John Foxe

Published early in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, of England, only five years after the death of the Roman Catholic Queen Mary, the work is an affirmation of the Protestant Reformation in England during the ongoing period of religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants. Since the English monarchs also asserted control over the Church in England, a change in rulers could change the legal status of religious practices. As a consequence, adherents...

"The early adventures of the greatest Green Lantern of all time, Hal Jordan, are now collected in their entirety in the GREEN LANTERN: THE SILVER AGE OMNIBUS series. These are the tales that established Hal Jordan as the greatest member of the Green Lantern Corps. These 1960s tales feature appearances by Hal Jordan's fellow Green Lanterns, plus the Golden Age Green Lantern and villains including Sinestro, Evil Star, Black Hand, Dr. Polaris, Star Sapphire...

Perhaps the most famous of all the Green Lanterns, Hal Jordan put on the Lantern's ring for the first time in 1959. Reinvented from the original 1940s crime-fighting Alan Scott Green Lantern by John Broome, this new Green Lantern was a science-fiction adventurer. He battled aliens, giant monsters and wealthy sociopaths out to steal his ring, and fended off the efforts of his love, Carol Ferris, to discover his true identity. As the Green Lantern of...