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DC · Green Lantern · #1 · ID-2355876
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Following his debut in Showcase #22, John Broome and Gil Kane launched Hal Jordan into his own title, expanding the mythology of Oa and the Guardians of the Universe.
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| Grade | Panel Profits |
|---|---|
| 9.0 | $37,343.75 |
| 7.0 | $11,950.00 |
| 6.0 | $20,939.38 |
| 5.0 | $17,102.50 |
| 4.0 | $9,700.31 |
| 3.0 | $7,760.00 |
| 2.0 | $4,162.84 |
| Raw | $658.46 |
| Grade | Dealer buy | Retail sell | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.0 | $13,819.80 | $23,033.00 | 40.0% |
| 4.0 | $6,402.00 | $10,670.00 | 40.0% |
| Raw | $434.40 | $724.00 | 40.0% |
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Green Lantern #1 demonstrates disciplined liquidity depth and stable sovereign grade spread characteristics across current secondary market trading.
Green Lantern (1st Series) #1 — Hal Jordan Takes Flight
Following his debut in Showcase #22, John Broome and Gil Kane launched Hal Jordan into his own title, expanding the mythology of Oa and the Guardians of the Universe.
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Home of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and the Justice League.
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Alan Scott learns that Irene Miller has inherited an estate. After taxes and fees, she has the house, the property, and a race horse named Jersey Queen. Alan heads out to the estate to check it out. He overhears Scar Jorgis, a known criminal, aggressively haggling with Irene for Jersey. Alan intervenes and punches Jorgis; before his crony can shoot Alan, Jorgis and the thug leave, vowing revenge. Apparently, Jorgis was trying to buy the horse, because he was afraid it would beat his horse in the upcoming race. That night, suspecting Jorgis is up to no good, Alan transforms into the Green Lantern and heads over to Irene's new home. Green Lantern catches two crooks attempting to lame the horse and easily takes them out, sending them running back to Jorgis. Irene arrives, and Green Lantern beats a hasty exit. After the thugs report back, Jorgis decides to take a different tack and leans on a man, Gerald Davis, who owes him money. Davis is a cousin of Irene, and, the next day, he persuades Irene into entering Jersey Queen into several races before her big debut at Melbont. The race, however, is a claim race: a price is put on each horse by the owner and can be claimed for that price if it loses. Jersey Queen loses, and Davis claims the horse. Jorgis and Davis then plan to fix Melbont to make the most money off the betting odds. Everything goes according to plan, and Jersey Queen wins race after race, making Jorgis' horse an underdog. Green Lantern sees Davis visiting Jorgis, overhears their plan to sabotage Jersey Queen, and heads to the barn to put a stop to their scheme. He takes out the guard and rides away on the horse. Informed of the theft, Jorgis paints another horse up to look like Jersey Queen and sends a few thugs to Irene Miller's farm to find the real horse. They arrive and are confronted by Green Lantern who beats up the thugs. He blinds Jorgis and compels a confession in return for giving the criminal's sight back. After delivering them to the police department, Green Lantern substitutes the real horse in place of the fake, and Jersey Queen wins the race. Irene reveals herself as the jockey, and Davis is arrested. Later, Irene cannot stop talking to Alan about being kissed by the Green Lantern.
Valuation parity across physical collectible manifestations for Green Lantern #1.
CGC, CBCS, PSA Universal certified high-grade specimens (9.8 / 9.6 / 9.4). The gold standard for institutional alternative investment.
Official witnessed creator-signed slabs (Yellow label). Valued based on creator historical stature and inscription provenance.
Certified specimens from landmark historical collections (Edgar Church / Mile High, White Mountain, Kansas City, Pacific Coast).
Original newsstand barcode distribution copies. Extremely scarce in high grade due to newsstand rack wear and unsold return pulping.
Regional price test market copies (Canadian 75¢/95¢ variants, Marvel 30¢/35¢ test variants). Highly coveted micro-population rarities.
Exclusively allocated copies requiring retailer orders of 1:25, 1:50, 1:100, or 1:500 standard copies. Immediate manufactured scarcity.
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Alternative artistic interpretations, virgin covers, metal foil, and convention exclusives with dedicated collector followings.
Standard specialty comic shop printings sold through non-returnable distribution. The baseline circulation foundation.
