Green Lantern questions

[DarkAngel]

I have a few Green Lantern related questions:

1. When was John Stewart Lantern and what happened to him?

2. Who's Alan Scott and what's his story? His costume (at least in the past) has featured the Lantern symbol and his ring seems identical to those the GLs wear, but he's been described as never being a member of the corp. So how did he get the ring? What gives him the right to the name Green Lantern?

3. How was it possible for Guy Gardner to be Lantern at the same time as Jordan? Isn't there supposed to be only one Lantern per sector? Also, how was Gardner able to continue to use the ring after being kicked out? Any connection to Alan and his ring?

[I.R Joey]

2. Alan Scott was the 1st human GL. He is now called the Sentinal, and is the father of Kyle's Girlfreind. He eventually retired. His ring is not Gurdain issued, it's a magic ring I think.

3. I think it's possible to have more then one Lantern per sector. Hal Jordan wasn't the first GL and Aben gave him a ring right.

[Flying Grayson]

Originally posted by DarkAngel
I have a few Green Lantern related questions:

1. When was John Stewart Lantern and what happened to him?

2. Who's Alan Scott and what's his story? His costume (at least in the past) has featured the Lantern symbol and his ring seems identical to those the GLs wear, but he's been described as never being a member of the corp. So how did he get the ring? What gives him the right to the name Green Lantern?

3. How was it possible for Guy Gardner to be Lantern at the same time as Jordan? Isn't there supposed to be only one Lantern per sector? Also, how was Gardner able to continue to use the ring after being kicked out? Any connection to Alan and his ring?

If I'm not mistaken, Steward was breifly the lantern after Hal and Before Kyle. he became a Darkstar and got his nervous system fried by one of the sons of Darkside

[RockItShipper]

R.E: Alan Scott and the GL Corps...

In post-crisis continuity, it's been revealed that Alan Scott's GL ring came from a space object called the Starheart- which had ties to the Guardians who issued out GL rings. Don't feel like digging up GL Secret Files right now for the specifics.

But if anyone wants to hear my whole thing on why Hal snapped, just ask.

[Flying Grayson]

Originally posted by RockItShipper
R.E: Alan Scott and the GL Corps...

In post-crisis continuity, it's been revealed that Alan Scott's GL ring came from a space object called the Starheart- which had ties to the Guardians who issued out GL rings. Don't feel like digging up GL Secret Files right now for the specifics.

But if anyone wants to hear my whole thing on why Hal snapped, just ask.

wasn't it because Coast City was destroyed

[I.R Joey]

go to the DC comics message boards and you'll get was between Hal and Kyle fans. And a bunch of people slapping each other over the Parralex issue, hillarious!!!

[DarkAngel]

Originally posted by RockItShipper


But if anyone wants to hear my whole thing on why Hal snapped, just ask.

I have GL issues 48-55 (and #0), so I saw what happened with Hal. It was the destruction of Coast City and his desire to recreate it that led to the destruction of Oa and and the GL Corp. Do you feel differently?

[DR. BELCH]

Didn't I read somewhere here that Hal went mad over some dame (isn't that always the way)? Something about her being his boss and lover...and that she either dumped him or died, I forget which, thus--rubber room time. I suppose that'll be glossed over in the series, if discussed at all--aside from Batman doped upon Scarecrow's fear gas, we've never really seen what happens when a spandex boy goes hurtling into the lunatic abyss....

[The Mad Hatter]

No, that just drove his lover over the edge and made her... er... some super-villian or another whose name I forget that'll be part of the Injustice Gang in the JL series.

I get the impression that it was something else that drove Hal bonkers.

[Joe Tully]

Her name was Star Sapphire.

[Joe Tully]

When Coast City, the town Hal was from and protected, was destroyed, that drove him nuts and turned him evil. I think that the Cyborg from the Death of Superman thing was involved in the destruction, I think he bombed the town with his spaceship, though it might have been some guy working with him, I'm not sure.

[Joe Tully]

There's a good GL page here but it is very detailed and probably has more than you need.

http://www.glcorps.org/book.html

[JLU Dude]

Cyborg-Superman was invovled. He made a deal with Mongul and it was Mongul who blew it up. Cyborg-Supes was an astronut who was bombared by rays. He can transfer his mind to other machinery. Supes was revived and defeated the cyborg. Hal came back went nuts and became Pallalax. Hal and Extant caused the Zero Hour mess which was undone by the hero, Damage. Pallalax defeated the villain of the Final Night storyline and after that took Jim Corrigan's place as the Spectre.

[DarkAngel]

Originally posted by Joe Tully
There's a good GL page here but it is very detailed and probably has more than you need.

http://www.glcorps.org/book.html


Thanks for the link. It's a great site!

[JTurner954]

Is it true that Martin Nodell is the creator of Green Lantern?? This convention announced he is showing up. Is he the creator?? Has anyone met him?

