The Other Green Lanterns Who Might Have Been

What if Hal Jordan had never been selected to become the Green Lantern of Sector 2814. Hal learned of another who could have become the Emerald Crusader, and had a tragic tale to tell.

This substitute sentinel, Guy Gardner would have as sad a tale as his counterpart, Mister Billings. While Gardner was a physical fitness instructor, Billings was a wealthy financier. Both were deemed worthy to wield the emerald batteries, each originating from the Guardians of the Universe. The predecessor possessors of these powerful objects were the adventuring alien Abin Sur and the academic Asian Ulthoon.

It wasn’t just Abin Sur and Ulthoon who saw something commendable in these morally flawed men. Traveling counselor Kari Limbo and rich heiress Miss Smythe also found themselves endeared to these maverick men, and emotionally supported their road to recovery.

On Earth-Two, Billings actually inherited the green lantern of Ulthoon while residing in Gotham City’s Arkham Asylum. Having been driven insane when a broker cost him his fortune, which led to Billings taking that man’s life, he was now motivated to recondition the lantern into a more contemporary design. Once Billing’s fractured psyche was healed, and he left the asylum a sane man once more, with the lantern next in the possession of engineer Alan Scott aka Green Lantern.

On Earth-One, Guy would later be called upon to substitute for Hal in an adventure that led to the power battery exploding, sending Guy into other dimension only to be retrieved by Hal only after losing his sanity. He would later be appointed Green Lantern when Hal retired.

However, had Guy been selected instead of Hal, he would’ve had a similar early history as Green Lantern. The Guardians allowed Jordan to see an alternate timeline wherein Gardner too up the reigns of Green Lantern of Space Sector 2814. As such, Gardner would have had confrontations with many of Jordan’s nemesis, such as Sonar, Shark, Black Hand, Doctor Polaris and Sinestro. However, Guy would take a side trip to the planet Ghera to aid the world’s orphaned children, as their parents all perished. Returning home, Guy learned he too contracted the yellow plague which claimed the lives of all adult Gherans.

Chronal Copies Temporal Twins

The physics differed drastically in the  divergent dimension of Earths One and Two, and among these was the affect on time with living beings. In one universe, a temporally displaced individual could not exist in the same time as the past or future version of themselves. In another universe, an individual could exist as multiple copies of themselves at the same time. However, in that second reality, it was impossible to create a chronal clone of themselves while in the first it was entirely possible.

Two time tyrants discovered these core principals in their native realms and more than once manipulated these quirks in physics to their own amoral agendas. These villains were T.O. Morrow of Earth-One, and Per Degaton of Earth-Two, and both men were persistent foes of the Justice League and Justice Society, respectively. 

T.O. Morrow first appeared in Central City, when he spawned three chronoal counterparts of Hal "Green Lantern" Jordan, complete with identical power rings. These three synthetic beings were sent by their creator to steal precious items from the Louve in Paris, the Statue of Liberty in New York City, and London. This terrible trio  taunt Green Lantern and his Justice League teammate the Flash, who each pursue one of the fake Lanterns in Paris and New York, and then the pair seemingly teammup in London the Flash determines that his partner is one of the fakes. The real Lantern was defeated in New York City, and after freeing his friend, the Leaguers track down Morrow at his headquarters while the psuedo-Lanterns fade from existence. Although initially tricked by the T.O. Morrow temporal clone, the heroes discover this rouse and corner the real Morrow. Seeing no way out, the villain seemingly falls to his death in an underground pit.

Per Degaon hatched the third of this history-altering schemes when he recruited the Crime Syndicate of Earth-Three to accompany him to Earth-Prime, where the rogues stole nuclear weapons from Cuba. Bringing them back to Earth-Two in 1942, Degaton sought to blackmail the world into accepting his authoritarian rule, which in one future timeline was successful until the early 1980s. However, the Justice League of Earth-One travelled back to that era and teamed up with the All-Star Squadron to oppose him, and soon found their friends from the future appear in the skies above one of Degaton's nuclear detonation demonstrations at sea. These were the 1980 versions of 1940s Justice Society members Green Lantern, Starman and Doctor Fate... along with superheroines Power Girl and Huntress. The three male Society members were the chronal counterparts of Morrow's initial two Green Lanterns and himself (while the 1980s Power Girl, who also existed in the 1940s, was the chronal counterpart of Supergirl's Satan Girl/Nightflame clone from the 1970s). 

The third of Morrow's Green Lantern temporal twins had a counterpart in the Conqueror's synthetic Green Lantern, which he used against the original and his Justice Society allies. Years later, T.O. developed chronal clones of Steve Trevor, Mera, Hawkgirl, Jean Loring and a girl name Midge... in order the ensnare Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Hawkman, Atom and Snapper Carr into accepting their paralyzing kisses. Once they accomplished their evil deeds for their master, these being like the lethal Lantern trio faded from existence.

During Per's previous time traveling case, he brought back to 1941 future versions of Wotan, Professor Zobar Zodiak, Sky Pirate, King Bee and the Monster (as well as Solomon Grundy, whose Earth-One counterpart was the artificial Grundy clone created by the Parasite in his war against Superman). These chronal clones existed during the same time period as their earlier version, who were unaware that their future selves were engaged in battle with the All-Star Squadron. This scheme, as with all of Degaton's schemes, failed miserably.

Years later, T.O. Morrow reappeared and disgarded the use of chornal clones, and once more manufactured Red Tornado androids modeled after the original, who turned against his master and joined the Justice Society (and later the Justice League). These Tornado androids were made of the same temporal technology as the living chrononal clones, but unlike these being they were made of silicon chips and hardware.

