Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn
DC · 1989–1990 · 6 issues
About the series
In the late 1980s, DC Comics reimagined Hal Jordan's origin with Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn, a six-issue miniseries that stripped the cosmic hero back to his roots. Writers Gerard Jones, Keith Giffen, and Jim Owsley, alongside artists Mark Bright and Giffen, crafted a grounded, character-driven take on how a flawed test pilot becomes Earth's first Green Lantern. This series matters for establishing a darker, more psychologically complex foundation for the Silver Age icon, setting the stage for the character's evolution in the decades to follow.