![]() ![]() Power rings are able to give off electromagnetic radiation of various frequencies. The uniform varies from Lantern to Lantern, based on anatomy, personal preference, and the social norms of their race. The ring also generates its wearer's Green Lantern uniform, which appears over their normal attire and can be removed at will. This force field allows the user to fly, travel through inhospitable environments ( outer space, underwater, etc.), and enter hyperspace to move vast distances quickly. When active, a power ring will encase its user in a protective, life-supporting force field. The size, complexity, and strength of these constructs is limited only by the ring-bearer's willpower whatever the wearer imagines, the ring will create. The power ring's most distinctive effect is the generation of green, solid-light constructs, mainly weapons, the precise physical nature of which has never been specified. No hard upper limit to the power ring's capabilities has yet been demonstrated it is often referred to as the most powerful weapon in the DC universe. The new version of the ring is created by the Guardians of the Universe, who also create the Green Lantern Corps. When the Green Lantern character was reinvented, beginning with the introduction of Hal Jordan, the magic ring concept was replaced with a scientifically-based one. This early version of the ring is shown as being powerless against wooden objects. Later writers revised this to be a fragment of an object called the Starheart, the result of the Guardians of the Universe collecting and isolating most of the magic forces in the universe. ![]() Īlan Scott's ring is powered by the Green Flame, a magically empowered flame contained within a metallic alien orb that was found and forged into a lantern and ring by a lampmaker named Chang. Creator Martin Nodell has cited Richard Wagner's opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung and the sight of a trainman's green railway lantern as inspirations for the combination of a magical ring and lantern. The first appearance of a power ring was in All-American Comics #16 on July 14, 1940, the flagship title of comic book publisher All-American Publications, which featured the first appearance of Alan Scott. The power ring first appeared in All-American Comics #16 on July 14, 1940. Tales of the Green Lantern Corps Vol.A power ring is an object featured in American comic books published by DC Comics.Following Green Lantern: Rebirth, Green Lantern Corps (Volume 2) would begin publication in 2006. The idea of a title focusing on the entire Green Lantern Corps would be revived in 1992 with the anthology Green Lantern Corps Quarterly (Volume 1). The next ongoing Green Lantern title would begin publication in 1990, as Green Lantern (Volume 3). ![]() Following the reversion of that title to a monthly, Superman book, two Green Lantern specials were published in 19. Contributing pencilers included Joe Staton, Bill Willingham, and Gil Kane.Ĭorresponding to the change in name, the narrative focus of the book expanded from the then- Green Lantern of Earth (typically Hal Jordan, although both John Stewart and Guy Gardner had featured prominently at various times) to the entirety of the Green Lantern Corps.Ĭancelled following a two year run with issue #224, several cast members (most notably Hal Jordan) moved over to Action Comics Weekly (Volume 1). All but the final issue were written by Steve Englehart, with the conclusion written by Joey Cavalieri. It followed the publication of Green Lantern (Volume 2) #200 and continued the numbering from that volume. ![]() Green Lantern Corps (Volume 1) is a 24 issue ongoing title published by DC Comics from 1986 to 1988. ![]()
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