(Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn #1) - Hal’s personal problems got him grounded from and almost got him fired from Ferris Aircraft. Driving home from a bar with his brother Jack and their friends Dee and Andy he crashed his car, and all four were seriously injured. Hal snuck out of the hospital to get to Ferris in the morning and test a flight simulator. An alien force took hold of the flight simulator and brought it to the Sierra Madre Mountains. The dying Green Lantern Abin Sur explained that he needed to pass on his power ring, and the ring chose Hal because he was truthful and fearless. Hal didn't agree with the ring's assessment, but nonetheless assumed the mantle of Green Lantern.

(Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn #2-6) - The police were looking for Hal after his drunk driving accident, so he turned himself over to the authorities. His first night in jail he was attacked by Legion, who fatally wounded Abin Sur and intended to kill his successor. Hal escaped him, but in an effort to find him again Legion attacked the hospital where Jack, Dee and Andy were recovering, killing Andy, then destroyed Ferris Aircraft. Hal realized he had to learn how to properly use his power ring quickly, so he instructed it to take him to the nearest Green Lantern, which happened to be Tomar-Re. Tomar took him to Oa, home of the Guardians of the Universe and the Green Lantern Corps. Tomar realized Hal couldn't function as a Lantern until he stopped pitying himself for his car accident, so he put him under the tutelage of Kilowog. Hal improved immensely over a few weeks, but before the training was over Legion arrived on Oa to destroy the Guardians. Legion decimated the Corps, and the Guardians were ready to flee the planet, but Hal tapped into Oa's central power battery to defeat Legion and sent him packing back to his homeworld. The Guardians were amazed, no Lantern had ever tapped the central power battery before, and they were further astounded when Hal questioned their past dealings with Legion. Few Lanterns were willing to question the Guardians' authority. Hal returned to Earth and pled guilty to drunk driving, and was sentenced to 90 days in the state penitentiary.

(Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn 2 #1-6) - On the way to state penitentiary Hal snuck out and foiled a bank robbery as Green Lantern, and once in jail he met his caseworker Guy Gardner. The Guardians decided Hal's training was still incomplete, so they assigned Sinestro to be his new mentor. Leaving behind a power ring created replica of himself in prison, Hal and Sinestro went into space and broke up alliance talks among the Khunds, Citadel and Dominators. Hal had his doubts about Sinestro, who was arrogant and overbearing, but agreed to meet him every night for training. Hal returned to his jail cell and his secret identity was uncovered by his cellmate Gentleman Willy, so he explained his situation to Will. After weeks of training Sinestro took Hal to his homeworld of Korugar, where the citizens, led by Katma-Tui, were revolting in an attempt to break away from Sinesto's tyrannical rule. They tried to kill Hal too, fearing all Lanterns, and Sinestro blamed the situation on Hal because he had to take a leave of absence from Korugar to train Hal. After a brief fight between the Lanterns and with the Korugarians Sinestro coerced Hal into fleeing Korugar. Hal and Sin returned to the penitentiary to find a prison break was in progress. One of the bank robbers Hal captured on his way to jail recognized him as the Lantern, organized the prisoners and kidnapped Guy Gardner in an attempt to steal Hal's power ring. Hal stopped them and saved Gardner. Sinestro and Hal were taken to Oa by the Fists of the Guardians, who put Sin on trial for the way he ruled Korugar. Hal served as a witness and admitted that Sin was something of a tyrant. Sin was found guilty of crimes against the Corps and banished to Qward.

(Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn #6) - Hal was released from prison and given back his job at Ferris. He once again earned the right to be a test pilot, and resolved to leave his ring behind when testing planes, he wanted to face the danger without any powers.

(Green Lantern III #81) - Qward Weaponers that tried to destroy an experimental Ferris plane and had Green Lantern on the ropes, but he overcame his doubts and used their own weapons instead of his power ring to defeat them.

(Green Lantern III #100) - Hal defended the Guardians when Sinestro held them hostage. With the help of the GLC and time-traveling Green Lantern Kyle Rayner they prevented Sinestro from setting an asteroid on a collision course with Oa and captured the villain. The Guardians tapped the central power battery to send Kyle 10 years into the future. Unfortunately Sinestro, though defeated, managed to force Hal along for the ride.

(Green Lantern III #101, 102) - Kyle broke it to Hal that in the future Coast City was destroyed and Hal went mad and became the villain Parallax. Kyle showed him the remains of Coast City and the memorial statue of Hal. Hal flipped, destroyed the statue and flew off. He came across a school bus of disabled children stuck on railroad tracks and saved them from being hit by a train. This reminded Hal that being a hero here and now and using the power ring to help people mattered more than what the future might bring, and flew back to see Kyle. Kyle brought Hal to Warriors to meet Sentinel, John Stewart and Guy Gardner, who Hal had not yet met in his own time, but who were all happy to see their old friend. Hal went his own way again to go see Carol Ferris and Tom Kalmaku at the new Ferris Aircraft in Indiana. After a happy reunion Hal was attacked by Kalibak, who was trying to avenge at past defeat at Green Lantern Kyle Rayner's hands. Hal defeated Kalibak and made him flee back to Apokolips, but not before their battle did extensive damage to ferris Aircraft. Hal couldn't find any reason to stay in the future besides Carol and Tom, so he decided to stay with them for a while.

(Green Lantern III #103) - Kyle Rayner introduced Hal to the JLA. His old friends welcomed him and gave him a spot on the team. Unbeknownst to Hal, it was Batman who requested they take him in to keep an eye on him in view of Hal's villainous future as Parallax.

