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Green Lantern: The Silver Age
Green Lantern: The Silver Age Vol. 1
One of DC's greatest superheroes, Green Lantern, stars in this new trade paperback collection.
These are the tales that introduced test pilot Hal Jordan, chronicling his origin story and establishing his role as one of the intergalactic peacekeeping force known as the Green Lantern Corps. Also included are the stories that introduced fellow Green Lanterns Tomar Re and Abin Sur, along with the corps' overseers, the Guardians of the Universe, plus Green Lantern's arch-foe, Sinestro.
Collects SHOWCASE #22-24 and GREEN LANTERN #1-9.
These are the tales that introduced test pilot Hal Jordan, chronicling his origin story and establishing his role as one of the intergalactic peacekeeping force known as the Green Lantern Corps. Also included are the stories that introduced fellow Green Lanterns Tomar Re and Abin Sur, along with the corps' overseers, the Guardians of the Universe, plus Green Lantern's arch-foe, Sinestro.
Collects SHOWCASE #22-24 and GREEN LANTERN #1-9.
356 pages, Paperback
First published October 11, 2016
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April 9, 2019A mostly fun introduction of Hal Jordan. The stories are roughly split between earthbound crimefighting and cosmic adventures. There’s some throwaway Silver Age fluff, especially towards the beginning, but it’s cool to see the Green Lantern mythos expand from issue to issue. I loved “The World of the Living Phantoms,” where Hal meets Tomar-Re and helps a world whose inhabitants live in suspended animation. The pair of Sinestro stories were pretty good as well. But Hal and Carol come across as jerks to each other, and the racism (Pieface) was tough to get past at times.
April 6, 2019
At the beginning of just about every issue in this collection the publishers are kind enough to remind us readers with short term memory loss that:
A) Hal Jordan is a test pilot
B) Carol Ferris is his love interest as well as his boss because
B.2) Her father is on a two year trip around the world, and
C) Green Lantern's power ring doesn't work against anything the color yellow.
If anyone should have short term memory loss it should be Green Lantern. He sure does get knocked out quite a few times in this collection. I'm sure he's sustained some sort of brain injury. This comic reminded me so much of The Flash: The Silver Age Vol. 1 in that Green Lantern doesn't have much of a personality. His stories for the most part have a simple adventure that GL resolves easily, with the rest of his time taken up with trying to repair his relationship with his bitchy girlfriend. Every character is rather flat. I guess that's why I was drawn to archenemy Sinestro. His pomposity was a breath of fresh air.
Speaking of villains, I couldn't help but notice something. Hal Jordan/Green Lantern has a thick, healthy head of hair. The villains, both human and out of this world, all seemed to have receding hairlines. Coincidence?! Eh, probably, but you're not going to convince me there wasn't some sort of conspiracy against the follicly challenged.
A) Hal Jordan is a test pilot
B) Carol Ferris is his love interest as well as his boss because
B.2) Her father is on a two year trip around the world, and
C) Green Lantern's power ring doesn't work against anything the color yellow.
If anyone should have short term memory loss it should be Green Lantern. He sure does get knocked out quite a few times in this collection. I'm sure he's sustained some sort of brain injury. This comic reminded me so much of The Flash: The Silver Age Vol. 1 in that Green Lantern doesn't have much of a personality. His stories for the most part have a simple adventure that GL resolves easily, with the rest of his time taken up with trying to repair his relationship with his bitchy girlfriend. Every character is rather flat. I guess that's why I was drawn to archenemy Sinestro. His pomposity was a breath of fresh air.
Speaking of villains, I couldn't help but notice something. Hal Jordan/Green Lantern has a thick, healthy head of hair. The villains, both human and out of this world, all seemed to have receding hairlines. Coincidence?! Eh, probably, but you're not going to convince me there wasn't some sort of conspiracy against the follicly challenged.
July 1, 2022
Wow Green lantern comics used to be terrible. Really makes me appreciate how much Geoff John's did for the character
January 19, 2020
Finishing this was a relief, after taking two years to get through it because it was such childish and inane drudgery. I kept thinking while reading it, it's not just a product of a less sophisticated age, because the volume of original Batman stories is 20 years older and, while also unsophisticated, much less insultingly idiotic. But this GL volume contains the kind of old-timey child-oriented writing that has held comics in such a dismal light for so long.