Phenomenal Phasing Phantom People

“Out of this world” is a common expression uttered when one is shocked and amazed by some event. Many such incredible events occurred on Earths One and Two, including end-of-world threats. On two occasions on each Earth, all of humanity was pulled from their world…. from their native universes… by twin cosmic entities… and by a man and a woman. 

The man was Alan “Green Lantern” Scott who, in a moment of disgust towards the prevalence of crime across the globe, willed his power ring to remove all evil from Earth-Two. This caused all humanity to be phased from reality, and were briefly transplanted to the desert salt plains of Utah on Earth-One. These individuals were comatose in suspended animation, including Alan, until they were revived by his counterpart Hal “Green Lantern” Jordan. The two Emerald Crusaders used their combined power rings to will these billions of people back to Earth-Two.

A Kryptonian woman named Faora Hu-ul escaped her dimension prison and sought revenge on the son of her jailer Jor-El, Kal-El aka Superman. After freeing herself, she set wheels motion to exile humanity into the Phantom Zone while liberating Faora’s fellow criminals. Thankfully, Superman already deduced her scheme, and sabotaged Hu-Ul’s equipment to reverse the process. Humanity and the rogue Kryptonians were refined to Earth-One and the Phantom Zone, respectively.

Years earlier, Lex Luthor unleashed the cosmic entity known as the Galactic Golem upon his arch-enemy Superman. During the battle between the two, Superman used the Golem’s energy to shift all humanity to another dimensional plane (Earth-Two) just in case the Golem won the battle and decimated Earth-One. He didn’t, and mankind returned to their home world.

Back on Earth-Two, the cosmic entity known as Aquarius shifted humanity out of that universe* while battling the Justice Society of America. However, with the help of the Justice League, Superman and the Society vanquished Aquarius and returned mankind to their home world.

There were multiple occasions when inhabitants of both Earths temporarily or permanently migrated to the another Earth. These included the following individuals and occasions:

• The original Freedom Fighters when Uncle same recruited a handful of heroes from Earth-Two to join him in averting the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Empire.
• The later Freedom Fighters, former members of Earth-Two's All-Star Squadron, who traveled to Earth-X during the Crisis on Infinite Earths (and several Earth-One heroes perished during the same Crisis event).
• The surviving Freedom Fighters traveled to Earth-One for a brief stay there, while the Secret Society of Super-Villains of Earth-One had a months long stay on Earth-Two.
• Old West and World War 2 individuals passed when entering the Anti-Matter wave originating from the Universe of Qward.
• All-Star Squadron select members traveled from Earth-Two to Earth-One to aid Steel.
  
• Justice Society of America members of post-Crisis traveled to Earth-Two's universe to protect it in the dimension of Asgard.
  
• Red Tornados, Black Canary & M'La, Bat-Mire & Spectre, and many, many more left their home worlds for parallel planets!
  

* As seen in the top left of picture with Aquarius, Vandal Savage along with all humanity shifted into the Spectral Zone, the Earth-Two version of the Phantom Zone. He returned there years later after confronting the two Flashes in a time traveling adventure.

Cosmic Crusaders’ Creative Constructs

The main Green Lantern’s of their home worlds, Hal Jordan of Earth-One and Alan Scott of Earth-Two, had dissimilar professional occupations. Hal was a test pilot while Alan was an engineer, with Jordan later dabbling in toy sales and trucking while Scott diversified as a broadcaster and radio executive. When bequeathed with their power rings and power batteries which energized them, it was their indomitable will power which allowed them to shape the emerald plasma they were charged with into various constructs.

And so, unlike Hal’s fellow Justice League colleagues and Alan’s fellow Justice Society associates, the Green Lanterns were not known for inventing anything. For example, the Flash’s developed their cosmic treadmill and time vortex to travel through time, the Atoms designed the shrinking bio-belt and vibrator belt allowing them to traverse the Microverse and Multiverse. And yet, they had something their teammates’ didn’t possess… limitless imagination and the means to form it into whatever they desired.

With this cosmic power coupled with their will power, they could form large emerald fists to knock out opponents and green hands to catch a falling pedestrian. They could create rudimentary shapes to lend support to crumbling structures or intricate framework to support tremendous weights. In fact, the only limit to this creative outlet is the Green Lanterns was their concentration, the duration of their power rings’ charge… which was typically 24 hours at a time, and their rings’ inherent weaknesses.

For Hal’s power ring, this was a specific color, or rather how any substance’s physical makeup absorbed and scattered light in the electromagnetic spectrum it was bathed in. The color which Jordan’s power ring constructs had no effect on was yellow. For Alan’s power ring, this was an organic structural tissue, found within the stems and roots of all plant life. On other words, the substance immune to his power ring constructs was wood.

Remarkably, each Green Lantern found methods to circumvent these vulnerabilities by effecting objects surrounding yellow and wooden objects, such as those projected by the Sinestro’s own yellow power rings and found within the flesh and tissue of the Solomon Grundy’s. Due to their synthetic technology materialized through their boundless mental reserves, Jordan and Scott proved victorious throughout the years against the attacks of their foes.

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Cosmic Inbalance: Story of the Sentinent Stellar Stones

Despite a variety of reality altering events throughout history, and specifically during the middle to latter half of the 20th century, the first occasion wherein Mallo the Cosmic Balancer intervened in his native reality and its cosmic twin was in 1981. This enigmatic entity deemed it necessary to intervene in the events of humanity, as he perceived an inbalance in his own reality of Earth-Two as well as its closest cosmic kin, that of Earth-One.

Specifically, upon analyzing the various superhumans populating both worlds, most costumed crusaders had correlating counterparts with compatiable capabilities. This included the Supermen, the Flashes, the Green Lanterns, and the Hawkmen... despite the fact that, aside from the Hawkmen, each doppleganger derived his powers from a separate power source. For Superman-One, it was a yellow sun and lighter gravity. For Superman-Two, it was genetic adaptation to his native Krypton. For Flash-One, it was immersion lightning charges chemics. For Flash-Two, it was by inhaling hard water fumes. For Green Lanterns One and Two, it was the specific types of green plasma compatiable with each of their universes.

