Gerard Jones Era (1989-1994) With the demise of Action Comics Weekly, DC set about resurrecting Green Lantern. To do so, it wisely sought to precede a new series with Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn, a six-issue mini-series retelling Hal Jordan's acquisition of his ring. An excellent storyline, it was followed immediately by a third Green Lantern series. The first eight issues of the new series did the hard work of reconstructing the Green Lantern characters in the present, climaxing in a great battle and Hal Jordan set to reconstruct the Corps. The next four issues focused on Guy Gardner. During this storyline, a second six-issue mini-series entitled Emerald Dawn II was launched. Green Lantern #13 was extra-long and focused on Hal's new Corps. A four-issue storyline followed, focusing on John Stuart, assigned to manage the patchwork of cities from various worlds left over after the end of the first eight-issue storyline. Issue #19 was another extra-length issue, this one focused on Golden Age Green Lantern Alan Scott. A family of characters was being systematically -- and quite artistically -- reconstructed. With #25, that family took the form of a family of titles with the launching of Green Lantern: Mosaic -- a risky but ingenious title focusing on John Stuart and the patchwork world of clashing cultures -- and Green Lantern Corps Quarterly -- an anthology handling the wide-flung world of Green Lanterns and related characters. A 3-issue prestige format mini-series, Guy Gardner Reborn, quickly followed. With its conclusion, an ongoing title entitled Guy Gardner was launched. The same month, the ongoing title Darkstars was also launched, focusing on a group competing with the Corps. Almost immediately following, the prestige format one-shot Green Lantern: Ganthet's Tale, co-written by science fiction great Larry Niven, told a tale from Hal Jordan's early days and introduced the Guardian named Ganthet. Green Lantern had in short order become a whole family of titles on par with Superman's or Batman's. As Green Lantern approached #50, a big shake-up was in store for the Green Lantern family of titles. But first, a major event would unite DC's cosmic or outer space titles. Comprised of two bookend specials and taking in two months worth of Green Lantern, Darkstars, and L.E.G.I.O.N. '93 issues, "Trinity" was a major DC event at the time. In the months immediately following "Trinity," Green Lantern: Mosaic would conclude with #18, its experimental nature never adequately catching on with fans. The final fate of the Mosaic world, created in the relaunched Green Lantern's first storyline, was at last revealed. At the same time, in Green Lantern, Hal Jordan returned to Earth and discovered that Coast City, his home since the Silver Age, had been eradicated during Superman's blockbuster "Reign of the Supermen" storyline. DC editorial apparently had dictated that issues #48-50, comprising the "Emerald Twilight" storyline, would feature the destruction of the Corps and of the Guardians -- as well as Hal Jordan becoming a bad guy. Gerard Jones -- who had overseen the Green Lantern titles since Emerald Dawn and who had written the stories that had reconstructed the Corps which DC now so cavalierly wanted demolished -- wrote a script for the story but came into conflict with DC over the changes DC wanted. Though already solicited, Jones's issues were scrapped and a new version ordered -- to be written by Ron Marz, who would replace Jones permanently on Green Lantern. Thus #47 saw Jones's abrupt exit from the title: the end of the era he had guided became visible in the end of the Mosaic world and in the good but rushed "Emerald Twilight" storyline, mirroring the Emerald Dawn mini-series that had launched the new era. As everything Jones had constructed fell apart -- in nicely mirrored though rushed fashion -- Green Lantern Corps Quarterly, with #8, came to an end as well, it title group of characters having been destroyed. An era was indeed over. The Green Lantern family of titles had been scaled back, with Guy Gardner retitled Guy Gardner: Warrior and fighting on alongside Darkstars. In "Emerald Twilight," the Corps was gone, the Guardians and Sinestro killed, and Hal Jordan made nearly omnipotent. In the place of the Hal Jordan and the Corps was Kyle Rayner, to whom Ganthet gave a ring at the end of #50. With the end of the Corps and the series as it had been so carefully constructed, a new and exciting era had begun.

