Showcase #22, September-October 1959
Test pilot Hal Jordan is brought to a dying alien by a mysterious green light. The alien, Abin Sur, says Jordan has been selected by him to receive the Power Ring and Battery of the Green Lantern Corps, an interplanetary police force.
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Hal learns to use the green energy of the ring to rescue a fellow pilot, then learns his girlfriend, Carol Ferris, has been put in charge of the aircraft company he works for.
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Green Lantern stops the sabotage of disgruntled scientist Dr. Parris and learns Carol is smitten with him.
Showcase #23, November-December 1959
Green Lantern's power battery directs him to Venus, where he saves humanoids from the predations of pteranodon-like creatures.
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Green Lantern stops an evil mental construct from setting off an atomic bomb to absorb its radiation.
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Showcase #24, January-February 1960
Green Lantern follows a pickpocket to the amusement pier hideout of a spy ring.
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Green Lantern uses his ring to stop a rampaging microbe, mutated by cosmic rays.
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Green Lantern #1, July-August 1960
The Guardians of the Universe, the power behind the Green Lantern Corps, sends Green Lantern to the planet Calor, to stop a giant monster.
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The Puppeteer uses a mind-control device to attack Green Lantern, first indirectly through a parade float giant, then directly.
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Green Lantern #2, September-October 1960
The Weaponers of Qward, a planet in an anti-matter universe, send a Thunderbolt Destroyer to Earth, to kill Telle-Teg, a refugee from their rule.
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Duke Danfield steals half of a map from Hal Jordan's mechanic, Tom Kalmaku, and when Green Lantern comes to help, Tom learns GL's identity and becomes his confidant.
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Green Lantern #3, November-December 1960
The Weaponers of Qward send agents Drik and Chomin to steal Green Lantern's power battery.
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To avoid replying to Carol Ferris's leap year proposal of marriage to him, Green Lantern creates a "Chillder-Diller" of a monster as a distraction, then loses control of it.
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Green Lantern #4, January-February 1961
To save Tom Kalmaku from radiation from a missile sent by the Weaponers, Green Lantern agrees to fight the Weaponers' champion, the robot Gnaxos.
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Criminal Woozy impersonates Green Lantern to rob Carol Ferris's party but is unmasked in the process.
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Con man Hector Hammond kidnaps four scientists, exposes them to a meteor that evolves living things into futuristic forms, then uses their discoveries to make himself rich and famous.
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Green Lantern #6, May-June 1961
Fellow Green Lantern Tomar-Re is busy fighting space-monsters, so he summons Hal Jordan to his space sector to deal with a planet of thought-forms that desire independence from their sleeping creators.
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Green Lantern #7, July-August 1961
Former Green Lantern Sinestro of Korugar, exiled to Qward for his crimes, teams with the Weaponers to strike at Green Lantern.
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Hal Jordan's subconscious turns Tom Kalmaku into a bird, just as he's going to meet his fiancee, Terga.
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Green Lantern #8, September-October 1961
The inhabitants of the Solar System of the 58th Century having no local Green Lantern in their own time, Solar Directorate Chairman Dasor brings Hal Jordan through time to aid in stopping the Zegors, mutated Gila monsters. But Hal is fighting a menace of his own when he is taken. As part of the process, he is given a false identity and a local girlfriend, Dasor's secretary Iona Vane.
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Green Lantern #9, November-December 1961
Sinestro uses Weaponer science to develop a new power ring, one that uses yellow energy drawn from the Green Lanterns' power batteries.
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Hal returns home to help his older brother, D.A. Jack Jordan, in an election campaign, only to have his younger brother's fiancee, Sue Williams, suspect brother Jim of being Green Lantern.
Green Lantern #10, January 1962
Green Lantern discovers scientist Dr. Blanding, fearing nuclear war, has somehow taken refuge with his family in a world inside his power ring, and the green energy is causing the Blandings' robots to run amok.
Hal tells Tom of three incidents with led to the creation of three portions of his ring-recharging oath.
Green Lantern #11, March 1962
Hal Jordan is put on trial by fellow Green Lanterns for puzzling misbehavior.
Hal Jordan has lost his power ring, and young Billy Taylor has found it.
Green Lantern #12, April 1962
The 58th Century needs Green Lantern again. GL defeats an army of revolutionaries, secretly led by magician Ferenc Aldebaran, by animating a statue erected in his honor.
Green Lantern's ring runs out of power, just as he's facing a gang of criminals whose ultra-sonic drill has the side effect of cancelling out all sound.
Green Lantern #13, June 1962
Agents of the extra-dimensional planet Spectarn contrive to turn GL's fellow-hero, the Flash, into a weapon against GL.
| The Spectarns | The Flash | Deformed Flash |
Green Lantern #14, July 1962
| Sonar |
Green Lantern #15, September 1962
| Magot | The Grolls |
Green Lantern #16, October 1962
| The Zamarons | Star Sapphire |
| Balzona the Larifar |
Green Lantern #17, December 1962
Green Lantern #18, January 1963
| Bill Baggett |
Green Lantern #19, March 1963
Green Lantern #20, April 1963
| The Mikrids |
Green Lantern #21, June 1963
| Doctor Polaris |
Green Lantern #22, July 1963
| Hector Hammond |
Green Lantern #23, September 1963
| The Tattooed Man |
| Xax, Green Lantern of Xaos | Zorx of Xaos |
Green Lantern #24, October 1963
| The Shark | T. S. Smith |
| The Green Lantern World | The Protonic Force |
Green Lantern #25, December 1963
Green Lantern #26, January 1964
| Phased Aliens |
| Myrwhydden |
Green Lantern #27, March 1964
| "Chum" Ames |
| Horace Tolliver |
Green Lantern #28, April 1964
Green Lantern #29, June 1964
| Black Hand |
| The Protonic Force |