Then there was the twin Tiny Titans, the Atoms also known as Ray Palmer and Al Pratt. While Al of Earth-Two possessed superstrength from Tholium radiation, Ray of Earth-One possessed size-changing abilities from a sentinent White Dwarf Star fragment. Tholium existed on both worlds, however the fragment was specific to Earth-One. Other techniques for shrinking, employed by Doctor Mid-Nite and Brain Wave, used magnetic contraction of atomic particles.

The reason Mallo intervened at this point, rather than years or even centuries earlier, is because the doppelgänger of the White Dwarf Star Core fragment was the fragment of the Green Flame Starheart meteor which crashlanded at the same time a dimension away. However, while the Dwarf Star plunged onto the area that would become Ivy Town in the North American continent of Earth-One, the sentient Starheart plunged onto the Earth-Two continent of Asia near a future Chinese village.

And in 1979, the alien entity named Zalaz stole the Starheart globe from the star which it resided within.* Bringing it to the Earth-One universe, its radiation was emitted from the globe throughout that reality. To balance this out, comparable (if compacted amount of) white dwarf** radiation was pulled from Ray Palmer’s equipment and transmitted into Al Pratt’s on Earth-Two***.

* Because the chaotic Green Flame energy, projected from Earth-One's universe by the Guardians of that Universe into Earth-Two's reality, was entombed within the star deemed the Starheart, that star never condensed into a white dwarf star as had its doppelgänger which powered Ray Palmer's costume

** The sun which Zalaz and his love M’La’s planet once orbited around eventually became the condensed white dwarf which plummeted to Earth-One. That sun’s counterpart in the Earth-Two universe was the star within which the Green Flame Starheart resided. Other such meteors on parallel planets such as on Earth-S originated from that same star in Earth-Two's  universe.

Twice-Told-Tales: Tenacious Tin-Soldiers Terrorize Twin Titans

Eric Knowles was a master craftsman and toymaker, who came to prominence in Gotham City on Earth-Two. While presenting himself as a reputable businessman in public, appearing on radio announcer Alan Scott's WXYZ program, Knowles was secretly the costumed criminal known as the Tin Soldier.

His counterpart on Earth-One was given the alias Key-Man #1 by his master, the Key... a recurring adversary of the Justice League of America. When Key and his Key-Man threatened the safety of Saint Louis, Missouri, the Justice League assembled. This included Green Lantern, though not the one who was their teammate!

The initial confrontation between Alan's alter ego Green Lantern and Tin Soldier ended with Scott being knocked unconscious by an exlarged yo-yo lauched from Knowle's hand. Before Hal Jordan could join his League teammates, he slipped on a bar of soap and was knocked unconscious. His power ring recruited one of Jordan's two backups, architect John Stewart, to substitute as the Green Lantern for this adventure.

Both John and Alan faced off against their tenacious foes, as Key-Man #1 sent Tin Soldier robots to deal with Stewart and the Red Tornado, while other gimmicks of the Key preoccupied the other Leaguers. Similiarly, Alan had a rematch with his Tin Solder, which once more saw his foe gain the upper hand. 

Thankfully, both the Tin Soldiers' master and Tin Soldier himself were defeated. Key-Man #1 had been secretly replaced by honorary Leaguer known as the Phantom Stranger, who saved the lives of his teammates. And Green Lantern Alan Scott eacaped Tin Soldier's tornado top and turned his automated minions against him.

The Key escaped the grasp of his Justice League adversaries, who turned his scheme of destroying a part of St. Louis into an opportunity to rebuild the city's dilapidated domiciles, with help from John Stewart's power ring coupled with his brilliant architectural mind. As for the Key of Earth-Two, he had no known connection to the Tin Soldier, and faced Green Lantern Alan Scott and the Justice Society members during their last case in 1951.

Parallel Planes Phasing Physics: Vibratory Frequencies of the Multiverse

Piercing the dimensional barrier between universe involves syncing one's body to the precise vibratory frequency of one's destination dimension. In other words, individuals inherently have a vibratory rate that matches that of their native realm, and even with traversing and entering a new phase of existence they would still have the same natural frequency which when relaxed could draw them back to their home world.

In 1965, Hal Jordan in his Green Lantern alter ego adopted the means to transport himself from his native Earth-One into that of Earth-Two, using cyclical forces similar to those first discovered by his teammate Barry "Flash" Allen. Sometime in 1968, the elemental force from the planet Rann-One known as the Tornado Champion similarly utilized this technique to travel to Earth-Two. Merging its cyclical body with the android body of the Red Tornado, this combined being joined the Justice Society, the heir to the original Red Tornado aka Ma Hunkle.

Still later, he was used as a pawn by Creator2 to draw Earth-Two of his universe together with Earth-One... with the goal of destroying the merged planet which he intended to reshape into a new world. Although this failed, it became readily evident that these vibrational-shifts could do more than move an object or entity between universes... it could have potentially devastating consequences.

Years later, when the criminal Iron Hand spawned his world-encircling hand construct composed of Nebuloid-energy, it was only thanks to the intervention of the Red Tornado with a Nebula Rod which destroyed this threat to Earth-Two. However, the Nebuloid energy seemed to counteract vibratory powers, as Red Tornado was now unable to return to his android body's home universe. Instead, he was now tied to his cyclical body's native universe of Earth-One, which he was thrown into following the Nebula Hand's destruction. Despite his desperate attempts to return to Earth-Two, until the Crisis on Infinite Earths, Red Tornado remained on Earth-One.

