Green Lantern Corps



Green Lantern Corps is published by DC Comics. Current price per issue is $2.99.

Last Issue

 * Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps #49: 25 Jul 2018

Current Issue

 * Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps #50: 08 Aug 2018

Next Issue

 * none

Status
Twice-monthly. Final issue is #50.

Main Characters

 * Guy Gardner
 * John Stewart
 * Kilowog
 * Doctor Soranik Natu

Allies

 * The Guardians
 * Ganthet

Enemies

 * Parallax
 * Sinestro

Minor Characters

 * Mogo
 * Vath Sarn
 * Isamot Kol
 * Brik
 * Stel
 * Salakk
 * Shorm
 * Iolande

Other Characters/Places/Things

 * Oa - The home planet of the Guardians, creators of the Green Lantern Corps.
 * Earth - In sector 2814, the home planet of Hal Jordan, Guy Gardner, John Stewart, and Kyle Rayner.
 * Korugar - In sector 1417, the home planet of Sinestro and Katma Tui.

Green Lantern Corps: Recharge #1
"The Gathering" - The Guardians are sending out rings to find new recruits to restart the GL Corps. In addition, they've called many veteran ringbearers to Oa to train the new recruits, including Kyle Rayner, Guy Gardner, and Kilowog. But something is killing the new recruits by forming black holes, and the Guardians are worried. And the recruit from Korugar, Soranik Natu, is the latest victim even as she attempts to quit the Corps.

Hardcovers

 * Green Lantern Corps: Beware Their Power, vol. 1 - Collects vol. 1 #207-215 & Annual #2. "Guy Gardner rejoins the Green Lanterns of Earth, Kilowog leads the battle against the Rocket Red Brigade, while Hector Hammond and Star Sapphire join forces to try and kill Hal Jordan. Plus: a night out on the town leads to ruined romances and nightmare visions." -


 * Green Lantern: The Sinestro Corps War, vol. 1 - Collects vol. 2 #15-16, plus the Sinestro Corps Special #1 and Green Lantern vol. 4 #21-22. "Sinestro's army of fear has gathered: Arkillo! Karu-Sil! The Cyborg-Superman! And hundreds more of the most terrifying villains the universe has ever seen! Hal Jordan has overcome great fear throughout his life, but what fear still lingers inside him? Parallax knows, and Hal's about to be reminded as he leads Earth's Green Lanterns on a life-or-death rescue mission in the middle of this war. Meanwhile, the Guardians of the Universe find dissent within their ranks as a bizarre prophecy is fulfilled." -


 * Green Lantern: The Sinestro Corps War, vol. 2 - Collects vol. 2 #16-19, plus Green Lantern vol. 4 #24-25. "Sinestro - Hal Jordan's former mentor turned archnemesis - has gathered an army of soldiers fueled by the fear they instill in others. Former Green Lantern Kyle Rayner has been possessed by the entity known as Parallax and now assists the Sinestro Corps in cutting a swath of evil across the universe. Trapped in the depths of the Sinestro Corps' Citadel and face-to-face with the Guardian of Sinestro's army of fear, Hal Jordan must find the willpower to battle these terrible foes." -


 * Green Lantern Corps: Revolt of the Alpha Lanterns - Collects vol. 2 #21-22, 48-52. "The Alpha Lanterns seek to force Green Lanterns John Stewart, Kyle Rayner and former Guardian Ganthet into their ranks. Will they be able to resist, stop the revolt of the Alpha Lanterns led by their evil mastermind, Cyborg Superman, and discover his sinister new secret agenda?" -


 * Green Lantern Corps: Emerald Eclipse - Collects vol. 2 #33-38. "Mongul enslaves the planet Daxam, making it the home world of his Corps. Will Sodam Yat, the Green Lantern known as Ion, fight to save his homeworld, which he's vowed never to return to?" -


 * Blackest Night: Green Lantern Corps - Collects vol. 2 #39-47. "Green Lanterns Kyle Rayner, Guy Gardner and John Stewart join the rest of the GL Corps in the desperate struggle to preserve the Central Power Battery and Oa itself from being consumed by the Black Lanterns." -


 * Green Lantern Corps: The Weaponer - Collects vol. 2 #53-57. "The Corps is caught in the middle of an all-out war between Sinestro and his fearmongers, the Sinestro Corps, against the Weaponer and the Thunderers of Qward. Can Kyle Rayner, John Stewart and the rest of the GL Honor Guard prevent the destruction of a world and save Soranik Natu at the same time?" -


