![]() The last of the Guardians traveled to Earth with the last power ring (and it was the best one, since it was no longer powerless against yellow things). Then he was, bizarrely, chosen to be the human host of the Spectre, God's Spirit of Vengeance. He failed and later died restarting the sun when it had been snuffed out by an alien monster. ![]() But when his hometown was destroyed, Hal went nuts, destroyed the Corps and most of the Guardians, and tried to remake the universe as the supervillain Parallax. However, Hal was widely considered to be the greatest member of the Green Lantern Corps ever. For many years, Jordan was the only Green Lantern from Earth, but in later years, Guy Gardner and John Stewart were also given power rings. The only weakness of Jordan's ring was that it was powerless against anything colored yellow (again, a big problem when facing the villainy of Captain Pee). His first appearance was in Showcase #22 in 1959. He was given his power ring by a dying member of the Green Lantern Corps (see Habakkuk's excellent writeup below for a summary of the Corps). He is the father of Jade and Obsidian.Įarth's next Green Lantern was a test pilot named Hal Jordan. For a while, he went by the name of Sentinel, but he recently started using the name Green Lantern again. He lost an eye during a recent cosmic crisis. He was a founding member of the Justice Society of America back in the 1940s and is an active member of the current team, as well as one of the people running the Checkmate espionage agency (due to various comic book coincidences, he is still relatively young). ![]() His power ring was made of a magical artifact called the Starheart - its only weakness was that it was completely powerless against anything made of wood (which is quite a drawback when you're fighting the evil Dr. The first Green Lantern was Alan Scott, who made his initial appearance in All-American Comics #16 in 1940. Green Lantern is a superhero who wears a power ring which emits some kind of nifty green energy which can do anything the wearer can imagine. ![]()
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