Green Lantern Corps Quarterly #6
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeGreen Lantern Corps Quarterly #6 is the first appearance of both Laira Omoto and Sheriff Mardin — two female Green Lanterns whose debuts are part of an issue deliberately structured around the women of the Corps. Laira in particular proved durable enough to be adapted as a central character in the 2011 DC Universe Animated Original Movie Green Lantern: Emerald Knights, cementing this single issue as the source material for one of that film's most praised story segments. The framing device — Arisia pitching the heroism of female Lanterns to a skeptical Power Girl and Dr. Light — gives the anthology an unusual thematic coherence rare for the format, making it a small but genuine landmark in how DC told stories about gender and the Corps in the early 1990s.
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Green Lantern Corps Quarterly was an anthology title DC launched in the summer of 1992 to revive the idea of a series focused on the full breadth of the Corps mythology, picking up where the cancelled Green Lantern Corps ongoing had left off in 1988. Issue #6 (cover date September 1993, on sale July 29, 1993) was produced by a rotating stable of writers and artists typical of the quarterly format — Gerard Jones, Ruben Diaz, Mike Baron, and Ron Marz on scripts, with pencillers Travis Charest, Jason Pearson, Chas Truog, Scott Kolins, and Jim Balent, the latter also providing the cover. The thematic hook of spotlighting female Lanterns gave editor Kevin Dooley's team a unifying thread across otherwise standalone stories, and the issue also included pin-ups by Adam Hughes and Joe Phillips.
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- First appearance of Laira Omoto, the martial-arts-trained Green Lantern of Space Sector 112 from planet Jayd, created by writer Ruben Diaz and artist Travis Charest.
- First appearance of Sheriff Mardin, the Green Lantern of Space Sector 1253 on planet Nyberg, created by writer Mike Baron; she later became a recurring character in the relaunched Green Lantern Corps (vol. 2) ongoing.
- Laira's debut story — 'What Price Honor?' — was directly adapted into the animated anthology film Green Lantern: Emerald Knights (2011), with Laira voiced by Kelly Hu; the film altered key details of her father Kentor's characterization relative to the comic original.
- The framing sequence (scripted by Gerard Jones, with art by Jason Pearson and John Dell) casts Arisia, Power Girl (Kara Zor-L), and Dr. Light (Kimiyo Hoshi) in conversation about female Green Lanterns, tying all four standalone stories together under a single Women of the Corps theme.
- The Alan Scott backup story (written by Ron Marz, art by Jim Balent) continues the ongoing arc featuring the new, unidentified Harlequin, a character who debuted in the previous issue (#5) and goes on to challenge Alan Scott's rejuvenated identity in front of the Justice Society.
- Boodikka receives a standalone comedic short (written by Gerard Jones, art by Scott Kolins) set on her home world of Bellatrix, placing her warrior persona in a domestic context.
- The Laira story from this issue was later reprinted in the DC trade paperback Green Lantern: In Brightest Day (2008), the primary collected edition drawing on classic Green Lantern Corps Quarterly material.
- The issue exists in both a direct-edition and a newsstand edition, with the cover by Jim Balent across both versions.
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Reprinted in Green Lantern: In Brightest Day #[nn] (2008)
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