Twice-Told-Tales: Green Gladiators' Gather

The Green Lanterns of Earths One and Two, Hal Jordan and Alan Scott, had on occasion interacted with other Green Lanterns.. And early in their career, this caused Hal and Alan grief when confronted with their noble-minded namesakes, while attempting to uncover a duplicitous scheme by a felonious foe.

Jordan's colleagues were official members of the Green Lantern Corps. They summoned Hal to a tribunal presided by veteran Corps member Tomar-Re, with his fellow Green Lanterns Chaselon, Xax, Larvox, Medphyll, Stel and the Corpsmen from planets Aeros and Rojira. Their concern and the reason for this impromptu trial involves three incidents over a 24-hour span, when Hal acted out-of-character by leaving a bank vulnerable for theft, creating a disturbance at an event and endangering the life of a fall victim. The tribunal ruled giving Jordan only a stern warning, while he adamantly asked for a guilty verdict.

Scott's fellow emerald gladiators were not officially sanctioned. These men clad in colorful costumes mimicking Green Lantern, each man armed with flashlight battery modified power rings, responded to an emergency radio broadcast summoning the caped crusader to the Explorer’s Museum. Perhaps motivated by fame or financial reward, the faux-Green Lanterns each presented himself as the real deal, in order to offer their assistance to the prestigious Explorers’ Club. Several of its members disguised themselves as either wildlife or cavemen, attacking the various Lanterns with only one able to stand up to them. Once he was identified as authentic, Green Lantern was presented with an assignment, locating the missing explorer Simon Ghent.

Hal-Lantern acted strangely due to mental influence exerted by his arch-enemy Sinestro. Exiled to the Anti-Matter Universe of Qward following the guilty verdict upon him, Hal was welcomed by his foe who offered him a partnership which the hero declined. He was then captured by Sinestro, who possessed a spare yellow power ring which replaced his original ring lost during their previous encounter.

Alan-Lantern along with his pal Doiby Dickles tracked down where Ghent was said to have been held, in a local Gotham City cemetery. Once helping them to enter into the towering chapel within the cemetery, the Club turned on Lantern and Dickles… knocking them out then capturing them. Their scheme in fabricating the fictional Ghent was to trick Green Lantern into helping them retrieve star witness May Leeds, set to testify in a court tribunal against a prominent crime syndicate, who were the Explorer’s Club members present.

Meanwhile, another inspired by Alan Scott’s alter ego was Abigail “Ma” Hunkle, who created the persona of the original Red Tornado (just as Hal Jordan inspired Katma Tui to become her world’s  Green Lantern). She would herself inspire her daughter and a neighborhood boy to become the Cyclone Kids. All three would have wooden mannequins made of them, made using once living trees. These wooded Red Tornado and Cyclone Kids’ counterparts in the Corps were Stel, Medphyll, and Chaselon … with the mannequins brought to life by Ma’s 4th-wall breaking abilities.

The remaining Green Lanterns from the tribunal secretly followed Hal to Qward, and although they too were captured, the Corps escaped Sinestro’s snare and ensnared him instead. Likewise, Alan and Doiby were able to free themselves and May from the Syndicate, thanks to Alan having been tipped off from the beginning that the Club was bogus and criminals… since he is the actual president of the actual Explorers’ Club!

Untold Teamup Tales of the Justice League & Justice Society

As evidenced by the existence of an unaffected future for the Legion of Super-Heroes, Brane "Batman" Taylor, Bilbat"Captain Marv", and a Kamandi... there were multiple 30th century timelines set apart from one another. These heroes' realities remained separate and distinct from one another. Their realities... Earth-One, Earth-Two, Earth-S and Earth-A.D... where each their own unique location within the Mulitverse. As previously ascerted, this proves that a future timeline existed and was thus spared from the cross-contamination of a merged post Crisis on Infinite Earths singular universe, which itself would repeatedly reboot and readjust itself.

With this in mind, we can hypothesize additional untold tales of those 20th century heroes, including several annual teamups between the Justice League of America and the Justice Society of America. These involved additional teams, on both their own worlds and alternate Earths. This harmonizes with the pattern they set for decades, when the JLA and JSA encountered the Crime Syndicate of Earth-Three, the Lawless League of Earth-A, the Seven Soldiers of Victory of Earth-Two, the Freedom Fighters of Earth-X (and formerly of Earth-Two), the Squadron of Justice of Earth-S, the Legion of Super-Heroes of Earth-One, the New Gods of an adjacent Earth-One reality, and the All-Star Squadron of Earth-Two.

What were some of these teamups? Thanks to the inventive mind of Multiverse historian David Stepp, we get a glimpse into some of these amazing adventures:

• The League and Society teamup with Sentinels of Justice of Earth-Four to defend that world against an incursion by the Crime Champions, a gang of villains originally consisting of Earth-One's Chronos, Felix Faust and Doctor Alchemy and Earth-Two's Icicle, Wizard and Gambler. Evidentally, this sinister six expanded their roster to include Sentinal adversaries the Ghost, Doctor Spectro, Punch and Jewelee. To combat this, JLAers Batman, Green Arrow, and Red Tornado as well as JSAers Atom, Hourman and Starman are joined in the fight by Sentinal members Captain Atom, Nightshade and Blue Beetle as well as their ally the Son of Vulcan. The result of this confrontation undoubtedly proved better for Earth-Four than had the Crisis' "Villain War", which left portions of that world in environmental chaos unleashed by the costumed criminals and their mammoth sentient toxic weapon of war, Chemo.

