Showcase Presents: Green Lantern #3

In "The End of a Gladiator!", Hal Jordan’s body is brought to Oa by the Guardians after a brutal battle with Dr. Polaris, where Hal sacrificed his own life force to save Tom Kalmaku. The story captures the weight of loss and legacy as the Green Lantern Corps confronts the aftermath of a hero’s final stand.

In a startling twist, Hal Jordan’s lifeless body vanishes from Oa and awakens in the distant year 5700 A.D., where he must confront a spreading red virus threatening to consume the galaxy. Sent back to his own time, he faces off against the cunning Dr. Polaris and must protect the unlikely hero Pieface in a battle that tests his will and resolve.

In "Goldface's Grudge Fight Against Green Lantern!", former inmate Keith Kenyon breaks free and becomes Goldface, wielding a dangerous power to turn anything—including Green Lantern—into gold. With a personal vendetta and a shocking new ability, he sets his sights on the Green Lantern, turning their clash into a high-stakes battle of wills and power.

When the Guardians dispatch Green Lantern to the planet Pharma, he finds a world where the local Green Lantern has fallen—his ring drained by the menacing Thraxon, who wields a machine capable of siphoning power from any ring. Now, with no ring and no allies, Green Lantern must face a foe who turns the very source of his strength against him.

When the once-ordinary taxi Goitrude suddenly turns rogue and leads a gang of criminal vehicles, Earth-1 and Earth-2's Green Lanterns are left scratching their heads—until they uncover a shocking truth: Sinestro is using mind control to manipulate the cab, with a far more dangerous plan brewing.

In "Menace in the Iron Lung," Green Lantern faces a chilling threat when Baron Tyrano exploits a mysterious device to split Hal Jordan from his Green Lantern persona, forcing the hero to confront the villain not as one, but as two. Written by a team known for their sharp storytelling, the story unfolds as Hal and his power ring must find a way to reunite before the separation proves fatal.

In "Cosmic Enemy Number One," the murder of a TV actor portraying Green Lantern ignites a deadly conspiracy that reaches across the galaxy. When Earth criminal Al Magone—long imprisoned by Abin Sur—unleashes a wave of rogue villains, the Green Lantern Corps finds itself fighting for survival against forces they never saw coming.

In "The Green Lanterns' Fight for Survival!", Hal Jordan, Tomar-Re, and newly deputized Green Lantern Charley Vicker race against time to dismantle a hidden alien fortress on a prison planet, where a rogue Earth criminal named Al Magone leads a revolt using captured alien technology to power deadly Mini-Nucleo weapons—devices that can strip Green Lanterns of their power and kill them across the cosmos.

In "Peril of the Powerless Green Lantern!", Hal Jordan’s growing unease takes a strange turn when his power ring begins to affect his mind—so much so that the Guardians, fearing he’s overwhelmed, take the ring from him and send him on a forced vacation. But when a flaw in the ring’s design is uncovered, they return it just in time for Hal to face a dangerous criminal gang, testing his resolve and the limits of his willpower.

In "Earth's Other Green Lantern!", Hal Jordan is shown a possible timeline where Guy Gardner, not he, was the first human chosen by Abin Sur to carry the Green Lantern power ring. The story explores how Earth’s defense and the Corps might have changed under Guy’s more volatile leadership.