History ComicBook / GreenLantern1960

* TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks: If we accept Green Lantern #76 when Green Arrow was added to the book as the beginning of Green Lantern's Bronze Age, then the Silver Age for Green Lantern ran from September 1959 to March 1970. The Silver Age can be divided into two halves: The Showcase issues and Green Lantern #1-49 where Hal was a more old-fashioned hero, learning the ropes with his new power, taking creative problem-solving approaches to the enemies he faced, and engaged in his love life issues with Carol Ferris. Issues 50-75 see him leave Coast City and become angrier and more introspective and unmoored from his former supporting cast. The book was clearly taking some inspiration from Marvel's approach to superheroes and trying to update with the times by giving the hero more flaws and more issues to work through, and taking tentative steps into social issues of the day before diving in headlong with issue #76.

* LovesMyAlterEgo: Carol Ferris won't give Hal the time of day, but is determined to get Green Lantern to marry her.

* IntrepidReporter: Sue Williams of "Behind the Scenes" magazine, at least in her first few appearances. Sue is determined to learn Green Lantern's secret identity. Unfortunately, she zeroes in on the wrong Jordan brother, deciding that Jim Jordan is Green Lantern. Even after the two start dating, get married, and have a son, she still insists that Jim stop pretending and just admit he's Green Lantern, and poor henpecked Jim goes along, to the point that he wonders if he's Green Lantern and doesn't even know it.

* IntrepidReporter: Sue Williams of "Behind the Scenes" magazine, who is determined to learn Green Lantern's secret identity. She zeroes in on the wrong Jordan brother, deciding that Jim Jordan is Green Lantern. Even after the two start dating, get married, and have a son, she still insists that Jim stop pretending and just admit he's Green Lantern, and poor henpecked Jim goes along, to the point that he wonders if he's Green Lantern and doesn't even know it.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Hal Jordan inventing the name "Green Lantern" or writing his own oath for use when he charges his ring (and there's even a story dedicated to what inspired each line!). Later on, every power ring user would be called a Green Lantern, and most of them used the same oath, leaving writers to retroactively explain these early discrepancies. Even the uniform was actual cloth, which Hal took from Abin Sur, rather than being formed from energy as it would be later on. The Green Lantern Corps is structured quite differently in early Silver Age issues. The first Green Lantern Hal ever meets apart from Abin Sur is Tomar-Re, who tells him that no one knows where the Guardians of the Universe live, and that most GLs work in isolation, receiving orders through the power batteries. A few issues later we see the first ever meeting of multiple Green Lanterns, and this time they do go to Oa in order to stop Sinestro. Every time the series deals with the Corps, the concept evolves just a little bit more.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Hal Jordan inventing the name "Green Lantern" or writing his own oath for use when he charges his ring (and there's even a story dedicated to what inspired each line!). Later on, every power ring user would be called a Green Lantern, and most of them used the same oath, leaving writers to retroactively explain these early discrepancies. Even the uniform was actual cloth, which Hal took from Abin Sur, rather than being formed from energy as it would be later on.

It came to an end with issue 200 when the series was retitled the Green Lantern Corps, which kept the numbering and ran to issue 224. Green Lantern would move to Action Comics Weekly after that, then to a series of one-shot specials before Hal's origin would be rewritten for the post-Crisis continuity with Emerald Dawn I and II. Nevertheless, most of the events of this series remained in continuity, even after ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', and would be revisited by later writers.