Both Guy Gardner of Earth-One and Joe Morgan of Earth-Two were originally physical fitness instructors, with Guy specializing in school age children and Joe focusing on amateur wrestlers. Both were adept trainers of young men, until their meetings with Hal Jordan and Al Pratt changed them into something more.
Guy was one of two candidates to be successors to Abin Sur as the Green Lantern of Sector 2814. When the other, Hal, came to meet Guy... the two struck up a friendship. After a near fatal bus accident, Guy's opportunity to become a backup Lantern was placed on hold until his recovery. Eventually, Guy was enlisted into service, only to fall victim to a damaged power battery sending him into the Phantom Zone. There, the Kryptonian criminals manipulated him into becoming their pawn, then leaving him comatose. He would recover during the Crisis on Infinite Earths, although his gentle demeanor transformed into a lust for power granted him by some of the Guardians of the Universe.
Joe was the personal trainer of college student Al Pratt, though after several months this lad adopted the alter ego of the Atom. The two men lived together for the next few months, with Joe becoming a confidant for both Al and the Atom, Soon, Joe fell prey to a foreign female spy who drugged him into stealing secret plans for a new cruiser. After the Atom tracked the spy and her allies, then capturing them while revealing they're victimization of Morgan, Joe was freed from jail. He then started an athletic camp, although his scattered psyche due to the drug's after-effects caused Joe to create the alias of Nat Milligan. Nat's prize pupil was Jim Harper, who became the masked Guardian rather than a wrestler as Joe/Nat had intended. This led to Joe's submission towards an evil globe's offer of power, originating with the Guardians of the Universe.
These tragic twin tales highlight that not all noble men end up becoming heroes, as perplexing problems... predatorial persons... and probable power can motivate them into turning to evil. Still, both men showed the good dispositions in the end, siding with the Green Lanterns of two Earths against threats to their respective universes.
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