Green label copies with significant manufacturing flaws, unwitnessed signatures, or missing coupons that do not affect the main story.
Purple label copies with professional or amateur color touch, tear seals, piece fill, or spine rebuilds.
Blue/Grey label copies treated exclusively with archival preservation techniques (leaf-casting, rice paper tear reinforcement, solvent wash).
Official second, third, or later printings released to satisfy secondary market sellouts. Distinct cover art and trade dress.
International editions licensed by La Prensa (Mexico), Editora Abril (Brazil), Panini (Europe), or Titan (UK).
Certified printing oddities (missing foil, inverted interior, double covers, foil color error). Unique curiosity pieces.
Advance promotional black-and-white booklets, ashcans created to secure trademark rights, and preview giveaways.
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Special black & white noir printings, facsimile editions, and anthology collections licensed or published domestically.
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Engineer Alan Scott survives an explosion during a test crossing of a trestle bridge and learns he was saved by the green lantern he carried. The lantern tells how long ago a meteor was formed into a lamp by a Chinese lampmaker and how it protected him from his murderous neighbors. Later the lamp was found by an asylum inmate, who re-formed it into a lantern and was cured of his insanity by the lantern. Now it brings power to Scott, who forms a ring out of part of it and uses his new abilities as Green Lantern.
When Irene Miller inherits a racehorse named Jersey Queen, racketeer "Scar" Jorgis tries to buy it to keep it out of competition. Failing that, he tries to cripple the horse, but Green Lantern puts an end to that plot. Finally, Jorgis gets Irene's cousin to convince her to enter the horse in a "claiming race," and Irene loses ownership of Jersey Queen to Scar. After GL reclaims the horse, he forces confessions out of Scar and Gerald and returns Jersey Queen to Irene.
Extols the virtue of will power and uses two great men from American history as examples.
After the district attorney accuses Boss Filch of stealing money meant for pneumonia serum and winds up dead, Green Lantern confronts Filch, but gets nowhere. GL mounts his own campaign to raise funds, stopping an impostor along the way, until Filch's son gets sick. Filch promises to confess to his grafting in exchange for help saving his boy. But Filch fingers Commissioner Merril, his partner in crime, as responsible for the D.A.'s murderer, so GL confronts him and collects the evidence needed to put him away too.
This contains short, informational biographies of Finger and Nodell.
As a series of fires breaks out in the tenements of Capitol City, Barton, the publisher of the Daily Tattle, campaigns for the razing of the slums. But when the fire inspector uncovers evidence of arson, a Tattle reporter overhears Barton conspiring with real-estate man Murker, and a commissioner accuses Merker of his crimes, Green Lantern must swing into action to save the fire inspector and reporter from murder attempts and free the kidnapped family of the commissioner before tricking a confession out of Barton.
DC New 52 #1 checklist.
Interview with Paul Cornell and Diogenes Neves about Demon Knights (DC, 2011 series).
Eddie Berganza gives a behind the scenes look at a couple titles being released in Week 2 of The New 52.
Alan and Doiby head for South America to find out who has been tampering with Apex's short-wave outlet in Landavo and run right into a civil war caused by foreign agents seeking to overthrow the democratically-elected government. Green Lantern exposes the plot, opening the eyes of the misguided rebels and saving Landavo's democracy.
“And I shall shed my light over dark evil, for the dark things cannot stand the light... the light of the Green Lantern!”
Recorded price evidence by source and grade tier. Ungraded / RAW pricing represents loose physical copies; certified grading authorities record authenticated slabbed grades only. Unpriced grades remain unpriced.
| Authority Source / Metric | RAWUNGRADED | 1.8 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 7.0 | 8.0 | 9.0 | 9.2 | 9.6 | 9.8ANCHOR | 10.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Panel Profits(Exchange FMV) | $658.46 | — | $7,760.00 | $9,700.31 | $17,102.50 | $20,939.38 | $11,950.00 | — | $37,343.75 | — | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Bid (Buy Price)) | $434.40 | — | — | $6,402.00 | — | $13,819.80 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Ask (Sell Price)) | $724.00 | — | — | $10,670.00 | — | $23,033.00 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Panel Profits(Annual Volume) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 tracked sales | — |
Panel Profits(Realized Listings) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 sold | — |
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