![]() an invader from another dimension, she also had contempt for males. Star Sapphire was a Kanigher/Elias Flash villainess from the very late 40s. How terrible…no! How wonderful!”The advanced musical powers of the Zamarons costume-creating barrel organ also anticipates Star Trek. “Men are a distinctly inferior species!” “I’m defeated. This is a giddy tale of 60s gender politics, with a touch of Gene Roddenberry. However, since she actually wants to be overcome by the hero during her art gallery thefts, the Zamarons elect to strip her of her powers and memories. She hunts Green Lantern with her powers of flight, teleportation and mind-over-matter. Secret Life of Star Saphire: Carol Ferris is abducted by the immortal alien Zamorans (amazons) who transform her into their queen, Star Sapphire. It was also reprinted in the comic reviewed here. This Alex Toth strip is fabulously visual and virtually the best thing in the comic. We see Doiby Dickles’ green rocket distress signal but curiously, apart from flight, Alan’s ring doesn’t exhibit any other properties. ![]() Crook Del Lupin gets people to confess to his crimes via hypnosis but falls to his death at the climax ( this is becoming something of a motif at the ‘ Optikon, with the recent JSA/Key story and the upcoming Justice Inc. Too Many Suspects: from GL April 1949, a gutsy tale of the Golden Age/ Earth 2 GL, Alan Scott. Special features include “Green Lantern Cover Classics” and How I Draw Green Lantern: a three-page masterclass by Gil Kane, with sketches of GL’s supporting cast. It’s a rather hokey but efficient way of teaming up National’s New Frontier answer to Batman and Superman. The two heroes foil the alien plan to duplicate their powers and invade, then reveal their identities to each other. These aliens inhabit a world “beyond the speed of light”.įlash and GL clash and the Scarlet Speedster, having become top-heavy (as per the cover image), is then subjected to a Spectran mind-probe ( or “computo-analyser”). While we see the glamorous lifestyle of early-60s Californians, as Iris West interviews Hal Jordan, Green Lantern has fallen under the domination of the Spectrans. Broome obviously liked it and reworks it three issues later for “Zero Hour in Rocket City”.ĭuel of the Super Heroes: This is the “first in a proposed series” for the “dynamic duo”(!) Green Lantern and Flash. Safecrackers using a supersonic drill, which somehow cancels other sounds, accounts for the title. Pieface is established as GL’s secret biographer. Zero Hour in the Silent City: by contrast, a humdrum short about the limitations of the Power Ring. Kane’s designs are fanciful and mould-breaking. ![]() We are introduced to a number of the bizarre Corps members: the insectoid Xaos, the crystalline Barrio the piscine Aeros and Green Lantern T41A- a monocular being with tentacles and six legs. The Packer Gang aren’t worthy of Hal’s interest – and petty crime seems a silly distraction in the series- but the exotic mythos of Green Lantern is something else again. This is a hugely imaginative, even mystical, tale. Sinestro is exiled by the Guardians to orbit the universe in a green capsule for 18 billion years! When Hal escapes Sinestro’s yellow cage in his underwear, the pair have a power ring duel. The “satanic-faced foe” impersonates Hal at a meeting of Green Lanterns on the planet Yquem. Today’s post looks at the facsmile 1963 Giant Green Lantern Annual which captures the Silver Age space cop at the height of his success.īattle of the Power Rings: after foiling a freight robbery, Hal finds he’s losing power thanks to Sinestro. The only time I ever really followed the character was in the 80s in the Wolfman/Englehart/Staton era. I probably owned three or four GL comics as a kid, including the infamous O’Neil/Adams issue below. Wonder Woman is one of several comics icons, completely emblematic of their times, whose stories I read but never really connected with. This is especially true of the WWII episodes, which were never shown in my area in the 70s, to my knowledge. Lynda Carter’s portrayal of Wonder Woman on the Horror Channel repeats has such charm and innocence that I have warmed to the character in a way I hadn’t before.
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