 * Green Lantern: War of the Green Lanterns - Collects vol. 2 #58-60, plus Green Lantern vol. 4 #63-66 & Green Lantern: Emerald Warriors #8-10. "With the entire Green Lantern Corps against them, the four Earthborn GLs – Hal Jordan, Guy Gardner, Kyle Rayner, John Stewart – make a choice that will rank among the most memorable in GL history. But not all of them agree on what has to be done and what lines can be crossed. Can these warriors overcome their differences in time to save the universe?" -


 * War of the Green Lanterns Aftermath - Collects vol. 2 #61-63, plus Green Lantern: Emerald Warriors #11-13 & War of the Green Lanterns: Aftermath #1-2. "The Green Lantern Corps must pull themselves together in order to resume policing the universe. But the Green Lanterns find that doing so is more difficult than they ever imagined." -


 * Green Lantern Corps, vol. 1: Fearsome - Collects vol. 3 #1-7. "When a new menace, The Keepers, begins to march across the space sectors and devouring not only their natural resources but their entire populations, it is up to The Corps, severely outnumbered, to stop them. The Corps soon find one of their own held by the ruthless Keepers and must figure out a way to save their comrade and defeat the Keepers without the Green Lantern's most powerful weapon, their power rings." -


 * Green Lantern Corps, vol. 2: Alpha War - Collects vol. 3 #8-14 & 0. "When the Alpha Lanterns, the internal police force for the Corps, arrest Green Lantern John Stewart for the murder of a fellow Lantern, it sends shock waves throughout the entire Corps—especially since Stewart refuses to defend himself against the charges. Now… it’s up to Guy Gardner and the rest of the Green Lanterns to break Stewart out and bring down the emotionless Alpha Lanterns." -


 * Green Lantern Corps, vol. 3: Willpower - Collects vol. 3 #15-20 & Annual #1. "The Green Lantern Corps face their greatest threat ever when the Guardians deem them obsolete and raise The Third Army, but in doing so they unleash a far most dangerous threat: the First Lantern. Then, in the aftermath of their battle against the First Lantern and the Guardians, it's up to Guy Gardner, John Stewart and the other survivors to try to put the Corps back together, or decide if there should even BE a Corps anymore." -


 * Absolute Green Lantern: The Sinestro Corps War - Collects vol. 2 #14-19, plus Green Lantern vol. 4 #21-25 & Green Lantern: The Sinestro Corps Special -


 * Green Lantern: Rise of the Third Army - Collects vol. 3 #13-16 & Annual #1, plus Green Lantern vol. 5 #13-16, Red Lanterns #13-16, & Green Lantern: New Guardians #13-16. -


 * Green Lantern: Wrath of the First Lantern - Collects vol. 3 #17-20, plus Green Lantern vol. 5 #17-20, Red Lanterns #17-20, & Green Lantern: New Guardians #17-20. -


 * Green Lantern/New Gods: Godhead - Collects vol. 3 #35-37, plus Green Lantern vol. 5 #35-37 & Annual #3, Green Lantern: New Guardians #35-37, Red Lanterns #35-37, Sinestro #6-8, & Green Lantern/New Gods: Godhead. - -

Omnibus Hardcovers
Green Lantern Corps by Peter J. Tomasi & Patrick Gleason Omnibus, vol. 1 - Collects Recharge #1-5 & vol. 2 #1-3 & 7-28; plus Green Lantern vol. 4 #21-25; Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps Special #1; and stories from Showcase ’95 #7-8, Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps #1-3, and Untold Tales of Blackest Night #1. - - (forthcoming, August 2023)

Trade Paperbacks

 * Green Lantern Corps: Recharge - Collects Recharge mini #1-5. "With the Guardians of the Universe back, the time has come to re-form the fabled Green Lantern Corps. While some familiar ring-wielders return to duty, others are recruited — and not everyone appreciates being drafted!" -


 * Green Lantern Corps, vol. 1: To Be a Lantern - Collects vol. 2 #1-6. "From the Guardians' citadel on the newly fortified planet Oa, Green Lantern Guy Gardner is assigned - against his will - to a feudal world of shadows and sudden death. And across the galaxy, new Lanterns discover what it truly means to wear the Corps insignia, as their courage and comradeship is tested to the limit." -


