Green Lantern (comic book)

Green Lantern
Cover of Green Lantern #1 (fall 1941) by Howard Purcell[1]
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
Schedule	List (Vol. 1) Quarterly: #1–18 Bimonthly: #19–38 (Vol. 2) Bimonthly: #1–9; #82–96 Eight times a year: #10–81 Monthly: #97–224 (Vol. 3) Monthly: #1–181 (Vol. 4) Monthly: #1–67 (Vol. 5) Monthly: #1–52 (Green Lanterns) Twice Monthly: #1–57 (Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps) Twice Monthly: #1–50 (Vol. 6) Monthly: #1–12 (Vol. 7) Monthly: #1–present
Format	Ongoing series
Genre	Superhero
Publication date	List (vol. 1) fall 1941 – May–June 1949 (vol. 2) July–August 1960 – April–May 1972 and August–September 1976 – May 1988 (vol. 3) June 1990 – November 2004 (vol. 4) July 2005 – October 2011 (vol. 5) September 2011 – May 2016 (Green Lanterns) July 2016 – August 2018 (Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps) June 2016 – October 2018 (vol. 6) April 2021 – April 2022 (vol. 7) May 2023 – Present
No. of issues	List (vol. 1): 38 (vol. 2): 224 plus three Annuals and two Specials (vol. 3): 183 (#1–181 plus issues #0 and #1,000,000); nine Annuals and one Green Lantern Plus The Ray (vol. 4): 67 (vol. 5): 57 (#1–52 plus issues #0 and #23.1–23.4); a Green Lantern: Futures End one-shot and four Annuals (Green Lanterns): 58 plus a DC Rebirth one-shot and one Annual (Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps): 51 plus a DC Rebirth one-shot (vol. 6): 12 and one Annual (vol. 7): 10 (as of June 2024 cover date)
Main character(s)	Alan Scott Hal Jordan Guy Gardner John Stewart Kyle Rayner Simon Baz Jessica Cruz Sojourner Mullein the Green Lantern Corps
Creative team
Created by	Bill Finger Martin Nodell
Written by	List (vol. 1) Bill Finger (1-5, 7), Joe Greene, Alfred Bester Henry Kuttner John Broome, Robert Kanigher (vol. 2) John Broome (1–16, 18–22, 24, 27, 29–31, 36, 39–40, 44–47, 49–56, 59, 66, 69–71, 75), Gardner Fox (16–17, 21–23, 25–29, 32–38, 41–44, 46, 48, 50, 57–58, 60, 62, 65, 67), Dennis O'Neil (63–64, 68, 72, 76–87, 89–100, 102–129), Marv Wolfman (133–153), Mike W. Barr (131, 154–165), Joey Cavalieri (166–169, 173, 182–183), Len Wein (128, 172–183, 185–186), Steve Englehart (188–200), Laurie S. Sutton (134-147) (vol. 3) Gerard Jones (1–47), Ron Marz (48–107, 109–114, 117–125, 176–181, #0, #1,000,000, Annual #4, 6), Judd Winick (129-156, 158-164), Ben Raab (vol. 4) Geoff Johns (vol. 5) Geoff Johns Robert Venditti (Green Lanterns) Sam Humphries Tim Seeley Dan Jurgens (Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps) Robert Venditti (vol. 6) Geoffrey Thorne (vol. 7) Jeremy Adams
Penciller(s)	List (vol. 1) Martin Nodell Irwin Hasen Alex Toth (vol. 2) Gil Kane Neal Adams Mike Grell Alex Saviuk Joe Staton Dave Gibbons (vol. 3) Pat Broderick Joe Staton Mark Bright Darryl Banks Dale Eaglesham (vol. 4) Carlos Pacheco Ethan Van Sciver Ivan Reis Doug Mahnke (vol. 5) Doug Mahnke Billy Tan (Green Lanterns) Robson Rocha (Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps) Rafa Sandoval (vol. 6) Dexter Soy (vol. 7) Xermánico
Inker(s)	List (vol. 1) Bob Oksner (vol. 2) Joe Giella Sid Greene Dick Giordano Bob Wiacek (vol. 3) Romeo Tanghal Rodney Ramos (vol. 4) Jesus Merino Christian Alamy Rob Hunter
Collected editions
Golden Age Green Lantern Archives Volume 1	ISBN 1-56389-507-2
Green Lantern Archive Volume 1	ISBN 1401202306
The Road Back	ISBN 1-56389-045-3
No Fear	ISBN 1-4012-0466-X

Green Lantern is an ongoing American comic-book series featuring the DC Comics heroes of the same name. The character's first incarnation, Alan Scott, appeared in All-American Comics #16 (July 1940), and was later spun off into the first volume of Green Lantern in 1941. After 38 issues, that series was cancelled in 1949. When the Silver Age Green Lantern, Hal Jordan, was introduced, the character starred in a new volume of Green Lantern starting in 1960.

Although Green Lantern is considered a mainstay in the DC Comics stable, the series has been cancelled and rebooted several times. When sales began slipping in the early 1990s, DC Comics instituted a controversial editorial mandate that turned Jordan into the supervillain Parallax and created a new protagonist named Kyle Rayner. This third volume ended publication in 2004, when the miniseries Green Lantern: Rebirth brought Hal Jordan back as a heroic character and made him the protagonist once again. After Rebirth's conclusion, writer Geoff Johns began a fourth volume of Green Lantern from 2005 to 2011, and a fifth volume which started immediately after, this time initially showcasing both Hal Jordan and Sinestro as Green Lantern.