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Rage of the Red Lanterns

Rage enters the spectrum, screaming.

Green Lantern (2005) #36 second-printing cover

2008 – 2009

Collected in Green Lantern: Rage of the Red Lanterns.

IssuesGreen Lantern #36–38 & Final Crisis: Rage of the Red Lanterns #1
Published2008 – 2009
WriterGeoff Johns
ArtistShane Davis, Ivan Reis

The story

The War of Light begins here. Atrocitus — survivor of the Manhunters' massacre — has forged rage into a Corps, and the Red Lanterns are everything the Greens are not: feral, vomiting blood, powered by purest hatred.

This is also where the Blue Lanterns debut, and where hope first proves it can do what willpower can't. The spectrum stops being theory and starts being war.

Key characters

Green Lantern (2005) #36 — second-printing cover treatment. Shane Davis (original cover pencils); Sandra Hope (original cover inks); Nei Ruffino (original cover colors). Artwork source & details.

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