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Green Lantern is the name of several superheroes appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.They fight evil with the aid of rings that grant them a variety of extraordinary powers, all of which come from imagination, fearlessness, and the electromagnetic spectrum of emotional willpower. [1]
"Spider-Man" is the name of several superheroes in the Marvel Universe. The first titular and main protagonist is Peter Parker, created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko.Other characters have adopted the alias over the years in the Earth 616 universe such as Ben Reilly and Otto Octavius.
Alan Ladd Wellington Scott is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, and the first character to bear the name Green Lantern. [2] He fights evil with the aid of his mystical ring, which grants him a variety of powers.
Showcase #22 (Oct. 1959), the first appearance of Hal Jordan, as the modern Green Lantern. Cover art by Kane. In the late 1950s, freelancing for DC Comics precursor National Comics, Kane illustrated works in what fans and historians call the Silver Age of Comic Books, creating character designs for the modern-day version of the 1940s superhero Green Lantern, [11] for which he pencilled most of ...
Yalan Gur is a Green Lantern introduced as part of an effort to reconcile the Golden Age Green Lantern's origin with the later introduction of the Green Lantern Corps. [2] He is a red-scaled, reptilian humanoid, assigned to sector 2814 in the 10th century. He first appeared in Green Lantern (vol. 3) #19 (December 1991).
Created by writer Ron Marz and artist Darryl Banks, and named after a character from James Cameron's film The Terminator, Kyle Rayner first appeared in Green Lantern vol. 3, #48 (1994), as part of the "Emerald Twilight" storyline, in which DC Comics replaced Green Lantern Hal Jordan with Kyle, who was the sole Green Lantern throughout the late 1990s and into the mid-2000s in a very successful ...
Guy Gardner was created by John Broome and Gil Kane in Green Lantern (vol. 2) #59 (March 1968), although the character was changed significantly in the 1980s by Steve Englehart and Joe Staton who turned him into a jingoistic parody of an ultra-macho "red-blooded American male."
Villain First appearance Description Vandal Savage: Green Lantern #10 (winter 1943/44) : Vandar Adg, an immortal Cro-Magnon altered by the rays of a fallen meteor, possibly in 50,000 B.C. Vandal Savage has manipulated human history behind the scenes for centuries, being a Pharaoh, helping to murder Caesar (though Pre-Crisis he was Caesar), committing murders as Jack the Ripper, and has been an ...