Green Lanterns #26 [Brandon Peterson Variant Cover]

(Early September 2017)

The First Ring (Table of Contents: 1)

Green Lanterns / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script

Sam Humphries

Pencils

Ronan Cliquet

Inks

Ronan Cliquet

Colors

Ulises Arreola

Letters

Dave Sharpe

Genre

superhero; science fiction

Characters

Volthoom [The First Lantern] (flashback); Rami (flashback); Ganthet (flashback); other Guardians of the Universe (flashback); Volthoom's mother (flashback); Calleen (intro, from the planet Alstair, becomes a Green Lantern, flashback)

Synopsis

A story told in flashback revealing more details of the origins of Volthoom, the First Lantern. This story shows how billions of years ago, Rami helped Volthoom to learn how to use the first power ring, until the power of the ring drove Volthoom mad and Rami created the first seven Green Lantern rings from pieces of the Travel Lantern and sent them to find worthy beings that could stand against Volthoom. We see one of the rings choose Calleen of Alstair to be another of the first seven Green Lanterns.

Reprints

• in Green Lanterns (DC, 2017 series) #4 - The First Rings (2017 [February 2018])
• in Récit Complet Justice League (Urban Comics, 2017 series) #8 - Green Lantern : perdus dans l'espace (juillet 2018)

Keywords

Earth-15; the planet Alstair; the planet Maltus

Indexer Notes

This story adds details to Volthoom's origin from issue #18. This story would take place during the events of issue #18, after Volthoom claimed the fist ring and before he mastered it and was imprisoned by the first seven Green Lanterns.

Simon and Jessica do not appear in this story.