![]() ![]() Interesting action sequences was the key to a successful series. He believed that aīlend of good stories, good characters and situations, coupled with Interesting and if their problems are engrossing. Wolfmanīelieved that what made a series work were the characters - if they are Long-time readers will most likely remember Wolfman as the writer who 'humanized’ Hal Jordan. Wolfman introduces the Omega Men (and the Vegan Star System) in Green Lantern v2 #141 (this would spin-off into it’s own series). Wolfman explained that the Tattooed Man was killed off because his powers weren’t unique. Possibly one of the first times a Green Lantern foe had been killed off -įans were a little annoyed by that little stunt. Lantern foe, The Tattooed Man, only to have him killed off*. Wolfman also brought back an old one-time Green Whose super-powers were less important than the threat of his veryĮxistence. Tried to make Goldface THE arch-foe of Hal Jordan. Wolfman alsoĬontinued with the hit parade of classic Green Lantern villainĪppearances: Dr Polaris, Goldface, and Black Hand all appeared during Wolfman’s run. He aimed to bring Hal and Carol Ferris back together, get all theĬharacters set up, give Hal some new friends and create a new supportĬast as a launching pad for more stories. Jordan’s relationships that had gotten a little vague over the last 20 Building on the momentum of O'Neil’s ‘back-to-basics’ approach for Hal Jordan, the first thing Wolfmanĭid when he started writing Green Lantern was to shine up all of Hal Wolfman after he had just left Marvel comics due to a dispute with Marvel’s editor-in-chief, Jim Shooter. ![]() Marv Wolfman became the regular writer for Green Lantern v2 at issue #133. There would be another price increase to 60 cents by issue #144, for an extra 2 pages of story in 1981. Written by Laurie Sutton, the Adam Strange back-ups would run until Green Lantern v2 #147. This is when Adam Strange became a back-up feature. Green Lantern v2 #132 saw a price jump fromįorty to fifty cents - this involved an extra eight pages of story and Fans loved theĬoncept and demanded more Green Lantern Corps stories. Unpublished work that finally had a chance to be printed. The Green Lantern Corps stories were some previously completed but Written by Bob Toomey and drawn by Alex Saviuk, Received a back-up feature in Green Lantern v2 #130. Post-Green Arrow issues, but more importantly, the Green Lantern Corps The Green Lantern Corps played a prominent role in a few of O'Neil’s Green Lantern wasn’t tethered to Green Arrow, there was more room toĮxplore the Green Lantern mythos, and that included the Green LanternĬorps. Another interesting development was occurring: now that Starting to see more of Green Lantern’s classical villains appear (SonarĪnd Evil Star). What’s noteworthy about these issues is that we’re Bob Rozakis wrote issue #130, Mike W Barr wrote #131 and Paul Kupperberg Green Lantern v2 issues #130 to #132 had guest writers. Time for O'Neil to cut and run from DC was up for debate as he had previously killed off Batwoman (Kathy Kane) in the pages of Detective Comics that very same summer. Sinestro (with a dash of classic Green Lantern villains Hector HammondĪnd Star Sapphire thrown in for good measure). Another element O'Neil brought back was Hal Jordan’s arch-nemesis Sinestro - most of O'Neil’sįinal six issues involved a running plot of Hal Jordan battling Sidekick, and Hal Jordan was once again a test pilot for FerrisĪirlines. Love interest, Thomas Kalmaku (AKA Pieface) was back to being his Hal Jordan to his roots - Carol Ferris was re-instated as a potential Six issues of Green Lantern, O'Neil managed to return Series and then left DC to work for Marvel comics in 1980. Wrote another six issues after Green Arrow had been booted out of the (Green Arrow already had a long residency as a feature in World Finest v1 since 1977 - so don’t feel too sorry for him.) Denny O'Neil, who had been writing Green Lantern since it’s DC Explosion revival in 1976 ( Green Lantern v2 #90), After Green Arrow was evicted from the series, Green Lantern v2 began to get a whole lot better. ![]()
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