I agree with another reviewer that the world of phantoms story was clever for the era, especially within the context of how unimaginative the surrounding stories were. Even that story I didn't really care for, but... it didn't suck like just about everything else here.
I want to give this a clear and concise review instead of a rant... but I can't, I just can't. This wasn't good enough to deserve a review, but it earned a rant, so here we go.
GL's ring seems more powerful than more recent incarnations, in that it can essentially do or create anything, and what it creates does not require will power or continued attention to maintain. It can turn a man into a bird, or into an exact replica of GL, complete with powers. It can create a castle or a prison. It can even create sentient life, such as a living monster with enough autonomy to get out of control. And yet, Hal has to wear his costume under his street clothes like Superman; he can't switch them with the ring. He worries about being seen while flying, rather than becoming invisible or at least creating some camouflage. He redirects bullets with magnetic waves, which is more thought than should be put into something as insignificant as a crook firing a gun at him; the ring can nullify the danger of such pedestrian threats like flicking a switch, but instead it's treated like an issue, something he needs to think about. That's sort of the theme: this astronomical power harnessed to consistently pedestrian thinking that underutilizes the vast array of available abilities. The modern stories focus a lot on will power, but initially his power was limited only by his imagination... and that's the problem: GL (and his writers) have little imagination. Reading this, you spend the entire time thinking of the obvious ways the ring could have been put to better (or at least more interesting) use in a situation. It's frustrating. It's a wearable, weaponized genie, it should be limitless fun! You could write an issue about how Hal uses his ring to make breakfast before flying to Holland to admire the tulips and it'd be a fun story! Instead we see how Hal endangers a city with his childish attempt to dodge the screwy love triangle he's in with himself, and how catastrophic it can be when he's inconveniently knocked out by a badly timed bump from an errant child's toy in the park. We see how Hal acts like a local celebrity, but we sure don't see him taking some time to think about his abilities and experiment with how much more he might be able to do with them.
But that's not the biggest frustration. The interpersonal relations throughout this... oof. Hal's boss chasing after him as GL but toying with him as Hal. Her father regulating her relationships, saying she's not allowed to date while running his company, but he'll make an exception for GL if she can snag him. The amount of time devoted to this head of an aerospace company plotting hare-brained schemes to seduce a public figure in a mask, whom she knows hardly anything about on a personal level. And Hal's pathetic attempts to win her affections as himself, even though she's portrayed as an idiot obsessed with GL, while also allowing himself to get caught up in her desperate plots as GL. And then the final story of the volume, centering around a female reporter's utterly amoral quest to unmask GL for a story, putting herself in lethal danger because she's convinced she has the answer, and surviving it only by dumb luck. The way pretty much all of the characters are written in this is offensive to the intelligence of the reader, but women come off especially badly. Try to find an intelligent woman in here. When a group of Lanterns convene, they appear to all be either masculine or androgynous aliens.
And of course this volume begins with DC's disclaimer that the material is racist but they're reprinting it as-is for historical reference. These stories are racially insensitive to be sure; everyone in them is either white, an alien, or a crudely drawn and colored minority whose race will be continually central to how they're regarded. But despite how painfully white these stories are, Hal's "Eskimo greasemonkey," aside from being referred to by his ethnicity and a dismissive reference to his job in just about every issue, is treated quite respectfully. There's no disclaimer for the sexism, but the portrayal of women throughout this volume is egregious.
These stories are like old fashioned romance comics mixed with I Love Lucy mixed with patriarchal masculinity mixed with a consistent feed of low level racism and sexism, all wrapped up in lazy and pointless storytelling. Hal is the superhero of the c.1960 grammar school educated straight white male gaze.
I've loved Green Lantern as a character for many years, but... is he ever done well? In comics, cartoons, or movies, is he ever interesting? The ring is awesome, the potential of his powers is awesome, but the character has been cursed by substandard writing for much of its history, and it seems to be the character's lot that writers will always focus on limiting his nearly limitless powers to make lazy storytelling easier, rather than leaning into the potential. I should probably check out the controversial 70s social justice stories pairing GL with Green Arrow; those would certainly have superior writing to these early stories, but I'd be interested to see if they also manage to make entertaining use of GL's powers. Green Lantern is such great escapism, reading about having a ring of such power should be fun, but it's not fun when you're constantly wondering why the ring was given to someone so useless with it, when seemingly just about any normal person would be more inspired with it.
