Green Lantern Corps Quarterly #2

History

Green Lantern Corps Quarterly launched in Summer 1992 as a direct companion to the GL expansion Gerard Jones was orchestrating at DC, running alongside the new monthly Green Lantern series and Green Lantern: Mosaic to form what Sequart described as a 'family of titles' rivaling Superman's in breadth. Issue #2, cover-dated September 1992, assembled an anthology of stories by writers including Gerard Jones, Roger Stern, Mark Waid, Doug Moench, and Scott Lobdell, with artists M.D. Bright, Dusty Abell, Ty Templeton, Tim Hamilton, and Paul Gulacy contributing across the book's multiple features, under editor Kevin Dooley with Dick Giordano as executive editor. The series ran eight issues until Spring 1994, ending in tandem with the collapse of Jones's broader Green Lantern editorial vision during the 'Emerald Twilight' transition.

Trivia · 8 facts

• Published September 1992 (cover date) by DC Comics; part of an 8-issue anthology series running from Summer 1992 to Spring 1994.
• The issue's title is 'The Book of Answers'; it uses Hal Jordan and John Stewart reading the Book of Oa as a framing device to link its multiple short stories.
• Features the Post-Crisis first meeting of Alan Scott (Golden Age Green Lantern) and Hector Hammond, a villain previously associated only with Hal Jordan — Hammond mentally traps Alan's mind inside his power ring in an attempt to steal his powers.
• Introduces Waverly Sayre, an American pioneer who receives a Green Lantern ring after the deaths of his wife and unborn child, broadening the GL Corps concept into frontier-era American history.
• Includes a story featuring rookie Lantern Breeon, who must stop an automated yellow combine harvester threatening a plantation of sentient creatures — his ring is powerless against yellow, forcing an improvised solution.
• A fable-within-a-story told by Green Lantern Reemuz features Skr'kl of the ant-like Krz'zak species, using the character's fate as an in-universe parable explaining the yellow impurity built into GL power rings.
• Cyrus Gold (the pre-Solomon Grundy human alter ego) and Solomon Grundy appear in flashback during the Alan Scott segment, alongside Golden Age supporting characters Doiby Dickles, the Icicle, and Molly Mayne-Scott.
• G'nort and his street-performer companion Sax Girl continue their comedic adventure, carrying over from the series' first issue; writers on the issue include Gerard Jones, Roger Stern, Mark Waid, Doug Moench, and Scott Lobdell, with art by M.D. Bright, Dusty Abell, Ty Templeton, Tim Hamilton, and Paul Gulacy.

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