A Gil Kane Green Lantern cover. As the Marvel Age progressed, and was gaining popularity, perhaps the DC editors loosened up a bit and allowed Kane to show more of his talents by having him both pencil and ink covers and interiors.
This particular cover wouldn't be unusual on an issue of the Hulk, for example. Kane did his share of work for Marvel, and this cover just seems to me to be reminiscent of Marvel. Although lore has it that the DC editors thought that the key to Marvel's popularity was ugly art. In any case, with a new Green Lantern movie on the near horizon, Gil Kane merits recognition for making the character popular in the comics, although he always had reservations about the quality of the writing he was given to illustrate. Green Lantern copyright and TM DC Comics Inc.
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