There were a few moments that were somewhat entertaining... but not many considering the size of this volume. For that and for my desire to like this character, I'm tempted to give this a generous two stars. But no, I'm one-starring this one, because truly these stories are a waste of time. I wanted to get through them all so they wouldn't be a waste of money, but I regret buying this; these stories are just so weak. I'm annoyed by the offensive sexist and racist content, which seems to go above and beyond just what you'd expect of the era, but I'm panning this first and foremost because it's just plain old crap writing, resulting in unlikable characters the reader doesn't really care about. There was no "oh no, how will Hal escape this one," because I was hoping Hal would be killed so the ring could move on to someone interesting, or at least less tiresome. I started the first Batman volume around the same time, so it became a natural point of comparison: the Batman stories of 1939/40 are no masterpieces and have plenty of cringy moments, but those stories were still much more entertaining than the tripe in this 1960 GL volume.
I agree with another reviewer that the world of phantoms story was clever for the era, especially within the context of how unimaginative the surrounding stories were. Even that story I didn't really care for, but... it didn't suck like just about everything else here.
I want to give this a clear and concise review instead of a rant... but I can't, I just can't. This wasn't good enough to deserve a review, but it earned a rant, so here we go.
GL's ring seems more powerful than more recent incarnations, in that it can essentially do or create anything, and what it creates does not require will power or continued attention to maintain. It can turn a man into a bird, or into an exact replica of GL, complete with powers. It can create a castle or a prison. It can even create sentient life, such as a living monster with enough autonomy to get out of control. And yet, Hal has to wear his costume under his street clothes like Superman; he can't switch them with the ring. He worries about being seen while flying, rather than becoming invisible or at least creating some camouflage. He redirects bullets with magnetic waves, which is more thought than should be put into something as insignificant as a crook firing a gun at him; the ring can nullify the danger of such pedestrian threats like flicking a switch, but instead it's treated like an issue, something he needs to think about. That's sort of the theme: this astronomical power harnessed to consistently pedestrian thinking that underutilizes the vast array of available abilities. The modern stories focus a lot on will power, but initially his power was limited only by his imagination... and that's the problem: GL (and his writers) have little imagination. Reading this, you spend the entire time thinking of the obvious ways the ring could have been put to better (or at least more interesting) use in a situation. It's frustrating. It's a wearable, weaponized genie, it should be limitless fun! You could write an issue about how Hal uses his ring to make breakfast before flying to Holland to admire the tulips and it'd be a fun story! Instead we see how Hal endangers a city with his childish attempt to dodge the screwy love triangle he's in with himself, and how catastrophic it can be when he's inconveniently knocked out by a badly timed bump from an errant child's toy in the park. We see how Hal acts like a local celebrity, but we sure don't see him taking some time to think about his abilities and experiment with how much more he might be able to do with them.
But that's not the biggest frustration. The interpersonal relations throughout this... oof. Hal's boss chasing after him as GL but toying with him as Hal. Her father regulating her relationships, saying she's not allowed to date while running his company, but he'll make an exception for GL if she can snag him. The amount of time devoted to this head of an aerospace company plotting hare-brained schemes to seduce a public figure in a mask, whom she knows hardly anything about on a personal level. And Hal's pathetic attempts to win her affections as himself, even though she's portrayed as an idiot obsessed with GL, while also allowing himself to get caught up in her desperate plots as GL. And then the final story of the volume, centering around a female reporter's utterly amoral quest to unmask GL for a story, putting herself in lethal danger because she's convinced she has the answer, and surviving it only by dumb luck. The way pretty much all of the characters are written in this is offensive to the intelligence of the reader, but women come off especially badly. Try to find an intelligent woman in here. When a group of Lanterns convene, they appear to all be either masculine or androgynous aliens.
And of course this volume begins with DC's disclaimer that the material is racist but they're reprinting it as-is for historical reference. These stories are racially insensitive to be sure; everyone in them is either white, an alien, or a crudely drawn and colored minority whose race will be continually central to how they're regarded. But despite how painfully white these stories are, Hal's "Eskimo greasemonkey," aside from being referred to by his ethnicity and a dismissive reference to his job in just about every issue, is treated quite respectfully. There's no disclaimer for the sexism, but the portrayal of women throughout this volume is egregious.