(Green Arrow II #136, Green Lantern III #104) - Hal was brooding at the JLA Watchtower when he was approached by Green Arrow Conner Hawke, who needed help in avenging Green Arrow Oliver Queen's death by taking down the Eden Corps. They met with Eddie Fyers, who'd captured a Corps member and persuaded him to give up the Corps base of operations. GA and GL battled the Corps, but allowed themselves to be captured when the Corps threatened to execute "hostages" who turned out to be Corps members in civilian garb. They met Corps member Hardy who Hal recognized as the man who got him tossed out of the air force. Hardy told them the Corps planned to activate Mt. Rainier's dormant volcano and flood Seattle with lava. GL and GA were strapped to a nuke intended to activate the volcano and flown toward Rainier. They escaped, took command of the plane and defeated Hardy and Corps leader Bengal. Afterwards they visited Ollie's grave, and reflected they'd honored his memory by defeating the Corps.

(Green Lantern III #105, 106) - Hal was monitoring the JLA Watchtower when he became aware of a disturbance. Kyle was battling Hal's evil future self Parallax, who traveled into the near future to retrieve his past self. Parallax took Hal and Kyle took them back in time to the moment before Coast City's destruction and tried to convince his past self that his quest to remake the universe was just. The younger Hal told Parallax he was destroying everything he'd worked for as a hero and they fought. Hal hoped that by refusing to return to his own time he could avoid the fate of becoming Parallax. Kyle Rayner convinced them that they both had to return to their own times, because Hal had to become Parallax so Parallax could soon give up his life to reignite Earth's son. Hal was so proud of Kyle continuing the GL tradition that he bestowed the gift of a self-replicating power ring on him. Parallax and Hal used their power rings in conjunction with Kyle's to erase their memories of this time jaunt and return themselves to their own times. Back in his own time Hal battled Sinestro, defeated him and destroyed his yellow power ring.

(Flash II #130 (fb)) - The Suit Dell Meriwether slaughtered a number of police officers and citizens before Green Lantern and Flash teamed up to defeat him. Dell was later sent to the electric chair, but the Suit vanished.

Hal became one of the most celebrated Green Lanterns in the Corps history and was a founding member of the Justice League of America.

(Justice League of America I #1) - Flash came upon Saranna and Jasonar, two refugees from Kalanor. The tyrant Despero had conquered their home dimension, and Jasonar had perfected an anti-weapon device to disable Despero's arsenal. Flash summoned the JLofA and they prepared to use Jasonar's dimensional traveler to go to Kalanor, but Despero had ambushed Green Lantern and the JLofA and held them in stasis in their hq. He planned to banish them to other dimensions, but couldn't affect Flash, who'd been exposed to the radiation of the dimensional traveler that made him immune to Despero's teleport beam. He challenged Flash to a variation of chess, using the JlLofA as pawns. he rigged the game with his mental powers, and each time Flash lost a pawn, a leaguer was teleported to another dimension. Flash lost and entered a dimensional traveler to the world of Narx. Aquaman and Green Lantern were sent to the water-planet Thanakon, which Despero was destroying with a flying burning glass. They saved the Thanakonians and left the planet, meeting up with other Leaguers who'd saved other worlds from destruction by Despero, and together they returned to Earth. Despero caught up with Jasonar and was about to take his anti-weapon device, when Snapper, who'd stowed away on Despero's traveler turned the anti-weapon on him, sapping his energy. The League allowed Jasonar to take Despero back to Kalanor as a prisoner.

(Justice League of America I #4) - Green Lantern and the JLofA nominated Green Arrow as their new member when they received a message from the alien Carthan, who'd kidnapped the Arrow. he told the team he'd placed three engines of destruction around the world, and that it was up to them to disable them and free Arrow. Carthan was only posing as a villain, the tyrant Xandor had exiled him from his planet Dryanna, and the engines prevented him from leaving Earth. Green Lantern disabled the engine in Rome, Italy that was animating buildings and giant movie props. The rest of the JLofA disabled the other two engines and freed Arrow, but Carthan imprisoned the team in a hollow diamond so he could explain that he was not a villain. Batman, who wasn't trapped, knocked him into the control panel of his ship, and Carthan couldn't dissipate the diamond. he showed Green Arrow the stress point of the diamond, and the archer used his skills to shatter the prison with a diamond-tipped arrow.

(Justice League of America I #5) - Green Lantern was imprisoned by Dr. Destiny, who put him aboard his ship and kept him from moving with a will-deadener ray. He then impersonated Green Lantern and met with the JLofA so he could destroy the team. Green Arrow exposed Destiny as an imposter and the team took him to the police. They walked into Destiny's trap, as he had a ship nearby that hit the League with an anti-gravity and will-deadener ray. He prepared to put them aboard a rocket ship, and with their wills gone they'd be helplessly floating in space forever. His prisoner Green Lantern escaped, because using the will-deadener on the League sapped power from the ray aimed at him. The League apprehended Destiny and closed the case.

(Justice League of America I #6) - Flash and the other members of the JLofA had an incident of bad luck on standard cases, but didn't realize their difficulties were caused by Prof. Amos Fortune, who was testing his Stimoluck that caused either good or bad luck in anyone it was aimed at. Letters to the JLofA came in requesting the League's help, and they found two worthy causes. Flash, Green Arrow and Martian Manhunter handled one case in which Hazel Deeping sought the fortune on her farm hidden by her grandfather because she needed the money to aid her grandparents. The grandfather left a clue in the form of a poem, but by the time they realized the treasure was in the farm's antique gateposts Fortune, with his luck boosted by the Stimoluck, had purchased them from Deeping. Fortunately the League had also found a valuable painting by Gilbert Stauart and a reservoir of oil on the farm. Aquaman, Green Lantern and Wonder Woman went to Sea Dunes to solve a series of robberies to a museum. The museum was built from an old castle and impenetrable, but the custodian Charles Hobart was using a fishing reel to steal pieces from the barred window. The put him in custody, but spotted Fortune taking off with other pieces Hobart had stolen and hidden in a cliff face. They pursued him, but Fortune managed to capture all the members of the JLofA through sheer luck, and he tied them to a Wheel of Misfortune that would destroy the human glands that gave people good luck and would cause the League to forever after have bad luck. The Wheel only affected human physiology, so Martian Manhunter was able to escape, disable the machine and defeat Amos Fortune.

