10 Things Everyone Always Gets Wrong About Green Lantern
So... what was that about the colour yellow?
Hal Jordan - the most famous of all the Green Lanterns - burst onto the Silver Age of comic books in Showcase #22 in 1959. Since then, the mythos surrounding him has erupted into a full cosmic force known as the Green Lantern Corps. While the green ring-slingers have become one of the biggest DC franchises of all time with over fifty years of history, there are plenty of misconceptions that surround the character, his villains, and his many, many allies.
With several different people bearing the mantle of Green Lantern - not to mention there being books for all of them - it's only natural that people will be wrong about at least one element from the character's mythos.
From Guy Gardner's coma, to the latest Lanterns Corps around, outdated information is abundant and will no doubt inform perception surrounding the Green Lantern character, who had to deal with a dreadful film too, to compound matters further.
But it's not all doom and gloom. Green Lantern has a rich and compelling mythos, and once you scratch beneath the surface and look past all the misconceptions, you'll understand why he's lauded as one of DC's greatest heroes.
10. How Many Human Green Lanterns There Have Been
When the Green Lantern brand was recreated in the Silver Age, it opened up a world of possibilities. Hal Jordan may have been the one in this new continuity, but throughout the years Hal would not be the only Earthling inducted into the Justice League.
In the late 1960s Guy Gardner would become the back-up Green Lantern whenever Hal Jordan was unable to do the cosmic policing. Following a power battery exploding in Guy's face, he was then replaced by John Stewart in the early seventies. Then after the whole Hal Murders Everybody storyline, Kyle Rayner became the only Green Lantern to create a new Corps and save the universe in the process.
A forgotten member of the New Corps of 1999 was Anya Savenlovich, a Russian fighter pilot, but would disappear from general continuity after the fall of the Soviet Union. After that, there were no new human Lanterns from Earth until the New 52, which would introduce Simon Baz as a new ringbearer. Finally, it wasn't until 2014 that Earth's first female Green Lantern, Jessica Cruz, would join.
In over fifty years of the Corps, there have been seven human Green Lanterns.