Rond Vidar

Rond Vidar
Rond Vidar in his Green Lantern uniform
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	Adventure Comics #349 (October 1966)
Created by	Jim Shooter (writer & artist) Mort Weisinger (writer) Curt Swan (artist)
In-story information
Alter ego	Rond Vidar
Species	Human
Place of origin	Earth (31st century)
Team affiliations	Legion of Super-Heroes Green Lantern Corps
Notable aliases	Green Lantern
Abilities	Power ring

Rond Vidar is a fictional superhero published by DC Comics. He first appeared in Adventure Comics #349 (October 1966), and was created by Jim Shooter, Mort Weisinger and Curt Swan. An Earthling from the 30th century, he is the final member of the Green Lantern Corps—an intergalactic police force—who interacts with the Legion of Super-Heroes.

Rond was the son of Universo, an enemy of the Legion of Super-Heroes. Sent to live with a family on Earth, Rond proved to be a genius at temporal theory, and won a prize at an early age for his invention of the Time Cube, a device which can transport its contents in time. The Time Cube later proved indispensable to the Legion, who used it to stop Universo from taking over the world.

Soon the Legion made Rond an honorary member and he continued his research, collaborating on many experiments with the super-intelligent Brainiac 5. While instrumental in many temporal advances, including the creation of the Time Beacon, allowing for safe travel through time, Rond's experiments took a disastrous turn when they threw Professor Jaxon Rugarth into a time loop, turning him into the Infinite Man.

At some point in Rond's career, the Guardians of the Universe recruited him to be a covert member of the Green Lantern Corps, since Green Lanterns were banned on Earth at the time (due to the actions of the last Earth-based Green Lantern, Universo). Rond kept this a secret, not even telling his friends in the Legion.

Considering his son (the only other person immune to his powers of hypnotism) a threat to his plans, Universo eventually "killed" Rond. Rond, however, survived the attack but chose to allow the rest of the world to believe he was dead, allowing him to work better undercover. Rond's survival (and secret identity) was revealed in when he helped save Brainiac 5, Saturn Girl, Duo Damsel, and Mon-El during an attack on the Time Trapper, a longtime foe whose manipulations had caused the death of Superboy. Due to Earth's ban on Green Lanterns, he left the planet, never to return.