 * Green Lantern Corps, vol. 2: A Darker Shade of Green - Collects vol. 2 #7-13. "Green Lantern Guy Gardner, formerly of Earth, runs afoul of a murderous alien called The Dominator. While Gardner seeks the being's homeworld of Dominion, the Dominator reaches Earth. Now, only the rogue group of Green Lanterns called the Corpse has a prayer of stopping him - if only they weren't already dead." -


 * Green Lantern: The Sinestro Corps War, vol. 1 - Collects vol. 2 #14-15, plus the Sinestro Corps Special #1 and Green Lantern vol. 4 #21-22. -


 * Green Lantern: The Sinestro Corps War, vol. 2 - Collects vol. 2 #16-19, plus Green Lantern vol. 4 #24-25. -


 * Green Lantern Corps: Ring Quest - Collects vol. 2 #19-20, 23-26. "In the wake of The Sinestro Corps War, Mongul is amassing new power — and only The Green Lantern Corps can stand against him." -


 * Green Lantern Corps: Revolt of the Alpha Lanterns - Collects vol. 2 #21-22, 48-52. -


 * Green Lantern Corps: Sins of the Star Sapphire - Collects vol. 2 #27-32. "The war with the Sinestro Corps may have ended, but the Green Lanterns still face some unlikely ripples from the battle." -


 * Green Lantern Corps: Emerald Eclipse - Collects vol. 2 #33-38. -


 * Blackest Night: Green Lantern Corps - Collects vol. 2 #39-47. -


 * Green Lantern Corps: The Weaponer - Collects vol. 2 #53-57. -


 * War of the Green Lanterns: Aftermath - Collects vol. 2 #61-63, plus Green Lantern: Emerald Warriors #11-13 & War of the Green Lanterns: Aftermath #1-2. -


 * Green Lantern Corps, vol. 1: Fearsome - Collects vol. 3 #1-7. - -


 * Green Lantern Corps, vol. 2: Alpha War - Collects vol. 3 #8-14 & 0. - -


 * Green Lantern Corps, vol. 3: Willpower - Collects vol. 3 #15-20 & Annual #1. - -


 * Green Lantern Corps, vol. 4: Rebuild - Collects vol. 3 #21-27, plus Green Lantern vol. 5 Annual #2. "The Guardians are dead, leaving the Corps to fend for itself. Now, it’s up to John Stewart to train a group of rookies with deadly foes hot on their tails and rings that aren’t functioning properly. And there’s an ancient evil lurking at the edge of the universe that threatens to extinguish their lives forever!" -


 * Green Lantern Corps, vol. 5: Uprising - Collects vol. 3 #28-34 & Annual #2, plus Green Lantern vol. 5 #31-33. "With the Corps under attack by the Khund and the shapeshifting Durlans, John Stewart must unravel the mystery behind the destroyed Sector Houses!" -


 * Green Lantern Corps, vol. 6: Reckoning - Collects vol. 3 #35-40. "The New Gods are on the march and the war against the ring-wielders has begun. John Stewart summons a strike team of Green Lanterns to go into battle against the fiercest of the New Gods, Uggha and his deadly warriors." -


 * Green Lantern Corps: Edge of Oblivion, vol. 1 - Collects Edge of Oblivion #1-6, plus Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps: Rebirth. "As the universe around them reaches entropy, the Green Lantern Corps must find a way home! Along the way, they’ll face dying gods, worlds torn asunder and a desperate group of survivors whose only hope is these cosmic heroes." -


 * Hal Jordan & the Green Lantern Corps, vol. 1: Sinestro's Law - Collects vol. 4 #1-6 & Rebirth. "The Green Lantern Corps has disappeared, and now Sinestro's own Corps enforces his uniquely brutal brand of law and order in the universe. As a result, Jordan has no ring to sling, or Sector 2814 (a.k.a. Earth) to protect. (So more of the usual for Hal!)" -


 * Hal Jordan & the Green Lantern Corps, vol. 2: Bottled Light - Collects vol. 4 #8-13. "Hal Jordan is about to go from the leader of the Green Lantern Corps to an army of one. His long, tumultuous tenure with the Corps takes several hairpin turns. At lightspeed. Toward a black hole. In a blender!" -


