1987 Green Lantern AMC Cartoon Celebrities Silver Round

MintAmerican Medallion Corporation AMC (Houston TX)

IssuerRobert E. Westfall Inc

DistributorRobert E. Westfall Inc

CollectionAMC Cartoon Celebrities Series

The obverse depicts Green Lantern mid-punch against his glowing power battery, rendered in bold Art Deco style with radiating lightning-bolt panels. A lower banner reads "GREEN LANTERN" over the lantern emblem, with the arched legend "TM & © DC COMICS INC. 1982" along the left rim. The 1982 date is DC's copyright/trademark year for the artwork, not a strike date (see Attribution).

The reverse carries the standard AMC Cartoon Celebrities series design. The arched legend "CARTOON CELEBRITIES" runs along the upper rim, flanked by small five-pointed stars. The center field is dominated by a stylized emblem of interlocking rings and ellipses nested around a small central square — evoking a globe, camera iris, or television-tube motif appropriate to a "cartoon celebrities" theme. Beneath the emblem, an arched legend reads "ONE TROY OZ. .999 FINE SILVER", followed by "MADE IN USA BY AMC" along the lower rim, again bounded by small stars.

1987 Green Lantern AMC Cartoon Celebrities Silver Round Overview

The 1987 Green Lantern AMC Cartoon Celebrities Silver Round is a one-troy-ounce, .999 fine silver art round issued as part of American Medallion Corporation’s licensed Cartoon Celebrities series, produced out of AMC’s Houston, Texas operation. The series paired AMC’s house bullion reverse with officially licensed comic and cartoon character artwork on the obverse, sold through Robert E. Westfall Inc. as issuer/distributor rather than directly by AMC. This entry documents the Green Lantern issue within that series, alongside AMC’s Dick Tracy and Mr. & Mrs. Dithers varieties cataloged elsewhere on the Cartoon Celebrities Series collection page.

Green Lantern is one of DC Comics’ longest-running superheroes, created by Bill Finger and Martin Nodell and first appearing in All-American Comics #16 in 1940. The identity has passed between several alter egos over the character’s publication history — most famously test pilot Hal Jordan — each recruited into an intergalactic peacekeeping force called the Green Lantern Corps and empowered by a ring capable of manifesting constructs of solid green energy. The obverse design on this round reflects that classic mask-and-emblem iconography rather than any single comic-era costume redesign, keeping the artwork evergreen across the character’s various successive identities.

Green Lantern’s inclusion in AMC’s Cartoon Celebrities line reflects DC Comics’ broader licensing of its stable of characters to private mints during the 1980s bullion-round boom, a period when comic publishers actively licensed art and character marks for collectible medallic products aimed at both numismatists and comic fans.

As with other entries in AMC’s Cartoon Celebrities line, the round carries no struck production date of its own — the only date present on the piece is the 1982 DC Comics copyright/trademark year embedded in the licensing legend on the obverse. That date documents when DC Comics’ copyright in the artwork was asserted, not when AMC actually struck the round.

For context: Green Lantern’s animation debut came in 1967, via a Filmation-produced segment on The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure*, predating this round’s 1982 licensing date by fifteen years.

1987 Green Lantern AMC Cartoon Celebrities Silver Round Attribution

Mint: American Medallion Corporation (AMC) Issuer: Robert E. Westfall Inc. Designer/Engraver: Unattributed — no engraver’s signature or die-sinker mark has been identified on this example beyond the DC Comics licensing legend and the small “TM” device.

No dated production examples, period AMC catalogs, or original Westfall sales literature establishing an exact release date for this round have been located. The only date appearing on the piece — “1982” — is part of the DC Comics copyright/trademark legend and pertains to the licensed artwork, not to the round’s manufacture; it should not be read as a strike date. This entry follows the Texas Stacker’s site convention of attributing AMC’s Cartoon Celebrities issues to 1987, consistent with the dating applied to sibling entries in the same series (e.g., the Dick Tracy varieties), pending discovery of contemporary documentation establishing an exact release date for this specific issue. The arched reverse legend “MADE IN USA BY AMC” constitutes a spelled-out manufacturer identification and is treated as this round’s Mint Mark under the Texas Stacker’s cataloging standard, notwithstanding the absence of a discrete monogram or device mark.

1987 Green Lantern AMC Cartoon Celebrities Silver Round Notes

• Green Lantern character, name, and likeness are used under license from DC Comics; the obverse legend “TM & © DC COMICS INC. 1982” documents that licensing relationship directly on the piece.
• Shares its reverse die/design with other entries in AMC’s Cartoon Celebrities series, distinguishing it from AMC’s Mythological Legends line, which uses the “MADE BY AMC” reverse legend rather than “MADE IN USA BY AMC.”
• Issuer is Robert E. Westfall Inc., not AMC directly — consistent with the issuer attribution already established for the series’ Dick Tracy varieties.
• Physical specifications below are pending caliper measurement of the documented example.

1987 Green Lantern AMC Cartoon Celebrities Silver Round References

• Documented example examined (this entry)
• American Medallion Corporation (AMC) — Texas Stacker mint page
• Robert E. Westfall Inc. — Texas Stacker issuer/distributor page
• Cartoon Celebrities Series — Texas Stacker collection page
• Texas Stacker Archives

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