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This is a selection of Green Lantern comics extending from his debut until the present day (with GEMs highlighted).  The list includes links for the following: (a) Wiki page (from the Grand Comics Database, or GCD), (b) e-book (available upon request), and (c) More info on each comic (via optional posts by various contributors).

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Green Lantern was one of several DC super-heroes who made their debut early in the Golden Age of Comics but were reinvented at the beginning of the Silver Age.  The key person responsible for the reinvention of the Flash as well as several other Golden-Age superheroes (including the Flash, Hawkman and the Atom) in the mid-1950s was Julius Schwartz, the man who was also responsible for two successful Batman reboots in the 1960s.

The Silver-Age Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) lasted for nearly four decades, going through various evolutions but basically retaining his essential identity.  However, in the mid-1990s, some misguided DC editors and writers decided to make some bizarre changes in the character through a storyline called Emerald Twilight where Hal Jordan is transformed into a supervillain called Parallax who destroys the Guardians and the Green Lantern Corps; later in the storyline, Parallax dies and comes back as the ghostly avenger Spectre.

Needless to say, this outlandish change in the beloved Green Lantern character outraged many loyal Green Lantern fans.  DC tried to introduce several replacements to take on the mantle of Green Lantern (Guy Gardner, John Stewart, and Kyle Rayner), but none of them could hold a candle to the original Green Lantern (Hal Jordan).  Not surprisingly, these pathetic efforts to revive the character failed to placate the fans, and DC was eventually compelled to bring back Hal Jordan in the 2004 series Green Lantern: Rebirth.  Thankfully, DC has made no more misguided attempts to change the essential quality of the character since then.  For me, there will always be one and only one Green Lantern: Hal Jordan.  For this reason, I have not included comics featuring any alternative Green Lanterns in my list (other than the stories where they are supporting characters).

The definitive artist for Green Lantern during the Silver Age was Gil Kane, in conjunction with inkers Joe Giella and Sid Greene.  During this period, the main scripter of Green Lantern stories was John Broome, with some additional stories written by Gardner Fox.  Although Julius Schwartz was the editor at the time and not the writer, he often played an important role in shaping the storyline.  Because the writers and editor of both Green Lantern and the Flash comics during the Silver Age were the same, there were many crossover stories featuring team-ups of both characters in their individual comic books.  In the late 1960s, writer Denny O’Neil teamed up with artist Neal Adams for a memorable run with strong socially conscious themes that revolutionized comic books and played a big role in modernizing them.  (Although the series was commercially unsuccessful when it was first published, it subsequently received widespread critical acclaim and has since attained cult status.)

Green Lantern is one of DC’s most enduring comic-book characters and is a founding member of the Justice League of America.  For more details on the different comic-book eras of Green Lantern, please see this link.

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