After Parallax obliterated the entire Green Lantern Corps, a single new replacement was chosen in geeky graphic artist Kyle Rayner, who brought in a whole new generation of readers with his nerd-chic attitude and more imaginative use of his Green Lantern powers. In the mid-'90s, Hal Jordan became a supervillain called "Parallax" due to witnessing the destruction of his hometown, Coast City.Although its activism seems outdated from a recent perspective, at the time it was groundbreaking to tackle such subjects in a superhero comic. Notably, it featured Hal Jordan facing his ignorance about the plight of African-American oppression, and helping Green Arrow cope with his young sidekick becoming a drug addict.
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Lovable jerk Guy Gardner first appeared, was Put on a Bus, then came back full time during the Crisis. Other characters were brought in as Green Lantern during this time. What most people know of the character originated during this era: the villainous Lantern renegade Sinestro, the living planet Mogo, alien drill instructor Kilowog (though those last two only came into the picture in the 80's), and aerospace entrepreneur/love interest Carol Ferris. However, in 1959, after the successful reinvention of the Flash, DC Comics revamped the title with a sci-fi bent, reimagining the hero as test pilot turned space cop Hal Jordan, who was given a Power Ring by a dying alien who crash landed on Earth (and was just one of many extraterrestrial peacekeepers serving the wise Guardians of the Universe).
His solo series was cancelled in 1949, and his last Golden Age appearance was in issue 57 of All-Star comics in 1951. Alan was one of the mainstays of the All-American anthology series, as well as his own Green Lantern title. Like most of the other DC characters of the time, he had adventures against regular criminals as well as super powered adversaries, and then his comic ended as super-heroes fell out of fashion in the late 40s. Along the way he picked up comic sidekick Doiby Dickles who accompanied him on his adventures, and he became one of the founding members of the Justice Society of America. He fashioned his ring from a part of the lantern, which unknown to him at the time was constructed out of a magic metal made from a meteor that fell to Earth, later retconned into the Starheart.Īlan used his fists as often as he used his ring, and was more of a pulp hero than a sci-fi one. Alan was the only one who survived the wreck, thanks to the green lantern he was holding at the time. The train he was traveling in wrecked when the bridge it was on collapsed due to sabotage. Oh, and it can't work on the color yellow (usually).Ĭreated in 1940, the original Green Lantern was a railroad engineer named Alan Scott. All this is provided by a quasi-technological Power Ring, that must be recharged every 24 hours with a lantern-esque Power Battery.
In addition, he can fire energy blasts, fly in deep space, generate force fields, and translate (almost) any alien language. Green Lantern has the unique ability to create objects out of solid green light, whose forms are limited only by the character's imagination. Green Lantern is a DC Comics Superhero and one of the first to embrace the concept of a Legacy Character.
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