These stories are like old fashioned romance comics mixed with I Love Lucy mixed with patriarchal masculinity mixed with a consistent feed of low level racism and sexism, all wrapped up in lazy and pointless storytelling. Hal is the superhero of the c.1960 grammar school educated straight white male gaze.
I've loved Green Lantern as a character for many years, but... is he ever done well? In comics, cartoons, or movies, is he ever interesting? The ring is awesome, the potential of his powers is awesome, but the character has been cursed by substandard writing for much of its history, and it seems to be the character's lot that writers will always focus on limiting his nearly limitless powers to make lazy storytelling easier, rather than leaning into the potential. I should probably check out the controversial 70s social justice stories pairing GL with Green Arrow; those would certainly have superior writing to these early stories, but I'd be interested to see if they also manage to make entertaining use of GL's powers. Green Lantern is such great escapism, reading about having a ring of such power should be fun, but it's not fun when you're constantly wondering why the ring was given to someone so useless with it, when seemingly just about any normal person would be more inspired with it.
There were a few moments that were somewhat entertaining... but not many considering the size of this volume. For that and for my desire to like this character, I'm tempted to give this a generous two stars. But no, I'm one-starring this one, because truly these stories are a waste of time. I wanted to get through them all so they wouldn't be a waste of money, but I regret buying this; these stories are just so weak. I'm annoyed by the offensive sexist and racist content, which seems to go above and beyond just what you'd expect of the era, but I'm panning this first and foremost because it's just plain old crap writing, resulting in unlikable characters the reader doesn't really care about. There was no "oh no, how will Hal escape this one," because I was hoping Hal would be killed so the ring could move on to someone interesting, or at least less tiresome. I started the first Batman volume around the same time, so it became a natural point of comparison: the Batman stories of 1939/40 are no masterpieces and have plenty of cringy moments, but those stories were still much more entertaining than the tripe in this 1960 GL volume.
March 15, 2018
This was a fun read, but I know now that I'm not into Silver Age comics. I just don't really find them that interesting (likely due to the CCA). I might pick up some Silver Age stuff if it's a character I really like, but otherwise I'll probably just skip it.
March 15, 2020
This book collects the three Showcase tryout issues and the first nine issues of Green Lantern's Silver Age comic book. I jumped into comics in 1966, and Green Lantern was always somebody I thought was cool, but DC Comics didn't reprint the early adventures of this hero the way they did quite a few others in the late 60s and 70s. So, I'd never encountered any of these aside from the first short origin story. The artwork, of course, is brilliant - Kane, especially when inked by Joe Giella, brought an incredible energy, a sleek, aerodynamic approach to action, and a really nutty approach to alien beings which especially paid off in the last issue reprinted here in which we meet several Green Lanterns from other star sectors. Broome's writing shows off a sense of humor - he thought to set up Green Lantern as the rival to his own alter ego Hal Jordan for the affections of his boss, the lovely (and, alas, otherwise one dimensional) Carol Ferris. He came up with comic ideas such as having GL create a fake menace to allow him to change into his secret identity while on a date with Carol, then getting knocked out so the creature becomes a real danger. He created Hal's brother Jim, and the woman who is convinced that Jordan is actually Green Lantern. He also slowly accumulated a mythology around Green Lantern - introducing the Guardians of the Universe, the anti-matter world of Quard, where evil is celebrated and good is punished; the best friend Thomas Kalmaku, who was saddled with a racist nickname but is otherwise completely unconventional for an Eskimo character of the time; the renegade Green Lantern called Sinestro (really, the Guardians should have known better than to give a power ring to a guy with that name). These stories are fun, way more varied than I would have thought, and they make me want to get around to Vol. 2 one of these days.
February 25, 2020
When you start reading something from a different era it is important you do not compare it to similar output of today - we live in different worlds and have social histories as well as a different outlook. I did find some of it tough going with the overtones of the paranoia of its time as well as what we would now see as derogatory towards women & any non white male unless they are an alien Green Lantern of course 😊
Ok so to review it I’m Ignoring the elements which would (rightly so imho) now be deemed inappropriate be that typecasting non White characters, women, Nick names, male pose over women, women seemingly only desiring a husband & nothing else (even when in charge of big companies) etc I quite enjoyed this collection. These strips were not written with a larger collection in mind but for throw away weekly comic strips and to be honest it shows. They are repetitive so I’d suggest only reading them in short bursts - as they were intended to be read. I easily got bored of the repeating information which would be required in a weekly or infrequent slot in a paper or periodical but not required when an entire storyline is to be written in one place.
