GREEN LANTERN (TANGENT)	BIOGRAPHY
Created by James Robinson and J.H. Williams - Tangent based on concepts by Dan Jurgens

Green Lantern (Earth-9 - 52 Multiverse)

PERSONAL DATA

Aliases: Lois Lane, Kori Anders, Zatanna, unknown
Homeworld: Earth-9 (planet) (52 Multiverse) AKA Tangent Earth
Known Relatives: (Kori Anders): Darkside (sister, deceased)
Group Affiliation(s): JLA; Outsiders
Gender: Female
Eyes: Green
Hair: Black
First Appearance: Tangent Comics / Green Lantern #1 (December 1997): "From Beyond The Unknown"
Creators: James Robinson and J.H. Williams - Tangent based on concepts by Dan Jurgens

HISTORY

For the woman known only as Green Lantern the few facts "known" about her may be only rumors with little basis in truth. She has spun three tales of her possible origins, and admits any of those stories might not be the real story.

- Tangent Comics / Tales of the Green Lantern #1

In one tale, Lois Lane, an archaeologist, adventurer, explorer, and possibly Nightwing agent, was world renowned for her exploits and discoveries. Her reputation caught the attention of Booster Gold, a crooked billionaire playboy. Aboard his yacht, the Black Condor, Gold proposed hiring Lane to dive for lost treasures at the site of the 1962 Florida nuclear event.

After surfacing from her dive, Lane returned to the yacht and warned Gold to leave the irradiated creatures beneath the waves, known as the Sea Devils, alone. Gold was not one to let this challenge go unmet and had his mutant bodyguard, Kilowog, dispose of Lane.

Thrown overboard and on the brink of death, Lane could barely sense the creatures she had defended take her away and transform her. The souls of those that had perished in the nuclear exchange had mystically concentrated their power and endowed her with their unquenchable yearning for justice.

Returning to the surface, she confronted Gold and Kilowog. The mutant bodyguard found bullets had no effect on the woman now known as Green Lantern. Both Gold and Kilowog were taken by the sea. - Tangent Comics / Tales of the Green Lantern #1/2

Another story, told by the widows in Czechoslovakia, says Green Lantern is Kori Anders, the sister of Darkside, butcher of the Czech ethnic camps.

Manhunter, herself a victim of the horrors of the war in Czechoslovakia, tracked down and executed Kori Anders, believing she was Darkside. Months later, a report on the news program Zero Hour told of Darkside's attack on a UN convoy in Czechoslovakia. Manhunter had made a terrible mistake and killed the wrong person.

Years later, Manhunter tracked Darkside to the graveyards of Czechoslovakia for a final confrontation. Darkside was much more powerful than Manhunter had expected. Her foe had become a dark agent of the group known as Meridian and her necromantic powers gave her the ability to summon the dead too do her bidding. Manhunter was beaten back to a bombed out church where Kori Anders appeared to her in spirit form. Anders was Darkside's sister, a twin, and easily mistaken for her vile sister. Kori Anders sought revenge, not against Manhunter but against Darkside.

The dead woman met Darkside in a fierce battle of their powers. Darkside was stronger but it did not matter. She only meant to distract her sister while Manhunter smashed Darkside's occult orb with one of the lanterns used to light the Czechoslovakian grave yards. Darkside was consumed in a fiery explosion.

Kori Anders reached out her hand and absorbed the swirling green energy that was Darkside's power. Taking the object that had smashed the orb, the dead woman added the power to it, creating a green lantern, in her words, "A shining beacon of hope for the lost and the wronged." - Tangent Comics / Tales of the Green Lantern #1/4

A third story, told in Cairo and Tunis, gives another possible origin. Jason Blood, a pirate during his life, was chosen in death to replace the keeper of the Green Lantern to help make right what he had done wrong in his life. The Green Lantern would lead its keeper to the restless dead and allow them the completion of one last task so that they might sleep quietly.

When Zatanna, daughter of darkness, requested a place amongst the Dark Circle, the six necromancers who guided Nightwing, she was sent on a quest to seize the green lantern. If she was successful, the young sorceress could take the place of any member of the Dark Circle she chose. Madame X'Hal, Etrigan, Sargon, Ra's Al Ghul, the Creeper, and Bane were satisfied she would not return.

Zatanna confronted Green Lantern in the midst of a graveyard she believed she would easily take her place in the Dark Circle. She summoned the dead to take the keeper of the lantern into the next world but the spell backfired on her. Zatanna was seized by the dead, her mortal life was over but a new destiny was hers. Blood gave her the lantern to walk the Earth and bring justice for the dead. - Tangent Comics / Tales of the Green Lantern #1/5

When she is not performing her mission as keeper of the lantern, the woman lives in a house filled with mystic artifacts. The lantern pulls the mysterious woman to graveyards across the world by teleportation. Sometimes the Green Lantern is aware of why the dead have been brought back to life, at other times it is a mystery even she has to wait to see solved. Thus far there are reports of five incidents in which the Green Lantern resurrected the dead.

Legendary cinema dancers Ted Adaire and Gene Kylie were brought to life to have the dance step showdown they never had in life. When organized crime learned of the dancer's return, the mob kidnapped the pair for their own ends. The rest of this story has yet to be revealed.

Famed 1960s super-hero Captain Comet had been killed in the war in Czechoslovakia due to the traitorous actions of an undercover Russian operative. When Comet returned he sought revenge for all the loved ones left after the bombing of a US Army base in Pilsen. Striking at Senator Edward Manson, Comet took from the former spy the only thing Manson loved. It was this resurrection that caught the attention of the Nightwing and Dark Circle member known as the Creeper.

The noted detective King Faraday returned to life to solve one last case for his friend and magazine publisher, Roy Raymond. Faraday had uncovered the truth about the murder of Ralph Digby, it was up to Raymond if he would pay the high cost of publishing the answer to that particular mystery.

When a reporter who had died too young returned from the dead, she told Arthur Curry, a young pilot belonging to Captain Boomerang's flying troupe, of a relationship he never knew he had. Uniting a father and his son, Michelle Curry could rest in peace. -Tangent Comics / Green Lantern #1

The most unusual resurrection might be that of the original Atom. The revelation of the Atom's true involvement in the nuclear exchange that destroyed Cuba and the southeastern United States led to fear, mistrust and even out right hatred of "superiors." A right-wing group formed the Justice League of America to neutralize superiors before the balance of power shifted further against the nonpowered population. A member of the JLA, the Question, carried out his assignment: the assassination of the original Atom in Washington, DC.

The Question was later dispatched to eliminate the mysterious woman who carried the Green Lantern. To his surprise, she resurrected the Atom to act as her defender.

After defeating the Question, the Atom joined the Batman, Wonder Woman and the Superman as the new JLA, which will have to deal with the rise of the Ultra-Humanite. How long the Atom will remain alive remains a mystery only the woman known as Green Lantern can solve. -Tangent Comics / JLA #1

Recently, the actions of Gog threatened to fracture the so-called main timeline. In his attempt to eradicate Superman, Gog traveled into his past, one day at a time, killing each Superman he encountered. As part of the resistance to Gog's plan, a number of heroes from a possible future traveled Hypertime gathering weapons of all kinds in which to build an arsenal at the super-hero themed restaurant Planet Krypton. The repeated crossovers of Hypertimelines created "ghost images" of many heroes from what would be considered "different universe, including the Tangent Green Lantern. - Kingdom: Planet Krypton #1

To be continued...

CHRONOLOGY

For a definitive list of appearances of Green Lantern (Tangent) in chronological order click here