In the subsequent years following the Flash of two Earths, Barry Allen and Jay Garrick ... and later Green Lantern and Red Tornado's... journeys to each other's universes, more would follow. In addition to dozens of crossovers on both Earths by the Justice League and Justice Society, their enemies would venture into the parallel planet of their homeworld seeking to succeed in their sinister schemes. And others would later permanently trade places, migrating to the other Earth: These included:

• Black Canary and M'La
• The Spectres of two Earths
• Terrible trios who battled the Green Lanterns
• T.O. Morrow and the Immortal Man
• Others during the Crisis on Infinite Earths

The Queen and the Quinn: Card Queen and Harlequin

While the word queen is synonymous with a female ruler, the word quinn is derived from an Irish term for a chief. Both denote wisdom, although this is only evident if they act is a wise manner when faced with life or death matters. Such was the case from the women known as the Harlequin.

Although the more notable portions of their costumed careers were as antagonists and then allies of a pair of Gotham City caped crusaders, Duela Dent and Molly Maynne also infiltrated illegal gangs in order to bring them down from the inside. While Maynne did this initially as a reluctant member of the Injustice Society, in order to save the life of her arch-foe and true love, she years later did this in an official capacity. As for Dent, she ended up joining the Teen Titans in order to defeat various supervillains whom they faced.

Following the dissolution of Earth-One's Titans, Duela abandoned her alter ego as Harlequin (and alternatively, as Joker's Daughter) when she was recruited into the criminal organization known as M.A.Z.E. Conceiving the identity of the Card Queen, Dent used a variety of card-themed gadgets which she initially used against her former teammate Robin, then later used against M.A.Z.E. agents themselves when she and Robin defeated them.

Following the dissolution of Earth-Two's Injustice Society, Molly's alias came to the attention of the F.B.I., who recruited her as the Harlequin to become their secret agent H-9. Using her illusion-generating spectacles and trick mandolin, the Harlequin was able to defeat her old teammate Sportsmaster and his gang while secretly aiding Lois Lane and her husband, Superman!

Interestingly, while Duela’s half dozen adventures alongside Robin (and on occasion Batgirl) mirrored a similar number of Molly’s capers alongside Green Lantern, additional tales of the Earth-Two Harlequin were echoed in the battles between the Earth-One Green Lantern and his girlfriend Carol Ferris’ alter ego of the Star Sapphire. Decades later, when Maynne reappeared as the Harlequin to aid the young Infinity, Inc. in a few of their cases, this mirrored Dent's tales alongside the Teen Titans as a member.

The Many Faces of the Harlequin

While Robin the Boy Wonder had his fair share of colorful crooked adversaries, such as Crazy Quilt, his most persistent opponent was never an actual villain. She only played them, or rather, their fictional children. This is the strange story of Duela Dent… and her mirror image on a parallel planet… Molly Maynne. Or, as they are more famously (infamously?) known, the Harlequin!

Duela Dent of Earth-One began her legacy as Joker Daughter, mimicking the gas and gag gadgets of the Crown Prince of Crime. Following this, she next adopted the alias of Catgirl, this time proclaiming herself the child of Catwoman while using her own cat-of-nine-tails and catarangs. After this, she next appeared as the second generation Scarecrow known as Scarecrone, utilizing a version of fear gas. Still later as Riddler’s Daughter and finally Penguin’s Daughter, she wielded a riddle-gun and a helicopter umbrella, respectively. Once her “crime  spree” was over and she proved her resourcefulness to Robin by both outwitting him and guessing his secret identity as Dick Grayson, her end goal was realized. What was that?

Molly Maynne of Earth-Two stuck with her Harlequin alias throughout her criminal capers, although thanks to her illusion-generating spectacles she was able to alter the perceptions of her arch-foe and secret crush, the Green Lantern as well as other onlookers. These glasses coupled with her mandolin weapon and stylized Harlequin-car led to her being recruited into the Injustice Society, although she used her membership with them to betray them to the Lantern and his Justice Society allies. What became of her?

Robin sponsored Duela's membership into the Teen Titans as the Harlequin. She would serve with this team on several cases before they disbanded, then aid Robin as the red-haired Card Queen in defeating the criminal organization known as M.A.Z.E. before finally retiring. She's reunite with Robin and the Titans later during Donna "Wonder Girl" Troy's wedding.

Molly later joined the F.B.I. as the Harlequin, secretly working alongside her one-time foe on select cases such as assisting "Mr. and Mrs. Superman", Lois Lane and her husband Clark Kent's alter ego. Decades later, she reunited with and soon after married Green Lantern's alter ego Alan Scott.

The inventive resourcefulness coupled with the athletic prowess of Duela Dent and Molly Maynne was unmatched by most of their peers, and led to their recruitment into teams of superhuman individuals. This led to their brief yet impactful costumed careers as the Harlequin*.

* While Maynne never adopted other aliases as had Dent, other women on Molly's Earth filled similar roles to those of Duela's other alter egos. For example, Dianne Greyton as the Spider Widow was similar in appearance and modus operandi to Joker's Daughter and the Scarecrone.

Legendary Lantern Lads: The Imitators - Guy & Hop

The Green Lantern Corps' most famous human member was Hal Jordan, the Green Lantern of Earth-One. The Green Dragon Tong's most dogged adversary was Alan Scott, the Green Lantern of Earth-Two. However, another pair of costumed crusaders was inspired by the Green Lanterns, these men being Guy Gardner and Hop Harrigan. 

Guy's true Earth-Two counterpart was a man named Billings while Hop's actual Earth-One doppelgänger was Adam Strange, That said, Guy and Hop mirrored each other in one key way... their heroic alter egos. 