(Justice League of America I #15) - Stone giant Untouchable Aliens stole military weapons and tried to eradicate Brasilia, Tokyo and Central City, but were foiled by Green Lantern and the JLofA. Green Lantern probed their minds and brought the League to their world, an Earth separated from ours because it existed one minute into the future. The Aliens set off a cobalt bomb at the same time our Earth tested a nuclear bomb, weakening the barrier between world. The Alien's cities were going to merge with the three Earth cities they tried to destroy, because two objects occupying the same time and space would be disastrous. They could not move their own cities because the cities were rigged to explode if tampered with, a failsafe against invasion. Green Lantern used his ring to completely separate the Alien's Earth from ours, preventing catastrophe.

(Green Lantern II #36) - Carol Ferris was working late and preparing to lock up the plans for a multi-million dollar night-fighter plane, the Z-25, when a mechanized toy clown on a pogo stick snatched the plans up. She roused Hal, and they pursued the clown by car, but it made a getaway by leaping from a cliff. Hal secretly used his GL ring to put a tracking beam on the toy clown, tracking it to a den of spies led by inventor Eben Marlow. GL used a listening device to spy on them and learned that Marlow’s safehouse was filled with deadly radiation, and the only reason he and his cohorts were unaffected was because of neutralizers they wore around their necks. GL used his power ring to turn his organic body into a robot form and leapt into the safehouse. He couldn’t use his power ring because of the yellow nature of the radiation, and when he punched one of the spies, the force of his blow tore off his robotic hand. Marlow used an electromagnetic field to keep GL in stasis, and the gang left to rob the Rufus Adams coin collection. Fortunately for GL his severed hand was close enough to the safehouse’s wall to turn off the magnetic field without being interfered with by the yellow radiation. Turning himself back into a human GL apprehended the spies. They told GL and the police that he had no evidence against them, but GL brought the lot back to their safehouse, and he just had to wait for one of Marlow’s toys to bring back the purloined coins. GL returned the Z-25 plans to Carol, and she demanded he accept her reward of a dinner date. He protested that she should invite Hal, and she told him she would, but the later Hal showed up the better. GL understood the irony of competing against himself for Carrol’s affections.

(Green Lantern II #36) - Hal was invited to a weekend retreat at Sally and Steve Davis’ dude ranch upstate. He’d served with their son Bill in the air force, and had been friends with them ever since visiting them after Bill’s death. They tried to pair him up with lodger Dorrine Clay, and Hal was intrigued by her because she continually ignored him. He took her for a boat ride and sang her a romantic song accompanied by guitar, apparently to no effect. His heart was still set on Carrol, but his pride made him want to win her over. The next day he secretly followed her and found her near Wasson Lake, the site of recent extraterrestrial activity. By using his ring to read her mind he found out that she was an alien named Onu Murtu from the planet Garon and her people had been enslaved by the Headmen, who used a cerebro-ray to control the populace. By chance the ray didn’t work on her, and she plotted against the Headmen, developing equations and technology to undo the effects of the cerebro-ray, and when she was found out she fled to Earth. Hal appeared to her as Green lantern and offered his help, but just then the Headmen appeared. They tried to trick GL by telling him her thoughts were a lie, and that she was a wanted criminal. GL was unsure of whom to trust, but made up his mind when the Headmen tipped their hand, attempting to use a sniper to take out the distracted GL. GL forced them to flee and offered to help Onu Murtu free her people. She refused, telling him that her people used to be a proud race, and that she had to lead the rebellion herself. She flew back into space, and left a note with GL for Hal. It said Hal had won her heart, but duty called, and she’d return one day if she could. GL was enthralled that he hadn’t lost his charm.

(New Gods III #19 (fb)) - Green Lantern saved Victor Lanza from a mugger, and was impressed with the kindly old man’s concern for the thug that’d just attacked him.

(Justice League of America I #117) - The Equalizer infected Thanagar with microbes that made everyone average, with no one smarter, stronger or more capable than anyone else. Hawkman found he no longer had the power to be a law enforcement agent, and pursued the Equalizer, who was heading towards Earth, in his Thanagarian ship. Hawkman knew he’d need help, so he contacted Green Lantern and the JlofA, and they met him on Mars. The Equalizer’s microbes averaged out the JlofA’s powers, and let Hawkman share in some of them. He didn’t have time to explain his situation, and the JlofA were baffled and thought their loss of powers were an attack by their former ally. Hawkman managed to defeat them, and left them on Mars while he continued to chase the Equalizer. The League focused their reduced willpower on Green Lantern’s ring, allowing them to catch up to Hawkman, who was at a standstill with the Equalizer. After Hawkman explained the situation the League aided him, but the Equalizer countered any attack they mustered. They realized that he also equalized his emotions in response to theirs, so they focused their thoughts on hate to make him give a loving response. The Equalizer realized how much they despised him, so he cured the League of the microbes infecting them and either self-destructed or returned to his home galaxy. Hawkman realized he couldn’t return to Thanagar for fear of being reinfected until he found a cure, and asked for readmission to the League. The JlofA voted him back in, and he shed a single tear of gratitude.

(Justice League of America I #119) - After the JlofA defeated the Adaptoids, they had Green Lantern relocate them to an uninhabited planet where they could keep an eye on them. 

