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Issue: Green Lantern #169
Publication Date: October 1983
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Issues: #169 of 205 Issues (373 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Direct
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/28/1983
Volume: 21
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.75 CAD
£0.25 GBP
$0.60 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 16 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US; standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
Inks over pencils; colors and masting yet to be added.
 
Assets1
Indicia
 
 
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Green Lantern [Lysandra]; Green Lantern [Symon]
Synopsis: The three Green Lanterns are each featured in their own separate battles.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: C-476
Disclose Notes: Colors credit confirmed by Anthony Tollin.
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It's Not Easy Being Q*Bert, But It's Fun.

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Q*Bert
Character(s): Q*Bert; Colly; Ugg
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for video game from Parker Brothers, for the Atari 2600 and Sears Video Arcade systems.
On inside front cover.
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Off on a Tanjent!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (framing sequence)
Inker(s): ? (framing sequence)
Editor(s): ? (framing sequence)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Guardians of the Universe; Green Lantern Corps [Green Lantern [Kaylark]; Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Green Lantern [Eddore of Tront]; Green Lantern [Galius-Zed]; Green Lantern [Krista]; Green Lantern [Droxelle]; Green Lantern [Meadlux]; Green Lantern [Symon]]; Symon's father; Symon's mother; Symon clone; Tanjentan exiles
Synopsis: The framing sequence involves completion of a psychodrama performed by other Green lanterns for Hal Jordan and appears to be continued from the previous issue: it is continued in the next issue. In the main story, a boy on a planet of mental giants is exiled for his inadequacies, granted a Green Lantern's ring, and saves other exiles who are being attacked after returning to Tanjent in captured alien spaceships.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSupermans Freunde #3 published January 1984
as Eine Welt namens Tanjent! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 16
Job Number: J-8972 (framing); J-8428
Disclose Notes: No script, inks, colors, or letters credits are provided for the three-page framing sequence.

References Green Lantern #164 in the framing sequence.
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Get My Exciting New Kool-Aid Man Video Game Free!

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Mattel
Character(s): Kool-Aid Man
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for video game from Mattel Electronics, for Intellivision or Atari 2600 game systems.
On first page between pages 4-5 of Tanjent story.
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Build This Star Wars Squadron

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): MPC
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for Star Wars vehicles model kits from MPC division of Fundimensions, a CPG Products Corp.
On second page between pages 4-5 of Tanjent story.
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Star Frontiers

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): TSR Hobbies, Inc.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for Star Frontiers role playing game.
Between pages 9-10 of Tanjent story.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: L-1393
Disclose Notes: Letters from Ryan Brown, Richard Rotmistrovsky, and Raymond Ellis, and excerpts of letters from Ed Sample, David Mercury, Steve Reischman, Charlie Gage, J. Bisceglia, Gary Frazier, George Williams, Tony Hartgrove, Richard Hopkins, and Joe Burton.
Also a thank you from editor Ernie Colon as he prepares to leave to write an Amethyst graphic novel, and a hello to friend Jon Glickstein.
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At $4.95 a Game You Can't Miss.

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Columbia Video Game Club
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for subscription video game club.
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Cross Swords with Champions!

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Remco
Character(s): Arak; Warlord; Hercules
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for posable action figures based on DC Comics' characters. Included with the figures is a DC Warlord comic book "Battle Beneath the Earth!" Letters credit from http://kleinletters.com/.
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Sun-Fall! Part Two of "The Lysandra Saga"

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction, superhero
Feature(s): Tales of the Green Lantern Corps
Character(s): Green Lantern [Lysandra]; Green Lantern [Spol of Cyc]; Thar
Synopsis: Lysandra and Spol are both new Green Lanterns and battle with different understandings of the situation to save Lysandra's planet from a cosmic danger.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: J-8439
Disclose Notes: Story continues from Green Lantern #168.
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E-X-TRA E-X-TRA Spending Money!

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Grit
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Ad for sales people for Grit newspapers.
On top of first page between pages 4-5 of Sun-Fall story.
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DC Coming Comics

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): DC Comics
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: House ad for DC comics on sale July 21st.
On bottom of first page between pages 4-5 of Sun-Fall story.
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[untitled]

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Information on upcoming convention appearances by DC staff.
On second page between pages 4-5 of Sun-Fall story.
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Earn Famous Name Prizes or Cash

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Olympic Sales Club
Character(s): Captain O
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for sales people for greeting cards and gifts.
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Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Cartridge

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Mattel
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for video game from Mattel Electronics for Intellivision, licensed from TSR Hobbies.
On inside back cover.
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Burger Time

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Mattel
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for video game from Mattel Electronics, for Intellivision or Atari 2600 game systems, or Apple II or IBM personal computers.
On back cover.

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