COMICS • COLLECTOR GUIDES
DC cosmic hero empowered by a Green Lantern power ring. This page collects the live-action films in the watchlist in which the character or team has a principal role, making it easier to follow their screen appearances and connected movie series.
Start with the essential comics, follow the character through the movie library, then continue into related stories and live shop inventory.
Test pilot Hal Jordan is chosen by the dying alien Abin Sur to inherit a power ring because of his ability to overcome fear. The ring turns willpower into energy constructs and inducts Hal into the Green Lantern Corps, an intergalactic peacekeeping organisation. He becomes Earth's best-known Green Lantern while learning that courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to act despite it.
Important comic-book milestones for the character and why each issue or story matters.
Major key · 1959Showcase #22Major key — first appearance of Hal Jordan and the Silver Age Green Lantern concept.Read collector guide →
Major key · 1961Green Lantern #7Major key — first appearance of Sinestro.Read collector guide →
Major key · 1970Green Lantern #76Major key — beginning of the landmark Green Lantern/Green Arrow social-issues run.Read collector guide →
Major key · 2004Green Lantern: Rebirth #1Major key — begins Hal Jordan's modern restoration as Green Lantern.Read collector guide →Additional source-material touchpoints from the movie guides below. Essential character keys already shown above are not repeated here.
Test pilot Hal Jordan joins an intergalactic corps and faces the fear entity Parallax. The film uses the comics chiefly as a foundation for its screen version of…
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