[Jor-El]

Wow. You guys need me. :)


1. When was John Stewart Lantern and what happened to him?John Stewart, as I recall, was the Green Lantern chosen by the Guardians as a replacement for Hal Jordan during one of those eras where he had quit his job and was feeling crappy. Although I'm sketchy about the circumstances surrounding the instances, I know he quit the Corps at least once and I think that John was chosen to be the GL of our sector.
2. Who's Alan Scott and what's his story? His costume (at least in the past) has featured the Lantern symbol and his ring seems identical to those the GLs wear, but he's been described as never being a member of the corp. So how did he get the ring? What gives him the right to the name Green Lantern?What gives him the right to the name Green Lantern? He was the first Green Lantern that was ever printed on comic books. He was the original (yes, he was created by Marty Nodell, JTurner.) Alan Scott, according to the original story told in ALL-AMERICAN COMICS #16 (cover date July 1940,) was involved in a train crash, as the bridge he just built was destroyed by criminals. Because he was holding a green train lantern, he surived. The lantern told him a story, a prophecy about the three times it would flame, first to bring death, then to bring life, and then to bring power. It brought Alan Scott the power of the Green Lantern. Once the Green Lantern Corps was established, I believe his origin was retroactively altered to make it seem like a sheer coincidence that he called himself "Green Lantern." His costume is so mismatched and ugly (although now it's a classic that cannot be changed!) because, in his own words, he wanted to "create a costume so bizarre that once he is seen, he will never be forgotten." His ring was vulnerable to wood, a story that has been explained in the post-Crisis universe in Green Lantern (current series) #19. If you have any more questions about Alan Scott (the same character that JL's GREEN GUARDSMAN was based heavily on,) please just PM me.
3. How was it possible for Guy Gardner to be Lantern at the same time as Jordan? Isn't there supposed to be only one Lantern per sector? Also, how was Gardner able to continue to use the ring after being kicked out? Any connection to Alan and his ring?I think that Guy was made GL of our sector as Hal was off recruiting a new Corps. That's the only explanation I can offer. Yes, there is only supposed to be one Lantern per sector. I know that, originally, Guy was supposed to receive Abin's ring but because Abin was dying and Hal was closer, the beam brought Hal instead. Then, when Hal went crazy and destroyed the Corps, Ganthet brought the last Lantern ring to Guy, who turned it down, so Ganthet went to Kyle. In the current series, Green Lantern #25, Hal and Guy "duke it out" to see who is the rightful Green Lantern of our sector. I'm 99% sure Hal won, but I don't know what that meant for Guy. I do know that once Guy either quit, or was removed from, the Corps, he acquired Sinestro's power ring and used that for awhile, around the time of the Death and Return of Superman. I would probably ask someone like the Emerald Archer to verify all this information. I would consider him the resident Lantern and Arrow historian of this board.

As for the issue of why Hal went crazy...

Hal had been used by the Guardians for years to do their bidding and he served them very well, elevating to the title of the greatest Green Lantern. But then, the Cyborg Superman and Mongul destroyed Coast City while Hal was off in space on a mission for the Guardians. Hal Jordan returned to Earth and blamed himself for not being closer to the people he loved and who depended on him. When he tried using his ring to recreate the city, the Guardians stopped him. And the thought that after all he had done for them, selflessly, they could not allow him to restore his city and secure his own sanity, he flew to Oa, stealing the rings of all the Lanterns the Guardians sent out to try to stop him. When he got to Oa, he killed Kilowog, killed Sinestro, and the Guardians seemed to commit a sort of group suicide to create one last Lantern ring which Ganthet was charged with delivering. Hal absorbed the Central Power Batter and became Parallax. The rest is history.

If you need to know anything more about Green Lantern, please just ask. I can always try to help or can at least direct you to a person that can definitely help.

[Emerald Archer]

Actually John was the backup to Hal. At some point it was determined that if anything happened to Hal, this sector needed a backup Lantern. John was choosen for that posistion. He made a few less than noteworthy appearance during the seventies and early eighties.

During the eighties Hal decided to call it quits as GL. At this point the Guardians promoted John to full time status. John played a very key role in several Corp events, including the events in the Mosaic series.

Now to really confuse things, if you follow the GL mythos, Guy was chosen as GL before Hal. When Abin Sur crashed and was fatally wounded, he sent the ring out to find a deserving canidate. The ring first of all picked a mild mannered reported in Metropolis to be GL, but he was disqulified becasue he had another side carrier besides being a reporter (this might have been retroconned out by the Crisis, but I'm not sure). Next it picked Guy. Their was some problem with Guy however. I may be wrong about this, because it's been a long time, but I am pretty sure that Guy was choosen before Hal was. Either way Guy was passed over at this point for the job.

As for multiple GL's on Earth. At one time Earth was the home of anywheres form 6 to a dozen GL's. Indeed in the mid 80's the corp was pretty much using Earth as an HQ.

My memory on the selection of Guy is a little fuzzy, I'll have to go take a look at my GL archives to be sure. Buth the history of GL can get really convoluted.

[JTurner954]

Hi, just wondering if the Kyle Rayner Green Lantern is any good?

[Jor-El]

Not right now. The best advice I can give you is to go back and pick up all the JLA trade paperbacks. (Midsummer's Nightmare, New World Order, American Dreams, Rock of Ages, Strength in Numbers, Justice for All, DC One Million, War World III, Tower of Babel, Divided We Fall, and soon to be released Terror Incognita.) It was only under Morrison and Waid that Kyle Rayner was showcased as a good character. Ron Marz was a terrible writer, and Judd Winick is ruining Kyle even further, maybe beyond the point of repair.

But definitely read Kyle's appearances with the JLA in those TPB's I just listed. That's grade-A material.

[JTurner954]

How about after Green Lantern #50 when he first appeared? I recall he found the ring in an alley and having trouble with a girl (who died soon after or something).

[Jor-El]

You should try to track down the following GL TPB's to just get a flavor of Marz's run on the title (the first few issues of which were very enjoyable aside from Marz's depiction of Alan Scott as a shadowy, moody, Batman-like figure.)

GL: Emerald Twilight
GL: A New Dawn
GL: Baptism by Fire
GL: Emerald Allies
GL: Emerald Knights

And then Judd Winick's books (which I do NOT recommend buying for ANY reason, even for completion's sake!)
GL: Old Path, New Journey
GL: Circle of Fire