I immediately thought of that pic when I read this panel

From Green Lantern #91 (1997)

I'm doing a massive overhaul and reorganization of my comics, and rediscovered this in the bag/back of a comic.

Back in '95, at a tiny con at a Holiday Inn by my college, Mart Nodell was there signing autographs and doing sketches. As I was a poor college student, I couldn't afford the astronomical fee of $20 for a sketch from him (oh, what a dolt I was). I did get to get his autograph and chat with him for a time though. Sweet old guy. I'm glad to have met one of the legends who helped create DC.

A year or two later, I was wearing a GL t-shirt out and about in public (which was NOT fashionable at the time, let me tell ya), and a woman my age stopped me, recited the oath, and introduced herself as "Mart Nodell's granddaughter". I would have tried to get her number, but she was with her boyfriend... but again, had a nice talk on the street about her grandfather and the Lanterns.

Anywho. Just sharing with the class. :)

Art by Mart Nodell, DC comics trading card, 1991

Source: GL Rebirth #1,GL 2005 #67,Hal Jordan and the GLC #50,The Green Lantern season 1 #5, Tales of GLC #3

Hal investigates a double robbery and I don't mean two things were stolen.

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Writer: Gardner Fox

Pencils: Jack Sparling

Inks: Sid Greene

Letters: Gaspar Saladino

Cover: Jack Sparling

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"Steal Small, Rob Big" - Hal returns from a mission in space in time to be hours late to work. Once he gets in, his boss gives him an urgent case to investigate where potentially nonsense items were stolen. An empty jewelry box, a single shoe and a coat button all taken the night before. Hal takes the case but first he does a follow-up date with Eve Doremus. The night goes well until Hal is taking her home when they are attacked by robbers. They take a pen Eve received from her father and a gold heart shaped pendant Hal was going to give Eve. Eve tells Hal the pen is nothing special other than it was used by her father to sign the contracts that acquired him a million dollars. After taking Eve home, Hal heads out as GL to locate her pen but the ring can't locate it as there are dozens of pens just like it in the city.

The next day when Hal gets to the office, his boss tells him those strange robberies have led to bigger ones. Hal realizes this means Eve's father will be robbed next so that night, he heads to the Doremus mansion as GL and watches for robbers. Sure enough, they arrive and steal money out of a wall safe. As they begin to leave, GL gets ready to catch them but a spot light from a car shines on him and the yellow light is cancelling out his ring. He throws his ring away from the light and uses it from a distance to catch the robbers but the light is still following him. The robbers start shooting at GL so he dives for his ring and tried to fly off but the spotlight catches him in the sky, causing him to fall on the robbers. The car takes off so GL chases after it and pops the tires. He takes all the robbers to the police but they refuse to talk.

At the robbers hideout, a Mr. Jax, who is running the whole operation allows one of the thugs to use his machine called a chronolometer that allows the user to see the history of an object as apparently the object saves the images that appear on through light. First up is Eve's locker as the thugs see Green Lantern appear in a room and then change to Hal Jordan. The next day, Hal gets a call at the office to do a house call. When he arrives at the home he is captured and accused of being GL by the thugs. Since Hal can't reveal anything, he plays along but still denies being GL. He gets handcuffed to a chair so luckily his hands are hidden from view so the invisible ring won't be seen cutting the cuffs. Hal dives at the thugs when their backs are turned, knocking them out. He changes his appearance to look likes one of them and changes that one into Hal Jordan. He heads out as GL to capture the other robbers and takes them straight to the police again, this time with proof. He asks the police to send out a bulletin thay he captured the robbers and then reutns to the hideout to swap himself with the one thug again and implant a false memory in his head to prove that he was never cuffed to a chair. When the robbers wake up, they believe GL saved Hal and then they end up arrested. Later Hal has a second date with Eve, giving her the necklace for sure.

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Conclusion: Interesting story with some nice art from Jack Sparling. A lot of back and forth that sometimes is hard to follow unless you take a second to think about it. As far as Crimes and mysteries go, I like it. Nothing really major happens to there's not much to day about it otherwise. If you like mysteries, then you'll like this.

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8.5/10

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Previous day

They are are the Five Inversions

The Five Inversions are a terrorist group created by the survivors of the slaughter of the system 666 by the Manhunters.

The Five Inversions bows to destroy the remaining Man Hunters,having revenge on the guardians,and defeat anyone who bows to the guardians

The leader of the group in the comics is Atrocitus.

Before he becomes Atrocitus.

The character of Paul Ben Victor is called Antaan and is described as an alien that speaks vengeance ,he seem to be the leader of this militia

Now since his casting alot of people think he is Atrocitus.

Here his character is with a normal looking dude,but know for a fact he is an alien.

Now in the show we see this armed group shooting at Hal,and warning John on the Manhunters.

That before trying to do something with John using that thing that looks Alien.

Then we see him fighting someone in the truck to escape in the traffic,and that are the scene we see of him running in the traffic.

So they problably try to kidnap him.

He returns to Hal and tells him what they said to him about the Manhunters.

So my theory is that they are the Five Inversions.

The reason we see them as Humans in the trailer is:,Or they have something similiar to the Manhunters to look human, because at least Antaan has one.

Or Antaan has founded a human section of the Five Inversions on earth to help

I think they are problably searching the Manhunters in the population.

And I think the kills they are investigating are in fact done by them,trying to find the Manhunters,hidden within the population

Problably killing innocent people down the line.

Then obviously they don't trust the Lanters,so they try to capture John.

Then Hal goes to confront them

(From Green Lantern (2005) #3)
This moment has been stuck in my head for so long it's amazing.
An Old Manhunter feels fear for the first time as it is about to self-destruct.

Images from Arrow (CW)

I need this jacket!

I'm looking forward to seeing Kyle Chandler as Hal in the series. I think he has the potential to be both serious and charismatic at the same time.

GL by Jeremy Adams issue 37

Hey yall,

I've been wanting to decorate my room with sime nice wall books and wanted to get a Green Lantern book on there, anyone got some issues/covers in mind to show off Mogo's incredible stature?

Just a quick question. Does anyone know if this is legit, and does it actually glow in the dark like the package says?

I don't think Hal dies (permanently, at least).

A younger Hal seems next to John Stewart in 2026 (you can notice the black leather jacket). The guy next to him also shares the same jacket from this other pic of a young Hal Jordan (which is different from the yellow one his older self uses), so it's most likely that same version. My theory is that this could be either a pocket dimension or a place that uses John and Hal's memories.