• The Justice Society journeyed to Earth-One to assist the Justice League and the League's next generation protégées, the New Teen Titans, versus the malevolent Brother Blood and his Church of Blood from the nation of Zandia. Sebastian Blood possibly snatched the Powerstone, prompting the intervention of the JSA. Thanks to the intervention of these three titanic teams, led by New Teen Titans' leader Dick "Robin" Grayson and Justice Society member Dick "Nightwing" Grayson (although why the younger Dick reverted to his Robin alias rather than remain as Nightwing is unknown).

• Sinestro uses his ability to mentally manipulate others (which he has formerly used in a Brave and Bold tale when he controlled the Oan Guardians of Earth-One’s Universe while disguised as one of their own... and later when he exerted mind-control over his fellow Korugarians) to coerce select members of the Green Lantern Corps into becoming his second Sinestro Corps. Apparently, he sought to succeed where he had years earlier failed, when cloning himself a dozen time into the first incarnation of the Sinestro Corp when he and his minions invaded Earth-Two. The Justice Society's involvment in this tale indicates that Sinestro brought over these Corps men and women to Earth-Two for a repeat incursion into that world, one thwarted by the JLA and JSA led by Green Lanterns Hal Jordan and Alan Scott of those respective teams.

• In a two-part crossover, the Time Trapper recruits fellow temporal thieves the Lord of Time of Earth-One and Per Degaton of Earth-Two to ensnare the majority of the Justice League and Justice Society in a time trap in the 30th century of Earth-Two. In part two, the remaining Leaguers and Socialites journey to the 30th century of Earth-One to recruit the aid of the Legion of Super-Heroes from that era in helping them battle their old foe Trapper and his cronies, but end up settling for the Legion of Substitute Heroes who help them after defeating the Legion of Super-Villains sent by the Time Trio to thwart them.

• Finally, the Justice Society individually face off against the Crime Society, a version of the Crime Syndicate but from a different world than that of Earth-Three. This Crime Society is modeled off the Justice Lords, a team of renegade superheroes who took the law into their own hand, administering their perverted form of authoritarian justice upon President Lex Luthor and his criminal minions on their world. This Crime Society would undoubtedly have invaded Earth-Two, just as the Crime Syndicate had invaded that world and Earth-One several years earlier. Perhaps the Justice League later became involved, aiding the Society as they had versus the Syndicate.

• These are just a few examples of potential probable plotlines involving the Greatest Heroes of Earths One and Two in a future unobstructed by the calamity that fell upon the Multiverse during the Crisis on Infinite Earths!

The 绿灯侠 Lǜdēng xiá aka Green Lanterns of China

The Multiverse has multiple variant of the Green Lanterns, including those existing in other sectors of space such as in the universes of Earth-One and Earth-D in the Green Lantern Corps. However, on those Earths themselves the Lanterns resided in the United State, such as Hal Jordan and Alan Scott of Earths One and Two. 

That said, other countries had their own agents who aspired to wield the power rings, originating in the Asian continent. Scott’s lantern was origins designed by the ancient Chinese lampmaker named Chang, while the Tibetan monk Volthoom bequeathed his emerald lantern to the criminal known as Power Ring, the Earth-Three version of Green Lantern.

In fact, for centuries a group of Chinese monks likewise possessed the emerald lamp which they eventually gave to Alan, while their rival formed his version of a Corps in his Green Dragon Tong. This Tong sought to unlock the power inherent within the glowing green meteor from which their master first crafted the original lantern.

During the fall of 1978, just as Chang finally untapped the full power from his meteor stone to led his green-clad Chinese Tong on Earth-Two… on Earth-One something similar happened. The communist agent Woo Fong with his scientists created Sino-Supermen, which could crudely replicate some abilities of American superheroes, although using these powers ended in their users’ lives. 

Something similar occurred decades earlier on Earth-Two when Doctor Kichung attempted to make a race of superhuman simian hybrids which Tex Thomson battled. Just as Tex defeated Kichung, Batgirl defeated Woo Fong and his faux-forces. Unlike the Chinese faux-superhumans, the Asiatic supersimians continued to live on in seclusion for an indeterminate amount of time.

Other Wielders of Green Lantern's Might: The Actor & The Soldier

Charlie Vicker was an actor portraying the Green Lantern, who during one performance was recovering from extensive partying. His brother took his place as his understudy, unfortunately aliens seeking out Earth-One's Green Lantern mistook him for the real hero, andmurdered him. Hal Jordan, the real Lantern, enlisted Charlie's aid in tracking down his brother's killers, who were targeting several members of the Green Lantern Corps. The power ring of one of these late Lanterns was then given to Vicker to become the new Green Lantern of Sector 3319, for which he served with distinction until his passed away in the line of duty.

Asoldier serving in the Soviet military of Earth-Two, was embroiled with fellow troops in a battle versus their rivals in China. During a confrontation with the Justice Society of America, who attempted to neutralize the conflict stoked by the Master Summoner, the lad had fatal injuries. The Green Lantern Alan Scott used a portion of his meteor powered ring to revive the soldier. Gaining the powers of a green tornado, this led to temporary chaos inflicted upon the boy's own homeland until the Summoner finally succumbed to defeat. 

