Black Lantern Corps
Nekron
Lord of the Unliving.
Nekron is the Lord of the Unliving, a cosmic antagonist tied to the boundary between life and death. His history begins before the modern spectrum saga.
Continuity: Main DC comics continuity; this profile follows the cited era rather than asserting a permanent present-day status.
- Affiliation
- Black Lantern Corps
- First appearance
- Tales of the Green Lantern Corps #2 (1981)
Story history — History and later developments — spoilers
Tales of the Green Lantern Corps (1981) presents Nekron as the power behind Krona’s attack. Blackest Night later brings him to the center of a universe-wide assault involving the dead. He is a particular being in DC’s cosmology, not an assertion that every depiction of death throughout DC is the same character.
Reference scope: The publisher’s digital issue synopsis explicitly identifies Tales of the Green Lantern Corps #2 as Nekron’s first appearance.
Profile reviewed 2026-11-04.
