where he would come to his most prominence, working at DC on many of their biggest titles, including Batman, Green Lantern and Strange Adventures, working often with artist Carmine Infantino.

Gil Kane was a Latvian-born American comics artist whose career spanned the 1940s to the 1990s and virtually every major comics company and character. Kane co-created the modern-day versions of the superheroes Green Lantern and the Atom for DC Comics, and co-created Iron Fist with Roy Thomas for Marvel Comics. He was involved in such major storylines as that of The Amazing Spider-Man #96–98, which, at the behest of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, bucked the then-prevalent Comics Code Authority to depict drug abuse, and ultimately spurred an update of the Code. Kane additionally pioneered an early graphic novel prototype, His Name Is... Savage, in 1968, and a seminal graphic novel, Blackmark, in 1971. In 1997, he was inducted into both the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame and the Harvey Award Jack Kirby Hall of Fame.