So, yes of its time but don’t dismiss it for that - see beyond that & enjoy (in small bursts). If nothing else it is a great snapshot of the world view from an American perspective in Comics ‘Sliver Age’
Ok so to review it I’m Ignoring the elements which would (rightly so imho) now be deemed inappropriate be that typecasting non White characters, women, Nick names, male pose over women, women seemingly only desiring a husband & nothing else (even when in charge of big companies) etc I quite enjoyed this collection. These strips were not written with a larger collection in mind but for throw away weekly comic strips and to be honest it shows. They are repetitive so I’d suggest only reading them in short bursts - as they were intended to be read. I easily got bored of the repeating information which would be required in a weekly or infrequent slot in a paper or periodical but not required when an entire storyline is to be written in one place.
So, yes of its time but don’t dismiss it for that - see beyond that & enjoy (in small bursts). If nothing else it is a great snapshot of the world view from an American perspective in Comics ‘Sliver Age’
April 24, 2020
The first volume of Green Lantern: The Silver Age, is a collection of the very first comics in which he appears. We follow Hal Jordan as he learns to use his new powers, and as he meets characters, like Sinestro, Tomar-Re and the Guardians of the Universe, who are intrinsic to the Green Lantern stories of today.
As a long-time fan of Green Lantern, it was great to see his earliest encounters with his colleagues, friends, and enemies, and the stories themselves were mostly enjoyable. I feel like I enjoyed it mainly because of this, and so I wouldn’t recommend this to someone who is new to the Green Lantern universe. Most of the characters here were quite basic compared with what they are like today, since they don’t have a lot to them. A lot of the stories were quite good; however, some issues were tackled a little too easily.
As a long-time fan of Green Lantern, it was great to see his earliest encounters with his colleagues, friends, and enemies, and the stories themselves were mostly enjoyable. I feel like I enjoyed it mainly because of this, and so I wouldn’t recommend this to someone who is new to the Green Lantern universe. Most of the characters here were quite basic compared with what they are like today, since they don’t have a lot to them. A lot of the stories were quite good; however, some issues were tackled a little too easily.
November 6, 2024
Always funny hearing certain genres of comic/manga referred to as For Jocks because of the general assumptions of nerdiness the whole base has, but no man really Green Latern is jock rock. Hal Jordan makes Peter Parker look like Shinji Ikari. Hal has more character than Superman or Batman had at the time but also that character is "Dude Who Wants To Fuck His Boss" and so while Carol Ferris is ahead of the curve being a woman running a company in the 50s its mostly so she can be the object of Hal's advances - what you get is a serial where a dude beats on all kinds of pulpy 50s scifi monsters of the week and each issue is just bookended with Hal sexually harassing his boss and dreaming about pussy. It's pure Don Draper fantasy and I kind of appreciate it in that regard, an interesting link between Men's Adventure mags of the 40s and the caped crusaders of the 60s.
December 29, 2025
The first volume of Green Lantern: The Silver Age, is a collection of the very first comics in which he appears. We follow Hal Jordan as he learns to use his new powers, and as he meets characters, like Sinestro, Tomar-Re and the Guardians of the Universe, who are intrinsic to the Green Lantern stories of today.
As a long-time fan of Green Lantern, it was great to see his earliest encounters with his colleagues, friends, and enemies, and the stories themselves were mostly enjoyable. I feel like I enjoyed it mainly because of this, and so I wouldn’t recommend this to someone who is new to the Green Lantern universe. Most of the characters here were quite basic compared with what they are like today, since they don’t have a lot to them. A lot of the stories were quite good; however, some issues were tackled a little too easily.
As a long-time fan of Green Lantern, it was great to see his earliest encounters with his colleagues, friends, and enemies, and the stories themselves were mostly enjoyable. I feel like I enjoyed it mainly because of this, and so I wouldn’t recommend this to someone who is new to the Green Lantern universe. Most of the characters here were quite basic compared with what they are like today, since they don’t have a lot to them. A lot of the stories were quite good; however, some issues were tackled a little too easily.