Hal Jordan had himself not been the first Green Lantern of his earth, as his predecessor Abin Sur had previously bequeathed his power ring to Sheriff Daniel Young in 1873, as Young used his newfound weaponry to bring some criminals to justice while Sur was healing from injuries. Once Abin was revived, he reclaimed his devices while Young returned to his career as a local lawman. Alan Scott had predecessors who protected Earth-Two before he and Billings ever had access to the lantern, when that device was owned by some Chinese monks whom Green Lantern had met in Camelot centuries earlier during a time travel adventure.

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. 

Costumed Crusaders' Courageous Carbon-Copies

A curious attribute of Earth-One as contrasted with Earth-Two is that many of its greatest champions were not unique, but were simply the most outstanding examples of larger legions of similarly clad costume crusaders. Examples of this amongst members of the Justice League were the Thanagarian Wingmen... of which Hawkman and Hawkwoman were a part, the Green Lanterns Corps... of whom Hal "Green Lantern" Jordan was a member, and the Kandorian Superman Emergency Squad led by Don-El, who protected the original whom they imitated. Then there were the imperfect duplicates of Kal-El / Superman in Bizarro Number One and his fellow Bizarro Supermen. It seems the sole exception to this principal on both worlds were the Wonder Women, who had similarly powered yet distinct fellow Amazonians.

However, upon closer inspection, the corresponding members of the Justice Society each also had larger organizations similar to themselves. Kal-L aka Superman was a member of the All-Star Squadron, with various caped crusaders inspired by him, including the diminutive Darrel "Doll Man" Dane who was his world's Don-El.

Likewise, there was the animated duplicate Supermen spawned by Funny Face, both the 2-dimensional version in movies and the 3-dimensional Flying Tiger who tormented his opposite number.

Similarly, there were the renegade minions of the Vulture King from Thanagar-Two. Centuries earlier, an advanced armada of these Wingmen had attempted to found a colony on Earth-Two, whom the armored avenger known as Silent Knight encountered during one of his adventures. Now seeking to recruit humans into his forces, the Thanagarian Vulture King and his lieutenants used a device known as the Electromizer (their version of the more benevolent device known as the Absorbacron developed on Thanagar-One), which temporarily even brainwashed the Amazing Amazon herself, Wonder Woman! Once defeated, these rogues of Thanagar-Two were placed in Earth prisons.

Finally, there were the Green Dragon Tong, formed by the first wielder of the emerald lamp named Chang… which eventually came into the possession of Alan "Green Lantern" Scott, of whom they would oppose (following a clash with Batman and Robin decades earlier). While the Tong did not possess power rings and batteries as had the Corps, a group of Green Dragon monks did possess the original green lantern and its meteor rocks for centuries, guarding it. A later group of synthetic aliens known as the Sinestro Corps briefly battled Alan Scott and Hal Jordan.

Crimson Creatures Creating Chaos

Ungara-One was famous for being home to the Green Lantern of Space Sector 2814, Abin Sur. When their hero died on a mission close to Earth-One, where he crash-landed, a replacement was selected by Sur himself. Test pilot Hal Jordan proved a worthy successor, and early in his career saved the planet of his predecessor from the destructive path of a comet.

However, news of their champion Sur’s death left their society fragmented. This led to a world-wide civil war, with one side developing a deadly orbiting plasma satellite and the other attempting to defuse it. Instead, they inadvertently activated it, causing it to unleash its destructive energies which causes over one hundred million deaths as well as causing its planetary orbit to shift radically. This turned Ungara-One into a frigid polar planet.

Ungara-Two did not have the noble legacy of the Green Lantern Corps to draw strength from, and so adopted their more destructive tendencies earlier than their counterparts. Developing deadly globe-beings sent to Earth-Two, these caused that world to become a frigid polar planet. Doctor Fate tracked the origin of the globe beings to the shifting orbital world of Ungara-Two, where he quickly destroyed it an all its inhabitants!!!

As for Hal Jordan, he was more merciful, using his great power with help from fellow Green Lantern Arisia, to restore Ungara-One’s climate to normal. A key question remains. What caused Doctor Fate to be judge, jury and executioner of an entire globe? Did the inhabitants of this world remind Fate of someone else, who likewise in his eyes deserved no mercy?

It may have been Fate’s previous experience on his native world of Celia, the planet where he and his fellow Lords of Order originated. These Lords became obsessed with eliminating disturbances to this order, such as the Lords of Chaos. Among their agents was the Doctor's arch-enemy, Wotan!

In fact, like Ungara One and Two, the parallel planets of Gemworld (which by the 30th century had become known as planet Xerox) and Celia were indirectly instrumental in the affairs of Earths One and Two, respectively. While the greatest adversary to those of Celia was Wotan, his counterpart Dark Opal was even more effective, having conquered Gemworld. In fact, his legacy may have influence the evil Mordru by the 30th century, who had assumed Opal's throne having conquered Xerox.

Ironically, bringing this Twice-Told Tale back full circle, while the Abin Sur of Ungara motivated Hal Jordan into becoming Green Lantern, Wotan had for a time caused Alan Scott to rethink his role as Green Lantern after a battle between the two led to the tragic death of a young man.

Intergalatic Forces of the Positive and Antimatter Universes

Two large intergalatic law enforcement organizations operated in the universe of Earth-One, with correspondening negative versions residing in the Antimatter Universe of Qward. Each would be equipped with state of the art weaponry and tactic guidance that made them forces to be reckoned with for those whom they faced in battle.

