Origin Story of Green Lantern: The Guardians of the Universe are committed to maintaining order throughout the cosmos
The reality about the birth of existence itself is concealed in plain sight inside Green Lantern’s origin narrative, despite the Guardians’ best efforts to keep it a secret.
Alan Scott, the very first Green Lantern, was developed by Martin Nodell and Bill Finger in 1940, at the height of the first hero comics boom.
He is a masked crusader who battles crime with a magic ring and lamp and can make almost anything happen with the strength of his will and imagination.
Writer John Broome, artist Gil Kane, and editor Julius Schwartz recreated the idea for the space era in 1959 as part of the line-wide redesign of struggling DC Comics characters, giving birth to a new Green Lantern called Hal Jordan.
Jordan has such a ring that can make thoughts come true, just like the original Green Lantern, but he is backed by cutting-edge alien technology used by more than 3,000 fellow Green Lanterns.
In the following 35 years, Green Lantern comics included both standard superhero-versus-supervillain tales and expansive interstellar adventures featuring both people and aliens.
The ring’s source of power is willpower. Each Green Lantern has a ring on their finger that gives them access to a range of abilities.