Silver Age Enemies of Hal Jordan
| Villain | First appearance | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Parris | Showcase #22 | A scientist with an ambition for power. Wanting to be the first to make usable H-Power he sends a missile at a building where H-Power is being researched. Green Lantern stops it and starts questioning plane spotters to see if any saw the missile. He finds one came from a wood and discovers a camouflaged building. When he enters Parris tries to stop him using a battering ram, but Green Lantern turns it into a stream of water he douses Parris with and takes the scientist to Army Headquarters, where he is sent to prison. |
| Invisible Destroyer | Showcase #23 (November–December 1959) | Dr. Martin Phillips, a Coast City physicist, who found himself sketching a costumed figure without a face. Three days later, this figure came to life. Coast City newspapers dubbed the costumed criminal the Invisible Destroyer. He drew atomic energy to give him power and tried to set of an atom bomb to increase his power. Green Lantern was unable to directly stop the Destroyer as he was made of pure energy. He destroyed him using anti-energy particles, meaning that evil part of Martin's mind was now gone. |
| Saboteurs | Showcase #22 | The first foes Green Lantern fought, who used a radiation sender to try to make a plane crash. However Green Lantern stopped it crashing and defeated the saboteurs. |
| Puppeteer | Green Lantern vol. 2, #1 (July–August, 1960) | Jordan Weir was a scientist who created a "hypno-ray" with which he could use to force his victims to obey his commands. As the Puppet Master, he embarked on a crime spree, manipulating minor criminals to do his dirty work for him. When Green Lantern interfered, Weir managed to take control of him as well, but was finally defeated. He was later, as the Puppeteer, a H.I.V.E. member and Teen Titans enemy. He has also used robot puppets. |
| Weaponers of Qward | Green Lantern vol. 2, #2 (September–October 1960) | Echoing the positive matter universe is the antimatter universe of Qward. Legends tell of its origins as a dimension where evil is worshipped. Though the world of Qward occupies the same relative position in the antimatter universe as the world of Oa does in the positive matter universe. The Weaponers of Qward were formed by Yokal the Atrocious as the antithesis of the Oan Guardians of the Universe; they revere in only chaos and conquest. The Weaponers despise the Guardians' Green Lantern Corps and are determined to destroy them after discovering of them from Sinestro. They had weapons that used yellow energy due to the original ring's weakness. During the Crisis some were turned by the Anti-Monitor into shadow demons, whose deadly touch killed trillions. They were killed when the Anti-Monitor absorbed the entire antimatter universe. |
| Hector Hammond | Green Lantern vol. 2, #5 (March–April, 1961) | A powerful psychic criminal with a grotesque, enormous head. Hammond used a crashed meteor with unknown elements to firstly advance four kidnapped scientists minds, who he uses to create advanced technology which he claims are his own. Green Lantern stops him and restores the scientists. Hammond then advances his mind 100,000 years - giving him immense mental powers. Enemy of Hal Jordan, Hammond is obsessed with the Green Lantern and likes to live vicariously through his memories. After years of exposure to the meteor's radiation, Hammond is dependent on it for energy; without it he remains motionless due to the weight of his head, although he retains his formidable mental powers. |
| Sinestro | Green Lantern vol. 2, #7 (August 1961) | The archenemy of the Green Lantern, Hal Jordan. A former Green Lantern and mentor to Hal Jordan. When it was discovered that he had enslaved his home planet through fear, the Guardians exiled him to the planet Qward in the antimatter universe. He later returned, wielding a yellow, Qwardian power ring which was powered by fear. He was seeminglly killed by Hal Jordan when he snaps his neck after the Oans tried to use him to defend their planet from Jordan's attack. Returns as a leader of Sinestro Corps. Later reinstated to the GLC before being taken by the Indigo Tribe. |