The oldest of these were the Green Lantern Corps led by the Guardians of the Universe on Earth-One, and the Thunderers... also known as Destroyers.... of Qward. In the 20th century, a secondary force was devised by the Weaponers of Qward to oppose their Guardian's troops, this force being the Anti-Green Lantern Corps. Coming equipped with a black lantern centeral power battery that functioned much as the green lantern central power battery, its users had a severe handicap in that the black energy required far more will power then the green energy, and so the Anti-Green Lanterns had shorter life spans than their positive universe twins. As such, their history was shorter lived.

The secondary alien police force was the Wingmen or Hawkmen of Thanagar-One, who mostly operated on their world although they sent two of their number, Katar and Shayera Hol, to Earth-One for a number of years. Later, while under military dictatorship, they would turn into an oppressive flying force much like the Thunderers of Qward although not as technologically advanced. They were ultimately vanquished.

Of note as well are the two agent forces, discontinued for thousands of years until the 20th century, in the form of the Guardians' Manhunter androids and the Weaponers' Shadow Demons. These would reappear in modern times due to the guidance of the Manhunter's leader and the Shadow Demons' master Anti-Monitor returning to lead them. They would prove potent, but also ultimately beatable.

Other universes such as Earth-Two didn't have such forces, although that particular world had Chang's ancient Green Dragon Tong and the bird people of Feithera, whom that world's Green Lantern and Hawkman met.

Infinity Stones of the DC Multiverse

Just as there were six stones that each had unique powers granted to their possessors on Earth-616, so to on other Earths there were versions of these same objects with different names and distinct histories. Each of these were crafted from alien meteorites, and had profound impact on both Earths One and Two. 

The Guardians of the Universe concentrated emerald energy into a Central Power Battery on the planet of Oa, with portions of its energy siphoned off into thousands of miniature lanterns throughout the cosmos, used by the Green Lantern Corps in the Earth-One univese. A portion of this energy was transplanted into the Earth-Two realm which made the Starheart and the Council of Stars, protecting that universe. Hal Jordan and Alan Scott were given lanterns and their power rings.

The Star Sapphire was an object in each universe given to specific women who would become queens over alien races of immortal warrior women such as the Zamoran and Infanta. These sapphires allowed the user to traverse space and bend it to their will. Carol Ferris, Dela Pharon, Deborah Camille Darnell and an unidentified woman each used these gems.

Twin alien meteorites were formed into the Orb of Ra of Earth-One and the Hammer of Thor of Earth-Two. The Orb was capable of transmuting elements while the Hammer was able to manipulate the elements. While Metamorpho and Hawkman used these globes for good, Simon Stagg and Ultra-Humanite used them for evil.

Each Earth had their own Ruby of Life and Ring of Life, which had the ability to animate objects when worn by various men from around both Earths. The Ruby of Earth-Two was temporarily displaced by its owner Sargon from its native realm, but eventually returned from Earth-One when the effect of three such rubies corrupted him.

And then there was the distinct diverse gems known as the Black Diamond of Earth-One and the Powerstone of Earth-Two, which granted the owners such as Eclipso and Alexie Luthor to vast power of the mind. These gems brought forth evil in men like Bruce Gordon, Luthor and Ultra-Humanite.

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Interestingly, when the Power Stone and Hammer of Thor were brought together, they increased in power. This was similar to when the rubies and rings of life were present together, especially with Green Lantern's Power Ring. 

There were two other sets of powerful gems which, when combined, gave their owners' tremendous powers. Within the Earth-One universe, in the Gemworld dimension, twelve stones existed that when harnessed together into a breastplate were a source of tremendous power. These included the following gems: amethyst, aquamarine, moonstone, sapphire, turquoise, emerald, opal, garnet, diamond, ruby, sardonyx and topaz. This breastplace gave the evil Dark Opal tremendous power, which almost enabled him to defeat Princess Amethyst and her colleagues.

 
Within the Earth-Two universe, these same gems were found on that world, and were likewise merged in an ancient mechanism devised to forge these together. These included the following gems: diamond, yellow topaz, emerald, bluish-white diamond, and garnet. 

With these stones combined, they made the Lifestone which could bring inanimate objects to life. With this. the evil Doctor Brett nearly defeated the Seven Soldiers of Victory, with the dormant statue of Atlas gaining sentience and battling the heroes. However, the Soldiers outsmarted Brett in the end. 

Dark Opal had previously used his considered power to torment the citizens of the interdimensional locale known as Gemworld, opposed by Princess Amethyst. His Earth-Two counterpart Wotan had similar abilities and sought to rule all reality, although he was repeatedly opposed by his arch-enemy Doctor Fate along with Inza Cramer Nelson, girlfriend and later wife to Fate’s alter ego Kent Nelson. Unlike Opal, Wotan turned to scientific gadgetry to supplement his innate abilities. Eventually, Wotan was imprisoned in a interdimensional reality mirrored by that of Gemworld, kept immobile seemingly for all eternity!

Both Dark Opal and Doctor Brett perished following exposure to these gems. What became of their gems following the defeats of the gems’ owners is unknown, although their potential for causing havoc is highly potent should they still exist somewhere within the Multiverse.

