GREEN LANTERN #59

Cover shows generally strong gloss with bright color retention on the green ink and reds. Minor wear is visible at the top and bottom edges with slight whitening at the corners, and there appears to be light spine stress with a couple of faint ticks along the spine fold. No major creases, tears, or color breaks are visible in this photo. The book is protected in a plastic sleeve, which limits full assessment of edge and corner sharpness; interior pages and back cover were not assessed.

Green Lantern #59 (DC Comics, cover-dated March 1968) is written by John Broome with art by Gil Kane and inks by Sid Greene, closing out the celebrated Broome/Kane run that defined the Hal Jordan era. The issue's lasting significance rests on a single introduction: Guy Gardner, presented here as a Green Lantern candidate and eventual rival to Hal Jordan, a character who would go on to become one of DC's most recognizable Green Lantern Corps members and a founding-era fixture of Justice League International in the 1980s.

The FMV curve for this issue shows the classic profile of a mid-tier Silver Age key: raw grades from About Good through Fine hold modest, steady values reflecting a reasonably large surviving population, while the market accelerates sharply at the high end. The jump from 9.6 to 9.8 is disproportionate to the rest of the curve, driven by the extreme scarcity of pristine survivors — only a handful of copies occupy the top of the census against nearly two thousand graded overall. That imbalance signals demand concentrated among collectors chasing condition census copies of a recognized first appearance rather than casual readers of the underlying Hal Jordan storyline.

The book is a staple for Silver Age Green Lantern run collectors, key-issue investors building first-appearance sets, and the wider base of Guy Gardner and Justice League International fans who trace the character back to his debut. Lower and mid-grade raw copies move steadily as affordable entry points into the key, while high-grade certified copies, particularly those approaching or achieving 9.8, trade as centerpiece pieces commanding a premium far out of proportion to the rest of the grade scale.