Green Lantern

188-200

When Joe Staton and I took this book over, Dick Giordano, DC's Editor-in-Chief, told me nothing ever affected its sales; good people, bad people, good stories, bad stories, GREEN LANTERN's numbers never varied.

Six months later, Dick announced to the world that sales had doubled.

When Joe and I took over, Hal Jordan, the regular GL, had quit, and his alternate, John Stewart, had assumed the role - sort of like the famous CAPTAIN AMERICA I did with Sal Buscema. Once again, it was tacitly assumed that Hal would soon reclaim his mask, but since I never repeat myself, I naturally figured, no, let's keep John. In fact, let's add GLs from other worlds, and a third from Earth, Guy Gardner, and just expand these Guardians of the Universe into the universe...

By the time we reached #200, we were ready to rename the series THE GREEN LANTERN CORPS.

PS. By becoming a full-fledged leading man, John Stewart is now part of the animated series Justice League.

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NOTES:

191: There had been an ongoing mystery concerning the identity of a villain called the Predator. Since he was male, I decided to make his true identity Hal Jordan's longtime girlfriend.

192: Our first GL classic, as Joe and I traced the girlfriend's history all the way through the past 191 issues to show why it was exactly logical that she should be he. Joe did each excerpt from the past in the original artist's style - a real tour de force.

193: The creation of the new Guy Gardner, DC's most popular hero of the era.

194-198: Our storyline began to run parallel to Marv Wolfman & George Pérez's CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS. As the DC Universe built toward a break with the past, our titles were "5," "4," "3," "2," and then, in the double-sized #198, both "1" and "0."

199: Hal Jordan is GL again, in a story titled "Ignition"...

200: ...but we've definitely not gone back to status quo...