(Justice League of America I #125, 126) - Lugons of energy built up in the Dronndarians dimension and threatened to reach critical mass. To siphon off the energy three Dronndarians used their transmission facilities to send their minds to Earth. Their intellects inhabited statues of Julius Caesar, Benjamin Franklin and Napoleon, and offered underworld figures a chance for a one-time use of unlimited power. Each time a criminal used the transmitted lugons of energy to murder a rival or commit a crime, Dronndarr gained more time before exploding. The Dronndarrians approached Batman nemesis Two-Face, but his schizophrenic personality made him turn down the offer in hopes of saving Earth. He alerted the Justice League of America, and they were initially skeptical, but the details of his story panned out; Green Lantern had just been defeated by petty criminals powered by lugon energy. They allowed him to help them quell a riot at Oceanside Prison led by “Bull” Langdon and other criminals powered by the Dronndarians. Aquaman figured out that the lugon energy was short-circuited by water, and commanded whales to splash the criminals, ending the riot. They confronted the Dronndarrians, who fled from their animated statues and returned home. The Dronndarrians realized they had failed, even if the League hadn’t intervened they hadn’t siphoned off nearly enough energy to save their world. They went to the Anti-Matter Universe and contracted the Weaponers of Qward to save their world by destroying Earth with a massive burst of lugon energy. The Qwardians employed Two-Face, who’d decided to turn against the League, to attach Dronndarian power blast devices to each of the Leaguers, and tell them about their planned attacks on Bonn, Sydney and Toronto. The JlofA released more and more lugons of energy into Earth as they battled and overcame the Qwardians, but Atom realized the Qwardian scheme and Two-Face’s betrayal. He alerted his teammates and they allowed the Qwardians to beat them until the last of their lugon energy was siphoned back to Dronndar. GL used his power ring to observe the Dronndarians final fate, as their world exploded they evolved into gbeings of pure energy to survive.

(Justice League of America I #127) -The Anarchist kidnapped several world leaders in the name of bringing chaos to the world’s governments, and challenged the JlofA to stop him from kidnapping a group of U.N. delegates. Superman, Green Arrow, Flash and Red Tornado responded, but the Anarchist and his cronies fought them to a standstill and snatched the delegates, leaving the U.N. furious with the Justice League. Clark Kent covered a performance by Simon Elis, faith-healer, and was convinced that he was the Anarchist. The JlofA followed Elias, but he foiled them with a burst of energy, and managed to teleport away with League members Batman, Black Canary and Elongated Man. Green Lantern told Superman that someone was mind-controlling him, forcing him to recharge his power ring and siphoning off the energy, and they deduced that the Anarchist was the culprit. The next time the Anarchist tried to make GL recharge, GL convinced Superman to knock him out with a punch. The JlofA tracked down the Anarchist, and he revealed that he was using Green Lantern’s powers and creating chaos so that he could restore the world order as Simon Elis and become a dictator. Without GL’s power to draw off, the Anarchist and his cronies were easy pickings for the League.

(Green Lantern IV #19 (fb)) - Hal briefly dated Air Ferris stewardess Debbie Darnell. He got bored with her, and she told him not to say he was going to call when he wasn’t. Hal wished her good luck, said they had fun, and sent her on her way. The Star Sapphire later approached Debbie because Hal briefly desired her, and made her into the Star Sapphire of the Secret Society oif Super-Villains.

(Joker #7) - As part of Operation Mindbreak Lex Luthor was using a beam to target Green Lantern to steal his fearlessness and willpower. Joker wanted in on this, and interfered with the process, as a result Lantern was unaffected, while Joker gained Lex’s genius and Lex gained Joker’s insanity.

(DC Comics Presents #6) - GL battled Star Sapphire above Star City, she was again attempting to defeat him and force him to marry her. Carol had recently broken up with him, and subconsciously his love for her almost made him want to marry Star Sapphire, to accept Carol even in this twisted state. His willpower weakened and she defeated him, but in his injured state he fled to Metropolis and gave his ring to Superman. Superman battled Star Sapphire, buts she used her mind over matter powers to reclaim the ring. She flew off, found GL in the hospital, and piloted a starship to Zamora for their forced marriage. Superman used the JLA’s satellite to track the likeliest path to Zamora and intercepted them. He defeated Star, taking her sapphire and returning her to her Carol Ferris identity. GL returned her to Earth.

(Green Lantern II #124) - Lantern attended the opening of the New Age Museum dedicated to space travel along with Green Arrow. Sinestro destroyed the museum, and Lantern was ready to pursue him. Arrow asked to accompany him, but Lantern held fast to the idea that dealing with Sinestro was his personal business. Arrow left and told Lantern they shouldn't have adventures together for a while. On Korugar Lantern found Sinestro hiding in a Null Chamber, and with Katma Tui's aid he forced the villain to flee to Qward.

(Green Lantern II #125-127) - At Green Lantern's request Tom set up a sonar-activated burglar alarm over a portal to Qward, which would alert Lantern when Sinestro returned to Earth. Sinestro soon appeared, Hal bested him in combat, took his yellow power ring and forced Sinestro to return to Qward. Lantern followed, and a young boy named Fabian followed him in. Lantern broke into the Weaponers of Qward's fortress, but lost the element of surprise when Fabian revealed himself. Sinestro had his new power ring, and Lantern used a Weaponer's thunderbolts to hold him off and retreated back to Earth with Fabian in tow. Lantern found Earth was being invaded by a fleet of Weaponer ships. The Weaponers hired the Shark to occupy Green Lantern, and he did manage to incapacitate Green Lantern with a Weaponers weapon that collected gold from the ocean and formed a capsule that trapped Lantern. Lantern escaped only to find Shark de-evolved into his original tiger shark body by the Weaponers, and sent him to the ocean so he wouldn't suffocate on land. Lantern uncovered a Qwardian outpost, and after defeating the guards used their teleporter to go to Oa, where a squad of Weaponers had the Guardians helpless and trapped in the Central Power Battery. Lantern found himself in the Battery and teamed with the Guardians to call in the Corps. A number of Corps members were killed, but one managed to free Hal and the Guardians. Sinestro turned against the Weaponers when they revealed his usefulness to them was at an end, so he teamed with Lantern to destroy a yellow vortex that kept most of the Corps from reaching Oa. Once on Oa the Corps utterly defeated the Weaponers. A number of Lanterns were lost, and Hal said it was a time for mourning.

