![]() After his visit to the Memory Machine, Hal traveled to East City to meet Guy. ![]() ![]() Both the Guardians and Hal were impressed with how Guy would have performed, and eventually sacrificed himself, in the line of duty. At the time he was living as a physical education instructor in the creatively named East City. According to the machine, which records the memories of every Green Lantern for historical preservation, Abin Sur?s ring would have gone to Guy. He was introduced as a character in a “what if?” issue where the Guardians of Oa used a Memory Machine to examine what would have happened if Abin Sur?s ring hadn?t gone to Hal Jordan. But Guy did not have a regular origin story. His first appearance was in the pages of Green Lantern Vol. 2 #59 (March 1968) Debut of Guy GardenerĮasily the most charismatic Green Lantern from earth, Guy Gardener has served the Corps with his brute strength, unflinching personality, and churlish antics. ![]() While Green Lanterns fuel their rings through willpower, members of the Sinestro Corps fuel their rings through fear. In the modern era, he has even managed to form his own Lantern Corps, the Sinestro Corps. But he managed to escape his prison and has ever since wreaked havoc across the universe. The Guardians of the Universe, the aliens who head the Green Lantern Corps, banished him to the planet Qward in the Antimatter Universe as punishment. He was a hero who was corrupted by power. He was a former disgraced Green Lantern who had abused his power to enslave his home planet. Sinestro was a fascinating supervillain for his era, since he was not a mindless killer or psychopath. 2 #7 (July-August 1961) Debut of SinestroĪ good superhero is nothing without a good super-villain. This issue also introduced the character of Carol Ferris, Hal?s main love interest who would eventually become the super-villain Star Sapphire. Much like Kryptonite for Superman, the color yellow is enough the null a Green Lanterns power. This particular issue also gave us one of the most important additions to Green Lantern lore: their weakness to the color yellow. But even after the introduction of three more Green Lanterns from earth, Hal Jordan would always remain the most popular and widely used. Hal Jordan would serve as the only member of the Green Lantern Corps from earth for almost a decade before the introduction of Guy Gardner. Abin Sur is a member of the Green Lantern Corps and, in his dying moments, bequeaths his power, ring, and lantern to Hal. They did so by introducing Hal Jordan, a test pilot who discovers a crashed spaceship containing an alien named Abin Sur. Showcase #22 (October 1959) Debut of Hal Jordan Debut of the Green Lantern Corps Debut of Carol FerrisĪfter the character of Alan Scott had waned and disappeared, DC decided to reboot the Green Lantern franchise in 1959. While the entire Green Lantern mythos would be reintroduced and rebooted with the introduction of the Corps and Hal Jordan, Alan Scott retained his powers and remains a key member of the Justice Society of America. This issue in particular establishes four essential attributes: 1) The power-restoring Lantern 2) The Green Lantern Ring 3) The ring must be recharged every 24 hours by the lantern 4) The first incarnation of the Green Lantern oath. Although Alan Scott was never part of the Green Lantern Corps (and in fact gets his powers from a totally different source from the other Green Lanterns on this list), his character helped establish many of the key tropes that would come to be associated with the franchise. Alan cuts away part of the lantern into a ring which he then uses to fight crime. The lantern contains a power known as the Green Flame of Life, a force which came to earth in a meteor around 2,000 years ago. The comic follows engineer Alan Scott as he survives a train wreck and discovers a lantern made of emerald in the wreckage. This was the debut of Alan Scott, the very first character to bear the title of Green Lantern.
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