| Zegors | Green Lantern vol. 2, #8 | By the year 5700 Gila Monsters, having retreated underground about the year 2000, causing humanity to think they are extinct, have developed a civilisation and become much larger and stronger. They fire beams from their eyes which shrink people to sub-atomic size. Green Lantern is drawn to the year 5700 to fight the creatures. He discovers that an energy beam is giving the Zegors their eye beams and destroys the machine. He discovers that three earthmen firing nuclear pistols at the same time can knock out a Zegor, and tells the Forces to operate in groups of three. The Zegors are defeated and the remants are allowed to live in their half-destroyed underground city. Green Lantern is then sent back to the moment he was taken away. |
| Fenrec Aldebaran | Green Lantern vol. 2, #12 | A magician in the year 5702. Jealous at being overlooked for the post of Solar Director, he tries to take over the Solar System by hypnotizing three Generals at one of his performances. Green Lantern is brought to the year by the Solarians to defeat him, and after defeating the Generals and mind-probing them, he realises Aldebaran is responsible and goes after him. However the villain has created a device which paralyzes Green Lantern, who animates a statue of himself that captures Aldebaran and destroys his machinary. Green Lantern is then sent back to the second he was taken to the Future and Aldebaran is preseumbly jailed. |
| Spectrans | Green Lantern vol 2 #13 | Humanoid beings from the world Spectar, a planet in another dimension. Every four hours Spectar and Earth occupy the same space, and travelling faster then light will enable travel between them. Green Lantern accidentally travels to the world and has his mind taken control of by the Spectran leaders. They succeed in making him capture the Flash, as they plan to discover the secret of his superspeed for purposes of conquest. They remove Green Lantern's memory of the event, but after talking to Pie-Face he realises he has forgotten the previous day. Using his ring he finds out what happened. He return to Spectar where the Leaders have finished a formula to duplicate the speed of the Flash. Green Lantern releases the Flash and together they defeat the Spectrans and destroy the formula. It is then revealed the Spectran Drones don't want war, it was their Leaders who were the menace. After this the two heroes return to Earth. |
| Sonar | Green Lantern vol. 2, #14 (July 1962) | Bito Wladon, Master of Sound and former ruler of Modora. He wanted Modora, a very small county which hardly any one knows about, to be recognized, so be became a villain for that reason. An enemy of Hal Jordan, Wladon's son later became the second Sonar and battled Kyle Rayner with cybernetic implants. |
| Star Sapphire | Green Lantern vol. 2, #16 (October, 1962) | Carol Ferris, Hal Jordan's girlfriend, unknowingly became one of his deadliest enemies. The Zamaron race of alien amazon women sought a new queen and chose Ferris due to an uncanny likeness to their last queen. With the Sapphire gem on her forehead Ferris was under the Zamarons' control. They touted female dominance, and so directed Ferris to kill the man she cherished most: Green Lantern. Ferris proved unable to do this, so for many years the gem kept her unaware of her Sapphire identity. The Zamarons later revealed they were the female counterparts to the Guardians of the Universe. Recently Ferris learned the Sapphire gem is a parasitic entity that has possessed women throughout the galaxy, especially those close to Green Lanterns. One example is Deborah Darnell, who was Star Sapphire in the 1970s, tormenting both Captain Comet and Green Lantern. Ferris revealed it was Jordan's brief affair with Darnell that drew the attention of the Sapphire to her, and the same fate has befallen his current love interest, Jillian "Cowgirl" Pearlman. Star Sapphire (Darnell, not Ferris) was killed by the Spectre in the Infinite Crisis miniseries. |
| Doctor Polaris | Green Lantern vol. 2, #21 (June 1962) | Dr. Neal Emerson, a scientist whose experiments granted his magnetic powers and unleashed a violent split personality (a "negative" to his normal "positive" persona). Enemy of both Hal Jordan and modern Green Lantern Kyle Rayner, Polaris was killed by the Human Bomb during the Infinite Crisis. |
