Green Lanterns #25 [Newsstand]

(August 2017)

The Return of the First Lantern (Table of Contents: 1)

Green Lanterns / comic story / 28 pages (report information)

Script

Sam Humphries

Pencils

Robson Rocha

Inks

Daniel Henriques

Colors

Alex Sollazzo

Letters

Dave Sharpe

Genre

superhero; science fiction

Characters

Green Lantern [Simon Baz]; Green Lantern [Jessica Cruz]; Rami; Green Lantern [Tyran'r] (intro, Tamarean, becomes a Green Lantern); Mrak'r (Tamarean king, death); unnamed Tamareans; Volthoom [The First Lantern]; Kaja Dox (intro, Coluan, becomes a Green Lantern); unnamed Coluans; Kaja's mother; Ginger (Kaja's girlfriend); Sira (Simon's sister); Nazir (Simon's friend and Sira's husband)

Synopsis

Volthoom, possessing Rami's body, takes Simon and Jessica to the Vault of Shadows, where he recovers the first power ring. He reveals his true form and Simon and Jessica must stop him from taking control of Jessica's ring, one of the original seven Green Lantern rings, which he plans to use to transport himself and the Lanterns to his home universe. Ten billion years ago, we see a Tamarean and a Coluan chosen to be two more 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

the planet Tamaran; the planet Yod-Colu; the Vault of Shadows; Travel Lantern

Indexer Notes

The Vault of Shadows is revealed to be the final resting place of the first seven Green Lanterns. It is referred to as a sister to the Chamber of Shadows, which is the prison where Volthoom was kept for ten billion years, as revealed in issue #18.