Green Lantern is an ongoing
comic book series featuring the
DC Comics heroes of the
same name. The character's first incarnation,
Alan Scott, appeared in
All-American Comics #16 (July 1940), and was later spun off into the first volume of
Green Lantern in 1941. That series was canceled in 1949 after 38 issues. When the Silver Age Green Lantern,
Hal Jordan, was introduced, that character starred in a new volume of
Green Lantern starting in 1960 and has been the lead protagonist of the Green Lantern
mythos for the majority of the last fifty years.