| Tattooed Man | Green Lantern vol. 2, #23 (September 1963) | Abel Tarrant, a former Coast City sailor with a set of tattoos created from mysterious chemicals. The Tattooed Man was able to animate these designs and unleash them upon his enemies. He was apparently killed by the Mirror Master and Jewelee during a Suicide Squad mission. |
| Protonic Force | Green Lantern vol. 2, #24 (September 1963) | A bodiless sentient, the being known only as the Protonic Force existed by inhabiting forms of matter. It could survive outside of matter only for short periods of time. So it was that the Protonic Force came to inhabit a fire ball inside a sentient planet(Mogo). It continued to grow inside the planet's core, where the sentient planet could not reach it, and periodically sent out powerful forces which threatened to disrupt the planet completely. The Protonic Force did not communicate with the sentient planet and was unconcerned that its power threatened the planet's existence. |
| The Shark | Green Lantern vol. 2, #24 (October 1963) | Karshon, a tiger shark mutated by nuclear waste into a humanoid monstrosity. Despite his heightened intelligence, he is still motivated by his bloodthirsty instincts. |
| Myrwhydden | Green Lantern vol. 2, #26 (December 1963) | Myrwhydden was an alien magician who ruled the weird world within Green Lantern's power ring. The mage often drew Green Lantern into the ring to terrorize him. |
| Black Hand | Green Lantern vol. 2 #29 (June 1964) | William Hand, a criminal inventor whose greatest creation was a device that drained power from Green Lantern rings. After losing his hand in battle with Hal Jordan, Black Hand has since gone mad and had his powers increased, allowing him to absorb human lifeforce. Finally he became a major villain in the Blackest Night storyline after being resurrected, and used the skull of a Batman clone to produce Black Lantern rings. |
| The Headmen | Green Lantern vol. 2, #36 (Aril 1965) | The Headmen were the sinister rulers of Garon. They utilized a Cerebro-ray to mentally enslave their entire planet. One woman, Onu Murtu, was unaffected by its rays and escaped to Earth. She sought out Hal Jordan, hoping that Jordan could contact Green Lantern - not knowing they were one and the same. Green Lantern helped fend off the Headmen, whereupon Onu elected to return to Garon undercover, to build a rebellion. She left Green Lantern a note for Hal Jordan, stating that while she had fallen in love with him, she had to return home. Later, Green Lantern visited Garon and helped Onu liberate her people from the Headmen once and for all. |
| Evil Star | Green Lantern vol. 2, #37 (June 1965) | Twisted scientist of the planet Auron whose immortality experiments killed all life on his home world, Evil Star possesses the powerful "starband," which draws power from the stars themselves, and a legion of minion creatures called starlings. |
| Goldface | Green Lantern vol. 2, #38 (July 1965) | Keith Kenyon, a criminal whose skin was turned to gold by an elixir of his own devising. Goldface later reformed and became an honest union commissioner in Central City. |
| Brutus Force | Green Lantern vol. 2, #39 (May 1965) | Touring the Milky Way Galaxy, Bru Tusfors had fought every planetary champion and won. He always obeyed the local rules, and always fought bare handed against any opponent with any manner of weaponry. On the world of Uxor, Bru Tusfors defeated their champion and, as always, was told of another "unbeatable" foe. On Uxor they regarded the Green Lantern of Earth as the most formidable foe. |
| Krona | Green Lantern vol. 2, #40 (October 1965) | A renegade Oan scientist, Krona defied his brother Guardians by peering back to the beginning of time, an act which created the Multiverse and led indirectly to the Crisis on Infinite Earths. This caused the Guardians to try protecting the Universe. He was exiled from his world, but has made several attacks on the Universe after making an alliance with the demon Neron, and was the villain in JLA/Avengers, which ended with him becoming a cosmic egg that would evantually hatch a new Universe. He later attacked OA, infecting of the Guardians with one of the Emotional Entities which placed them in his thrall. He was then Killed by Hal Jordan using a Green Power Ring, an act that should have been impossible do to implanted fail-safes in the ring that the Guardians placed there to prevent the Rings from being turned against them. Krona's body was taken by Red Lantern leader Atrocitus. |
