Comic Title: Showcase #23
Publisher: DC (National Comics Publications, Inc.)
Address: 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Nov/Dec 1959
On Sale Date: September 24, 1959 Newsstand Date September 24, 1959
Source: House Ad, Blackhawk #142, Page 9

Copyright Date September 24, 1959
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1959

Frequency: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 32
Editor: Julius Schwartz

Title: "Summons from Space"
Pages: 13

Feature(s):
Green Lantern (Hal Jordan of Earth-1)

Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Gil Kane
Inker: Joe Giella

Reprinted In:
Green Lantern #88 (1972)
Super Heroes #5 (1981)
Greatest 1950s Stories Ever Told HC (1990)
Greatest 1950s Stories Ever Told TPB (1992)
Green Lantern Archives Vol. 1 HC (1993)
Showcase Presents Green Lantern Vol. 1 TPB (2005)
Green Lantern Chronicles Vol. 1 TPB (2009)
Green Lantern Omnibus Vol. 1 HC (2011)
Green Lantern:The Silver Age Vol. 1 TPB (2016)
Green Lantern:The Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 1 HC (2017)
Green Lantern:80 Years of the Emerald Knight the Deluxe Edition HC (2020)

Feature Character(s)

• Green Lantern (last appearance in Showcase #22; next appearance in Showcase #23)

Supporting Character(s)

• Carol Ferris (last appearance in Showcase #22; next appearance in Showcase #23)

Villain(s)

• A group of yellow bird creatures (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• A group of blue-skinned Venusians (no further appearances)
• Various citizens of Coast City (Lois Fuller, Brenda Brown, and Susie Taft named in this story; no further appearances)

Comments:
Coast City is first named in this story.

Sector 2814 mentioned for the first time in this story.

The Guardians of the Universe are responsible for the voice of the power battery as revealed in Green Lantern #1.

Synopsis:
Green Lantern is lionized by Coast City’s society, and has been seen with seven different women around town. Carol Ferris and Hal Jordan discuss a newspaper article written about this. Carol is noticeably jealous at the attention he is getting, and Hal reveals he is friends with Green Lantern. Carol then invites Hal to dinner, if he brings Green Lantern with him.

While hal ponders his dilemma at the Ferris Aircraft hangar, his power battery speaks a message to him. It informs him that he must travel to Venus because there is an emergency there. Hal dons his uniform, charges his ring and flys to Venus.

Once on Venus he encounters a yellow pterodactyl which picks him up and flys away. Green Lantern punches the creature to force it to drop him. He lands and hides in a crevice. He hides there until the creature leaves.

Green Lantern then meets a race of blue skinned primitive humans. He uses the ring to communicate with them, and learns that the flying creatures are hunting the primitives. When the creatures return, Hal creates a colossal hawk to scare them away. They are frightened into a cave, and GL blocks the entrance, trapping them.

After being thanked for his help, Hal heads back to Earth. Upon Hal’s return, he attends the dinner with Carol as Green Lantern. He explains that Hal was unable to make it.