Guy briefly assumed the alter ego of Green Lantern, while Hop adopted the alias of the Black Lamp, Gardner possessed Jordan's power ring and power battery, while occasionally substituting for Hal when he was away on a mission. Hop only possessed his astute fighting abilities while wearing his spandex suit. Both were jealous of the attention that their worlds' Green Lanterns garnered, and sought to claim a bit of fame for themselves.

Dimensional Detours: Protectors & Prolonged Paralytics

Hector Hammond finally conceived the perfect scheme to finally rid himself of his arch-enemy, Green Lantern. Learning that his mortal foe was an agent of the superior powered Guardians of the Universe, Hammond used his awesome mental abilities to construct an energy duplicate of a Guardian from Oa, presenting itself as a renegade Oan. Launching a three-pronged attack to overwhelm Hal Jordan in his Green Lantern identity, Hector nearly achieved a victory. That is, until Hal recalled the existence of a place of refuge… Earth-Two!

While there, Hal sent his power ring back to Earth-One, hidden within Hector’s garments. Drawn to the ring, the Guardian constrict battled the paralytic Hammond, whose immortal invulnerable body protected him from his creation’s energy attacks. Destroying the faux-Guardian, he helped eliminate the threat he himself spawned!

While neither Hammond nor his fabricated Guardian persona piercec the barrier between universes, as both were unaware that this was the location where Jordan was hiding, Hector's counterpart Roger Romaine had inadvertently done so years later. This occured when Romaine mind-merged with the Flash of Earth-Two, having accompanied Flash and his teammates in the Justice Society to an annual gathering aboard the orbiting satellite headquarters of the Justice League. Some 22,300 miles above the equator of Earth-One, Romaine staged a murder of his arch-enemy Mister Terrific. 

Confronting both teams, including their Green Lanterns, Romaine successfully fled the scene back to Earth-Two following his act of manslaughter. A later recollection of this case by the Flash mentioned how the Justice Society were unable to track down and apprehend Romaine, who seemingly ceased his criminal activities following this incident, unless working through another proxy like Flash.

Shades of Romaine's adventure in Earth-One's orbit aboard the League satellite mirrored that of Hammond's when he mentally controlled the synthetic Shaggy Man to attack the team of heroes aboard their vessel. Romaine's appearance in Earth-One's universe echoes Jordan's when he escaped Hammond and his Guardian in outerspace and fled into orbit above Earth-Two. As was shown, Hal journeyed to Earth-Two where he remained until his power ring returned to his side following Hammond clash with his spawn, which Hammond had to destroy to save himself.

Powerful Predecessors of Power-Ring Protectors

An interesting and not widely known aspect of the history of Earth-Two's Green Lantern, Alan Scott, was the one occasion when he was transported to the 12th century of Camelot by a mind-controled Merlin. Trapped in that era and now powerless, Scott was given his ancient power battery to recharge his power ring by a visiting Chinese delegation of lamas from Tibet who guarded it. In November 1945, one of those ambassadors of China contacted Alan from within that same battery to warn him of the impending return of his old foe, Solomon Grundy.

Hal Jordan as Earth-One's Green Lantern encountered the doppleganger of the first Lama who was named Myrwhydden, a powerful enemy of Hal's predecessor Abin Sur whom Sur emprisoned within his power ring. Myrwhydden would try again and again to escape Jordan's ring unsuccessfully.

In July 1968, another lama met the Psycho Pirate, with the evil emoter seemingly stealing a green globe in the lama's possession from his mountain top citadel.

This globe contained remnants of the liquid metal from the original Green Flame meteorite. The Pirate ultimately gained the ability from its energies to mentally manipulate Alan Scott into doing his bidding. In fact, the lama whom the Pirate had "stolen" the globe from was the designer of Green Lantern's power battery... an immortal Chinese lampmaker named Chang. He manipulated the Pirate into claiming the globe, in order to tap into the battery's power, since both the globe and battery were crafted from the same Starheart meteorite. This allowed Chang and his Green Dragon Tong to access the Green Flame energy to now use its energies for evil, although their scheme was thwarted by Green Lantern.

Abin Sur's counterpart was the primary lama ambassador named Volthoom, who presented the battery to Scott in Camelot. Along with his confederate, the doppleganger of Myrwhydden, the pair were said to have "given" Scott the Green Lantern battery (Alan previously came into possession of the 1940 version of the battery via a Mister Billings). 

The other two lamas present in Camelot were the cosmic twins of earlier Green Lanterns who had protected Earth-One before Jordan appeared, the cowboy Daniel Young aka the first Green Lantern of Earth-One and Tomar-Re of planet Xudar-One who later mentored Hal. Young was Abin Sur's replacement in 1873 when that Green Lantern had been temporarily incapacitated. 

Battered Batteries Bruise Brave & Bold Boys

The source of Hal Jordan and Alan Scott's awesome abilities centered around their parallel power rings, and more specifically the Green Lanterns' power batteries through which they charge these rings with emerald energy. While Alan only had one such battery which endured for centuries, although it had been modified from time to time by its previous owners, Hal actually had two.

Jordan's initially power battery was bequeathed him by his predecessor, the alien Abin Sur, when that Green Lantern crash-landed on Earth-One having sustained fatal injuries. Hal would daily recharge his power ring by touching it the battery. Scott likewise followed this same pattern on Earth-Two with his own ring and battery, given to him by his predecessor the monk Volthoom. 

However, while clashing with his foe the Crumbler, the villain's power glove adversely effected Hal's battery, causing it to be unstable. While away from his homeworld on a mission to planet Oa, home of the Guardians of the Universe who originated both mens' power, Hal's backup Green Lantern named Guy Gardner was shunted into the Phantom Zone while charging his ring on the unstable lantern. The Guardians gave Hal a replacement battery, directing him to destroy the original. Jordan rescued Gardner, whose mind was damaged as a result of the battery's blast.