(DC Comics Presents #26) -Hal received a distress call from Green Lantern Archon Z’Gamora, who said he was stranded in a time dimension, and his ring had been destroyed. Hal responded only to find Arcgon dead. The shape shifting alien N’Gon had killed him, and used his image to lure in Hal so he could acquire his power ring. He used his death-stare on Hal, but Hal used his ring to separate his soul from his body just in time. N’Gon took his ring, assumed his form, and lured Superman to the time dimension to steal his power. Hal’s soul reentered his body, and he warned Superman of the trap. Superman battled N’Gon and overcame the power ring, and tossed it back to Hal, who was shocked that anyone was that powerful. He created a cell to keep N’Gon locked in the time dimension. Superman told him that N’Gon had taken him right as he was about to save a construction worker falling to his death, and Hal explained that the time dimension would let them reenter their own world at an earlier point. This allowed Superman to save the construction worker, and he told Hal he never doubted how useful the power ring was.

(Identity Crisis #3 (fb)) - The Secret Society switched bodies with the JLA. They took time to document the JLA’s secret identities. After being defeated Lantern and the JLA erased their memories with Zatanna’s help.

(Identity Crisis #2, 6 (fb)) - Lantern and the JLA defeated Hector Hammond, an then received a distress call from Sue Dibny from the JLA satellite. They found Sue being savaged by r. Light and quickly defeated him. Elongate Man took Sue to the hospital, but Light threatened the rest of the JLA, telling them he’d find their loved ones and do to them what he did to Sue. Hawkman proposed that they mindwipe Dr. Light and make him less of the threat, but Lantern sided against him. After the deciding vote was cast Zatanna used her magic to erase Light’s memory, but in trying to alter her personality she magically lobotomized him, making him a minimal threat. Batman saw what they were doing and tried to stop them, so they decided to erase his memory of what they did to Light.

(Flash II #215, 216 (fb)) - Flash came to Lantern and the JLA and asked Zatanna to brainwash Top, one of his most dangerous foes, and make him into a hero. The League debated the morality of once again having Zatanna alter someone’s mind, but Zatanna agreed to help Flash because she thought it would be to Top’s benefit to be reformed.

after Crisis (Green Arrow III #17 (fb)) - After Flash's death, Lantern and Arrow tried to store his personal effects to keep his identity secret and protect his surviving loved ones. They weren't fast enough, and a month later the Flash Museum had an exhibit revealing his identity.

(Green Lantern Special #1) - Hal attended the senate hearing on John Stewart, who had to answer for the destruction and injuries caused by battles between Star Sapphire and Green Lantern. Only Hal knew that they had the wrong Lantern, it was him and not Stewart who fought Sapphire. The senate announced they were planning on extraditing John to South Nambia, Africa for stealing from a diamond mine. Again it was Hal that was responsible and not John. Hal got John's power ring from the Old Timer, recharged it by giving up some of his own power ring's energy, and gave it to John, who was rotting away in a Nambian jail cell. Weeks later Superman informed Hal that John used the power ring to destroy the jail and free all the prisoners. Hal returned to Nambia and confronted John as he was disrupting a festival celebrating Nambia's new trade route. John told Hal he was going to destroy the super-tankers that Nambia sunk money into in order to fund their trade and their apartheid government. Hal told him he was abusing his power, and they fought. Dorian Alexander, who John was working with as part of the African Nationalist Resistance, set off bombs at the festival, causing John to cease his hostilities against Hal and rethink his own actions in Nambia. John tried to return his ring to Hal, but Hal said he trusted him, and insisted he continue his work as a Lantern.

(Adventures of Superman #430 (add to other issue summary) - Superman fought alongside Hal and the Corps.

(Green Lantern III #1) - Lantern visited the Justice League and they asked if he'd join them, even though Guy Gardner said the League had no room for two Lanterns. Green Lantern turned down the League's offer, telling them he was trying to get away from superheroics and reconnect with his human side. As Hal Jordan he returned to the mining town of Desolation, now renamed Hope Springs and visited Lantern's old acquaintance Rose Lewis. He took a room and board job working Rose's farm and almost struck up a romance with Rose before Guy Gardner showed up and spitefully tricked Hal into revealing he was Green Lantern. Rose thought superheroes were trouble, so Hal once again hit the road.

(Green Lantern III #2) - Hal took a fishing job in a coastal town, but Guy Gardner found him and once again got Hal to reveal that he was Green Lantern and got him fired after he helped Guy defeat the Tattooed Man.

(Green Lantern III #3) - Hal arrived in Kudz City where Guy Gardner once again tracked him down. Guy didn't believe Hal was trying to quit the superhero life, and refused to stop following him, so Hal challenged him to a fight without power rings. They left their rings in a diner and duked it out. Hal was on the verge of winning when they were arrested for disturbing the peace. Two locals found the power rings and went wild with them, and Hal convinced the jail's warden to release him and Guy so they could stop then new wielders of the power rings. Hal defeated the duo using willpower and reclaimed his ring and gave Guy's back to him. Guy was suitably impressed and promised to leave Hal alone and let him follow his own course in life.

