Green Lantern Corps
Saarek
A Lantern associated with the dead.
Saarek is a Green Lantern associated with communicating with the dead. His assignment from Scar is a direct route into the mystery preceding Blackest Night.
Continuity: Main DC comics continuity; this profile follows the cited era rather than asserting a permanent present-day status.
- Affiliation
- Green Lantern Corps
- First appearance
- Green Lantern (1960) #90 (1976); expanded role in Green Lantern Corps (2006) #27–28 (2008)
Story history — History and later developments — spoilers
Saarek’s modern role becomes prominent in Green Lantern Corps #27–28, where an investigation and Scar’s secret mission draw him toward the coming crisis. Those issues are not his earliest indexed appearance: the older Lantern in Green Lantern #90 (1976) is identified as Saarek in the secondary chronology. Distinguishing the early appearance from the later developed role avoids treating a return as a debut.
Reference scope: DC confirms the 2008 assignment. The older #90 identification is supplied by the secondary chronology; the original issue was not directly inspected.
Profile reviewed 2026-11-04.