As for Scott, while his battery remained undamaged, an emerald globe constructed by the designer of the original battery Chang remained in the lampmaker's possession. However, seeking to access the emerald energies to empower his Green Dragon Tong, Chang lured the supervillain Psycho-Pirate into seemingly stealing it from the old man. While it was soon after accidentally destroyed by the Pirate's henchmen, the globe's radiation later empowered the criminal into mentally dominating Scott. This unlocked the power from the battery, allowing Chang to gain abilities on par with Green Lantern himself. That is, until he perished when he failed to realize that its energy had a weakness, wood which through a falling tree ended Chang's life.

Sinestro's Sinister Siblings Skirmish with Superheroes

Sinestro earned his reputation as being an adaptable adversary of his arch-foe Hal “Green Lantern” Jordan. A former member of the Green Lantern Corps himself, before his greedy misuse of his power and position caused him to be exiled by the Guardians of the Universe into the Anti-Matter Universe, Sinestro had a backup plan. Currying the favor of the Weaponers of the planet Qward, Sinestro launched a series of attack on the Guardians and their Corps using a variety of weapons. Still, Jordan always outmaneuvered his enemy, finally ensnaring him in energy form.

However, Sinestro absorbed both emerald and Q-energy within the taxi cab named Goitrude, regaining his physical body. Forcibly recruiting three human crooks to genetically modify into his clones, Sinestro and his new Corps of a dozen minions launched a preemptive attack on Earth-Two. There, he and his forces were vanquished by Hal and his counterpart of that world, Alan “Green Lantern” Scott. While he was brought back to Earth-One, his Sinestro siblings remained on there world of Earth-Two.

Soon after, Sinestro convinced his sister to assist him in capturing Hal and his friends Green Arrow and Black Canary, which ended once more in his defeat. Still later, he lured Jordan to a Korugan yellow null-ray house his father operated, which cause he and his clients to become drugged out dope-heads. Even this scheme fizzled, Sinestro apparently gave up on his family.

While the original Sinestro of Earth-One’s universe battled Hal Jordan a dozen times*, the Earth-Two Sinestro Corps with their dozen members** battled Alan Scott only on this one occasion when both Green Lanterns decisively defeated them and their creator. What became of the Sinestro Corps members now on Earth-Two… or the Sinestro family remaining in Korugar-One… is unknown. However, given their criminal nature, most likely they were imprisoned by the law enforcement authorities if those worlds. Although their leader escaped to ancient Camelot to steal Lantern's power battery.

* Sinestro also made appearances alongside his part-time cronies in the Secret Society of Super-Villians, as well as tormenting some of Jordan’s Justice League colleagues occasionally.

** These cloned Korugans constituted counterparts to Sinestro himself as well as his sister,  along with father’s  addicted clients.

Mysteriously Missing Mighty Meteor

The errant emerald energy exiled by the Guardians of the Earth-One Universe was contained within the heart of a star on Earth-Two’s universe… the Starheart. This sentient power within a celestial body transferred a portion of its power into a massive meteor, which was sent to a planet in its new universe, that world being Earth-Two. Crash-landing in China centuries ago, legendary lampmaker Chang crafted a small amount of this space-rock into a green lantern, which he then misplaced when some residents in his town attempted to steal it. While he still possessed another piece of the meteorite, which sustained his life through the late 20th century, both the lantern and the remaining meteorite were claimed by a group of monks who safeguarded these for centuries.

Eventually, Chang’s lantern was claimed by engineer Alan Scott, who used its energy to charge his handcrafted power ring. As the Green Lantern, Scott was able to perform a wide range of feats, just as long as he charged his ring with the Chang’s power battery every 24 hours. During one accidental trip to Earth-S with his All-Star Squadron teammates Johnny Quick and Liberty Belle, he soon ran out of power as his ring’s charge lapsed.

However, Scott correctly surmised that a green meteor would be found in the same location on Earth-S as was that which Chang harvested on Earth-Two. But how could this be, since the Guardians only willed the Starheart’s emerald energy into Earth-Two’s dimension,  not Earth-S?

The Green Flame of Life, which is what the Starheart meteor called itself, had apparently sent a portion of the meteor into other universes such as Earth-S and Earth-Three. We know this due to the existence of the villainous Power Ring of Earth-Three’s Crime Syndicate. This Syndicator was given his power battery by a mad monk named Volthoom, the counterpart of the Chinese Monk who bequeathed Alan Scott his own battery*. And Power Ring’s emerald jewel has the same weakness as Alan’s, that being all wooden substances. Eventually even Power Ring, although a greedy criminal, still attempted to protect innocents from harm during the Crisis on Infinite Earths. 

The meteor’s correlating energy repository of emerald energy in Earth-One's universe, the planet Oa’s Central Power Battery, was briefly transported to Earth-Two by Sinestro when he attempted to create a Sinestro Corps with his clones. This massive battery from Oa now on Earth-Two filled the gap of another energy-repository machine left behind by the Earth-Two vehicle known as Goitrude, the taxi cab of Alan Scott’s best friend Doiby , which he left behind on Earth-One.

After the timely intervention of Alan Scott and his Earth-One counterpart Hal Jordan, the Green Lanterns defeated Sinestro, the Central Power Battery was transported back to Oa, where it would remain. However, a few years later the rogue Malthusian named Krona attacked his brothers in the Guardians of the Universe and their Corps, destroying this main Battery. Another centralized battery was built as a replacement. 

