The most famous of all the Green Lanterns, Hal Jordan put on the Lantern s ring for the first time in 1959. Reinvented from the original 1940s crime-fighting Green Lantern by John Broome, this new Green Lantern was a science-fiction adventurer.He battled aliens, giant monsters and wealthy sociopaths out to steal his ring, and fended off the efforts of his love, Carol Ferris, to discover his true identity.As the Green Lantern of the Silver Age of comic books, Hal Jordan captured the imagination of a space-minded society of the 50s and 60s.