(Green Lantern III #4-8) - Hal took a job as a migrant worker in California, but finally got a reason to stop his wandering resume his career as Green Lantern when John Stewart warned him in dreams that the Old Timer was stealing all the towns Hal, Green Arrow and Old Timer visited on their road trip years ago and bringing them to Oa. Old Timer took Hal and dropped him in Hope Springs, one of the many places in his new Mosaic World on Oa, where Hal spent time with Rose and her son. Hal had no way to defeat the Old Timer by himself, so in desperation he contacted Guy Gardner. He then got hold of John Stewart, who the Old Timer mind-linked with, told John to take advantage of it. While the Old Timer was distracted by John and Guy, Hal entered Oa's central power battery and sent a message to the self-exiled Guardians. The Guardians returned to Oa but the Old Timer was making short work of them until Hal intervened. He gave them advice on fighting, then had John Stewart weaken Old Timer's resolve using their mental link. The fight ended with the Guardians taking Old Timer's life. They announced they would remain on Oa and rebuild the Corps. While the Guardians debated how best to use Hal, John and Guy's talents, Hal met with Rose and promised her the Guardians would return her to Earth as soon as they could.

(Green Lantern III #16, 18) - While Hal patrolling space with Brik and Chaselon, Chaselon received a distress signal from his people on Oa's Mosaic World. The trio arrived to find the Mosaic communities in revolt. Hal was ready to take charge and put down the revolt, but John Stewart, protector of Mosaic, reminded him that he called the shots on Mosaic. Hal agreed, and together the Lanterns ended the violence.

(Green Lantern III #22-24) - Hal, Brik, Kworri and Aa located Star Sapphire, who was being kept in stasis aboard a Teban warship by Chieftain Kreon of the Tebis and Flicker. Flicker threatened to kill Sapphire unless Hal agreed to fight for the Tebans against the Quahoogans. Thanks to Aa's quick thinking they saved Sapphire and forced Flicker to flee. Hal sent Kworri home to Dryad, his unthinking obedience made him a poor probational Lantern, and took Aa off probie status and made him a full Green Lantern. Hal, Aa and Brik were transporting Sapphire to Oa when she woke up and attacked, taking out Aa and Brik. Her real target was Hal, she still wanted to subdue and kill him. Hal kept trying to find ways to bring Carol Ferris' personality back to the surface, and it almost cost him his life in battling Sapphire before was was distracted by the Tebans. During their fight Brik had sent a distress signal to John Stewart. Hal feared John would kill Star Sapphire so when John arrived they initially fought each other before Star Sapphire attacked them. The rest of the Corps arrived as backup, and defeated Sapphire as well as her new ally Flicker. Hal finally succeeded in bringing Carol's personality back to the surface and took her to Oa. Hal appointed Kreon and Tomar-Tu the last two new Green Lanterns, thus fulfilling his deal with the Guardians, and enabling him to resume his career as Green Lantern of Earth.

(Green Lantern III #25) - Hal visited the Justice League to find Guy Gardner, and they told him he was at his apartment. Hal tried to reason with Guy into giving up his spot as Earth's Green Lantern now that Hal had finished his job recruiting Green Lanterns from around the universe. Guy told Hal he was the better man for the job and called Hal gutless. He would only give up his spot if Hal fought him. Hal initially declined, but Guy relentlessly baited him until Hal couldn't take any more and attacked. Their fight was interrupted by the Justice League and Green Lantern Corps, who pointed out that the battle was causing heavy damage to New York City. Guy's solution was for them to finish the fight without power rings. Hal prevailed using a rope-a-dope, winning the fight and becoming Earth's Green Lantern once again. He also demanded Guy surrender his power ring to him.

(Green Lantern III #26-28) - Lantern returned to Coast City and discussed his plans of starting a small air-transport company with Carol Ferris. They also agreed that while they didn't know what would happen in the future, for the present they would stay just friends. At the end of the night with Carol Lantern was attacked by Evil Star. He defeated Evil Star, but Star later sent his Starlings to steal Lantern's power battery. Lantern was powerless, but managed to find Evil Star, who couldn't figure out how to use the power battery and demanded Lantern demonstrate. Lantern used this opportunity to recharge his ring and defeat Star once again. He then delivered Star to the Guardians.

(Green Lantern III #30, 31, Flash II #69, 70) - Green Lantern was contacted by Detective Chimp, the chief of the Bureau of Amplified Animals and informed that Gorilla Grodd had escaped from his Gorilla City prison. Lantern was teamed up with Rex the Wonder Dog and sent to Gorilla City to investigate. Flash was on the scene as well, and they witnessed Grodd and Hector Hammond mentally warring over control of an evolutionary meteorite. The meteorite exploded, turning Lantern into a Neanderthal and Flash into a mental giant with an atrophied body. The near-mindless Lantern attacked Flash, but Flash used his mental powers to exert willpower over Lantern's ring and ordered it to turn the heroes back to normal. Together they stopped Grodd from taking over Gorilla City.

(Green Lantern III #32, 33) - Hal bought a plane for air transport business and decided he was tired of having things up in the air with Craol. He wanted to find a way to rekindle their relationship, but she was hesitant to give him an answer. Hal finally found Arisia, who told him Floro contacted her and the New Guardians needed help. Before Hal could help the Guardians he had to find someone to watch Arisia. She wanted to stay by his side, but he made it clear their relationship was over. Kilowog was too busy training GLC recruits to take her to Oa, so he left her in the care of the Justice League. By the time Hal got to the New Guardians Kroef's Island they had all beed absorbed into Entropy, who told Hal they were out to destroy the works of the Guardians of the Universe including New Guardians and GLC for "breaking the third law." Hal contacted the Guardians, who wouldn't help and wouldn't talk about Entropy.

