Green Lantern #49

Feb 1994 · DC · 1.50 USD; 1.95 CAD; 0.70 GBP

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“Emerald Twilight, Part 2: The Present”

★ 1st appearance — Hannu★ 1st appearance — Ke'Haan

About this Issue

Green Lantern #49 is the pivotal middle chapter of 'Emerald Twilight,' the arc that fundamentally dismantled thirty years of Green Lantern mythology by showing Hal Jordan — the character who had defined the franchise — going rogue and systematically stripping power rings from his fellow Corps members on his rampage to Oa. The issue's closing pages, in which the desperate Guardians release the imprisoned Sinestro to serve as their last line of defense, delivered one of the most shocking cliffhangers of the 1990s DC Universe and set the stage for Hal's complete transformation into the villain Parallax. Beyond its shock value, the issue introduced Corps members Ke'Haan and Hannu, characters who would go on to become integral to Geoff Johns's later mythology — particularly the 'Lost Lanterns' subplot of the Sinestro Corps War era — demonstrating that even a transitional chapter could plant seeds with long creative reach. As part of the 'Emerald Twilight' storyline that introduced Kyle Rayner as Hal's successor, this issue sits at the generational dividing line that split Green Lantern fandom for over a decade and ultimately made Hal Jordan's eventual return and rehabilitation in Green Lantern: Rebirth all the more resonant.

writer Ron Marz · artist Fred Haynes · inker Romeo Tanghal · inker Dennis Cramer · colorist Steve Mattsson · letterer Albert DeGuzman · cover Darryl Banks, Romeo Tanghal

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History

The 'Emerald Twilight' story that #49 belongs to had a turbulent genesis: the arc was originally scripted by then-series writer Gerard Jones, whose concept involved two competing sets of Guardians with Hal Jordan forced to determine which was genuine. DC editorial — specifically publisher Paul Levitz along with senior editors Mike Carlin, Dennis O'Neil, and Archie Goodwin, working with Green Lantern editor Kevin Dooley — rejected that approach as insufficiently dramatic for a market hungry for high-stakes events in the wake of 'The Death of Superman' and 'Knightfall.' Jones departed the title with issue #47 and the replacement plot was handed to Ron Marz, an emerging writer with a cosmic pedigree from work on Green Lantern Corps Quarterly, who executed the three-issue story under tight editorial parameters he later acknowledged publicly. Issue #49 itself was pencilled by Fred Haynes with inks by Romeo Tanghal and Dennis Cramer, while Darryl Banks — the artist who would define the Kyle Rayner era going forward — handled the cover.

Trivia · 8 facts

Part 2 of the three-part 'Emerald Twilight' arc (Green Lantern #48–50, 1994), titled 'The Present,' written by Ron Marz with pencils by Fred Haynes and inks by Romeo Tanghal and Dennis Cramer; cover art by Darryl Banks.
First appearance of Ke'Haan of Varva (sector 786), Kilowog's second-in-command and one of the Corps' toughest training officers, created by Ron Marz and Fred Haynes.
First appearance of Hannu of Ovacron Six (sector 2), a physically massive Lantern whose warrior culture forbids the use of weapons, meaning he fights with raw strength rather than ring constructs — a distinctive trait that would define him through multiple subsequent storylines.
Hal Jordan defeats and steals the power rings of a gauntlet of Corps members — including Ke'Haan, Laira, Tomar-Tu, Jack T. Chance, General Kreon, Hannu, Graf Toren, and Boodikka (whose right hand he severs to take her ring) — then overpowers Kilowog on Oa itself.
Sinestro appears at the very end of the issue in a cliffhanger cameo: the Guardians, out of options, release his spirit from the Central Power Battery and restore him as a Green Lantern to face Jordan — with the actual confrontation and its consequences playing out in issue #50.
Edited by Kevin Dooley (editor) and Eddie Berganza (assistant editor); on-sale date January 20, 1994, with a cover date of February 1994.
Reprinted in the Green Lantern: Emerald Twilight trade paperback (1994, with cover art by Tony Harris), the Green Lantern: Emerald Twilight/New Dawn TPB (2003), the Green Lantern: Kyle Rayner Vol. 1 trade paperback (2017), the Green Lantern: 80 Years of the Emerald Knight Deluxe Edition (2020), and the Green Lantern: Kyle Rayner Rising Compendium (2023); a Facsimile Edition was also solicited for 2026.
The Corps members Ke'Haan, Hannu, Laira, and others defeated in this issue survived (unknown to the Guardians at the time) and were later retconned as the 'Lost Lanterns' — prisoners of the Manhunters on Biot — whose rediscovery became a major subplot in Geoff Johns's Green Lantern run and the Sinestro Corps War.