DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #16
DC Comics
United States
- Published
- December 1981
- Page count
- 100
- Cover price
- 0.95 USD
- Colour
- Black & white
- Size
- Standard size
- Interior paper
- Newsprint
- Cover stock
- Glossy colour
- Binding
- Saddle-stitched
- Format
- Comic series
- GCD
- www.comics.org/issue/35848
Credits
- Editing
- Laurie Sutton
Issue contents
Cover
No title recorded
(Green Lantern)
Cover, 1 page
Featuring
- Feature
- Green Lantern
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Green Lantern
Credits
- Pencils
- Neal Adams
- Inks
- Dan Adkins
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
Notes
Figure taken from page 11 of "Ulysses Star Is Still Alive" in Green Lantern #79.
1Credits
- Script
- Laurie Sutton ?
- Letters
- typeset
Notes
Inside front cover.
2Featuring
- Feature
- Green Lantern; Green Arrow
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Black Canary [Dinah Drake Lance]; Old-Timer; Guardians of the Universe; Mother Juna
Credits
- Script
- Denny O'Neil
- Pencils
- Neal Adams
- Inks
- Dick Giordano
- Letters
- John Costanza
- Editing
- Julius Schwartz (original editor)
Synopsis
Green Lantern and Green Arrow, now joined by Black Canary, travel to Oa and find that Old-Timer has been found guilty by the Tribune. The Guardians strip him of his immortality and sentence him to live out his days on the planet Maltus. The heroes go with him into his exile and discover a planet wildly over-populated due to the efforts of Mother Juna. After they put a stop to her work, the Old-Timer vows to restore balance to Maltus.
Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
3Featuring
- Feature
- Green Lantern; Green Arrow
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Black Canary [Dinah Drake Lance]; Witch Queen; Sinestro; Medusa
Credits
- Script
- Denny O'Neil
- Pencils
- Neal Adams
- Inks
- Dick Giordano
Bernie Wrightson (p. 13) - Letters
- John Costanza
- Editing
- Julius Schwartz (original editor)
Reprint history
- First print
-
Green Lantern (DC, 1960 series) #82 (February-March 1971) — How Do You Fight a Nightmare?
- Also printed
-
Green Lantern Album (KG Murray, 1976 series) #5 ([July 1977?]) — How Do You Fight a Nightmare?
-
Green Lantern/Green Arrow (DC, 1983 series) #4 (January 1984) — How Do You Fight a Nightmare?
-
Green Lantern/Green Arrow: Hard-Traveling Heroes (DC, 1992 series) ([May] 1992) — How Do You Fight a Nightmare?
-
Green Lantern/Green Arrow (DC, 2004 series) #1 ([May] 2004) — How Do You Fight a Nightmare?
Synopsis
When Green Arrow and Black Canary are confronted by harpies, GA calls Green Lantern for help. GL follows the harpies into a trap laid by The Witch Queen on behalf of her brother Sinestro. Following a lead, GA and BC meet a group of Amazons, who, impressed by Black Canary's fighting skills, explain how in the distant past they were banished to another plane by a wizard, but have been allowed to return by The Witch Queen to make all men pay. With this information, the duo follows the trail to The Witch Queen and rescue Green Lantern from banishment and the grasp of the legendary Medusa.
Notes
Credits for script and pencils confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. Though Wrightson is credited in an editor's note on p. 13, Schwartz' records mention only Giordano as inker.