 * Hal Jordan & the Green Lantern Corps, vol. 3: The Quest for Hope - Collects vol. 4 #14-21. "Hal Jordan and Kyle Rayner are on a quest to find Saint Walker and restore the Blue Lantern Corps while Guy Gardner deals with a personal grudge. The events lead straight into 'The Prism of Time' in which a mysterious time traveler threatens the future of the Green Lantern Corps!" -


 * Hal Jordan & the Green Lantern Corps, vol. 4: Fracture - Collects vol. 4 #22-29. "A rash decision during a routine hunt for outlaw Sinestro Corps members leads to a confrontation that shakes the foundation of the fragile working relationship between the Green Lanterns and the Sinestro Corps. Can Hal Jordan pull the truth into the light and keep the peace?" -


 * Hal Jordan & the Green Lantern Corps, vol. 5: Twilight of the Guardians - Collects vol. 4 #30-31 & 33-36. "After reports of Sinestro’s return begin to spread, Hal Jordan travels to Earth, looking to bring in his onetime Green Lantern partner. But a manhunt turns into a fight for his life when Hal must face the unmatchable power of the Man of Steel." -


 * Hal Jordan & the Green Lantern Corps, vol. 6: Zod's Will - Collects vol. 4 #37-41. "After a battle with Superman, General Zod has taken control of a small, undeveloped world. The only thing standing in the way of the Green Lantern Corps stopping General Zod and rescuing Hal Jordan from behind enemy lines turns out to be the leaders of the Corps itself—the Guardians of the Universe. Can the Corps change the Guardians’ minds, or will they revolt to save their captured comrade?" -


 * Hal Jordan & the Green Lantern Corps, vol. 7: Darkstars Rising - Collects vol. 4 #42-50. "The murderous Darkstars arrive en masse at Mogo to wipe out the Corps for good, so it’s all hands on deck to save the Green Lantern headquarters." -


 * Green Lantern: The Sinestro Corps War - Collects vol. 2 #14-19, plus the Sinestro Corps Special #1 and Green Lantern vol. 4 #21-25. -


 * Green Lantern by Geoff Johns, Book One - Collects Recharge #1-5, plus Green Lantern vol. 4 #1-3 & Secret Files 2005 and Green Lantern: Rebirth #1-6. - -

Publishing History

 * Volume 1: #201-224, 1986-1988
 * Recharge: #1-5, 2005-2006
 * Volume 2: #1-63, 2006-2011
 * Volume 3: #1-40, 2011-2015
 * Edge of Oblivion: #1-6, 2016
 * Volume 4: #1-50, 2016-2018 (Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps)

Future Publication Dates

 * Green Lantern Corps by Peter J. Tomasi & Patrick Gleason Omnibus, vol. 1 HC: 01 Aug 2023

News & Features

 * 05 Nov 2015 - Tom Taylor Breaks Limbs, Hearts, Universes in Green Lantern: Edge of Oblivion, Batman/Superman
 * 16 Apr 2013 - New Green Lantern Corps Writers Dispel Rumors & Talk Future
 * 13 Oct 2012 - NYCC 2012: Batman & Robin, Green Lantern’s Pete Tomasi (video)
 * 18 Apr 2012 - Tomasi Puts John Stewart on Trial in Green Lantern Corps
 * 02 Aug 2011 - Reader’s Guide to the New DC Universe: Green Lantern Corps
 * 19 Jan 2011 - Total Recharge: Bedard on Green Lantern Corps
 * 16 Jul 2010 - Tyler Kirkham Says He's Ready To Take On The DCU
 * 23 Apr 2010 - Tony Bedard on Joining the GL Corps Post-Blackest Night
 * 16 Nov 2009 - Green Lantern R.I.P.
 * 27 May 2009 - Road to Blackest Night: Tomasi on the GL Corps & Tales
 * 20 Feb 2009 - Peter Tomasi @ NYCC: Green Lantern Corps & "Blackest Night"
 * 14 Jan 2009 - Rocking the Corps: Peter Tomasi Talks Green Lantern Corps
 * 15 Apr 2008 - Reflections: Drew Geraci
 * 27 Sep 2007 - A "Sinestro Corps War" Report
 * 09 Sep 2007 - Baltimore Comic-Con '07: Peter Tomasi Talks Green Lantern Corps
 * 14 Apr 2006 - Boys in Green: Gibbons Talks Green Lantern Corps

Links

 * DC Comics
 * Green Lantern Image Collection
 * Green Lantern Corps