Green Lantern #92: "The Legend of the Green Arrow!"

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Over the years, Hal Jordan appeared in assorted contexts. In the early 1970s, when DC Comics was undergoing a relevance phase, he teamed up with the Green Arrow to fight social ills. Later he worked as part of the Green Lantern Corps, along with such alternate GLs as the black John Stewart, the red-headed Guy Gardner, an alien lady named Katma Tui, a dog-faced native of the planet Bolovax Vik named Killowog, and potentially nearly 3,600 other official Green Lanterns.

Script: Denny O'Neil
Pencils and inks: Mike Grell

Green Lantern #91: "The Revenge of the Renegade!"

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Gradually, Julius Schwartz and John Broome embellished the background of their green gladiator. They invented the Guardians of the Universe, an immortal bunch who had set up the Green Lantern Corps, "a group of living beings chosen from all parts of the universe to fight evil and given rings of power."

Script: Denny O'Neil
Pencils and inks: Mike Grell

Green Lantern #90: "Those Who Worship Evil's Might!"

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Hal Jordan started doing business as the Green Lantern in 1959. Over the years it was revealed that he wasn't the only one, and there were more Green Lanterns in the universe than you could shake a stick at, over three thousand of them actually. Jordan, all by himself, was first seen in DC's Showcase #22 (October 1959). After auditioning again in the next two issues, he moved into his own title in the spring of 1960. "When the returns started coming in on the Flash and we saw we had a hit, the natural instinct was to do something similar," editor Julius Schwartz once recalled. "That's how we decided to go ahead with the Green Lantern, and I worked out the same theory of giving him a new personality, a new costume, a new everything."


Script: Denny O'Neil
Art: Mike Grell