Green Lanterns #18 [Newsstand]

(Early May 2017)

The Last Testament of the First Lantern (Table of Contents: 1)

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

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

• in Green Lanterns (DC, 2017 series) #3 - Polarity ([November] 2017)
• in Récit Complet Justice League (Urban Comics, 2017 series) #6 - Green Lantern : Maîtres de la peur (mars 2018)

Keywords

Earth-0; Earth-15; Earth-17; Earth-47; the Chamber of Shadows; the planet Maltus

Indexer Notes

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.