DC Celebrates Green Lantern's 80th Anniversary With 100-Page Spectacular
by Jon ArvedonTo celebrate 80 years of Green Lantern, DC has announced Green Lantern 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular #1, which will pay tribute to Alan Scott, Hal Jordan, John Stewart, Guy Gardner, Kyle Rayner, Jessica Cruz, Simon Baz and anyone else who's ever been deemed worthy enough to sport a green Power Ring.
The issue will be written and illustrated by a murderer's row of DC talent, including Geoff Johns, Darryl Banks, Charlotte Fullerton McDuffie, Sina Grace, Mike Grell, Jeff Lemire, Ron Marz, Denny O’Neil, Fernando Pasarin, Ivan Reis, Rafa Sandoval, Mariko Tamaki, Peter J. Tomasi, James Tynion IV, Robert Venditti and more. Plus, as with other recent anniversary issues, DC will release variant covers for every decade since the original Green Lantern Alan Scott's creation in 1940, in addition to Liam Sharp's main cover.
The list of variant cover artists and the covers themselves (minus Jim Lee and Scott Williams' variant) are below:
- 1940’s variant cover by Nicola Scott
- 1950’s variant cover by Matt Taylor
- 1960’s variant cover by Doug Mahnke
- 1970’s variant cover by Neal Adams
- 1980’s variant cover by David Finch
- 1990’s variant cover by Philip Tan
- 2000’s variant cover by Ivan Reis and Oclair Albert
- 2010’s variant cover by Jim Lee and Scott Williams
Green Lantern 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular #1 will be presented in prestige format and priced at $9.99. The issue goes on sale May 20 from DC.
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