April 28, 2022
Yes, some of the stories have silly plot, maybe too silly even for that time, but I have to aknowledge that green lantern from the beginning is a very weird unusual comic, the art is really great though, maybe it's just me that loves this vintage art style.
So if you put aside some silly stories, this volume is very interesting and you realise that all Geoff Johns did with his run much later is to cut the fat or the unnecessary stuff out of the comic, all classic elements are still there and it seems many were begging to be found like the color spectrum, believe me it exists in silver age, you can see it if you pay close attention to some of the stories, so I would still highly recommend silver age to anyone that might want to get into Green Lantern, it's a good starting point.
So if you put aside some silly stories, this volume is very interesting and you realise that all Geoff Johns did with his run much later is to cut the fat or the unnecessary stuff out of the comic, all classic elements are still there and it seems many were begging to be found like the color spectrum, believe me it exists in silver age, you can see it if you pay close attention to some of the stories, so I would still highly recommend silver age to anyone that might want to get into Green Lantern, it's a good starting point.
May 12, 2019
This was very good for the most part. It’s neat to see the beginnings of all the established GL characters I was already somewhat familiar with( sinestro and an unrecognizable hector Hammond especially.) However, this comic can be very dumb at times and you have to know going in that this was written in a different time and there are instances of racism. Those parts were tough for me to read. But overall, still very enjoyable.
Favorite story: “The Power Ring that Vanished.”
Worst story: “The Leap Year Menace.” I don’t much like Carol Ferris either. I hope she gets better as a character.
Favorite story: “The Power Ring that Vanished.”
Worst story: “The Leap Year Menace.” I don’t much like Carol Ferris either. I hope she gets better as a character.
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March 4, 2023Out of the three silver age volumes i've read I liked this one the most. didn't expect to like green lantern this much, but he's fun and the sci-fi alien angle is a lot of fun and fits him in a way it doesn't fit the flash or the justice league. hal's romance with carol ferris is funny, and does a lot of the things similar to the flash and iris but just better. his power is interesting, but occasionally underwhelming. lots of good villains. sinestro is great. also loved to see the other green lanterns. space cops lol.
July 2, 2018
Well, well, well. I didn't think there'd be so much familiar stuff this far back! Of course we have Hal Jordan and Carol Ferris. But we also have The Guardians, the planet OA, Hector Hammond, Sinestro (with a YELLOW Power Ring!), the anti-universe of Qward, and much more besides.
This is where GL REALLY started!
This is where GL REALLY started!
August 27, 2025
Fun classic tales of Hal Jordan. One of the things that impressed me is how early a lot of the mythos that is still around today was started. We get the Weaponers of Quard, sinestro and even a small handful of other Lanterns in this first volume. I also really enjoyed the whole Hal/Carol/Green Lantern love triangle.
September 9, 2023
IN BRIGHTEST DAY. IN BLACKEST NIGHT,
NO EVIL SHALL ESCAPE MY SIGHT!
LET THOSE WHO WORSHIP EVIL'S MIGHT
BEWARE MY POWER-GREEN LANTERN'S LIGHT!
a little repetitive and dumb at some points
but introduces hal's character very well
NO EVIL SHALL ESCAPE MY SIGHT!
LET THOSE WHO WORSHIP EVIL'S MIGHT
BEWARE MY POWER-GREEN LANTERN'S LIGHT!
a little repetitive and dumb at some points
but introduces hal's character very well
August 29, 2024
Underrated, as are many comics of this era, as far as I can see. I quite like Broome's ridiculous, soft-as-can-be sci-fi ideas; I like his characters; I like GL's sense of honor and justice.
Great read. Don't be afraid to read from this era of comics.
Great read. Don't be afraid to read from this era of comics.
May 22, 2019
Classic stories, and interesting to see the origins of Hal Jordan. Definitely dated, I mean, how many missiles can Hal foil?
January 30, 2020
*3 and a half stars* I enjoyed the earlier stories more. The art seemed better as well. But a fun read, and cool to see the origin of Hal Jordon.
February 6, 2020
Part of my DC and Marvel reading list.