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(Green Lantern III #34, 35) - Hal went to Oa to confront the Guardians about the Entropy situation and chastised them for not taking care of Arisia and the New Guardians among others. Entropy attacked the Guardians and made Hal and the GLC doubt the Guardians, telling them the third law of thermodynamics demanded that order, which the Guardians preserved, must eventually break down into entropy. To rally Hal Ganthet revealed the final goal of the Guardians. Krona's terrible experiment ages ago used up a billion years of the universe's usable energy. Because of this, when the current universe collapsed it would not be able to create a new singularity, and from there a new universe. By creating a universe of order the Guardians hoped to preserve enough usable energy to one day ensure that a new universe would emerge from the old. Hal and the Corps defeated Entropy with the sacrifice of the Chosen, who had also been absorbed by Entropy. They gave up their lives to dissipate Entropy's power. The Guardians gave Hal and the other Corps members a new mission, each of them had to recruit twelve new Corps members.

(Guy Gardner #6) - Guy couldn't resist a chance to brawl with Hal, but the fight ended when Hal suggested they pool their resources to go after Goldface. Guy told him he was following Mr. Gullett's lead that Goldface was in McTeague's Corner in Death Valley, and Hal suspected it was a trap. They argued and Guy decided he would go to Death Valley without Hal so he could show him up. Hal felt a twinge of vanity, and couldn't stand the idea of a GLC dropout being more successful Corps member. He took Tom Kalmaku to Chinatown where Hal suspected Goldface was running gold through a Hong Kong jewelry importer.

(Green Lantern III #44) - Under Guardian orders Hal went to Maltus to observe the Triarch. L.E.G.I.O.N.naires attacked the Triarch, and the gods fired back. Hal saw no option but to disregard the Guardian's non-interference order and attacked the Triarch to prevent bloodshed. Hal did little more than annoy the Triarch before the L.E.G.I.O.N. pulled him out of the fight, told him this was their battle, and told him to stay out of the way.

(Green Lantern III #45) - The Darkstars tried to prevent Hal and the GLC from interfering with the Triarch, but the Corps' experience working as a team helped them defeat the Darkstars. As Hal and the Corps were about to deal with the Guardians, L.E.G.I.O.N. called in a fleet of ships to confront them.

(Showcase '93 #12) - GL rookie Lan Dibbux sent out a distress signal when a warship destroyed a planet in his Space Sector, and made its way toward the planet Fae'en. GL Hal Jordan responded, but on Fae'en they met Kristogar Velo, a self-proclaimed Green Lantern.Velo helped the GLs ward off the warship, but his aging body couldn't generate enough power to destroy it. Lan boosted his power supply, enabling him to save the day. Lan didn't approve of an unauthorized "Green Lantern," but Hal respected his courage and dedication.

Mongul destroyed Coast City and built a massive engine on top of its remains

(Superman: The Man of Steel #26, Green Lantern III #46) - Hal fought his way inside Mongul's engine and confronted Mongul. After an intense battle he defeated Mongul and rescued Superman from his clutches. Hal was glad his old friend was resurrected but deeply mourned the loss of Coast City and its' citizens. Carol Ferris drove to Coast City and Hal was ecstatic that she hadn't been in Coast when it was destroyed, but she broke the news to him that Flicker had kidnapped Tom Kalmaku.

(Green Lantern III #47) - Lantern and Carol went to Crosswinds, where they found Tom, as well as Olivia Reynolds and Green Arrow, who were also kidnapped by Crosswinds. After driving off Crosswinds employee Flicker hey learned the shady business by Crosswinds was an attempt by Crosswinds' owner, Carol Ferris' mother, to bring her daughter closer to her. Carol broke things off with Hal, telling him she wanted to throw herself into business and wanted to work exclusively with her mother. Hal left them to their affairs and tried to strike up old sparks with Reynolds, offering to fly her home, but she stormed off, telling him she'd had enough of superheroics.

(Green Lantern: Rebirth #3 (fb)) - Parallax was awakened inside the Central Power Battery by Sinestro and infected himself on the soul of Hal Jordan.

(Green Lantern III #48-50, Green Lantern: Rebirth #3 (fb)) - Hal went to the former site of Coast City, and created power ring duplicates and had a talk with them even though they were only projections of his unconscious. His father told him he was a failure and his mother told him to grieve and move on. Hal then created an idealized power ring replica of Coast City. The city disappeared when his ring lost its' charge, driving Hal into a fit. A Guardian contacted him, telling him he'd violated Corps rules by using the ring for personal gain and was to go to Oa for disciplinary action. Hal warned him they wouldn't be happy when he got to Oa, he planned to drain their power so he could permanently recreate Coast City. The Guardians placed a number of Lanterns in his way and he maimed or seemingly killed all of them, including Kreon, Tomar-Tu and Kilowog. He claimed each defeated Lantern's ring as his own, and his brutality increased with each encounter. He reached Oa and prepared to drain the central power battery when the Guardians released Sinestro from the battery to battle him. Hal defeated him and broke his neck. Hal blamed the Guardians for his actions because they refused to restore Coast City, but told them he was so far gone he couldn't stop now. He absorbed the power battery and killed the Guardians, though he was unaware that Ganthet survived the attack. When Hal destroyed the Central Power Battery Parallax was freed and took complete possession of Hal’s soul.

Hal took on the identity of Parallax. With Extant at his side he tried to remake all of space-time, but was foiled by Earth's heroes.

