HOMEWORLD: Earth

FIRST APPEARANCES:
ALAN:
SUPERMAN & BATMAN: GENERATIONS # 2
(1999)

HAL:
SUPERMAN & BATMAN: GENERATIONS # 3
(1999)

KYLE:
SUPERMAN & BATMAN: GENERATIONS # 4
(1999)

GROUP AFFILIATIONS: (Alan & Kyle) Green Lantern Corps

HISTORY:
Wielding a magical power ring that could transform his very will into reality, ALAN SCOTT became the costumed crimefighter known as the Green Lantern. First appearing in 1940, mere months after the debut of Superman and Batman, Green Lantern joined them and other heroes, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Hawkman and the Atom in the Justice Society of America. Little has been revealed about the Green Lantern's exploits over the years, but it is known the heroes had assisted each other from time-to-time.

In 1959, Superman fell victim to Brainiac, one of his deadliest foes. The Man of Steel was exposed to red kryptonite and for twenty-four hours was changed to a monstrous giant. While Jimmy Olsen helped divert the Monster of Steel from a destructive visit to Metropolis, the Green Lantern captured Superman's alien foe.

By 1969, the Justice Society had given way to the Justice League of America. Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and the Green Lantern were in this grouping of heroes but the Flash, Jay Garrick, had given his title over to Barry Allen.

Civil unrest was spreading across the United States as opposition to the war in Vietnam grew. Then President Richard Milhouse Nixon called upon the JLA to disperse the protesters but the heroes refused to interfere. The conflict in Vietnam was not a clear cut an issue as Nazi tyranny in World War II. Angered by their refusal to act, Nixon claimed the JLA would be responsible for any American soldiers who would die in the war from that day forward.
[SUPERMAN AND BATMAN: GENERATIONS # 2]

In 1979, Superman's secret identity was revealed to the world and his family was murdered by Lex Luthor. Over the next decade, the Man of Steel searched the world over but could not apprehend their killer.

A former test pilot, HAL JORDAN did not wear the emerald ring as had Alan Scott, the Green Lantern. Jordan was known around the world for holding a different title, the President of the United States of America.

In 1989, following televised footage of Lex Luthor's death at the hands of Superman and the confirmation of the villain's remains, President Jordan had to make one of the hardest decisions of his administration; the decision to bring Superman to justice. The only weapon in the nation's arsenal powerful enough to control the Man of Steel was kryptonite, located in Zone Omega, a top secret installation buried deep beneath Washington, D.C. 

Zone Omega had been developed to be impregnable to Superman. Based on detailed studies of Superman's physiology, Zone Omega was designed to contain a fragment of kryptonite to be used in case Superman ever went mad. Ironically, Superman himself had given the kryptonite to President Nixon, decades before.

After his identity was verified by voice, palm and retinal scans, Jordan and his staff traveled by elevator almost one mile beneath the Earth's surface and by car an additional ten miles from the elevator shaft used to get to that depth. Accompanied by guards, the President and his staff passed a laser grid deactivated by Jordan and donned specially designed radiation suits. The protective garments were designed to shield them from levels of kryptonite radiation high enough to kill even a human in a matter of seconds. The radiation suits were keyed to self-destruct should Superman attempt to wear them to cross the pit around the heart of Zone Omega. Reaching their final destination, Jordan called up the containment unit from inside a cube of tritanium alloy more than a mile on a side. The shell opened, but astoundingly, the kryptonite was gone.

The kryptonite had been taken by Batman, who had gone to bring Superman to justice. At Superman's trial, it was revealed he had lost his powers due to exposure to gold kryptonite and the death of Lex Luthor was accidental, the powerless Superman had been acting in self defense. Furthermore, the true villain was the Ultra-Humanite, who had taken Lex Luthor's place five decades earlier after a crushing defeat at the hands of the Man of Steel. Superman plead guilty, as he could not be totally sure he had done everything he could to prevent the villain's death. As he would not survive in a normal prison without his powers to protect him from revenge seeking convicts, Superman was sentenced to ten years in the Phantom Zone. 
[SUPERMAN AND BATMAN: GENERATIONS # 3]

After Superman was banished into the Phantom Zone, the heroes of Earth took precautions to prevent anyone from trying to get inside Lex Luthor's lair to steal the late villain's secrets. Green Lantern sealed the entire tower in his power ring's mystical green flame.

Alan Scott retired in the mid 1990s, he gave his mystical power ring to his chosen successor, KYLE RAYNER. The new Green Lantern became good friends with Knightwing, another of the new generation of heroes, raised as the grandson of the original Batman.

Over the years, people tried and failed to cut through the emerald energy surrounding Luthor's lair. Green Lantern and Knightwing decided to leave evidence of the failed attempts to show how futile it was.

In 1999, the new Green Lantern was contacted by Knightwing to remove the emerald energy barrier and permit entry into Luthor's lair. Superman had returned from the Phantom Zone and was accompanied by Batman in the hopes of finding a way to reverse the effects of gold kryptonite. Green Lantern used the ring to probe the tower layer by layer until the antidote was found. Once his powers were returned, Superman recreated the formula to give Knightwing, his true grandson, super powers as well.

By the distant year 2919, the galaxy was at peace. The heroes of many worlds as well as the GREEN LANTERN CORPS had brought Known Space to a new age. The heroes legendary heroes Batman and Superman, along with Lana Lang, who now possessed her own powers, moved on to bring justice to other stars.
[SUPERMAN AND BATMAN: GENERATIONS # 4]

CREATIVE TEAM:
Writer, Artist, Letterer: John Byrne
Colorist: Trish Mulvihill
Interior Separations: Heroic Age
Editor: Joey Cavalieri
Assistant Editor: Maureen McTigue

KNOWN APPEARANCES:
SUPERMAN & BATMAN: GENERATIONS # (2 Alan Scott, 3 Hal Jordan, 4 Kyle Rayner) 

'mouse note -

(Use Alan pic from book 2/page 11/panel 5 or page 26/panel 1 or page 27/panel 1. Hal pic from book 3/page 30/panel 3. Kyle pic from book 4/page 17/panel 4.)

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