Description

Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn                Comics Lot
The Saga of Hal Jordan, from his childhood, through his test pilot days, to the fateful day when a flight simulator test and a flash of green light led him to a crashed alien spaceship, a ring…and a beginning that would culminate in him becoming the greatest of all the Green Lanterns.
Writer: James Owsley
Artist: M. D. Bright
Inker: Romeo Tanghal
Colorist: Anthony Tollin
Letterer: Albert De Guzman
Editors: Kevin Dooley & Andrew Helfer
All Covers by: M. D. Bright & Klaus Janson

As a boy, Hal Jordan had worshipped his father, Lt. Martin Jordan, Ferris Aircraft’s test pilot. Then, on a fateful day, Lt. Jordan’s craft crashed in the desert, killing him in the resultant fireball. Since that day, Hal had always tried to live up to his father’s reputation – and had always come up short. He was kept on at Ferris Aircraft only out respect for his father – and the fact that he was dating the boss’ daughter. Still, this somewhat cowardly loser dreamed of flying. As it turned out, his dream came true when he met a dying member of the Green Lantern Corps who gave him his ring and battery. Now Hal had the power to be a hero – if he could find the courage.

Stories/Spoilers
In issue #1, “The Sign”, A young Hal Jordan and his brother Jack watch their father, Martin, as he tests a plane at Ferris Aircraft. Something goes wrong, and Martin’s plane crashes in a fiery wreck before Hal’s very eyes. Years Later, Hal and his friends are having beers at a bar. Hal’s rival, Biff, teases him for getting fired from Ferris Aircraft and then being re-hired after his mother called to complain, using Martin Jordan’s legacy as leverage. Hal took a pay cut and can no longer fly aircraft. As an apparently drunk Hal is taking his friends home, he is preoccupied with his anger at Biff, and he panics when he drives too close to a roadside billboard and crashes his Jeep. Hal ends up in the hospital, but his injuries aren’t bad. His friend Andy, however, is seriously hurt. Hal’s ex-girlfriend Carol Ferris is quite mad at him, as is her father, Carl, the owner of Ferris Aircraft – particularly because Andy is their star pilot. Back at Ferris Aircraft, Hal is testing a flight simulator, despite the fact that he has not fully recovered from a head injury. Somehow, his simulator crashes through a wall and flies off. While in the air, Hal hears a voice talking about the nature of order and chaos, and a Corps that is without fear, anger, or corruption. When Hal finally lands – miraculously unharmed – he is in the middle of the desert, and a crashed alien spaceship is in front of him. Hal is forcibly brought inside the ship, where he meets Abin Sur, the Green Lantern of Sector 2814. Abin Sur is dying, and he informs Hal that he has been chosen to be his successor. Hal says he isn’t interested, but the ring flies off Abin Sur’s finger and onto Hal’s as the alien dies. Hal panics and bursts out of the spaceship. When he is several hundred feet in the air, he realizes he is flying. Hal then finds a telephone and calls Carol. She is furious, since she thinks he stole the flight simulator, and she tells him that his friend Andy may be paralyzed for life. While flying, Hal wonders why all this has happened to him. Then, seeing the yellow sign that caused his accident, Hal becomes enrage and bursts through it. Unexpectedly, he is injured.

Next in issue #2, “The Trail”, Hal Jordan dreams that he is flying in space, being berated by the voice of his father. He becomes agitated and crashes into a huge Green Lantern Power Battery. When he wakes up, he finds himself in the desert near the yellow sign he had crashed through. He hitches a ride to the hospital and visits his friend Andy, who had become paralyzed as a result of a car crash while Hal was driving. Andy warns that the police know that Hal was drunk when the crash occurred, and when Hal hears people coming toward Andy’s room, he flies away. Hal decides that he should conceal his identity with a domino mask. While in the air, he startles a Ferris Aircraft pilot and nearly causes him to crash. But at the last minute, Hal uses his ring to help the plane land safely. Hal’s ex-girlfriend Carol Ferris seems intrigued by his abilities, much to his amusement, but the pilot is enraged. A dejected Hal flies off. On the moon, a yellow alien is searching for Abin Sur. The alien makes his way to Earth and finds Abin Sur’s body within his wrecked spacecraft. Realizing that the ring has been given to a new Green Lantern, the alien attempts to pick up its trail. Hal decides to turn himself in to the police, and an officer confiscates all of his possessions, including his ring. Suddenly, the yellow alien bursts into the jail, killing many of the officers. Hal rushes out of his cell, which has been demolished, and grabs his ring. He expects to easily defeat the alien, but the ring seems to have no effect on the alien.

Next in issue #3, “The Ring“,While Green Lantern is fighting with a yellow alien, he wonders why his ring seems to have no effect. As the powerful alien becomes more aggressive, Hal’s concentration breaks, and his connection to the ring’s energy is broken. Enraged, the alien leaves, wondering what happened to the Green Lantern’s trail. Hal is confused and depressed, and in an effort to get back to what he knows, he hitchhikes to the hospital where his recently paralyzed friend Andy is resting. However, when he arrives, the car is stopped by a police blockade. The police inform Hal that the hospital has been destroyed by the yellow alien, with no apparent survivors. When Hal realizes that the hospital’s destruction is his own fault, he realizes that Ferris Aircraft is also in danger. Unfortunately, Ferris Aircraft has also been destroyed, and knowing that the yellow alien is searching for the Green Lantern, that is what Hal resolves to be. He returns to the crash site of Abin Sur’s spacecraft, hoping to find the power battery for his ring. When he discovers a large green lantern, and holds the ring to it, he is pulled toward it by a powerful force, and finds himself back in his Green Lantern uniform. Hal, confounded, asks the ring what it’s doing to him and is surprised to receive a response. The ring explains that he must charge it using the battery every 24 hours. Hal asks about the yellow alien’s origins, and the ring reveals that the alien is known as Legion, and has killed four Green Lanterns including Abin Sur. The ring creates a projection of the events leading to Abin Sur’s death, but as soon as it ends, the real Legion appears and attacks. Realizing that the ring has no effect against a the yellow alien, and knowing that he is in a secluded area, Hal decides to use the ship’s fission reactors to cause a nuclear blast, in an attempt to defeat Legion.

