Green Lantern: Secret Origin
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Cover of Green Lantern vol. 4, 29 (Jun 2008).Art by Ivan Reis.
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
| Publication date | June – December 2008 |
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| Title(s) | Green Lantern (vol. 4) #29-35 |
| Main character(s) |
Hal Jordan Carol Ferris Sinestro Abin Sur Green Lantern Corps Atrocitus William Hand |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Geoff Johns |
| Artist(s) | Ivan Reis |
| Hardcover | ISBN |
"Secret Origin" is a comic book story arc published in Green Lantern (vol. 4) #29-35 by DC Comics. Written by Geoff Johns and penciled by Ivan Reis, the story retells the origin of Earth's first Green Lantern Corps member Hal Jordan for the New Earth continuity. It featured Abin Sur, Sinestro as a Green Lantern, the new character Atrocitus of the Five Inversions, and served as one of many preludes to the Blackest Night story line.
The story begins with Hal Jordan looking on at his father as he flies for the last time. An accident takes his father's life, and his mother forbids him from ever going anywhere near an airplane. Throughout his youth, Hal disobeys his mother, sneaking into airfields and hangars to get the best possible view of the jets flying overhead. This culminates in him getting caught by his mother, lamenting that they never understood each other. One night, Hal's brother Jim is seen waiting for the clock to turn from 11:59pm to Midnight, so that he can give his brother a birthday present. Jim walks into the room disappointed, seeing that Hal isn't in the house. Later, an Air Force recruiter is seen unlocking the doors to the recruiting office and spotting a young Hal sitting by the door. "Son? Can I help you?" He asks. Hal looks up, smiles, and says, "I'm eighteen today, sir."
Hal is shown taking risks with the planes he flies, actually crashing a plane during a stress test and remarking, "She can handle a hair past Mach three point two." After a barfight, Hal finds his brother waiting for him, where he's told that his mother is dying. Not wanting to see her son unless he quit the Air Force, Jordan would later start a fight with a superior officer and be thrown out. When he went to see his mother, he was already too late, she had died, and Hal's other brother Jack makes an accusation that it was Hal's going against her wishes in the first place that caused her to die so suddenly having heard of his recklessness.
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