Some characters arrive fully formed. Guy Gardner arrived as a hypothetical.
In "Earth's Other Green Lantern!" the Guardians of the Universe run a thought experiment for Hal Jordan's benefit. Abin Sur, dying on Earth, had two worthy candidates within reach. What if the ring had chosen the other one? The answer is a gym teacher named Guy Gardner, living out Hal's career in a parallel telling while Hal watches from Oa.
John Broome's script is a Silver Age "imaginary story" in all but name, and Gil Kane draws it with the lean, athletic line that defined the book. The cover, Kane with Murphy Anderson, is one of the era's great bits of provocation: a stranger in the uniform, lantern raised like a trophy, standing over Hal Jordan and announcing there's room for only one of them.
Nearly six decades later the provocation is canon. Guy has worn the ring in the comics, in James Gunn's Superman, and now on HBO's Lanterns. This is where the argument began: a Very Fine copy with off-white to white pages, certified by CGC.
Some characters arrive fully formed. Guy Gardner arrived as a hypothetical.
In "Earth's Other Green Lantern!" the Guardians of the Universe run a thought experiment for Hal Jordan's benefit. Abin Sur, dying on Earth, had two worthy candidates within reach. What if the ring had chosen the other one? The answer is a gym teacher named Guy Gardner, living out Hal's career in a parallel telling while Hal watches from Oa.
John Broome's script is a Silver Age "imaginary story" in all but name, and Gil Kane draws it with the lean, athletic line that defined the book. The cover, Kane with Murphy Anderson, is one of the era's great bits of provocation: a stranger in the uniform, lantern raised like a trophy, standing over Hal Jordan and announcing there's room for only one of them.
Nearly six decades later the provocation is canon. Guy has worn the ring in the comics, in James Gunn's Superman, and now on HBO's Lanterns. This is where the argument began: a Very Fine copy with off-white to white pages, certified by CGC.
