Unofficial Green Lantern Vol. 2 Index

GREEN LANTERN VOL. 2 #27

Cover Date: March 1964
Cover Price: $0.12
Publication Date: 1964-01-16

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Gil Kane
Inks: Murphy Anderson

Story: "Mystery of the Deserted City!" (13 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Gardner Fox
Pencils	Gil Kane
Inks	Joe Giella
Editing	Julius Schwartz

Feature Character(s):

Green Lantern (Hal Jordan; last in Flash #143)

Supporting Character(s):

Carol Ferris (last in Flash #143; next in issue #28)

Villain(s):

"Chum" Ames (first appearance; a burglar)

Other Character(s):

Ted Alden (first appearance; a young boy in Pioneer Bluffs)

other citizens of Pioneer Bluffs (first appearance for all)

Location(s):

Space Sector 2814

Earth

United States of America

Coast City

Ferris Aircraft

Pioneer Bluffs (first appearance; also in flashback to 100 years earlier)

Plus-Two, Plus-Three, Plus-Four (first appearance for all; various alternate planes of existence)

Story Reprinted in:

Green Lantern Archives Vol. 4 (2002)

Showcase Presents: Green Lantern Vol. 2 (2007) (black and white)

Green Lantern Omnibus Vol. 2 (2011 [January 2012])

Green Lantern: The Silver Age Omnibus #1 ([April] 2017)

Green Lantern: The Silver Age #3 ([June] 2018)

DC Finest: Green Lantern: The Defeat of Green Lantern (2024 [February 2025])

Solicitation:

Green Lantern faces a new villain who can phase to different planes of existence!

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Second Story: "Amazing Transformation of Horace Tolliver!" (12 Pages)

Credits:

Story	John Broome
Pencils	Gil Kane
Inks	Joe Giella
Editing	Julius Schwartz

Feature Character(s):

Green Lantern (Hal Jordan; see Comments; last in the first story in this issue; next in Justice League of America #26)

Supporting Character(s):

Tom Kalmaku (in between issues #26/2 and #28)

Other Character(s):

Horace Tolliver (first appearance; see Comments; a timid bank messenger, inadvertently granted abilities from the power ring; later promoted to bank teller)

Location(s):

Space Sector 2814

Earth

United States of America

Coast City

Comment(s):

Hal relates a tale for Tom's Green Lantern Casebook. The events from two years earlier take place in flashbacks in the characters' chronologies. Hal had wiped the events from the memories of the participants.

Story Reprinted in:

Green Lantern Archives Vol. 4 (2002)

Showcase Presents: Green Lantern Vol. 2 (2007) (black and white)

Green Lantern Omnibus Vol. 2 (2011 [January 2012])

Green Lantern: The Silver Age Omnibus #1 ([April] 2017)

Green Lantern: The Silver Age #3 ([June] 2018)

DC Finest: Green Lantern: The Defeat of Green Lantern (2024 [February 2025])

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