DC Showcase Presents Green Lantern
I'm very happy with this Green Lantern anthology, which contains the complete run of Green Lantern stories from Showcase 22-24 and Green Lantern 1-17, from 1959 to 1963. Gil Kane is a great example of a Silver Age DC comic book artist. He doesn't hold a candle to the master, Jack Kirby, but there's a commendable, quiet elegance to his work that's pleasing and makes the story easy to follow. Like many comics of the era, the stories are exceedingly weird, which is great. Comic book writers were trying to break out of the staid superhero genre by tying the plots to current events, and by placing the characters in bizarre situations that feel almost like Stanley Milgram experiments.
This 526-page black and white anthology costs just $10, a fantastic bargain. The only reason I started collecting comics in the first place was because I liked to read them. With anthologies like these, there's no reason to waste money buying the originals. I wish DC and Marvel would do this for all the good silver age comics they published. Link
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Have you seen the Marvel Essentials series? They're reprints on comics from the '60s and '70s, thick volumes in black and white for quite cheap. I got my daughter hooked on the original Lee-Kirby Fantastic Four. These cheap reprints are great!
I really enjoyed this book. Have you checked out the Jonah Hex reprints?
"He doesn't hold a candle to the master, Jack Kirby..."
Gil Kane didnt have to hold a candle to any other comic book artist, he had his own style.
Just compare his
work from 1962 with Kirby's, Kane's looks more
contemporary and modern at that point- Kirby really hit his stride by 65 or so...