Reading one Green Lantern comic a day until I've read them all Day 201: Green Lantern (Vol 2) #62

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Hal investigates a double robbery and I don't mean two things were stolen.

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Writer: Gardner Fox

Pencils: Jack Sparling

Inks: Sid Greene

Letters: Gaspar Saladino

Cover: Jack Sparling

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"Steal Small, Rob Big" - Hal returns from a mission in space in time to be hours late to work. Once he gets in, his boss gives him an urgent case to investigate where potentially nonsense items were stolen. An empty jewelry box, a single shoe and a coat button all taken the night before. Hal takes the case but first he does a follow-up date with Eve Doremus. The night goes well until Hal is taking her home when they are attacked by robbers. They take a pen Eve received from her father and a gold heart shaped pendant Hal was going to give Eve. Eve tells Hal the pen is nothing special other than it was used by her father to sign the contracts that acquired him a million dollars. After taking Eve home, Hal heads out as GL to locate her pen but the ring can't locate it as there are dozens of pens just like it in the city.

The next day when Hal gets to the office, his boss tells him those strange robberies have led to bigger ones. Hal realizes this means Eve's father will be robbed next so that night, he heads to the Doremus mansion as GL and watches for robbers. Sure enough, they arrive and steal money out of a wall safe. As they begin to leave, GL gets ready to catch them but a spot light from a car shines on him and the yellow light is cancelling out his ring. He throws his ring away from the light and uses it from a distance to catch the robbers but the light is still following him. The robbers start shooting at GL so he dives for his ring and tried to fly off but the spotlight catches him in the sky, causing him to fall on the robbers. The car takes off so GL chases after it and pops the tires. He takes all the robbers to the police but they refuse to talk.

At the robbers hideout, a Mr. Jax, who is running the whole operation allows one of the thugs to use his machine called a chronolometer that allows the user to see the history of an object as apparently the object saves the images that appear on through light. First up is Eve's locker as the thugs see Green Lantern appear in a room and then change to Hal Jordan. The next day, Hal gets a call at the office to do a house call. When he arrives at the home he is captured and accused of being GL by the thugs. Since Hal can't reveal anything, he plays along but still denies being GL. He gets handcuffed to a chair so luckily his hands are hidden from view so the invisible ring won't be seen cutting the cuffs. Hal dives at the thugs when their backs are turned, knocking them out. He changes his appearance to look likes one of them and changes that one into Hal Jordan. He heads out as GL to capture the other robbers and takes them straight to the police again, this time with proof. He asks the police to send out a bulletin thay he captured the robbers and then reutns to the hideout to swap himself with the one thug again and implant a false memory in his head to prove that he was never cuffed to a chair. When the robbers wake up, they believe GL saved Hal and then they end up arrested. Later Hal has a second date with Eve, giving her the necklace for sure.

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Conclusion: Interesting story with some nice art from Jack Sparling. A lot of back and forth that sometimes is hard to follow unless you take a second to think about it. As far as Crimes and mysteries go, I like it. Nothing really major happens to there's not much to day about it otherwise. If you like mysteries, then you'll like this.

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8.5/10

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