Dates
- Cover date
- November 2009
- On sale
- September 10, 2009
- In stores
- September 10, 2009
- Pages
- 36
Values
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Editions and covers (4)
Copies of #40 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Direct edition (original)
No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.
Barcode 76194124955104011
Source ↗ - Newsstand edition
Newsstand
A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.
Barcode 07098932424440
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Story arc: Blackest Night
This is part 18 of 102. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.
- Green Lantern #39
- Blackest Night [Free Comic Book Day Edition] (2009) #0
- Green Lantern (2005) #43
- Blackest Night (2009) #1
- Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps (2009) #1
- Titans #15
- Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps (2009) #2
- Green Lantern (2005) #44
- Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps (2009) #3
- Blackest Night (2009) #2
- Blackest Night: Batman (2009) #1
- Green Lantern Corps (2006) #39
- Blackest Night: Superman (2009) #1
- Blackest Night: Titans (2009) #1
- Green Lantern (2005) #45
- Solomon Grundy #7
- Blackest Night: Batman (2009) #2
- Green Lantern Corps (2006) #40
- Blackest Night (2009) #3
- Blackest Night: Superman (2009) #2
- Blackest Night: Titans (2009) #2
- Green Lantern (2005) #46
- Blackest Night: Batman (2009) #3
- Green Lantern Corps (2006) #41
- Blackest Night: Superman (2009) #3
- Justice League of America #38
- The Outsiders #23
- Blackest Night (2009) #4
- Blackest Night: Titans (2009) #3
- Green Lantern (2005) #47
- Doom Patrol #4
- Booster Gold #26
- Green Lantern Corps (2006) #42
- R.E.B.E.L.S. #10
- Adventure Comics (2009) #4 / 507
- Superman / Batman #66
- The Outsiders #24
- Blackest Night (2009) #5
- Green Lantern (2005) #48
- Justice League of America #39
- Teen Titans #77
- Blackest Night: The Flash (2010) #1
- Blackest Night: Wonder Woman (2010) #1
- Adventure Comics (2009) #5 / 508
- Booster Gold #27
- Doom Patrol #5
- R.E.B.E.L.S. #11
- Green Lantern Corps (2006) #43
- Justice League of America #40
- Superman / Batman #67
- The Outsiders #25
- Blackest Night: JSA (2010) #1
- Green Lantern (2005) #49
- Teen Titans #78
- Blackest Night (2009) #6
- Blackest Night: Wonder Woman (2010) #2
- Suicide Squad (1987) #67
- Weird Western Tales (1972) #71
- Catwoman (2002) #83
- R.E.B.E.L.S. #12
- Secret Six #17
- The Power of SHAZAM! (1995) #48
- Blackest Night: The Flash (2010) #2
- Green Lantern Corps (2006) #44
- Starman (1994) #81
- The Phantom Stranger (1969) #42
- Blackest Night: JSA (2010) #2
- Green Lantern (2005) #50
- The Atom & Hawkman (1968) #46
- The Question (1987) #37
- Blackest Night: Wonder Woman (2010) #3
- Adventure Comics (2009) #7 / 510
- Secret Six #18
- Blackest Night: The Flash (2010) #3
- Green Lantern (2005) #51
- Green Lantern Corps (2006) #45
- Blackest Night (2009) #7
- Blackest Night: JSA (2010) #3
- Green Arrow #30
- Green Lantern Corps (2006) #46
- Green Lantern (2005) #52
- Blackest Night #8
- Green Lantern Corps #47
- Action Comics #890
- Blackest Night (2010) #nn
- Blackest Night: Green Lantern (2010) #nn
- Blackest Night: Green Lantern Corps (2010) #nn
- Blackest Night: Black Lantern Corps (2010) #1
- Blackest Night: Black Lantern Corps (2010) #2
- Blackest Night: Rise of the Black Lanterns (2010) #nn
- Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps (2010) #nn
- Untold Tales of Blackest Night (2010) #1
- Blackest Night (2011) #nn
- Blackest Night: Green Lantern (2011) #nn
- Blackest Night: Green Lantern Corps (2011) #nn
- Blackest Night: Black Lantern Corps (2011) #1
- Blackest Night: Black Lantern Corps (2011) #2
- Blackest Night: Rise of the Black Lanterns (2011) #nn
- Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps (2011) #nn
- Absolute Blackest Night (2013) #nn
- Blackest Night Saga (DC Essential Edition) (2019) #nn
- Dollar Comics: Blackest Night 1 (2020) #nn
Creators
Stories
- Heart of Darkness · 23 pages
Publisher’s description
The battle continues on Oa as the honored dead of the Green Lantern Corps and the recently deceased Sciencell convicts who lost their lives in the riots have all become Black Lanterns and will not rest until the bloody hearts and minds of the Green Lanterns are literally in their hands. Kyle Rayner, Guy Gardener and John Stewart resort to their most brutal fighting yet as the Blackest Night threatens to envelop Sector Zero and send the universe reeling into chaos!
Characters
Reprinted in
Blackest Night: Green Lantern Corps (2010), Blackest Night: Green Lantern Corps (2011)