What are the best Green Lantern stories before the Geoff Johns era? Can you reccomend some stories from the Bronze Age (1970-1985) and Dark Age (1986-1997)?
What are the best Green Lantern stories before the Geoff Johns era? Can you reccomend some stories from the Bronze Age (1970-1985) and Dark Age (1986-1997)?
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The "Tales of the Green Lantern Corps" 3-issue mini immediately comes to mind.
Any of the Alan Moore ones, though I'm not certain at the moment which issues they appear in.
I really liked the two Emerald Dawn mini series. They retold Hals origin with some modern twists. From him getting his ring to his first meeting and training under Sinestro.
There are 3 trades that I really enjoyed also that collect the issues leading up, during and after Crisis on Infinite Earths. It gives you a little of everything. Hal quiting the corps. John taking over over for the first time. The return of Guy Gardner. It was all sorts of crazyness. The trades are called Green Lantern of Sector 2814. These 3 trades cover issue 172-200 of the first Green Lantern series.
Last edited by Zero Hunter; 10-29-2019 at 12:38 PM.
Pre Johns Green Lantern stories are better than post-Johns GL stories.
Bronze Age collections:
Tales of the Green Lantern Corps vol. 1 - collects the first Green Lantern mini-series, from 1981. It was the first cosmic Corps "epic". Sentimentally, this is my go-to pick for all-time Green Lantern story. It also influenced a lot of what came later - including Blackest Night. But perhaps best of all, this book also collects several classic short stories from the early 1980s, which appeared as back-ups in the GL series. Stories by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, Gil Kane, Len Wein, Marshall Rogers, etc.
Tales of the Green Lantern Corps vol. 2 - collects most of the remaining 1980s alien GL stories not in vol. 1
Green Lantern/Green Arrow: Hard-Traveling Heroes, which collects the classic early 1970s O'Neil/ Adams "relevance" stories. Disclaimer: Highly influential, beautifully drawn, but very much a product of its time.
Green Lantern/Green Arrow: Space-Traveling Heroes, which collects the late 1970s O'Neil/ Grell sci-fi stories. (coming early 2020...with the same disclaimer as the above GL/GA book)
And as noted by the two posts above:
Green Lantern Sector 2814 vol. 1 - Collects the Wein/Gibbons run where Hal Jordan quits being GL, and John Stewart becomes a full-time GL.
Green Lantern Sector 2814 vol. 2 - John Stewart trains as a GL with Katma Tui while Hal deals with retirement. (Somewhere in here Steve Englehart takes over as writer.)
Green Lantern Sector 2814 vol. 3 - The leadup to the Crisis sees Guy joining the mix, along with John, Katma and Hal.
Uncollected stuff worth tracking down:
GL vol. 2 123-129 - The Power War
GL vol. 2 151-171 - The excellent space Exile arc primarily written by Mike W. Barr, which leads directly to the Sector 2814 trade
Last edited by Dr. Ellingham; 10-30-2019 at 10:41 AM.
Alan Moore's short stories, Mosaic, Emerald Dawn I & II.
I think an easy way to look at Thanos stories is that anything written by Jim Starlin, Ron Marz and Keith Giffen is the real Thanos while anything written by other authors should be dismissed as a Thanosi clone.