IMAGE	TITLE	DESCRIPTION	STATUS
Prologue 1. Emerald Dawn
Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn #1-6: no creator data entered
Larger Version Available	Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn #1	cover-dated December 1989	0
Larger Version Available	Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn #2		0
Larger Version Available	Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn #3		0
Larger Version Available	Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn #4		0
Larger Version Available	Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn #5		0
Larger Version Available	Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn #6	cover-dated May 1990	0
	Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn [original edition]	collects Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn #1-6; printed on cheap paper at a low price; cover-dated May 1991	0
	Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn [new edition]	new cover in line with the design of other Green Lantern trade paperbacks	0
Prologue 2. Emerald Dawn II
Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn II #1-6: no creator data entered
Larger Version Available	Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn II #1	cover-dated April 1991	0
Larger Version Available	Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn II #2		0
Larger Version Available	Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn II #3		0
Larger Version Available	Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn II #4		0
Larger Version Available	Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn II #5		0
Larger Version Available	Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn II #6	cover-dated September 1991	0
	Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn II	collects Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn II #1-6; printed after the new edition of Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn	0
Prologue 3. Ganthet's Tale
Larger Version Available	Green Lantern: Ganthet's Tale	a 64-page prestige format special; Larry Niven and John Byrne co-script; John Byrne art; contains the first appearance of Ganthet; November 1992	0
1. The Road Back
DC Universe: Trinity #1-2, Green Lantern (third series) #1-47: no creator data entered
	Green Lantern (third series) #1	cover-dated June 1990	0
	Green Lantern (third series) #2		0
	Green Lantern (third series) #3		0
	Green Lantern (third series) #4		0
	Green Lantern (third series) #5		0
	Green Lantern (third series) #6		0
	Green Lantern (third series) #7		0
	Green Lantern (third series) #8		0
	Green Lantern: The Road Back	collects Green Lantern (third series) #1-8	0
2. The Corps
Green Lantern (third series) #9-12: "A Guy and His G'nort" storyline, the first solo Guy Gardner story
	Green Lantern (third series) #9	cover-dated February 1991	0
	Green Lantern (third series) #10		0
	Green Lantern (third series) #11		0
	Green Lantern (third series) #12		0
	Green Lantern (third series) #13	38 pages	0
Green Lantern (third series) #14-17: "Mosaic" storyline, starring John Stuart
	Green Lantern (third series) #14		0
	Green Lantern (third series) #15		0
	Green Lantern (third series) #16		0
	Green Lantern (third series) #17		0
3. Regular Series
	Green Lantern (third series) #18	a Guy Gardner story featuring the Justice League	0
	Green Lantern (third series) #19	about 40 pages; focuses on Alan Scott	0
	Green Lantern (third series) #20		0
	Green Lantern (third series) #21		0
	Green Lantern (third series) #22		0
	Green Lantern (third series) #23		0
	Green Lantern (third series) #24		0
Green Lantern Corps Quarterly #1-8: no creator data entered
Larger Version Available	Green Lantern Corps Quarterly #1	cover-dated June 1992	0
	Green Lantern (third series) #25		0
	Green Lantern (third series) #26		0
	Green Lantern (third series) #27		0
	Green Lantern (third series) #28		0
	Green Lantern (third series) #29		0