The remnants of the Earth-Three meteor contained within Power Ring’s power battery was later claimed by the visiting Captain Comet of Earth-One. The Captain used it to transport himself to Earth-Two, in pursuit of the Secret Society of Super-Villians. This Earth-Three power battery with its concentrated emerald energies on Earth-Two correlated with the yellow power rings and supplemental which the ex-Green Lantern of Korugar named Sinestro obtained from the anti-matter universe from the Weaponers of Qward. That ring could siphon the concentrated energies from the Green Lanterns’ power rings and power batteries.

* Alan met his world’s Volthoom during a time travel adventure, when he was inadvertent transported to ancient Camelot. Volthoom was one of a delegation of Chinese ambassadors who were also monks and guardians of the green lantern battery through the centuries.

Bad Barons Bedevil Bravely Bold Green Gladiators

The vast legion of supervillians whom the Green Lanterns have faced and defeated is staggering. For Hal Jordan, the include Sinestro, Hector Hammond, Star Sapphire, Evil Star, Sonar, Black Hand, Goldface... to name just a few. For Alan Scott, these consist of Solomon Grundy, Vandal Savage, Harlequin,  Knodar, Sky Pirate, Icicle, Gambler, Icicle... just the tip of the iceburg (pun intended). Yet they also had scores of one-hit-wonders whom they also tangled with.

Perhaps the ones with the greatest untapped potention were a pair of Barons. Each were bent on domination, at the expense of their respective emerald ring clad foe. There was wealthy industrialist Baron Tyrano of Earth-One and German warlord known as the Baron of Earth-Two.

Tyrano was born into privilege of both wealth and technology, yet he had a several liability. His body was paralyzed from the neck down, and in order to remain alive he needed to live within a modified iron lung. Over time, he began to study the Green Lantern, and determined that the hero's alter ego was Hal Jordan. Hal was at that time an insurance salesman in Washington State, and was sent to Tyrano's compound to respond to claims the Baron made against Green Lantern... whom he claimed damaged his estate with his power ring.

The other Baron was sent under the direction of American Nazi saboteur Kritz Claver, leader of the Grey-Shirts which were infilitrating major cities in the United States during the early days of World War II. The Baron commandeered a high-tech dirigible and used its equipment to jam radio transmitters in the area. His goal was to reclaim Krapek, a German expatriot now a naturalized American citizen.

Baron Tyrano used a special energized missle shaped in his form, which was guided into the flight path of Green Lantern. Upon collision, Lantern and his Jordan personas were separated. The Green Lantern portion was held captive in the Baron's mansion, where he intended to transplant their minds into each other's bodies. However, the Hal half charged into the complex, fought of Tyrano's guards and freed Green Lantern, who captured and incarcerated Tyrano and his henchmen.

As for the Baron of Earth-Two, he attempted to overpower Green Lantern when the caped crusader charged into his dirigible headquarter, using his electron gun. With the help of Krapek, Green Lantern was able to destroy the dirigible's controls causing it to explode... along with the Baron and his henchmen.

Twice-Told-Tales: Angry Angor Allies Aggressively Attack

In 1971, The Champions of Angor traced a rogue robot that attacked their planet back to its home world of Cam-Lam-Lo, they inadvertently became adversaries of the visiting Justice League of America. Cam-Lam-Lo was racked with war from opposing sides spawning vehicles and weapons of destruction. Three members of the League and a friend had earlier faced a gigantic mech which attacked the county of Peru on Earth-One, and temporarily inflicted insanity upon fellow Leaguers Batman and Hawkman. 

After tackling the robot using android duplicates of the heroes, Green Lantern along with fellow members the Flash and the Atom as well as honorary associate Zatanna traveled to the origin point of their automaton aggressor. Initially the Leaguers found stiff opposition with the Champion’s evasive super-speedster, a bad-tempered bald-man, an avian winged warrior, and a caped yellow-and-red garbed matter-manipulating maiden. The two teams eventually mended the rift between them, and combined to defeat their mutual foe.

In 1968, an evil entity traveled to Earth-Two and empowered a youth with vast abilities, in order to destroy that world. This being previously invaded the Cam-Lam-Lo of that universe, that like its counterpart planet was racked with war from opposing sides spawning vehicles and weapons of destruction. In order to combat this threat, the Justice Society member known as the Spectre confronted a make-shift team including an evasive swift-stripling, a bad-tempered bald-man, an aircraft winged warrior, and a caped yellow-and-free Roman gladiator.

Along with his duplicate, the Spectre was able to subdue the trifecta of terror, preventing his world from having the same eventuality as Cam-Lam-Lo itself. The lad Hamilton Benedict returned to normal, his sinister puppeteer faded from existence, and the gladiator himself vanished back to whence he came.

While Hamilton and his allies attacked the Gateway City of Earth-Two, such a threat wasn't lodged against its corresponding counterpart Coast City of Earth-One by either Cam-Lam-Lao nor the Angorians. 

However, this tale highlights remarkably similar threats that those cities' champions Green Lantern and Spectre encountered. A few of these were the red-skinned devious deviants of other dimensions known as Lord Ys (when Green Lantern first met Zatanna) and Azmodus (when Spectre first returned in the 1960s) which attempted to invade each Earth. Then there was the similarly clad Invisible Destroyer and Sad Jack the Mastermind who met Lantern and Spectre.

Mental Madmen Menace Green Gladiators

The "Headstrong Heads" of other worlds, as they were known, were only brief footnotes in the costumed careers of Hal Jordan and Alan Scott, when they individually faced the Headmen and the Schizoids (and unfortunate name in another era). However, each Green Lantern found these fearsome foes formidable, as they possessed superior technology to that found on the heroes' native worlds.

