Green Lantern: The Silver Age Vol. 3

Green Lantern: The Silver Age

by Gardner Francis Fox

At last, the early 1960s adventures of Green Lantern are available in trade paperback.

One of DC's greatest superheroes, Green Lantern, stars in this new trade paperback collection.

These are the tales that established Hal Jordan as the greatest member of the intergalactic peacekeeping force known as the Green Lantern Corps. These stories explore the power of Green Lantern's ring as he faces the evil of Sonar, Star Sapphire, Black Hand, Dr. Light and others.

Collects GREEN LANTERN #23-35.

Genres: Comics, Dc Comics, Graphic Novels, Graphic Novels Comics

344 pages, Paperback

First published April 24, 2018

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

[Nate]

It’s Silver Age Green Lantern. You know what you’re getting into. Cheesy dialogue, redundant narration, hilarious “science” explanations, silly villains. Oh, and imaginative, entertaining stories. There’s one where Green Lantern fights time-traveling alien pterodactyls. How can you go wrong with that?

[David Atwell · Rating 3 out of 5]

This collection contains the first GL solo adventure I remember reading, "The Shark that Hunted Human Prey!". It's at once impressive and also a little sad how repetitive some of these stories are; they even lampshade how often Kalmaku gets magically disguised as GL in one if these stories, for instance.

Still, we're starting to see the first glimpses of what makes Hal as a character distinct from Clark Kent or Barry Allen as characters. Not much, but I think if you look closely you can see it.

[Srivas · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun! The Black Hand, Doctor Light, Katma Tui and Hector Hammond all make appearances.

[Tom Barber · Rating 4 out of 5]

I gave this a 4, not so much for the writing, but for the art and the graphic style of old comic books, which I love. I don't read the new ones, which are much too dark for my liking. Unfortunately, there are frequently some significant negatives about the old ones and this one is no exception. Fyi, I read volume 3 first, because I found it in a store for $5! So, I learned what most readers already knew (I did not read Green Lantern as a kid), which was that Green Lantern had a "friend" called Thomas Kalmaku, an Inuit whom the Green Lantern constantly referred to as "Pieface." I was stunned by this. Fortunately, he's not a sidekick like Robin and is not too frequently seen (he does not appear in the first several stories. But what were these guys thinking? What are the odds that someone like Hal Jordan/Green Lantern would have an Inuit friend? And why would an Inuit consider as a good friend someone who regularly called him Pieface???
That aside, it's a weird world dreamed up to provide challenges for Earth's Green Hornet and generally, it is quite artistic and a lot of fun.

[Ta0paipai · Rating 2 out of 5]

Innocent, silly, over-explained old-school fun. This collection brought me back to the days of watching Justice League when I was a barely older than a baby.

[Robert S · Rating 3 out of 5]

Volume three of Green Lantern: The Silver Age continues a string of mostly fun stories to read over an afternoon.

[Keith Gerlach · Rating 3 out of 5]

Continuing the Silver age of G.L.

[Al McCarty · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love Gil Kane, but what the hell kind of name for anyone is “Pieface”?

[Brett · Rating 3 out of 5]

More Silver Age nuttiness. My favourite thing is still the so-called explanations for the pseudo-science.