In-Universe History · 1961
Sinestro's Fall and Exile
The Corps' greatest Lantern becomes its greatest enemy.
1961
The story
Sinestro of Korugar was the Green Lantern Corps' finest — Hal Jordan's mentor, the wielder of the most powerful ring, a hero without peer. But on his homeworld of Korugar, Sinestro had become a tyrant, ruling through fear while the Guardians looked away.
When Hal exposed Sinestro's dictatorship, the Guardians stripped him of his ring and exiled him to the antimatter universe of Qward. There, the Weaponers forged him a yellow power ring — fueled by fear, the one color green cannot touch. His debut in Green Lantern (vol. 2) #7 (August 1961, Broome/Kane) created comics' greatest Lantern villain.
Sinestro's exile set everything in motion: the yellow impurity, the Sinestro Corps, the War of Light. He proved the Guardians' greatest failure — that their own chosen champion could fall — and his shadow looms over every Green Lantern story since.
Green Lantern (1960) #7 — main cover photographed in a grading slab. Gil Kane (cover pencils); Joe Giella (cover inks). Artwork source & details.
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- Sinestro Gl7 — Green Lantern (1960) #7 — main cover photographed in a grading slab. Gil Kane (cover pencils); Joe Giella (cover inks).