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Issue: The Green Lantern Corps Annual #2
Publication Date: December 1986
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Issues: #2 of 1 Issue (3 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Direct
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/12/1986
Volume:
Pages: 52
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.75 CAD
£0.60 GBP
$1.25 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 6 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from DC Releases #31.
There is no Comics Code Authority seal on the cover because the CCA rejected this publication, believing Kevin O'Neill's art on the story "Tygers" was too gruesome. DC refused to alter the story to satisfy the CCA.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Green Lantern Corps (many unnamed members); Green Lantern [Abin Sur]; Green Lantern [Penn Maricc]; Green Lantern [Ghrelk]; Green Lantern [Varik]
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagDC Comics Anthologie #[nn] published February 2012
as Tygres [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Joe Staton was asked to update the original Gil Kane cover that is included in this issue as a pinup.
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Escapist Entertainment

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Sinestro; Green Lantern [Rasa Nekroy]; Green Lantern [Palagua]; Green Lantern [Cimfet Tau]; Guardians of the Universe
Synopsis: At the Guardians Prison, Sinestro tells stories to the imprisoned Sector 3600, in hopes of waking it up and freeing him.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Job Number: G-2773
Disclose Notes: Used as a framing device, page 5 of this story comes after page 14 of the issue, page 6 comes after page 30 of the issue, and pages 7 and 8 after page 45 of the issue.
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Mercenary!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Green Lantern [Penn Maric]; Guardians of the Universe; Prince Tayla
Synopsis: An outcast of society is offered a chance to join the Green Lantern Corps, but rejects the offer... and the Guardians.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Old Man Lantern

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Green Lantern [Ghrelk]; Green Lantern [Varix]
Synopsis: An ancient and respected Green Lantern fights the one foe he cannot defeat-- old age.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
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Tygers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Green Lantern [Abin Sur]; The Empire of Tears; Qull of the Five Inversions; the Guardians of the Universe (cameo, flashback); Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Weaponers of Qward; Ranx, the Sentient City; Children of the White Lobe; Green Lantern [Sodam Yat, a Daxamite]; Green Lantern [Mogo]
Synopsis: Abin Sur seeks a crippled ship that has crashed on Ysmault, a lifeless planet in a forbidden territory by the Guardians. There Abin finds The Empire of Tears-- hellish demons that taunt him, including Qull of the Five Inversions. Qull freely answers three questions for Abin about the crippled ship, Abin's future and the Guardians' greatest catastrophe. And in doing so destroys Abin Sur years in the future.
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In Content Item: FlagAcross the Universe: The DC Universe Stories of Alan Moore #[nn] published August 2003
as Tygers [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore #[nn] published March 2006
as Tygers [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDC Comics Anthologie #[nn] published February 2012
as Tygres [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
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Bonus Pin-Up!

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Green Lantern [John Stewart]; Green Lantern [Tomar Re]; Green Lantern [Katma Tui]; Green Lantern [Arkkis Chummuck]; Green Lantern [Arisia]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: This is the original cover for this book, but was redrawn because a number of the Green Lanterns pictured had died or undergone extensive costume changes.

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