Characters Created by Gil Kane

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 81. Chapters: Guardians of the Universe, Hal Jordan, Iron Fist, Guy Gardner, Sinestro, Atom, Morbius, the Living Vampire, Abomination, Carol Ferris, Black Hand, Abin Sur, Doctor Polaris, Krona, Major Disaster, Jean Loring, Katma Tui, Hector Hammond, Floronic Man, Human Fly, Shark, Stegron, Dragon Lord, Tomar-Re, Hangman, Medphyll, Bug-Eyed Bandit, Puppeteer, Goldface, Brute, Baron Macabre. Excerpt: Harold "Hal" Jordan is a DC Comics superhero known as Green Lantern, the first human shown to join the Green Lantern Corps and a founding member of the Justice League of America. Jordan is the second DC Comics character to adopt the Green Lantern moniker. Jordan was created in the Silver Age of Comic Books by John Broome and Gil Kane, and made his first appearance in Showcase #22 (October 1959) to replace the original Green Lantern Alan Scott from the Golden Age of Comic Books. In 1994, the story "Emerald Twilight" saw Hal Jordan turn into the supervillain Parallax. Later, in the Zero Hour miniseries, he attempts cosmic genocide. He was replaced by Kyle Rayner as the new Green Lantern for the Modern Age of Comic Books. In 1996's crossover story "The Final Night," he attempted to return to his heroic roots by dying to save the Earth, and later returned as a spirit of redemption in the persona of the Spectre. Hal Jordan was resurrected in the 2004 miniseries Green Lantern: Rebirth, which revealed that Parallax was actually an alien parasitic entity that influenced his prior villainy. He subsequently returned to the Green Lantern Corps and was the protagonist of the fourth volume of Green Lantern. He is portrayed by Ryan Reynolds as the main protagonist in the 2011 film Green Lantern. Hal Jordan was ranked 7th on IGN's Top 100 Comic Book Heroes in 2011. After achieving great success in 1956 in reviving the Golden Age character The Flash, ...