Larger Version Available	Green Lantern Corps Quarterly #2	continues into Green Lantern: Mosaic #5; cover-dated September 1992	0
	Green Lantern: Mosaic #5	John Stuart battles Hal Jordan; cover-dated October 1992	0
Larger Version Available	Green Lantern Annual (second series) #1	participates in the "Eclipso: The Darkness Within" storyline running through DC's 1992 annuals; Star Sapphire returns and gets eclipsed; refers to Green Lantern: Mosaic #5 as very recent; cover-dated 1992	0
Green Lantern (third series) #30, Flash (second series) #69, Green Lantern (third series) #31, Flash (second series) #70: "Gorilla Warfare" storyline
	Green Lantern (third series) #30		0
Flash (second series) #69 occurs here
	Green Lantern (third series) #31		0
Flash (second series) #70 occurs here
	Guy Gardner #1	cover-dated October 1992	0
Green Lantern (third series) #32-35: "The Third Law" storyline
	Green Lantern (third series) #32	prologue to the storyline	0
	Green Lantern (third series) #33		0
	Green Lantern (third series) #34		0
	Green Lantern (third series) #35		0
	Green Lantern (third series) #36		0
	Green Lantern (third series) #37	Guy Gardner appears	0
	Green Lantern (third series) #38		0
	Green Lantern (third series) #39		0
	Green Lantern (third series) #40	Hal Jordan battles Ferin Colos (from Darkstars); crosses over with Flash's "Return of Barry Allen" storyline	0
	Green Lantern (third series) #41	Eclipso appears	0
	Green Lantern (third series) #42	Hal gives Carol answer to her proposal of marriage; Deathstroke appears	0
Larger Version Available	Green Lantern Corps Quarterly #5	leads into Green Lantern (third series) #43; cover-dated June 1993	0
	Green Lantern (third series) #43		0
Larger Version Available	Green Lantern Annual (second series) #2	part 7 of the "Bloodlines" storyline running through DC's 1993 annuals; contains the first appearance of Nightblade; cover-dated August 1993	0
Interlude. Skin Graft: The Adventures of a Tattooed Man
Skin Graft: The Adventures of a Tattooed Man #1-4: Jerry Prosser script; Warren Pleece art; Gavin Wilson cover; published through DC's (then-new) Vertigo imprint
	Skin Graft: The Adventures of a Tattooed Man #1	cover-dated July 1993	0
	Skin Graft: The Adventures of a Tattooed Man #2		0
	Skin Graft: The Adventures of a Tattooed Man #3		0
	Skin Graft: The Adventures of a Tattooed Man #4	cover-dated October 1993	0
4. Trinity
DC Universe: Trinity #1, Green Lantern (third series) #44, L.E.G.I.O.N. '93 #57, Darkstars #11, Green Lantern (third series) #45, L.E.G.I.O.N. '93 #58, Darkstars #12, DC Universe: Trinity #2: "Trinity" storyline
	DC Universe: Trinity #1	part 1 of "Trinity"; cover-dated August 1993	0
	Green Lantern (third series) #44	part 2 of "Trinity"; cover-dated August 1993	0
L.E.G.I.O.N. '93 #57, part 3 of the "Trinity" storyline, occurs here
	Darkstars #11	part 4 of "Trinity"; cover-dated August 1993	0
	Green Lantern (third series) #45	part 5 of "Trinity"; cover-dated September 1993	0
L.E.G.I.O.N. '93 #58, part 6 of the "Trinity" storyline, occurs here
	Darkstars #12	part 7 of "Trinity"; cover-dated September 1993	0
	DC Universe: Trinity #2	part 8 of "Trinity"; cover-dated September 1993	0
5. Returning to Earth
Larger Version Available	Green Lantern Corps Quarterly #6	cover-dated September 1993	0
	Green Lantern: Mosaic #16	Flash, Guy Gardner, Power Girl, and Martian Manhunter, all led by Hal Jordan, arrive at the Mosaic to take the cities back; John meets a living Katma Tui; cover-dated September 1993	0
	Darkstars #13	the characters return to Earth following "Trinity"; Flint is kidnapped; cover-dated October 1993	0
	Green Lantern: Mosaic #17	John Stuart battles Hal Jordan, Guy Gardner, Kilowog, Flash, Power Girl, and Martian Manhunter	0
	Darkstars #14		0
	Green Lantern: Mosaic #18	final issue; the previous issue's battle continues; cover-dated November 1993	0
	Darkstars #15		0
	Green Lantern (third series) #46	crosses over with the Superman titles' "Reign of the Supermen" storyline; Hal Jordan returns to earth, discovers the destruction of Coast City, and battles Mongul; cover-dated October 1993	0