Legacies of the Lantern: Scarlet Super-Sisters

While Hal Jordan of Earth-One and Alan Scott of Earth-Two were the standard bearers of the Green Lantern identity, their lasting legacy would endure and promote others to follow their steadfast example. Among these were Katma Tui and Ma Hunkel, legends as well.

Katma Tui was an inhabitant of planet Korugar in Sector 1417, who was given the power ring and battery following her successors' downfall. The previous Green Lantern of her sector, also from her world, was a hero turned dictator in Sinestro. Soon after beginning her career as Green Lantern of her sector, she decided to quit in order to pursue a romantic relationship. To that end, the Guardians of the Universe who discharged the Lanterns to their duties sent Hal to convince her to remain a superheroine. She did, and years later when Jordan himself retired, Katma was assigned the task of training the next Green Lantern of his Sector 2814, John Stewart. Very shortly thereafter, the two fell in love, eventually married, and remained together on Earth-One. 

Abigail Ma Hunkel was a resident of a big city on Earth-Two during World War II, in a community besieged with terror from the criminal element. When you daughter and another youth mentioned to her of how their Green Lantern, this one Alan Scott, would have cleaned up crime were he there... she became inspired to follow his example. As the original Red Tornado, Ma did not have his power ring nor his power battery, but did possess his heroic disposition. Eventually, Hunkel even ascertained where the Justice Society of America were meeting, and sought membership to their group. When this attempt failed, although Ma was granted posthumous honorary membership to the team, she returned to battling evil on her own. She would have a team of her own, allied with her daughter and a neighborhood boy who became her sidekicks, known as the Cyclone Kids.

Green Gal Guardians: Arisia and Jennie

Arisia Rhab and Jennie Lynn Hayden were spunky teenagers charged with caring out their heroic legacies... the legacies of the Green Lantern.

Arisia Rhab of the planet Graxos IV succeeded her father Fentara and her uncle as the Green Lantern of  Sector 2815, which was next to Sector 2814 wherein Earth-One's Green Lantern, Hal Jordan, resided. After several missions alongside one another as members of the Green Lantern Corps, Hal and Arisia culminated their attraction for one another when she moved to his world to work alongside him as heroes there in a localized Green Lantern Corp.

Jennie Lynn Hayden was the daughter of Alan Scott, the golden age Green Lantern of Earth-Two. Due to genetic mutations from her father's exposure to the emerald energies of his power battery, both she and her twin brother Todd "Obsidian" Rice gained light and dark based powers, respectively. Adopting the alias of Jade, Jennie along with Todd and other second generation heroes tried to solicit membership into the Justice Society, and when their initial application to join was rejected, they instead formed the teen team of Infinity, Inc.

Another Take on the Green Lantern... and Sinestro... Corps!

The Green Lantern Corps, as previously mentioned, found a structural counterpart in Earth-Two's universe in Chang's Green Dragon Tong and their opponents in Chinese monks who guarded the original green lantern for centuries. The Tong had a  large membership over the centuries, as had the Guardians' Corps in Earth-One's realm. This Tong, craving the enigmatic emerald energies from the meteorite derived from the powerful Starheart, only ever got close enough to see their master Chang bathed in its life-extending light. Nevertheless, they had not come equipped with power rings and power batteries, as the source of Earth-Two's sole Green Lantern's  was a Green Flame of Life selecting only one agent to enlist. Hence, it was only when Sinestro crossed over from his home universe and transformed his recruits into clones for himself that a full fledged counter-measure on Earth-Two had been established, the "Evil Green Lanterns" or Sinestro Corps. Now, in addition to Alan Scott, who for decades was the sole ring-bearer of Earth-Two, he would be joined by several Sinestros and still later by his children Jade and Obsidian. Not to mention others such as Joe Morgan and Chang who had utilized the same powers, only for evil like this new insidious Corps invading Alan's world. 

While this Corps, and their power rings, were short lived... they remained on Earth-Two, perhaps prisoners of Korugar-Two. 

Although they were clones similar to those of Paul Kirk, aka Manhunter while on Earth-One, these men nevertheless filled the void of a Corps in this parallel universe. These select individuals in addition to the Green Dragon Tong created a composite counterpart to the Guardian's alien armada of Emerald Crusaders in a realm where no such force prior to this had existed.

As for the counterparts of some of the Corps members, and others using their power, here is a list:

• Hal Jordan's was Alan Scott, their Earths' prime power ring protagonists
• Guy Gardner's was Mister Billings, insane but inherently good men.
• John Stewart's was Todd Rice aka Obsidan, heir-apparent each to their predecessors
• Katma Tui's was Ma Abigal Hunkel aka Red Tornado I, heroines inspired by Green Lanterns
• Arisia Rhab's was Jennie Lynn Hayden aka Jade two teenage girls with power of the Lanterns
• Sinestro's was one of his clones, villains corrupted by power tormenting Lanterns
• Abin Sur's was an unidentified Tibetan, the men who gave Hal and Alan their batteries
• Charlie Vicker's was a Soviet Union soldier, two lads gifted power by Earths' Green Lanterns
• Thomas Kalmaku and Doiby Dickles stood in for Hal and Alan, sidekicks of Hal and Alan
• Chaselon's was Exam, both crystal entites weilding the emerald energies of the Guardians
• Yellow Lantern's was Grundy Lantern, a pair of misshapen and twisted clone
• Other Lanterns had dopplegangers in Limbo from space and in the Green Dragon Tong of Chang  on Earth-Two

Cunning Crystalline Creatures: The Green Lantern Connection

Hidden within the near-inaccessible Himalayas are ancient secrets tied to one thousand years of history... a history involving a pair of Emerald Crusaders! In the universe of the Guardians of the Universe, this ancient alien organization first attempted to protect the cosmos with their green plasma armed android army known as the Manhunters. However, these synthetic agents of order grew unbalanced, and were those removed of the weaponry and left on various planets, whilst the Guardians created another intergalactic peace-keeping unit, the Green Lantern Corps! 

