GREEN LANTERN #68

Cover shows good gloss and bright colors with strong ink saturation on the black background. There is a noticeable vertical crease/bend running through the upper left corner near the DC logo area and some minor surface wear along the spine. Corners appear reasonably sharp with only slight blunting, and there's minor edge wear visible along the right side. The book is in a protective sleeve which obscures fine detail assessment; interior and back cover were not assessed.

Green Lantern #68 arrived in April 1969, near the close of the Gil Kane-drawn Green Lantern/Green Arrow team-up era that preceded Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams' celebrated relaunch with issue #76. Kane, who co-created Hal Jordan's Green Lantern and defined the character's visual language throughout the 1960s, provides the cover and interior art here, continuing the socially aware pairing of Hal Jordan and Oliver Queen that set the stage for the more famous "Hard Traveling Heroes" issues to follow. The book is a solid representative of the transitional period in Green Lantern's Silver Age run, valued by completists of the title and by Kane's growing following rather than for any landmark first appearance.

Market data shows a typical mid-tier Silver Age demand curve: steady trading in the $50-$100 range through grades 6.5 to 9.0, a meaningful jump into the low hundreds at 9.2 and 9.4, and a sharp premium at 9.6, where sales have cleared in the $550 range. No 9.8 copies have surfaced on the certified census, underscoring how few high-grade examples of this issue exist relative to demand from Green Lantern and Gil Kane collectors, and pricing at the top of the grade scale is driven almost entirely by scarcity rather than by narrative significance.

This issue suits collectors building a complete run of the Kane-era Green Lantern rather than buyers chasing a single marquee key, and it also appeals to Gil Kane cover collectors working across his DC output. Lower and mid-grade raw copies remain affordable entry points for run-builders, while high-grade certified examples trade as scarcity plays given the thin population above 9.4; buyers should expect gradual appreciation tied to overall Silver Age DC demand rather than key-issue-driven spikes.