(Green Lantern III #105, 106) (During Zero Hour #4) - Parallax sensed a disturbance in the timestream. He knew his past self from 10 years ago was stuck in the near future, so Parallax went into the future to return himself to his own time. He wrecked Warriors and battled Guy Gardner and John Stewart to learn the location of his past self, and flew off to the JLA Watchtower to retrieve him. He was confronted by Green Lantern Kyle Rayner and his past self, and he took them back in time to the moment before Coast City's destruction and tried to convince his past self that his quest to remake the universe was just. The younger Hal told Parallax he was destroying everything he'd worked for as a hero and they fought. Kyle Rayner told them that they both had to return to their own times, because Hal had to become Parallax so Parallax could soon give up his life to reignite Earth's son. Parallax was disturbed with the news of his inevitable fate, but agreed. Parallax and Hal used their power rings in conjunction with Kyle's to erase their memories of this time jaunt and return themselves to their own times.

(Green Lantern III #0) - When the universe was recreated Waverider created a rift to reenter reality and Parallax tagged along and brought Kyle with him. Parralax then brought Kyle to Oa and tried to absorb the green energy of the planet itself. Kyle and Parallax fought, but Parallax moved Kyle with his plea that he could make everything in the universe right again by recreating it. Kyle handed over his ring to Parallax but immediately regretted it and after a brief fight took it back. Parallax created a power ring duplicate of Kyle's dead girlfriend Alex DeWitt and promised to restore her to life when he remade the universe, but Kyle stood firm. He knew the only way to deal with Parallax was to cut off the source of his power, so he overloaded Oa with emerald energy until it exploded.

(Green Lantern III #63, 64) - Parallax came to Kyle Rayner's apartment and asked for his power ring back, telling him no one could replace him as Green Lantern and that it was time his life got back to normal. Kyle refused, and after a long fight Parallax defeated Kyle. Just as he reclaimed the ring Ganthet appeared with former JLAers Aquaman, Flash III, Green Arrow, Hawkman and Martian Manhunter. Parrallax defeated the heroes and when Ganthet summoned Superman Parallax bested him too. Kyle finally talked Parallax down, and Parallax realized he could never go back to being Green Lantern and he gave up the ring. Ganthet then merged with Parallax and they flew off.

(Final Night #4, Spectre III #47, Green Arrow III #1 (fb), 7 (fb), 8 (fb)) - Parallax appeared to Earth's heroes and told them he was ready to save the Earth from the Sun-Eater. Parallax expected to die, so before he did he visited Green Arrow's grave, and he regretted his death, so he gathered cells from Superman's costume that remained when Arrow exploded in front of him, and used them to rebirth Green Arrow. He was worried he was playing god again, and asked advice from the soul of Oliver Queen, who told him to bring back Arrow without a soul, and erase every memory he had of the last ten years because Queen thought he was a better man back in the day when he and Green Lantern were the Hard Traveling Heroes. He still needed to redeem himself, so he sacrificed his life to absorb the Sun-Eater and reignite Earth's sun.

(Day of Judgment #1-5) - Jordan was sent to Purgatory when he died. When several heroes traveled to Purgatory to find a new host for the Spectre, Hal Jordan volunteered, asking for a chance at redeeming himself. The other fallen heroes fought off the Keeper angels that tried to keep Hal's soul in Purgatory, and back on Earth Hal attacked Asmodel, who'd usurped the Spectre-Force. Asmodel turned him to glass and shattered him. Dr. Fate restored Hal's soul, and charged him with enough mystical energy to summon the souls of the Green Lantern Corps members. Hal and the Corps weakened Asmodel, allowing Hal to become the new Spectre. A new threat emerged when Neron possessed Superman, but Hal sent him back to Hell. Jim Corrigan visited Hal, telling him the creator blessed the union of Hal and the Spectre, and Hal set off to start his heavenly mission.

(JLA #35) - Anguished by his new life, the Spectre grew to gigantic proportions and started screaming, attracting the attention of the JLA. Initially the JLA did not recognize Spectre as their old friend Hal Jordan, because it was part of the plan of the Presence that no one should recall the Spectre’s old identity. Thanks to the angel Zauriel the JLA could, for the time, see Spectre as Hal. Confused by his new role as the spirit of vengeance, the Spectre showed the JLA the sins of their past as well as the dark parts of their psyche, citing these as reasons they could soon be targets for his mission of vengeance. In an effort to help Spectre, Martian Manhunter took him inside Joker’s mind and showed a very small part of the killer’s mind that showed the light of the Presence, and therefore the possibility of redemption. Spectre considered turning away from vengeance ad becoming the spirit of redemption.

In Sandman II #2 the Three Witches gave Dream a hint as to who had his dreamstone when they showed Dream an image of Green Lantern and Batman taking Dr. Destiny into custody.

Aquaman Secret Files #1 recounted Aquaman's history from the Atlantis Chronicles, and featured GL.

Flash II #186 had a flashback of Green Lantern’s battles with Goldface. Flash II #219 had a flashback of the Lantern’s appearance in Justice League of America I #2.

A statue of Green Lantern was seen in the JLA Watchtower in Flash II #209.

Green Lantern II had cameos in Action Comics #554, 650, All-Star Comics I #58, Batman Plus #1, DC Comics Presents #30, Flash II #225, Green Arrow III #5, 19, 20, 24, 25, 47, Guy Gardner: Warrior #18, Hawk and Dove III #1, Identity Crisis #1, 7, JLA #9, 24, 27, Martian Manhunter II #0, 12, R.E.B.E.L.S. #10, R.E.B.E.L.S. Annual #1, Secret Six III #30, Showcase '93 #1, Spectre III #54, Swamp Thing II #70, Tales of the Sinestro Corps: Cyborg-Superman #1, Tales of the Sinestro Corps: Superman-Prime #1 and Titans II #12.

GL was pictured on the cover of JLA #122.

In Green Lantern: Mosaic #3 Green Lantern John Stewart conjured an image of Hal Jordan from his memories to battle Sinestro inside of John's own mind.