Eventually, the Manhunters reunited with one another and exerted their influence on the worlds they had inhabited, including Earth-One. Initially setting up a covert base of operations on that world, the Manhunters' leader known as The Grandmaster tasked his forces into making an incursion into the parallel planet of Earth-Two. Having been informed by the Guardians during their inital construction of the androids as to the existence of this alternate reality, one of many errantly spawned by the renegade Malthusian named Krona, Grandmaster coveted the emerald energies exiled to that reality by the Guardians residing on that world. 

In order to track down and wrest control of the Guardians' Green Flame of Life from its current wielder, Alan  "Green Lantern" Scott, the Grandmaster employed agents such as Paul Kirk and Dan Richards as human Manhunters. However, before he could successfully manipulate them into battling their fellow superhero, who became teammates of Green Lantern as part of the All-Star Squadron. So the Grandmaster altered his approach, making one more attempt in 1946 by employing Molly Maynne as the Harlequin. Seeing the potential in this young woman with her rebellious streak, Grandmaster bequeather her with illusion technology in the former of special eyewear which the Manhunters developed. 

Mayne was also hestitant in causing lasting harm to the Lantern on her own, and even when given a battallion of female Manhunters in the form of duplicate Harlequins, she broke her ties with the Manhunters and ultimately retired from their ranks. And so, the Grandmaster returned to Earth-One's Himalayas, abandoning his plans to secure the Guardian's disgarded Flame. He then set forth to orchestrate the Manhunters versus the Corps and their Guardian masters, including Hal Jordan whom they would frame alongside the Guardians to usurp the power and reputation of their creators!

This led to a conflict between the Manhunters and Justice League, which was paralleled by the battle decades earlier on Earth-Two between the Justice Society and the Diamond Men, whose drive towards conquest rivaled their android doppelgängers under the Grandmaster.

One human who initially curried the favor of the Diamond Men was amateur geologist Charles Crillon, who was the unorthodox geological patterns over the years and advertised these in his published works. The Diamond Men’s leader  Exmam transformed Crillon into a being like himself as a reward for impressively discerning the existence of his people. However, Charles betrayed his crystalline benefactor, provided him the needed intel to expose the Diamond Men’s invasion as he guided the Justice Society into their conflict with the alien entities.

His counterpart on Earth-One was school teacher Iris Jacobs, who became acquainted with a time displaced Val “Karat Kid” Armour whom she accompanied on some of his 20th century adventures. Seeking to become more noticeable to Val, she agreed to be a test subject of S.T.A.R. Labs secretly funded by the Lord of Time, which transformed her into the crystalline supervillain named Dimaondeth. Unlike Crillon’s Diamond Man, Diamondeth was spurred on by madness, until Karate Kid subdued her and brought her to his native 30th century where she was cured of her mutation.

Meanwhile on Earth-Two, there was also a war transpiring involving two sides of emerald energies, with the Green Dragon Tong led by an evil lamp-maker named Chang... and a group of peace-keeping lamas located in the Himalayas who obtain Chang's old lamp and the meteor containing the Green Flame's energy. While Chang had a portion of the meteor, a globe of which he gave later to the Psycho-Pirate to advance his schemes after his Tong couldn't secure the emerald energy in its original form for their long-lived master. This Tong had earlier accompanied Chang to North America where he grew his organization under his warped principals, with the goal of subjugating the world one day, before returning to his home continent when opportunity presented itself. Knowing of this danger on the horizon, the lamas presented Alan Scott with the reshaped lamp, wherein he became the Green Lantern of his world. The Guardian's counterpart race in this universe, the Buddak, tried to control Earth-Two themselves before these events had transpired... and were soundly defeated themselves. Years later, the millennium-old Grandmaster and millennium-old Chang led their forces against Hal and Alan on separate occasions, both proved successful despite exploiting situations that seemed to show both Green Lanterns as criminals. And so, the lamas and the Corps remained, aloof from the affairs of mankind.

Colorful Costumed Crusaders: Legacies of the Green Lantern of Two Earths

John Stewart of Earth-One and Todd Rice of Earth-Two were the legacies to the legends that were the Green Lanterns of their respective worlds, assuming similarly colorful alter egos while harnessing power over light. 

John Stewart was an aspiring engineer who had untapped potential as a superhero. Appointed the backup Green Lantern of Sector 2814 when Jordan's original backup Guy Gardner had been laid up with an injury. Reluctantly, John repeatedly filled in for Hal Jordan using his ring and power battery, even becoming a supporting member of the Justice League. Eventually, he was made the new Lantern when Hal retired, leading to Stewart into accepting the role full-time which he had previously only handled on an occasion basis when Jordan was incapacitated.

It would be during the period just prior to the Crisis on Infinite Earths that John was trained by another Green Lantern from a different space sector. This Lantern in Katma Tui was more than a trainer as she later became his wife.

