Price history & market evidence
Price observations belong to this edition. Guide estimates, catalog references and completed sales are separate kinds of evidence.
| Grade | Amount | Evidence | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | $336.00 | PANEL_PROFITS · grade_4_0_valueguide | 1943-09-01 |
| 8.0 | $1,700.00 | PANEL_PROFITS · grade_8_0_valueguide | 1943-09-01 |
| 9.2 | $1,892.69 | PANEL_PROFITS · grade_9_2_valueguide | 1943-09-01 |
| 9.4 | $1,976.25 | PANEL_PROFITS · grade_9_4_valueguide | 1943-09-01 |
| RAW | $374.50 | PANEL_PROFITS · ungraded_valueguide | 1943-09-01 |
| 9.2 | $900.00 | ComicBase · catalog referencecatalog | Date not recorded |
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Graded population
CGC records 33 graded copies for All-American Comics #52 (1943). Population is the number recorded by this grading source, not the total print run or all surviving copies.
Green Lantern: "The Spotlight on Crime"
A trio of gentleman hunters discuss the nature of the hunt, and how men hunt men. One of them, Ketchum, suggests matching wits with the great champion of justice, Green Lantern, and wagers $10000 against the other two that he could be a worthy adversary, and even find ways of turning GL's own weapon--light--against him. As the new villain dubbed the Silhouette, Ketchum places a personal ad challenging Green Lantern to puzzle out clues to when and where he'll strike. Alan Scott discerns the clue as being opening night at the Metropolitan Opera, where the villain's set up gimmick light bulbs that burst and release knockout gas. GL remains conscious and attacks his new adversary, who blinds him with a flashlight and punches Green Lantern through the side of the prop dragon they'd been fighting inside, knocking him out. This proceeds for some time, with more light-based clues to crimes Green Lantern's unable to decipher, and Ketchum growing steadily more unhinged at the feelings of power his crime career give him.
Finally Alan Scott manages to decipher one of the Silhouette's clues to mean he plans to rob a baseball game. At the game, Green Lantern shows up and batters the villain's gang around, and knocking out who he thinks is the mastermind, colored all in black like their previous encounter. However this was actually a decoy, and the real Silhouette bops him on the head with a wooden bat before taking GL and Doiby captive. Although the colleagues he made his bet with declare Ketchum the winner, he decides to kill them along with Green Lantern and go on being the Silhouette. He smashes an oil lamp in the vault with them, starting a fire while he goes to carry out his next robbery. Green Lantern starts using light to his own advantage, such as by smashing the chandelier and using the glass shards to cut his ropes before putting out the fire. Next, by holding the notepad Silhouette used to map out his next crime to a heavy light to show the identations, and reveal he plans to put out a lighthouse and wreck a freighter carrying a load of valuable coffee beans.
Green Lantern and Doiby show up at the lighthouse and start a knock-down drag-out fight with the criminals. A desperate Silhouette tries to blind Green Lantern with a flashlight again, but this time the hero's ready for that trick and knocks his enemy down before he can use it. Instead grabbing an axe and running at GL, Silhouette slips on his own fallen flashlight and plunges into the surf to his death. Since the crooks smashed the light before he had a chance to stop them, Green Lantern uses the light from his ring as a makeshift beacon to guide the ship to safety.
Creative credits
Writers: Bill Finger, Joe Greene, Charles Reizenstein, Sheldon Mayer, Ted Udall, Jon L. Blummer
Interior art: Stan Aschmeier, Joe Gallagher, Stan Aschmeier, Sheldon Mayer, Joe Gallagher, Jon L. Blummer
Source records & attribution
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COMICBASE: comicbase:42338
GCD: 3104
PANEL PROFITS: 2335903