THE GREEN LANTERN
Real Name: Hal Jordan
First Appearance: Showcase #22
Source of Powers: Absorbed powers from various sources, initially from the main power battery on Oa (Green Lantern #50). Other sources include: chronal energies leftover from Crisis on Infinite Earths (Zero Hour #1), Oa's raw energy (Green Lantern #0), G anthet, the last Guardian (Green Lantern #64), the batteries of Alan Scott and Guy Gardner (Green Lantern Annual #4), and the power cosmic from the Silver Surfer (Green Lantern/ Silver Surfer).
Bio: Hal Jordan was working as a test pilot in his home town of Coast City, when he was chosen by a dying alien named Abin Sur to weld a powerful ring because of his courage and fearlessness. This ring could create anything the welder desired, limited by the will of the bearer. Its only weakness is that it could not affect anything yellow. However, the ring had a time-dependent charge and had to be reenergized by means of a "battery." Abin Sur was only one of 3600 members of a corps of Green Lanterns, commanded by a race of aliens called the Guardians of the Universe.