Todd Rice was one of the twins sired by Alan Scott aka Earth-Two’s sole Green Lantern. Left orphans by their mother Rose Canton whose sinister alter ego of Thorn was attempting to slay the pair, Todd was raised by the Rice family until his young adulthood when his inherited powers from his father’s extended exposure to his power ring were revealed.

While Todd’s twin sister Jennie-Lynn Hayden had powers similar to her father’s, Todd had the inverse abilities of transforming into a shadow. As Obsidian, Todd joined his sister Jade in becoming members of Infinity, Inc. alongside other offspring of the Justice Society of America. Their father now became aware of their existence and began to form a relationship with his children.

Green Lantern Week: When Did They Become Leaders?

A Green Lantern is not an island unto himself. Similarly, neither was much for taking a backseat to others, given the nature of being selected with the power battery and all.

Hence, shortly after assuming his heroic alias, Hal Jordan encountered the Green Lantern Corps and then was a charter member of the Justice League of America. With the former, he quickly became noted as the most intuitive, possessing innate leadership qualities in the Corps. From time to time, he was also a chairman of the JLA, although this was a more rotating position. Then, during a confrontation with Krona that threatened the cosmos, it was Jordan who led his fellow Green Lanterns to victory despite immeasurable odds.

Previously, Alan Scott had decades earlier joined the Justice Society of America during its initial case, and after teammate Flash left the team he as the Green Lantern became the teams second chairman. Shortly thereafter, while battling the evil Wotan, Lantern failed to save a small boy which led to Scott leaving the team for a time. Soon he joined the All-Star Squadron, although only as an on-again off-again member, never leading that team into battle. However, he was an example to be imitated by later generations, including his children Jade and Obsidian.

The Good and the Greedy: A Corps and a Tong of Green

For centuries, twin secret societies existed centered around energies originating for planet Oa. In one universe, this was a good group of guys and gals assembled by the Guardians of the Universe was composed of various aliens throughout the galaxy known as the Green Lantern Corps. Each member was assigned a sector in space to protect, and provided with an emerald battery and ring, granting their owners with tremendous power. The first Corps member originating on Earth-One was Hal Jordan.

Concurrently, in the universe of Earth-Two, such emerald energies originating from the Starheart in the form of a gigantic green meteorite fell into the hands of the lamp-maker Chang. Possessing his power stone derived from this radiating rock from space, Chang later assembled his Green Dragon Tong which operated for untold ages. This Tong operated rivalry to the Tibetan Lamas who cared for the meteor and Chang's Lamp. The sinister syndicate of Chang, while tracking the wielder of the power ring Alan Scott, operated in Gotham City. 

This Tong came into conflict with that world's Batman and Robin in the 1940's, with several of its members perishing during that period of time. Despite their sheer number, which included a confederate tong of Hatchet-Men, the Green Dragon's were overpowered by the Caped Crusaders, with the Dynamic Duo seemingly finishing this Tong. Appearances, however, deceived the Darknight Detective and his Boy Wonder.

Chang’s original Tong was extinguished, and his large Green Dragon statue (built with meteor rock originating from the original Green Flame meteor he encountered centuries earlier) was demolished by the Batman. However, Chang himself escaped and would return years later, this time in pursuit of Batman’s Justice Society teammate and fellow Gothamite, Alan “Green Lantern” Scott.

Decades later, Chang reassembled his Tong into a tighter nit troop that lured Scott back to Gotham to plunder his power ring. While Chang himself had a counterpart in Shahn-Zi of Earth-One, both egomaniacal immortals, his Tong operated in a fashion similar to that of the Corps in a parallel universe... except without power rings. 

Those missing rings were possessed by Sinestro's "Sinestro Corps", his clones who briefly invaded Earth-Two before being overpowered by Alan and his Green Lantern counterpart of Earth-One, Hal Jordan. During the Crisis on Infinite Earths, just as the Green Dragon Tong had been rendered non-existence without their master Chang, who had perished, so too had the Green Lantern Corps' forces been depleted when several of their members and those of the Guardians also passing away during that cosmic conflict.

Migrants of Multiple Earths Thesis: Part 6

As the Second World War approached a conclusion on multiple worlds in 1945, events quickly transpired that would shake parallel realities Earths One and Two. During this cataclysmic events, numerous masked men... as superheroes were then called... journeyed to new Earths. Among these were members of the All-Star Squadron of two separate realities.

A small group of All-Star Squadron members from Earth-Two were recruited by their former teammate Hank "Commander Steel" Heywood to travel to his new home on Earth-One. This world had no established costumed crusaders, which he felt were necessary during the waning days of the war. And so, the following All-Stars journeyed to Earth-One using a portal which Steel established throught the Mekanique mechanism of the future: Airwave, TNT, Dyna-Mite, Sargon (who came later in 1951), Zatara, Robotman, Manhunter and the Guardian. In addition, James "Guardian" Harper brought with him the four members of the Newsboy Legion which he mentored through the years, these being Tommy Tompkins, Big Words, Gabby and Scrapper. James Harper also brought his younger brother Will, who would eventually become father to Roy "Speedy" Harper of Earth-One!