Next in issue #4, “The Corps”, In the wake of the nuclear explosion that he caused Green Lantern is surprised to find that he is still alive. He assumes that his enemy Legion must have been vaporized. Realizing his own inexperience, Hal asks his ring to take him to meet another member of the Green Lantern Corps. As he flies past the moon it appears that Legion has survived, and the villain begins following him. The ring takes Hal to Sector 2813, where he encounters Green Lantern Tomar-Re. Tomar’s ring informs him that Legion has been sighted, and together, they warp to Oa. There, Tomar explains the nature of the Guardians, and their struggle to keep order in the cosmos. They meet Salakk who declares that the three must consult the Book of Oa, regarding Legion’s origins. The Book tells the story of the planet Tchk-Tchk in Sector 407, where over-population and conquest led the Guardians to lock the planet within in energy field until their desire to expand was quelled. Tomar-Re explains that Hal will have to stay on Oa to train, rather than returning to Earth with his new-found powers. Hal, however, makes a request to appear at his friend Andy’s funeral via green energy-construct, where he reveals to his brother Jack what has happened to him. Hal’s ex-girlfriend Carol Ferris nearly sees him, but he disappears immediately. For the next week on Oa, Hal is rigorously trained by Kilowog, until one morning he wakes to hear an alarm. Tomar-Re explains that the alarm hasn’t sounded in a millennium. Oa has been breached by Legion.

Next in issue #5, “The Test”, Green Lantern and the rest of the Green Lantern Corps are surprised to discover that Legion has survived a nuclear blast, back on earth. Kilowog orders the Corps to head for cover while he distracts the villain. Unfortunately, Legion manages to kill several Corps members. The Corps move underground, hoping to use the planet’s bedrock as a weapon against Legion. Salakk and Tomar-Re devise a plan to trap their enemy within a sphere of the mineral Oamite. Once again, however, Legion escapes, killing yet another Corpsman. Legion beats his way through Kilowog and Salakk, into the chamber where the Guardians of the Universe are sleeping. He wakes them, demanding vengeance, and entangling himself in the cables attached to their sleeping pods. Hal Jordan acts quickly, severing the cables and lifting Legion up into the air and carrying him away. Struggling to think of a way to defeat a yellow enemy, Hal realizes that he can cover the yellow using Oa’s muddy terrain. Once Legion is covered in mud, Hal is able to use his Green Lantern Ring to bring his enemy to its knees. But, when Hal seems ready to deliver a killing blow, Legion explains that he is in fact the collective souls of the people of Tchk-Tchk – a race trapped within an energy field on their own planet by the Guardians. Hal is not convinced, knowing that Legion had killed his friends back on earth, but he refuses to kill for Legion or the Guardians. Hal uses his ring to remove Legion’s armour, but an increasingly large creature springs forth and attacks the Corps.

Finally in issue #6, “The Dawn”, As Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps struggle to contain the massive, exponentially growing protoplasm that was once Legion, Hal’s fear begins to overtake him. Kilowog, Tomar-Re and the other Corpsmen attempt to lift the creature from the planet, only to discover that it has dug itself into the surface of Oa, and is using the Guardians of the Universe’s power against them. Elsewhere, the Guardians look on, concluding that it serves Order better that they abandon their planet and preserve themselves. Hal responds with disbelief to their plan, challenging their cowardice and forming a plan to harness the energy within Oa’s Central Power Battery. Hal remembers the words of Abin Sur, encouraging him to overcome his fear. He flies directly into the Central Power Battery, and emerges surrounded by green flames. He uses the green energy to create a cyclone which pulls Legion from Oa’s surface and launches it into space. From there, the rest of the Corps contain it, and take it back to its home planet of Tchk-Tchk, to begin life anew. Perplexed by his actions, the Guardians question Hal, but he retains no memory of them. The Guardians see that Hal is in many ways an appropriate successor to Abin Sur, and award him the title of Green Lantern of Sector 2814. However, upon his return to Earth, Hal decides that he must do the right thing and turn himself in for drunk driving. After a time, Hal is released from Gardner A. Broome State Correctional Facility, where he is greeted by his brother Jack, and Jack’s girlfriend Dee. Jack reveals that Carol Ferris was impressed by Hal’s show of responsibility in turning himself in, and has offered him his old job back. Later, Hal is flying an aircraft when something goes wrong, in a parallel to the events which led to his father’s death. Rather than use his ring to save himself, Hal endeavors to land the craft on his own, and it appears that he does, until it explodes, suddenly. Fortunately, an intact Hal emerges from the cloud of dust and debris, picks up his ring, and moves on.

Comics lot contains: Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn (1989 – 1990) Issues 1-6.  DC Comics

Comics are bagged & boarded and will be carefully / securely packaged then shipped via USPS Priority Mail to ensure that it arrives to you perfectly and quickly.

All First Printings
Publisher: DC Comics
Publication Date: 1989 – 1990
Format per comic: FC, 32 pages, Comic, 10.20″ x 6.65″
UPC: 070989321878

Collectible Entertainment note: Comics 1,2,3,4,5,6 are in Very Fine to Very Fine + condition.  Beautiful Set!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Green Lantern collector and/or enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Recommended.

Please read return policy.