GREEN LANTERN OFPENELO
GREEN LANTERN OF
HOMEWORLD: PeneloSECTOR: unknown
FIRST APPEARANCE:
on cover only:
TALES OF THE GREEN LANTERN
CORPS # 3
(July, 1981)
"Triumph!"
as the GL of Penelo:
GREEN LANTERN 2nd series # 159
(December, 1982)
TGLC feature
"Eyes of the Sea!"
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Aquatic life form, resembling a human eye, with green octopus-like tentacles
KNOWN RELATIVES: none
HISTORY:
The Green Lantern of Penelo served alongside such Green Lanterns as Hal Jordan and Tomar-Re during the war against Krona and Nekron.
[TGLC # 1-3]
The dominant species of Penelo, an ocean world, was a race of aquatic creatures. Penelo was the closest planet to its yellow sun.
The Green Lantern had to deal with an impending disaster on his world. The oceans were burning off, due to an increase in the sun's output of heat. The Green Lantern had thought this was some form of natural disaster, and went to investigate.
Out in space, an alien starship had been firing a beam of energy into Penelo's sun. This energy was the cause of the sun's increased activity.
[GL2 # 159]
The Green Lantern intercepted the energy stream, which angered the captain of the starship. He ordered his crew to open fire on the approaching Green Lantern. The creature from Penelo then immobilized the ship, but was attacked by other starships.
The bursts from the other starships hurled the Green Lantern into the star's gravity well. Powerless against yellow, he was forced to escape the star's pull.
Returning, he finally immobilized all of the starships, and entered the bridge of the lead ship. The starship was crewed by a group of blue skinned humanoids who had been searching for a new world on which to live. The second planet closest to the star was right, but the sun was not hot enough to warm it. They had energized the sun so their people could survive.
The Green Lantern explained his people would die from the boiling seas, and the humanoids must stop. The process was irreversible, and the Green Lantern was powerless against a yellow sun. The Green Lantern had only one chance.
Out in space, the Green Lantern used all the willpower he had to move Penelo out of its original orbit, into an orbit further from the sun. Now both races would survive.
[GL2 # 160]
The Green Lantern of Penelo was active during the so-called Crisis on Infinite Earths.
[GL2 # 200]
Sometime after the Crisis and destruction of the newly reformed Corps, he was among the scores of powerless Green Lanterns freed from a slave ring by Guy Gardner.
[GG # 35]
OATH:
"In brightest light, in darkest sea,CREATIVE TEAM:
all dangers will be seen by me!
While others from these dangers flee,
I shall always a Green Lantern be!"
-GL2 # 159
(TGLC # 3)
KNOWN APPEARANCES:
'mouse note -
This one's dedicated to fellow (well, I used to live there) Long Islander, MrMGL. Yes, I am still at work on the Green Lantern Corps (heck the universal) History Mega Post. I never got to post a response to one of your Legion theories, this was the Green Lantern you said might be the Emerald Eye. Digging back in L.E.G.I.O.N. history, Garryn Bek had first found the Eye. Since this supposedly happened while the Green Lantern of Penelo was still active, I'd say the two weren't related. (Or three... weren't there two Emerald Eyes at one point?) DC never did explain any GL of Kryptonian connections regarding the Emerald Eye.
In other news... I gave dual creator credits on this Green Lantern. His real first appearance was on the cover of TALES OF THE GREEN LANTERN CORPS # 3 July, 1981. Credit would go to Brian Bolland for the artwork. Since I'm doing the Mega Post based on the names of the Green Lanterns, rather than the pictures themselves, I've listed the Bob Rozakis story. The DC message boards are, after all, a writer's medium rather than an artist's.
I guess this story was either waiting in the wings in the DC offices, or Bob Rozakis liked the look of the GL of Penelo, and spun a story off of him.