Commander Steel had himself inadvertently been focibly displaced onto Earth-One in the midst of the Crisis on Infinite Earths, due to being caught in a dimensional mechanism utilized by Nazi scientist Gootsden which he obtained from the alien Monitor. Around this same time, the Monitor had sent a sentient android construct known as Real American to Earth-Two, which essentially took Steel's place... although instead of an ally of the All-Star Squadron, he was their bitter foe.

A corresponding number of superheroes arrived on the  Earth-Two adjacent dimension of Asgard from the post-Crisis Earth-0. These Justice Society members were Hawkman, Hawkgirl, Flash, Green Lantern, Atom, Hourman, Sandman, Sandy, Johnny Thunder (with his Thunderbolt), Starman, Doctor Mid-Nite, Wildcat. Additionally, the post-Crisis versions of Power Girl*, Star-Spangled Kid**, Doctor Fate*** and the Spectre**** temporarily resided in Earth-Two’s Asgard. These heroes experienced perpetual recycling of these events in this realm.

Eventually,  the group known as the Daemen from post-Crisis Earth-0 took the place of the Justice Society during the Ragnarok War. These villains turned anti-heroes included: Arquoi, Blaquokar, Calabri, Dhaozan, Feth Sudol, Gulgak, Huromon, Inztuk, Kistimaak, Piztok, Tzingaas and Zhazor. Each of the Earth-0 Society/Daemen met tragic ends in battle in Earth-Two’s reality, although the events would play out an infinite number of times from the start of the battle until its conclusion.

As for the ex-All-Stars now residing on Earth-One, most of them soon after arriving on their new home retired their costumed careers. Some of them, such as Larry "Air Wave" Jordan, John Zatana, Will Harper and probably John "Sargon" Sargent each settled down to start families. Others such as the Guardian and Paul "Manhunter" Kirk had their lives tragically cut short through traumatic events. Robotman had a brief career on Earth-One where he was included in the Justice League’s first case. Shortly after, he moved back to Earth-Two where he was inadvertently placed  in suspended animation for several years while his pal Chuck Grayson was kept alive yet brain dead for decades. TNT and Dyna-Mite were kept within protective bunkers when their powers started to become wildly controllable. The Newsboy Legion lads grew up tobecame prominent geneticists, with their sons taking over for them in the late 1970s.

* This Power Girl duplicate in this pocket dimension of Eatth-Two  was the physical counterpart of Lesla-Lar, the physical twin of Supergirl. However, just as Lesla resided in the shrunken Bottled-City of Kandor flying through space, so too Lesla’s mental twin Laren resided within the mind of Power Girl in her virtual Kandor aboard the Symbioship.

** This Star-Spangled Kid merged with an Asgardian Prince, becoming the counterpart of Earth-One's Prince Gavyn, who like this warrior prince seemingly lost his life when he gained stellar powers and became Starman.

*** This Earth-0 Doctor Fate corresponded to the former Lord of Chaos known as Doctor Chaos that once battled Superboy on Earth-One (while Doctor Chaos’ human partner Burt Belker was the counterpart of Kent “Doctor Fate” Nelson’s father Swen Nelson) . This Fate’s second Kent Nelson persona kept mentally sedated mirrored the brain-dead Chuck Grayson.

**** This Earth-0 Spectre filled the void in Earth-Two's universe left behind by the Spectre of that dimension, who migrated for a time to Earth-One.

Reddish Rogues Raid Rebelliously

Vidar was a member of the Green Lantern Corps in the 30th century, who was dispatched along with two other Corps members to prevent the Time Institute of Earth-One from using their equipment to observe events at the dawn of time, as this would caus irrepairable harm to the Multiverse. Previously, a renegade member of the Maltus race named Krona had done the same thing, and unleashed chaos. With this in mind, members of his fellow race, the Guardians of the Universe, tasked the three Corps Lanterns to intervene.

This led to a confrontation between them and the three founding members from Earth's Legion of Super-Heroes. After coming to a resolution between both parties to prevent viewing this critical period in time, the Green Lantern named Vidar secretly used the Time Institute's equipment to attempting viewing this ancient event, despite the Guardian's objections. After the Legion defeated Vidar, he was banished from the Corps.  In turn, the Green Lanterns were no longer permitted to visit Earth

However, Vidar's exposure to the power battery and power ring that all Green Lantern's possessed gave him mental powers, which he would later use to become the malevolent mastermind known as Universo, a perpetual foe of the Legion for years to come. He would himself be thwarted in his schemes by his son Rond who later became a Green Lantern himself. 

Raakj was from the 31st century, himself also a scientist with a criminal disposition. As the Wizard of Odds, Raakj using time traveling technology. Initially rejected by his generations scientific community, he sought fortune and fame in the 20th century using knowledge of the stock market and games to win millions of dollars. Alas, such fortune was worthless in his time, so he brought Green Lantern of Earth-Two and Doiby Dickles to the moon to aid him in a scheme to procure radium from that satellite which he bring back to his time. 

Instead, Raakj stole a moonstone from a subterranean race warring with fellow inhabitants of the moon, a moonstone that controlled man's minds for five minutes. Returning to his 31st century, his brief grab for power was thwarted by the Lantern who pursued him. After nearly losing his true love, Raakj forfeited the moonstone and surrendered to Green Lantern. Raakj reformed due to the affection of his true love.

While counterparts Vidar and Raakj used cosmic radiation for evil, tormenting the Green Lanterns of their time, Vidar’s son Rond was a force for good, as no doubt would the offspring of the now-repentant Raakj have been!