The Green Lantern Chronicles

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The Green Lantern Chronicles
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Cover of The Green Lantern Chronicles 1 (May 2009)
Publication information
Publisher DC Comics
FormatOngoing
Publication dateVol. 1
May 5, 2009
Vol. 2
December 29, 2009
Vol. 3
October 27, 2010
Vol. 4
2012
No. of issues4
Main character(s) Green Lantern (Hal Jordan)
Creative team
Created by John Broome
Gil Kane
Written by John Broome
Artist(s) Gil Kane

The Green Lantern Chronicles is a series of trade paperbacks from DC Comics, intended to reprint all Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) stories chronologically (based on publication), starting with his earliest appearance. Four volumes have been released, beginning in May 2009. Along with its counterparts, The Batman Chronicles , The Superman Chronicles , and The Flash Chronicles , the series provides readers access to the original Silver Age stories, which have been reprinted in color previously in the DC Archives format.

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Showcase Presents was a line of black-and-white paperback books published by DC Comics at an average rate of two per month. Much like Marvel Comics' Essential Marvel volumes, each book usually includes over 500 pages of reprints, primarily from the Silver Age. Like the Essential line, a Showcase Presents volume carries the suggested retail price of US$16.99 and is usually devoted to one character, "reprint[ing] all of their adventures in sequential order via cover date," or occasionally to a specific title rather than individual. The reprint line started in October 2005 with the releases of Showcase Presents: Green Lantern, Vol. 1 and Showcase Presents: Superman, Vol. 1, both offered at the lower introductory retail price of US$9.99.

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