| Major Disaster | Green Lantern vol. 2, #43 (March 1966) | Paul Booker, a crook with an invention that created earthquakes, shockwaves, and natural disasters. He later bargained his soul to the demon Neron for probability-altering powers. However, Booker came to regret this lifestyle and reformed, becoming a member of the Justice League. He was killed by Superboy-Prime during the Infinite Crisis. |
| The Controllers | Adventure Comics #357 (June 1967) | An off-shoot of the Guardians of the Universe with a more proactive approach, the Controllers seek to pre-emptively eliminate threats to the universe, rather than react to them. To this end, they have employed the Darkstars Corps and created pawns such as the villainous Effigy. |
| Lamplighter | Green Lantern vol. 2, #60 (April 1968) | Doctor Lee Carver was a nuclear researcher seeking a way of altering the molecular structure of matter. He worked on a way to stabilize the transmutation. Tragedy struck when his experiment blew up in his face. Carver lived, but he was blinded. The combination of chemicals and the high frequency waves he was bombarding them with resulted in a new kind of light. The chemicals somehow affected his damaged optic nerves, permitting a more intense light to reach them, allowing the once blind man to see. |
| Manhunters | 1st Issue Special #5 (August 1975) | A race of robots, designed by the Guardians of the Universe, as a first attempt at an interstellar police force. Over time, they began to like hunting targets more than seeking justice. They rebelled against the Guardians, and were defeated. The remaining Manhunters hid throughout the galaxy. Their mission is to destroy the Guardians and their replacements, the Green Lantern Corps. |
| Professor Ojo | Richard Dragon, Kung-Fu Fighter #18 (May 1977) | The son of an assistant in an early atomic energy facility, whose poor safety standards exposed workers to massive doses of hard radiation, Ojo was born without eyes. Brilliant but blind, Ojo eventually created a device allowing him to see, and eventually became associated with the League of Assassins. |
| Nekron | Tales of the Green Lantern Corps #1 (May 1981) | The ruler of a dimension known as Lord of the unliving. He became the ruler, and if he was ever alive, is not known. Though Nekron was not death herself, Nekron's realm contained the souls of all who had died, passing through his domain on the way to their final destination. |
| Yellow Peril | Green Lantern vol. 2, #107 (August 1978) | A skyjacking gang, the Yellow Peril thought taking over Coast City Airport would be easy. Knowing Coast City's resident protector, Green Lantern had no power over the color yellow, the armed thugs dressed themselves from head-to-toe in yellow costumes. |
| Replikon | Green Lantern vol. 2, #108 (September 1978) | Xum (Andre in human form) is a sentient shapeshifing alien that can mimic the appearance and abilities of others, most often the Justice League of America. Replikon lived on a planet between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter until it broke apart, destroying his entire race. He came to Earth to radically alter its atmosphere to make it suitable for his offspring. |
| Crumbler | Green Lantern vol. 2, #114 (March 1979) | Alexander Percy Tuttle was bright and had a particular talent for science. His father, business man Morris Tuttle, was only interested in making money and threatened his son if he "wasted his time" with scientific concerns. The younger Tuttle had used the father's company's fund for a vacation village project to develop a glove that operated from the energy from his central nervous system. With his mechanical glove, the Crumbler could cancel the force that binds atoms together. |
| Anti-Green Lantern Corps | Green Lantern vol. 2, #150 (March 1982) | Developed as a fighting force that rivaled the Green Lantern Corps, the Weaponers of Qward tapped into the Black Light and produced their own power rings. Unfortunately, the will power necessary to use the rings required its bearers' to have augmented brains that when the rings lose their charge after 24 hours, the bearer loses their life. |
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