


The size, complexity, and strength of these constructs is limited only by the ring-bearer's willpower whatever the wearer imagines, the ring will create. The power ring's most distinctive effect is the generation of green, solid-light constructs, the precise physical nature of which has never been specified. No hard upper limit to the power ring's capabilities has yet been demonstrated it is often referred to as "the most powerful weapon in the universe." The power ring is fueled by the willpower of its wearer. Specifically, the ring's charge would only last as long as one planetary rotation of the ringbearer's home planet, which for the Green Lanterns of Earth is twenty-four hours and "due to a flaw in the unique metal that powers the battery" was ineffective against anything yellow. The new concept for the ring also came with new limitations (though they would be removed or altered in later volumes). They divide the universe into 3600 sectors, each patrolled by two Green Lanterns equipped with power rings to assist them in their duties.

The new version of the ring is created by the Guardians of the Universe, who also create the Green Lantern Corps. When the Green Lantern character was reinvented, beginning with the introduction of Hal Jordan, the magical ring concept was replaced with a scientifically based one.
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Unlike the objects featured more prevalently in modern comics, "cience in the original Green Lantern series was never a concern." This early version of the ring is shown as being powerless against wooden objects.
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This was later explained as just a fragment that cracked off of the main Starheart that was still floating in space) which was fashioned into a lantern and ring by the character. "Doc" Smith, but the creators have vehemently denied this claim.Īlan Scott's ring is powered by the Green Flame (revised by later writers to be a mystical power called the Starheart), a magically empowered flame contained within an orb (The orb was actually a green, metal meteorite that fell to Earth which Alan Scott found.
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It has been claimed that another original inspiration for the Silver Age interpretation of Green Lantern was the Lensman series, a serial science fiction space opera, by E.E. Creator Marty Nodell has cited Richard Wagner's opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelungen and the sight of a trainman's green railway lantern as inspirations for the combination of a magical ring and lantern. Green Lantern's original alter ego was Alan Ladd, a play on the name Aladdin, until a conflict arose regarding the actor Alan Ladd. The first appearance of a power ring was in All-American Comics #16 (July 1940), the flagship title of comic book publisher All-American Publications, which featured the first appearance of Alan Scott.
