GREEN LANTERN #16

Cover shows notable wear including chipping and small loss along the top edge, rounded and worn corners, a vertical crease running through the lower right portion of the cover, and general surface wear with some color rubbing especially at the spine and edges. The spine shows stress lines and there appears to be some soiling/discoloration on the cover stock. Interior and back cover were not assessed as this is a front-cover-only photo.

Green Lantern #16 (DC Comics, October 1962) arrived during the height of the Julius Schwartz-edited Silver Age revival, with Hal Jordan's adventures scripted by John Broome and rendered by Gil Kane, whose dynamic figure work and sharp color sense defined the look of the series. The issue is a representative entry in the core Hal Jordan run, reflecting the character-driven space-opera tone that made the title a critical anchor of DC's early-1960s superhero line, alongside supporting cast regulars like Tom Kalmaku and the Ferris Aircraft setting that grounded Jordan's double life.

Market data shows a typical Silver Age demand curve for a well-collected but non-key issue: raw copies in low grade trade in the tens of dollars, mid-grade raw copies cluster in the low hundreds, and value accelerates sharply only at the top of the CGC census, where 9.4 and 9.6 copies command four-figure premiums despite a thin pool of graded submissions. The absence of any 9.8 or 10 on the census underscores how few copies of this issue survive in top condition, which supports a substantial premium for a hypothetical pristine slab even without direct sales to confirm it.

This issue is best suited to Green Lantern run collectors and Silver Age DC generalists building toward higher-grade sets rather than key-issue speculators, since it lacks a major first appearance or landmark creator milestone. Demand is steady but unspectacular in low and mid grades, where the book competes with hundreds of similarly graded copies, while the top of the census draws outsized attention from grade-chasers given the scarcity of any copy above 9.6.