February 15, 2022
It's fun to see how the familiar Green Lantern characters and tropes got going, but the actual stories and comics here are not that good. Interesting mainly for the completionist.
June 22, 2022
A GL Silver Age Gem
Loved the compilation of the first ‘Showcase’ issues to the first GL titled issues. A gem collection. All GL/DC Silver age fans will love this.
Loved the compilation of the first ‘Showcase’ issues to the first GL titled issues. A gem collection. All GL/DC Silver age fans will love this.
September 1, 2022
Delectably campy. This is the sort of fluff I grew up with.
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November 21, 2023closest log I can find to mark that I read the important parts of Green Lantern 1960s run mainly for the first appearances so I can finally read rebirth 😭
February 2, 2022
I am really sorry to all the fanboys/fangirls, but this is my first DNF.
Just a casual superhero story. It is a compilation of early works. I liked the idea of Green Lantern and the ring and how everything works, it's pretty interesting, so I'll give that a plus. But that's all there is to it.
I have to admit I am kind of sad, but mostly, dissapointed. I really expected to love this comic series, I had it on TBR for years, since I first saw it in the bookstore. I was like woww, that looks like a cool superhero and I could see myself falling in love with it. It turned out the opposite.
It started off okay, I was into the story and everything. But my God did I hate the main characters, Hal Jordan (who was nothing special or stand out as a person, I am more of a Joker or Deadpool guy if you catch my drift) and Carol Ferris, their toxic behaviour towards each other, both playing hard to get, ew. Even Iron Man is better with his above clouds ego lol. With each new part I got bored and bored more, to me it got really repetitive.🙄
I had high hopes for this one. Now before I wrap this up, I'll be honest and admit I read only 60 pages which is 16% of the book, but I really didn't and couldn't force myself to read it more. But know one thing: If i give book 2 starts, it means (quoting from my Goodreads) 'meh, maybe it will get another chance someday, to see if I change my mind.'
Also, I don't read books I know I won't like. That was the book I was expecting to LOVE as I have mentioned before. But sometimes it is just not as we would like it to be. And that's okay!
Just a casual superhero story. It is a compilation of early works. I liked the idea of Green Lantern and the ring and how everything works, it's pretty interesting, so I'll give that a plus. But that's all there is to it.
I have to admit I am kind of sad, but mostly, dissapointed. I really expected to love this comic series, I had it on TBR for years, since I first saw it in the bookstore. I was like woww, that looks like a cool superhero and I could see myself falling in love with it. It turned out the opposite.
It started off okay, I was into the story and everything. But my God did I hate the main characters, Hal Jordan (who was nothing special or stand out as a person, I am more of a Joker or Deadpool guy if you catch my drift) and Carol Ferris, their toxic behaviour towards each other, both playing hard to get, ew. Even Iron Man is better with his above clouds ego lol. With each new part I got bored and bored more, to me it got really repetitive.🙄
I had high hopes for this one. Now before I wrap this up, I'll be honest and admit I read only 60 pages which is 16% of the book, but I really didn't and couldn't force myself to read it more. But know one thing: If i give book 2 starts, it means (quoting from my Goodreads) 'meh, maybe it will get another chance someday, to see if I change my mind.'
Also, I don't read books I know I won't like. That was the book I was expecting to LOVE as I have mentioned before. But sometimes it is just not as we would like it to be. And that's okay!
July 4, 2019
I enjoyed reading this. I love the camp of Silver Age comics. Be warned: these issues were written in the 60s, so there is some cringeworthy stuff regarding race and women that are very much products of their time. Other then that, I enjoyed seeing the origins of characters so iconic to the Green Lantern mythos. Sinestro was my favorite part of this collection. He was such a fun villain in the Silver Age! I think that anyone who is a Green Lantern fan or a Silver Age fan would enjoy this collection.
April 30, 2017
Green Lantern: The Silver Age Vol. 1 is a collection of Green Lantern stories with Hal Jordan taking up the emerald ring. DC makes no excuses in a note at the beginning of the volume about how things weren't exactly sensitive in a lot of ways (*cough* Pieface *cough*) but its still a fun read for the most part.
Definitely worth reading to see how far Green Lantern has come or if you're a fan of the character.
Definitely worth reading to see how far Green Lantern has come or if you're a fan of the character.
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