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Gil Kane cover/art; 2nd app SA Green Lantern; 2nd app of Carol Ferris; 1st app of Invisible Destroyer; nuclear explosion cover & splash
Green Lantern is called to an emergency on Venus to save a primitive tribe of humanoids from terrifying dinosaurs. This issue is important to serious collectors as it’s the second appearance of Carol Ferris, the owner of the Ferris Aircraft company, who will become Hal Jordan's boss, romantic interest, and adversary when she takes on the mantle of the villainous Star Sapphire, a prominent character throughout Green Lantern’s life and many reboots.

Star Sapphire, whose original design was based on silver screen legend Elizabeth Taylor, made her cinematic debut in the 2011 film Green Lantern, played by Blake Lively. Also noteworthy: this issue features more of the early super-hero work by one of the most important comic book artists of the twentieth century, Gil Kane.


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.