	Darkstars #16		0
	Green Lantern (third series) #47	features Green Arrow; cover-dated November 1993	0
	Darkstars #17	cover-dated February 1994	0
Epilogue. Emerald Twilight
Larger Version Available	Green Lantern Corps Quarterly #7	cover-dated December 1993	0
Green Lantern (third series) #48-50: "Emerald Twilight" storyline; Ron Marz script
Larger Version Available At left, the original solicitation for Green Lantern #48, from Advance Comics #58 (October 1993; page 87). At right, the original solicitation for Green Lantern #49, from Advance Comics #59 (November 1993; page 92). Both issues were resolicited in the form in which they were subsequently published, and in which we now know them. Larger Version Available
	Green Lantern (third series) #48	Hal Jordan, devastated by his loss, uses his ring to remake Coast City, including his parents; when the Guardians charge him with using his powers for personal gain, he goes mad and takes off for Oa; Kyle Rayner appears on the last page; Bill Willingham pencils; inks by Romeo Tanghal and Robert Campanella; cover-dated January 1994	0
	Green Lantern (third series) #49	Hal Jordan paves his way through space to Oa, defeating other Green Lanterns and taking their rings; on Oa, Hal Jordan is confronted by a returned Sinestro, chosen as champion for the Guardians; Fred Haynes pencils; inks by Romeo Tanghal and Dennis Cramer	0
	Green Lantern (third series) #50	36 pages; Hal Jordan kills Sinestro, Kilawog, and lastly the Guardians by going into the power battery and absorbing its might, transforming his costume; concludes by having Ganthet, before dying, give Kyle Rayner the last ring; Darryl Banks pencils; Romeo Tanghal inks; sports a glow-in-the-dark cover; cover-dated March 1994	0
	Green Lantern: Emerald Twilight	collects Green Lantern (third series) #48-50	0
Larger Version Available	Green Lantern Corps Quarterly #8	final issue; cover-dated March 1994	0
GREEN LANTERN: MOSAIC
Green Lantern: Mosaic #1-18: no creator data entered
Larger Version Available	Green Lantern: Mosaic #1	cover-dated June 1992	0
	Green Lantern: Mosaic #2		0
	Green Lantern: Mosaic #3		0
	Green Lantern: Mosaic #4	cover-dated September 1992	0
	Green Lantern: Mosaic #6		0
	Green Lantern: Mosaic #7		0
	Green Lantern: Mosaic #8		0
	Green Lantern: Mosaic #9	a Christmas story	0
	Green Lantern: Mosaic #10		0
	Green Lantern: Mosaic #11		0
	Green Lantern: Mosaic #12		0
	Green Lantern: Mosaic #13	John Stuart deals with the KKK and racism	0
	Green Lantern: Mosaic #14		0
	Green Lantern: Mosaic #15	John Stuart confronts those he has killed	0
GREEN LANTERN CORPS QUARTERLY
Larger Version Available	Green Lantern Corps Quarterly #3	cover-dated December 1992	0
Larger Version Available	Green Lantern Corps Quarterly #4	cover-dated March 1993	0
GUY GARDNER
Guy Gardner #1-16, Guy Gardner Reborn #1-3, Guy Gardner: Warrior #17: no creator data entered
	Guy Gardner Reborn #1	cover-dated July 1992	0
	Guy Gardner Reborn #2		0
	Guy Gardner Reborn #3	cover-dated September 1992	0
	Guy Gardner #2		0
	Guy Gardner #3	a silent fight issue	0
	Guy Gardner #4	cover-dated January 1993	0
	Guy Gardner #5		0
	Guy Gardner #6		0
	Guy Gardner #7		0
	Guy Gardner #8		0
	Guy Gardner #9		0
	Guy Gardner #10		0
Guy Gardner #11-14: "Guy Gardner: Year One -- Yesterday's Sins" storyline
	Guy Gardner #11		0
	Guy Gardner #12		0
	Guy Gardner #13		0
	Guy Gardner #14		0
	Guy Gardner #15		0
	Guy Gardner #16	Guy's long-dead brother returns, but becomes Militia and fights Guy; cover-dated January 1994	0
	Guy Gardner: Warrior #17	the title changes with this issue; cover-dated February 1994	0
DARKSTARS
Darkstars #1-17: no creator data entered
Larger Version Available	Darkstars #1	cover-dated October 1992	0
	Darkstars #2		0
	Darkstars #3		0
	Darkstars #4		0
	Darkstars #5		0
	Darkstars #6		0
	Darkstars #7		0
	Darkstars #8		0
	Darkstars #9		0
	Darkstars #10		0

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