The Green Lantern Archives, Vol. 6

Green Lantern

by Gardner Francis Fox, John Broome, Gil Kane (Illustrator)

Test pilot Hal Jordan was chosen to represent an intergalactic police force by the oldest beings in existence, the Guardians of the Universe. Armed with a specially crafted power ring that turns his will into reality, he now protects the Earth and the rest of Space Sector 2814 from every extraterrestrial threat imaginable. The Silver Age adventures of one of DC's greatest heroes continue in Volume 6 of THE GREEN LANTERN ARCHIVES! Reprinting classic material originally published in 1965-1966, this volume includes the stories "The Secret Origin of the Guardians," "The Other Side of the World" and "Green Lantern Lives Again!

Genres: Comics

240 pages, Hardcover

First published January 3, 2007

About the author

Gardner Francis Cooper Fox was an American writer known best for creating numerous comic book characters for DC Comics. Comic book historians estimate that he wrote more than 4,000 comics stories, including 1,500 for DC Comics.
Fox is known as the co-creator of DC Comics heroes the Flash, Hawkman, Doctor Fate and the original Sandman, and was the writer who first teamed those and other heroes as the Justice Society of America. Fox introduced the concept of the Multiverse to DC Comics in the 1961 story "Flash of Two Worlds!"

Pseudonyms: Gardner F. Fox, Jefferson Cooper, Bart Sommers, Paul Dean, Ray Gardner, Lynna Cooper, Rod Gray, Larry Dean, Robert Starr, Don Blake, Ed Blake, Warner Blake, Michael Blake, Tex Blane, Willis Blane, Ed Carlisle, Edgar Weston, Tex Slade, Eddie Duane, Simon Majors, James Kendricks, Troy Conway, Kevin Matthews, Glen Chase

Reviews

[J · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty decent stories here but the highlights are those which guest star Zatanna, Flash, and the Earth 2 Green Lantern. The Zatanna story is particularly notable because it ran over the course of a couple years through the pages of Hawkman, Atom, GL, and Justice League of America. Pretty unusual for the time.

The art is by the magnificent Gil Kane who found his perfect inker in Sid Greene. They make GL look modern and sophisticated and bring a new vitality to DC.

[Michael P. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Can't help myself. Some of the stories are worse than others (#40, with its extended and boring back story, for example) and some Go-Go Check excesses are evident in other stories, but overall these tales are just a lot of nostalgic fun. Included is the utterly delightful second meeting with Alan Scott, a chapter in the Zatanna saga, the return of Star Sapphire, another team-up with the Flash, and GL's first continued story, a bizarrely structured tale that is interesting for its strangeness. I had fun.