What is the name of the first green lantern?

Question

You know the super hero whats his name and do you know any facts about him?

Answer 1

THE FIRST OF THE CURRENT Green Lanterns was Hal Jordan, an Air Force test pilot who crashed a prototype plane when he received the ring. He was followed by Guy Gardner and John Stewart.

BUT - if you go back farther in the comic histories, there was one other GL who came before them all. I don't remember his full name, but it was Alan something. And his ring was NOT vulnerable to anything yellow, his was vulnerable to WOOD. But I don't remember much other than that. Hope this helps (since I am mostly a Marvel Comics man, not really DC).



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Answer 2

The first Green Lantern ever published was Alan Scott. He was a railroad engineer (later a broadcasting engineer) who found a green railroad lantern and fashioned a ring out of a piece of the metal when he found what it could do. The concept obviously has ties to Aladdin and his magic lamp and ring.

However, the character was revived in the Silver Age of comics, in Hal Jordan. Now, he was a member of a universe-spanning team of super heroes, and their bosses were immortal. This opened the door for many, many other Green Lanterns; the organization was called the Green Lantern Corps.

This also opened the door for a back-story, and how Alan Scott’s Ring was related to Hal Jordan’s Ring. So, throughout the course of the GL Corps’ billion year old history there have been many, many individual Green Lanterns. You can learn about them by going to glcorps.org, a fan site which lists every single GL story and character.

Check it out! There is so much there. You are going to love it.

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Answer 3

Briefly...
The first known Green Lantern working for the Guardians of the Universe on planet Oa in our space sector (2814) was Abin Sur.
Upon his death, he passed his ring on to Hal Jordan. Guy Gardner and John Stewart were both alternate Green Lanterns who served in Hal's stead whenever he was unavailable and later started serving independently when Earth was granted special status to have more than one active Green Lantern.
Kyle Rayner took over for Hal after the end of the Emerald Twilight storyline. But now Hal is back and Kyle has gone on to become Ion.
Meanwhile, Alan Scott was the first super-hero to be known as Green Lantern, having served with the Justice Society of America since before the start of World War 2. While similiar in abilities, his power ring worked from a different source and had nothing to do with all the other Green Lanterns the Guardians support.
Alan's daughter Jade inherited his powers and could use them without the aid of a ring, but she recently passed away during DC's Infinite Crisis.
Hope this helps.

Answer 4

Alan Scott is the first Green Lantern. Thousands of years ago, a green flame fell to Earth. It prophesied that once it would kill, once it would bring life, and last it would bring power. Alan was a railroad engineer who found the flame now shaped as a lantern. By the time he found it, it already fulfilled two-thirds of the prophecy. It instructed him to fashion a ring from its metal. He did as it instructed and gained power. In 1940, he became the hero Green Lantern.

Answer 5

Allan Scott. His ring is not powered by the battery like Hal, John, and Guy (The Green Lantern Corps.)

Answer 6

The first one in comics was Alan Scott powered by the Starheart who was a Golden Age Hero that later was brought back into the Silver Age and for a while went by the name Sentinel and also has been the White King of Checkmate:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Scott

The first one of the Silver Age was Hal Jordan who was a fearless Pilot that recieved his Corps Ring from the dying Abin Sur, later was taken over by Paralax, and became the Spectre for a while:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Jordan

There have been many others, and now there are over 7200.

Answer 7

Earth's first one? His name was Alan Scott and he wasn't part of the corps; he got his ring through contact with a meteor(ironically, still from the Guardians' world), composed of the energies the guardians had used in a battle whose purpose was to attempt to remove magic from the universe. If you mean the one who gave his ring to Hal Jordan(Earth's first Corps Green Lantern) as he died, his name was Abin Sur.

Answer 8

I think his first name is John, but remember there have been something like 3 to 7 lanterns. most of them however were something like military pilots that crashed somewhere.

Answer 9

I believe it was Hal Jordan, but he may have been the second.

Answer 10

Allan Davis. :)