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Issue: The Green Lantern Corps Annual #2

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Publication Date: December 1986

Issue #2

Detail

Issues: #2 of 1 Issue (3 Printings)

Title:

Variant: Direct

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Brand: DC [bullet]

Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: 08/12/1986

Volume:

Pages: 52

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $1.75 CAD
£0.60 GBP
$1.25 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 6 (4 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Andy Helfer (Editor)

Notes: On-sale date from DC Releases #31.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: Color

Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U.S.

Paper Stock: Newsprint

Binding: Saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series

Format Notes:

Variants3

The Green Lantern Corps Annual #2 [Direct]

The Green Lantern Corps Annual #2 [Canadian]

The Green Lantern Corps Annual #2 [Newsstand]

Reprinted In4

2 Content Items
- Tales of the Green Lantern Corps [Illustration on Cover, Front]1
- Tygers [Story on Interior Page(s)]3

reprinted 4 times as Content Items in other Issues.

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Images1

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

Digital Edition

Adult Image

Title Page

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Indicia

Content Items (6 total)

Tales of the Green Lantern Corps

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Gil Kane (layouts, signed); Joe Staton (finished pencils, signed)

Inker(s): Bruce Patterson [as bdp] (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Gaspar Saladino

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Green Lantern Corps

Character(s): Green Lantern Corps (many unnamed members); Green Lantern [Abin Sur]; Green Lantern [Penn Maricc]; Green Lantern [Ghrelk]; Green Lantern [Varik]

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

DC Comics Anthologie #[nn] published February 2012
as Tygres [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Joe Staton was asked to update the original Gil Kane cover that is included in this issue as a pinup.

Escapist Entertainment

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Steve Englehart

Penciller(s): Bill Willingham

Inker(s): Joe Rubinstein

Colorist(s): Anthony Tollin

Letterer(s): Albert DeGuzman

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Green Lantern Corps

Character(s): Sinestro; Green Lantern [Rasa Nekroy]; Green Lantern [Palagua]; Green Lantern [Cimfet Tau]; Guardians of the Universe

Synopsis: At the Guardians Prison, Sinestro tells stories to the imprisoned Sector 3600, in hopes of waking it up and freeing him.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Job Number: G-2773

Notes: Used as a framing device, page 5 of this story comes after page 14 of the issue, page 6 comes after page 30 of the issue, and pages 7 and 8 after page 45 of the issue.

Mercenary!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Mindy Newell

Penciller(s): George Freeman

Inker(s): George Freeman

Colorist(s): Anthony Tollin

Letterer(s): David Cody Weiss

Editor(s): Len Wein; Andy Helfer

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Green Lantern Corps

Character(s): Green Lantern [Penn Maric]; Guardians of the Universe; Prince Tayla

Synopsis: An outcast of society is offered a chance to join the Green Lantern Corps, but rejects the offer... and the Guardians.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Old Man Lantern

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Paul Kupperberg

Penciller(s): Trevor Von Eeden

Inker(s): Trevor Von Eeden

Colorist(s): Anthony Tollin

Letterer(s): John Costanza

Editor(s): Len Wein; Andy Helfer

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Green Lantern Corps

Character(s): Green Lantern [Ghrelk]; Green Lantern [Varix]

Synopsis: An ancient and respected Green Lantern fights the one foe he cannot defeat-- old age.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 12

Tygers

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Alan Moore

Penciller(s): Kevin O'Neill

Inker(s): Kevin O'Neill

Colorist(s): Anthony Tollin

Letterer(s): John Costanza

Editor(s): Len Wein; Andy Helfer

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Green Lantern Corps

Character(s): Green Lantern [Abin Sur]; The Empire of Tears; Qull of the Five Inversions; the Guardians of the Universe (cameo, flashback); Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Weaponers of Qward; Ranx, the Sentient City; Children of the White Lobe; Green Lantern [Sodam Yat, a Daxamite]; Green Lantern [Mogo]

Synopsis: Abin Sur seeks a crippled ship that has crashed on Ysmault, a lifeless planet in a forbidden territory by the Guardians. There Abin finds The Empire of Tears-- hellish demons that taunt him, including Qull of the Five Inversions. Qull freely answers three questions for Abin about the crippled ship, Abin's future and the Guardians' greatest catastrophe. And in doing so destroys Abin Sur years in the future.

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Across the Universe: The DC Universe Stories of Alan Moore #[nn] published August 2003
as Tygers [Story on Interior Page(s)]

In Content Item: Flag

DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore #[nn] published March 2006
as Tygers [Story on Interior Page(s)]

In Content Item: Flag

DC Comics Anthologie #[nn] published February 2012
as Tygres [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 12

Bonus Pin-Up!

Illustration on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Penciller(s): Gil Kane (signed)

Inker(s): Gil Kane (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Green Lantern Corps

Character(s): Green Lantern [John Stewart]; Green Lantern [Tomar Re]; Green Lantern [Katma Tui]; Green Lantern [Arkkis Chummuck]; Green Lantern [Arisia]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: This is the original cover for this book, but was redrawn because a number of the Green Lanterns pictured had died or undergone extensive costume changes.