- Script
- Sam Humphries (credited)
- Pencils
- Robson Rocha (credited)
- Inks
- Daniel Henriques (credited)
- Colors
- Alex Sollazzo (credited)
- Letters
- Dave Sharpe (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- There I am.
- Genre
- superhero; science fiction
- Characters
- Green Lantern [Hal Jordan] (flashback); Volthoom [The First Lantern] (flashback); Nekron (flashback); Volthoom's mother (flashback, death); unnamed Earth-17 scientists (flashback); unnamed Earth-47 musician (flashback); Mordru (of Earth-3, flashback); Guardians of the Universe [Maltusians] (flashback); unidentified aliens (flashback); Rami (flashback); the first seven Green Lanterns (unidentified, shown in silhouette only, flashback); Dominators (flashback)
- Synopsis
- A story told in flashback revealing the origins of Volthoom, the First Lantern, including how he first encountered the Guardians billions of years ago, and how he became the first to wear a power ring. When the power of the ring corrupted him, the Guardians created the first Green Lanterns to stop him and imprison him. Billions of years later, he escaped to battle the current Green Lantern Corps, only to be seemingly killed by Nekron. However, being immortal, Volthoom finds that even Nekron cannot kill him permanently.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Earth-0; Earth-15; Earth-17; Earth-47; the Chamber of Shadows; the planet Maltus
This story is a prequel of sorts to Green Lanterns: Rebirth (DC, 2016 series) #1.
Volthoom was apparently killed by Nekron in Green Lantern (DC, 2011 series) #20.
Simon and Jessica do not appear in this story.