4Featuring
- Feature
- Green Lantern; Green Arrow
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Carol Ferris; Black Hand [Wilbur Palm]; Dinah Drake Lance [Black Canary]
Credits
- Script
- Denny O'Neil
- Pencils
- Neal Adams
- Inks
- Bernie Wrightson
- Letters
- John Costanza
- Editing
- Julius Schwartz (original editor)
Reprint history
- First print
-
Green Lantern (DC, 1960 series) #84 (June-July 1971) — Peril in Plastic
- Also printed
-
Green Lantern Album (Murray, 1978? series) #8 ([May 1978?]) — Peril in Plastic
-
Green Lantern/Green Arrow (DC, 1983 series) #5 ([February 1984]) — Peril in Plastic
-
Green Lantern/Green Arrow: More Hard-Traveling Heroes (DC, 1993 series) ([March] 1993) — Peril in Plastic
-
Green Lantern/Green Arrow (DC, 2004 series) #2 ([July] 2004) — Peril in Plastic
Synopsis
While Carol Ferris is in Piper's Dell, the sea wall protecting the town begins to give way, so Hal responds as Green Lantern. After saving the town, GL is given a tour of the plastic factory. Weakened by gas emitted by the plastic pins produced there, he is unable to fight back, so he sends his ring to Green Arrow. When he revives, he finds that his old enemy Black Hand uses the pins to keep the community under his control. He sends GL and Carol out into the streets to face the wrath of the townspeople, but Green Arrow arrives in time with GL’s ring, and GL traps Black Hand in his own plastic.
Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. The plastic pin, the "kaluta," is named after artist Mike Kaluta.
5Featuring
- Feature
- Green Lantern; Green Arrow
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Dinah Drake Lance [Black Canary]
Credits
- Script
- Denny O'Neil
- Pencils
- Neal Adams
- Inks
- Dick Giordano
- Letters
- Joe Letterese
- Editing
- Julius Schwartz (original editor)
Synopsis
During an attack, Green Arrow accidentally kills one of his assailants. After he calls Dinah to say good-bye forever, Dinah summons Green Lantern, who finds the same thugs who attacked GA have now planted a bomb in his building.
Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. Labeled "Chapter 1" on the title page, though the following installments of the series are not labeled chapters.
6Featuring
- Feature
- Green Lantern; Green Arrow
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Black Canary [Dinah Drake Lance]; Sister Joshua
Credits
- Script
- Denny O'Neil
- Pencils
- Neal Adams
- Inks
- Dick Giordano
- Editing
- Julius Schwartz (original editor)
Synopsis
As Green Lantern struggles to minimize the damage the bomb placed in Green Arrow's building does, Black Canary joins him. Elsewhere, Green Arrow abandons his old life and enters a monastery. Back home, while looking for traces of GA, Black Canary stumbles across the remnants of the racist cult of which she was once a member, now led by Sister Joshua. She is attacked by the cult members and thrown off a roof, but saved by the last minute appearance of Green Lantern.
Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
7Featuring
- Feature
- Green Lantern; Green Arrow
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Black Canary [Dinah Drake Lance]
Credits
- Script
- Denny O'Neil
- Art
- Neal Adams
- Editing
- Julius Schwartz (original editor)
Reprint history
- First print
-
The Flash (DC, 1959 series) #219 (December 1972-January 1973) — The Fate of an Archer
- Also printed
-
Superman Presents World's Finest Comic Monthly (Colour Comics, 1965 series) #100 ([August 1973?]) — The Fate of an Archer (S-1321)
-
Green Lantern/Green Arrow: More Hard-Traveling Heroes (DC, 1993 series) ([March] 1993) — The Fate of an Archer
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Green Lantern/Green Arrow (DC, 2004 series) #2 ([July] 2004) — The Fate of an Archer
Synopsis
When Black Canary is hit by a car and desperately needs a transfusion, Green Lantern's search for Green Arrow becomes even more urgent. A report on the wreckage of the Arrow-Plane leads Green Lantern to Green Arrow, but also to a scavenger, who nearly kills Green Lantern before Green Arrow can grab his bow and remember who he really is.
Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. Actually bannered as a "Green Lantern and Green Arrow" feature on the splash page.
8Featuring
- Feature
- Wonder Woman
Credits
- Pencils
- Gene Colan
Notes
Inside back cover. Promo for "new" Wonder Woman series.
9"Green Lantern and Green Arrow starring in..."
Featuring
- Feature
- Green Lantern
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Green Lantern
Credits
- Pencils
- Neal Adams
- Inks
- Neal Adams
Dick Giordano - Letters
- typeset
Notes
Back cover. Four headshots of Green Lantern from Green Lantern #89 (top left), #83 (top right and bottom left), and #86 (bottom right), and the titles of the stories in the issue.
Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
Indicia
The indicia for this issue is not recorded. The identified publisher might be an associated or parent company, rather than the specific listed publisher.