Green Lantern #194 for Sale - First Appearance of Guy Gardner - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Green Lantern (DC, 1960 series)
Issue: #194
Publication date: November 1985
Key date: 1985-11-00
On-sale date: 1985-07-23
Indicia publisher: DC Comics Inc.
Price: $0.75; 0.95 CAD; 0.35 GBP
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Guy Gardner - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Kari Kalmaku - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Keith Kalmaku - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Imi-Kann - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Joe Staton; inks: Joe Staton; colors: Anthony Tollin; letters: Gaspar Saladino	Green Lantern, Green Lantern, Harbinger, Lyla Michaels, The Monitor, Mar Novu, John Stewart, Katma Tui
1	Fans Choose DC Comics!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: ?; ? (photography); inks: ?; ? (photography); letters: typeset	Dick Giordano (photograph); Batman; Ambush Bug; Swamp Thing; Teen Titans
2	5	comic story	23	script: Steve Englehart; pencils: Joe Staton; inks: Bruce Patterson; colors: Anthony Tollin; letters: L. Lois Buhalis	Black Canary, Blue Beetle, Cyborg, Dawnstar, Doctor Polaris, Neal Emerson, Firebrand, Firestorm, Guy Gardner First, Geo-Force, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Green Lantern, Harbinger
7	Starfire Is Getting Married...	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5	pencils: Jose Luis Garcia Lopez	Starfire; Nightwing
10	-	public service announcement	0.125	letters: typeset	Bill Cosby (photograph)
11	DC Puts Dollars in Your Pocket!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	letters: typeset
12	The Search for the Justice Society of America Continues...	promo (ad from the publisher)	1		Justice Society of America [The Spectre; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Wonder Woman (Earth 2); Starman [Ted Knight]; Atom [Al Pratt]; Dr. Mid-Nite; Johnny Thunder (Earth 2); Sandman [Wesley Dodds]]
13	DC Comics	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: George Pérez; inks: George Pérez
14	Guest Meanwhile	in-house column	1	script: Dick Giordano, Arnaldo Lopez Jr.

Plus 6.375 pages of advertisements and other matter across 7 sequences, as published.

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
Newsstand	price 0.75 USD; barcode 0709893051511
Canadian	price 0.95 CAD; barcode 0709893051511

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Green Lantern: Sector 2814 #3 ISBN 978-1-4012-4327-2	2014	On eBay ›
Crisis on Infinite Earths Companion Deluxe Edition #1 ISBN 978-1-4012-7459-7	2019	On eBay ›
DC Finest: Events: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One #[nn] ISBN 978-1-79950-304-0	2025	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

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Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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