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Green Lantern, #169 Newsstand

Published: October 1983

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Story Featuring Green Lantern

Storyline

The three Green Lanterns are each featured in their own separate battles.

Credits
Story Notes

Colors credit confirmed by Anthony Tollin.

Off on a Tanjent!

Story Featuring Green Lantern

Storyline

The framing sequence involves completion of a psychodrama performed by other Green lanterns for Hal Jordan and appears to be continued from the previous issue: it is continued in the next issue. In the main story, a boy on a planet of mental giants is exiled for his inadequacies, granted a Green Lantern's ring, and saves other exiles who are being attacked after returning to Tanjent in captured alien spaceships.

Credits
Story Notes

No script, inks, colors, or letters credits are provided for the three-page framing sequence. References Green Lantern #164 in the framing sequence.

Sun-Fall! Part Two of "The Lysandra Saga"
Storyline

Lysandra and Spol are both new Green Lanterns and battle with different understandings of the situation to save Lysandra's planet from a cosmic danger.

Credits
Story Notes

Story continues from Green Lantern #168.

Burger Time
Story Notes

Ad for video game from Mattel Electronics, for Intellivision or Atari 2600 game systems, or Apple II or IBM personal computers. On back cover.

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Cartridge
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Ad for video game from Mattel Electronics for Intellivision, licensed from TSR Hobbies. On inside back cover.

Earn Famous Name Prizes or Cash
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Ad for sales people for greeting cards and gifts.

In-House Column Featuring Meanwhile...

Credits
Story Notes

Information on upcoming convention appearances by DC staff. On second page between pages 4-5 of Sun-Fall story.

DC Coming Comics
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House ad for DC comics on sale July 21st. On bottom of first page between pages 4-5 of Sun-Fall story.

E-X-TRA E-X-TRA Spending Money!
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Ad for sales people for Grit newspapers. On top of first page between pages 4-5 of Sun-Fall story.

Cross Swords with Champions!
Credits
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Ad for posable action figures based on DC Comics' characters. Included with the figures is a DC Warlord comic book "Battle Beneath the Earth!" Letters credit from http://kleinletters.com/.

At $4.95 a Game You Can't Miss.
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Ad for subscription video game club.

Letter Column Featuring Letters by Lantern Light

Credits
Story Notes

Letters from Ryan Brown, Richard Rotmistrovsky, and Raymond Ellis, and excerpts of letters from Ed Sample, David Mercury, Steve Reischman, Charlie Gage, J. Bisceglia, Gary Frazier, George Williams, Tony Hartgrove, Richard Hopkins, and Joe Burton. Also a thank you from editor Ernie Colon as he prepares to leave to write an Amethyst graphic novel, and a hello to friend Jon Glickstein.

Star Frontiers
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Story Notes

Ad for Star Frontiers role playing game. Between pages 9-10 of Tanjent story.

Build This Star Wars Squadron
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Ad for Star Wars vehicles model kits from MPC division of Fundimensions, a CPG Products Corp. On second page between pages 4-5 of Tanjent story.

Get My Exciting New Kool-Aid Man Video Game Free!
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Ad for video game from Mattel Electronics, for Intellivision or Atari 2600 game systems. On first page between pages 4-5 of Tanjent story.

It's Not Easy Being Q*Bert, But It's Fun.
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Ad for video game from Parker Brothers, for the Atari 2600 and Sears Video Arcade systems. On inside front cover.