Thaal Sinestro and his clone Sinestros were tenacious in their goals to conquer their respective universes’ Earths. These men possessed potent power rings projecting awesome emerald energies, until the Green Lanterns of Earths One and Two confronted the Sinestro Corps. While the original Sinestro departed Earth-Two after the defeat of his Corps, the other Sinestro clones were incarcerated there. And yet, a man named Tarquin resembling Sinestro appeared centuries earlier in England!
The original Sinestro would routinely devise various methods of revenge against his arch-enemy Hal “Green Lantern” Jordan, including recruiting Jordan’s ex-girlfriend Carol Ferris to resume her evil alter ego of Star Sapphire and later Weather Wizard in his war with his foe. Despite these schemes, Sinestro continued to meet with failure, until he ensnared Hal’s best friend Oliver “Green Arrow” Queen into a trap. When this ploy also failed, Sinestro fled Earth-One into outer space, and led Green Lantern and Green Arrow into the “Silver Twist” anomaly.
Red-skinned Sinestro lookalike Tarquin suddenly appeared one day in the medieval era of King Arthur and Camelot. This was the era when Sir Justin the Shining Knight first lived. Simultaneous to Tarquin being pulled into events of this time, Alan "Green Lantern" Scott and Doiby Dickles were also drawn to this era. Tarquin fiercely fought Green Lantern, further cementing the circumstantial evidence that this was likely a Sinestro clone, seeking to steal his foe’s ancient green lamp. But for whom?
Back in the reality of Earth-One, Thaal Sinestro along with Green Lantern and Green Arrow were forced to team up on a medieval alien world modeled after the age of Camelot, complete with knights whom the trio battled. Combining their forces, Thaal, Hal and Oliver defeated the tyrannical ruler of that world and returned to Earth-One’s solar system. Sinestro would frequently return, seeking the destruction of his arch-enemy and securing the power of his former masters, the Guardians of the Universe!
The age of Earth-Two’s Camelot was one of five key eras when the Monitor installed Cosmic Tuning Forks to save the remaining Multiverse. Vandal Savage traveled back to this time*, masquerading as King Arthur while using Merlin to lure the JSA into a trap there. Prior to the Justice Society of America’s arrival in Camelot, Savage evidently lured their teammate and his old foe Green Lantern along with Doiby Dickles and a Sinestro clone named Tarquin to a time just prior to the JSA’s arrival. Vandal as Arthur attempted to manipulate Lantern and Tarquin into helping him locate the emerald power battery lamp in the possession of the Chinese lama delegation (hypothesizing that, just as an irradiated meteorite first gave Savage immortality, another meteorite which Green Lantern's lamp was made would do the same, as it had for the lamp's maker Chang). Savage manipulated Scott and Tarquin into conflict.
Tarquin kidnapped the visiting representatives of the Chinese Embassy from that era. These men were the keepers of the Green Flame of Life emerald lamp, which eventually Alan would inherit in the 20th century. After repeatedly clashing with faux-Sinestro Tarquin and his knights, Alan and Doiby triumphed then discovered that Tarquin’s prisoners the Chinese lamas had concealed the green lamp in a place their jailer could not locate. Recharging his power ring with the lamp, Green Lantern and Doiby returned to their future time, leaving behind Tarquin in the 13th century.
When Savage’s scheme to secure the emerald lamp in the 13th century failed, he imitated his backup plan, entrapping Kryptonian cousins Superman and Power Girl in order to draw energies from them, regaining his immortality. While Vandal returned to the modern day in subsequent tales after he lost to the JSA, there is no record of his pawn Tarquin having also returned to the 20th century. Given Tarquin’s appearance and demeanor, he was a Sinestro. What happened to the other Sinestros is unknown.
As to Thaal Sinestro, he would be a key player behind the scenes during the Crisis in Infinite Earths. During this period, he would traverse time and space, even visiting other universes such as Earth-Four during the Villain War and shortly thereafter accompanying his old adversary Hal Jordan into the Anti-Matter Universe of Qward to confront the Anti-Monitor and his forces.
* Vandal Savage had been made aware of this period in Camelot’s history as being a key junction point in history, having been present during that time period as an eyewitness to events outside his domain’s castle at that time. Witnessing the arrival of his era’s Shining Knight as well as future superhumans Firestorm and Killer Frost of Earth-One, and their battle with a mammoth Shadow Demon from the Antimatter Universe of Qward, Savage knew that this would be a time period he could draw his 20th century foes the Justice Society into when the time was right.
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