Comic Title: Green Lantern Corps #213
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: June 1987
On Sale Date: March 19, 1987 Newsstand Date March 19, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #37

Newsstand Date March 19, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #112

Shipping Date February 24, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #37

Shipping Date February 24, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #112

Shipping Date February 24, 1987
Source: Comics Journal, #114

Copyright Date February 24, 1987
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1987
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Newsstand Date March 19, 1987
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #692, #694

Shipping Date February 24, 1987
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #692, #694

Cover Price: $0.75
Page Count: 32
Editor: Andrew Helfer

Title: "For Want of a Male..."
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Green Lantern Corps (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Steve Englehart
Penciller: Joe Staton
Inker: Mark Farmer
Letterer: Bob Lappan
Colorist: Anthony Tollin

Reprinted In:
Green Lantern Corps:Beware Their Power HC (2018)

Feature Character(s)

• Green Lantern Corps (last appearance in Green Lantern Corps #212; next appearance in Green Lantern Corps #214)
• Green Lantern (last appearance in Green Lantern Corps #212; next appearance in Green Lantern Corps #214)
• Arisia (last appearance in Green Lantern Corps #212; next appearance in Green Lantern Corps #214)
• John Stewart (last appearance in Green Lantern Corps #212; next appearance in Green Lantern Corps #216)
• Katma Tui (last appearance in Green Lantern Corps #212; next appearance in Green Lantern Corps #216)
• Salakk (last appearance in Green Lantern Corps #212; next appearance in Green Lantern Corps #214)
• Ch'p (last appearance in Green Lantern Corps #212; next appearance in Green Lantern Corps #214)
• Kilowog (last appearance in Green Lantern Corps #212; next appearance in Green Lantern Corps #214)

Supporting Character(s)

• Dr. Ub'x (last appearance in Green Lantern Corps #212; next appearance in Green Lantern Corps #214)

Villain(s)

• Star Sapphire (last appearance in Green Lantern Corps #212; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #601)
• Hector Hammond (last appearance in Green Lantern Corps #212; next appearance in Green Lantern Corps #214)

Comments:
This story is continued from Green Lantern Corps #212.

Synopsis:
Star Sapphire and Hector Hammond believe they have killed Hal Jordan. They retrieve Arisia who had been brainwashed. Sapphire makes the girl her slave. However, Hal had suspected trouble and charged his power ring without the villains' knowledge. He tries to rescue Arisia, but falls under the combined power of Sapphire and Hammond. When the villains begin to squabble, Sapphire releases Arisia aids her former captor to defeat Hammond. Sapphire then intends to make Arisia her thrall once more, but the female GL outwits her. She then frees Hal from the villains' control.

Back on Earth, Kilowog tries to halt a conflict in Nicaragua. While observing Ub'x's evolution experiments in Africa, Ch'p witnesses Salakk vanish suddenly. His ring tells him that the alien GL was transported into the future. Ch'p intends to follow.