When old family friends of Hal invited them to their home for a surprise, he learned that Sally and Steve Davis were scheming to play matchmakers with the test pilot and a lady named Dorine Clay. After a lackluster blind date, Jordan tracked Dorine down, and discovered she was an alien agent from the planet Garon-One, where she fleed from the overlords known as the Headmen. These Headmen kept the population in submission using their Cerebro-Ray on each person at birth. However, Onu Murtu... Lorine's real name... was immune to the effect and devised the means of countering this ray with one of her own. However, she needed seclusion from the Headmen, and so traveled to Earth-One. There, she unwittingly found an ally to her cause in Green Lantern.

When Alan and his friend Doiby Dickles are mentally controlled then transported onto a space ship, the pair find themselves on Garon-Two. There they met their kidnapper Karr-Alpha, a two-headed man... as all men are on that world... who sought Green Lantern's using their wave-energy machine to combat their evil alter egos, the Betas!

During his brief stay on Garon-Two, Alan Lantern was able to assist the Alpha's in conquering their corrupt cranium counterparts, as the Beta's were susceptible to loud sounds made by Doiby's screams. The vibrations from this loud pitch caused the Beta's to become comatose. As for the Headmen, unfortunately Hal only was able to chase the invading aliens away from Earth-One. However, years later while on Garon-One, Hal Lantern and the Omega Men were able to overpower the Headmen once and for... styming their plans to join the Citadel Empire.

Space Sectors of Green Lantern Corps Meet Council of Living Suns

The Guardians of the Universe partitioned and designated 3600 Space Sectors for their Green Lantern Corps, with the goal of combatting evil throughout their reality. This was due to the wave of evil unleashed by one of their own, Krona, which spawned the Multiverse. Throughout countless centuries, generation after generation of these power-ring protectors would monitor their section of the universe, of which the first official Corps member from Earth-One was Hal Jordan. He was tasked with guarding sector 2814, and as Green Lantern inspired others such as Guy Gardner, John Stewart and Charlie Vicker to likewise assume this identity at various times.

In fact, Charlie was assigned sector 3319, although he eventually returned to his homeworld. The renegade Green Lantern known as Sinestro had been given stewartship over sector 1417. Tragically, the Green Lantern of sector 2813 Tomar-Re was unable to save a prominent world there, Krypton-One, from exploding due to internal pressures whose origin was a mystery for years. These are but a few examples, as several other sectors have been identified progressively over the years, made more widely known by their Green Lanterns interactions with Hal Jordan over time.

On a parallel dimensional plane, the Guardians released a portion of their energy into that other universe, spawning the Starheart. For a time it would be alone, as a sentient star. Eventually, it would find fellowship in similar cosmically imbued sentient beings within  stellar bodies throughout their universe’s numerous galaxies.

In fact, both Krypton-One and Krypton-Two were designed by the Sun-Thrivers, gaseous beings whose existence had depended on their encasing themselves within an artificial sun. However, the sun needed a counter-balance to maintain its internal gravity, and so pulled together enough mass to form a large planet within that red sun's orbit. Given the nature of its creation, each Krypton was prone to be doomed eventually. With the aid of Kal-El, the Superman now of Earth-One, they built an orange sun to sustain them.

Kal-L, aka the Superman now of Earth-Two, likewise encountered twin Kryptonite powered green suns orbiting Colu-Two. Utlizing his universe's Sun-Thrivers technology  to create them, the immortal villain Vandal Savage used these green suns to siphon off energy from Superman and Power Girl. When he failed and escaped capture with help from mystery beings (probably Savage’s allies the Sun-Thrivers) the twin suns remained.

Throughout the centuries since its creation in the 6th century, the Sun-Thriver within one of these two Kryptonite suns turned insane. Known as Aquarius, now a member with other sentient suns of the self-titled Council of Living Stars, it was stripped of power and banned for its insidious actions. After briefly regaining power through Starman's Cosmic Rod before being defeated by the Supermen and their allies in the Justice League and Justice Society, Aquarius was no more.

The remaining members of the Council of Living Stars, each inhabited by a Sun-Thriver and imbued with power like that of the Starheart, took a more active role in policing their reality than had their counterparts. They assumed the role of intergalactic protectors for sections of their universe... as had the Green Lantern Corps!

Malevolent Moon Men Menaces

Unbeknownst to humanity below, the satellite orbiting their blue planet had reclusive civilizations, distant relatives of man possessing tremendous power. One sought to usurp their larger cousin, the other sought to control savage forces from within. On the moon of Earth-One, these people were known as the Lunarians and on Earth-Two's moon they are named the Selenites. While each race resembles humans, they have distinct differences, with the Lunarians having a brightly yellow skin hue, and with some... though not all... Selenites possessing only one eye!

The first indication of life on the moon was in the summer of 1942, when Superman and Wonder Woman of Earth-Two ventured there in order to resolve a conflict between them regarding whether America had the right to control the destructive power of the atom. Before battling one another, the pair of Justice Society members noticed grand architecture left behind by a mysterious people no longer present. Then a year later, while battling the 30th century villain Rajak, Green Lantern and his pal Doiby Dickles followed him to the moon. There, the peaceful Selenites King Shel-Don welcomed the visiting terrans to his underground city... and were later attacked by the rival Core-Men who opposed the Selenites. By vaniquishing Shel-Don's foe, the King gave Lantern the Moon Stone, although Raakj temporarily stole it. Later, Green Lantern and Doiby were pulled back to the moon during an eclipse, and met a different faction of Selenites who were former Atlanteans!

On Earth-One, Superman first encountered the Lunarians when natural disasters plagued the globe, originating from the moon. Kidnapped by agents of their Queen, Primor Trena, Superman was intended to be her King after he was led into battle with the current King. Meanwhile, all superheroes on Earth temporarily forgot about their costumed alter egos, leaving Earth-One unprotected. Superman was able to convince the Lunarians to leave the moon for an artificial planet he created rather than take over Earth.