The Green Man

A former Green Lantern who quit the Corps when the Guardians forbade him to interfere with Vegan politics. Had some telepathic and teleportation powers. He died during the Dominator's Invasion Alliance (Invasion #1). Succeeded by a new Green Man in Green Lantern: Recharge #1.

Green Lantern #164, May 1983

"Hero"

Writer: Todd Klein

Artist: Dave Gibbons
Editor: Ernie Colón

Firsts: The Green Man.

Notes: No background is given for the Green Man in his Green Lantern appearances. Most of this information comes from his Who's Who entry.
The entry also states that his space sector (the one which contains Vega) is 2828.

Green Lantern #167, August 1983

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Writer: Todd Klein

Artist: Dave Gibbons
Editor: Ernie Colón

Firsts: The Spider Guild. The Green Lantern, Brin (who retires).

Notes: The Green Man only has a cameo in this story. He is shown battling the Spider Guild.

Green Lantern #172, January 1984

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Writer: Todd Klein

Artist: Dave Gibbons
Editor: Ernie Colón

Notes: The Green Man appears in both a solo story and in-panel in the main Green Lantern story. He next appears in Omega Men #25.

Elsewhere in Sector 2828

Following their success in liberating Koriand'r the Omegans retreat to a safe distance to prepare for their inevitable showdown with the Citadel. Outside Vegan space, they again encounter Hal Jordan, now on the planet Garon. In repayment of their debt to him, they free him from the Headmen (they had found him by monitoring Citadel transmissions). The Headman work for the Citadel's Lord Tiror. Tiror is contacted by one of the Guardians of the Universe, who claim that in capturing a Green Lantern, their treaty has been breached. Consenting, Tiror agrees no to assist the Headmen, who are left to a Psion attack just as Hal Jordan and the Omega Men escape. (GL 161)

Though the Guardians of the Universe have vowed noninterference with the Citadel in Vegan affairs, there is nonetheless a Green Lantern assigned to Vega's encompassing space sector. Known only as the Green Man, this Green Lantern hails from Uxor, a world where inhabitants are not given proper names. In his first recorded case, he encounters a band of space gypsies who have their own noninterference policy. In dire straits, the gypsies are bound by their beliefs to ever accept outside assistance. To solve this, the Green Man temporarily empowers one of their own with a power ring. (GL 164)

In his travels, the Green Man encounters a race of cybernetic drones from a distant civilization: the Spider Guild. Driving them back requires the efforts of several Green Lanterns including the horse-like Brin. (GL 167) Later, the Green Man falls battered to a different planet; the Spider drones have continued their advance. A clever ruse wins the ship's destruction, which he leaves to the natives to scavenge. (GL 172)

Once they arrive on Wombworld, the Psions performs secret experiments on the Omega Men and take the Green Man's power ring. Later, Artin will reveal that he tampered with those surgeries to the Omegans' benefit. As a result, Tigorr is trapped in his animal form, Kalista's powers now manifest people's desires, Ryand'r manifests heat from his hands, and Green Man (the former Green Lantern) demonstrates psychic abilities. The Green Man also reveals that his blood is a deadly nerve poison. In the Psions' control center, some begin to suspect erratice behavior from their computer, Artin. The Omega Men are released into one of Wombworld's biolinks where they encounter Piper. They agree to resucue his friend, Twilla from inside the horrible the Hroobor. The Green Man's blood disables the beast and Twilla is freed. She is Piper's symbiote: his memories give her life-energy. To return Tigorr to his humanoid form, Kalista manifests his dead wife. (OM 27)

When the Omega Men reach the Axis of Wombworld, the Green Man begins exhibiting psionic powers. They learn many Psion secrets, like the fact that the Psions are limited to taking specimens who are presumed dead. They also learn a bit more about Artin, who became self aware when the Psions' data sysstems became too complex. Now sentient, Artin wants his freedom. In the Self-Center, they witness Psions' whose forebrain sleeps as their lower brain controls motor functions. There the Green Man finds his ring, which fails to work. The Omega Men hatch a plan to secure an escape ship and Kalista manfiests Multhus, the Ultimate Psion as a diversion. Elu is captured and Psion soldiers break his formidable shield; they call him "replusive." At last, Artin makes his move; he wakes Primus and reveales them to all.
On Changralyn, Broot again defies his people by releasing them from the Spiders' cocoons. (OM 29)

The Green Man receives a vision of the battered Elu and steps through a portal directly to him. Though severely injured, Elu insists that the Green Man must not see his true form. The confusion created by Artin allows the Omega Men to escape into a Viathan. They are joined by Artin, who admits to having tempered in their favor during the Psions' operations. Artin also reveals that the Psions in fact created many Vegan races, an Okaaran legend proved. And for his coup de grace, he reveals the Psions' origin to themselves, which they are unprepared to accept. Then the Artin's Viathan departs along with the Omega Men, Vegan refugees, the Tweeners and many Psion secrets. He heads for Refuge, a secret haven which he's been preparing. Elu is placed in a healing tank. Artin also creates a new Omegan command ship. (OM 30)

Tigorr and Ryand'r tend to one of the Viathans which accompany them, which is dying. There they find dying capsules containing former Vegan captives. All have died save two. Tigorr admits to Ryand'r that though he'd always loved Harpis, Demonia (in life and death) had kept them apart. Back on the Command Ship, the Green Man mentally soothes Elu while Artin performs critical surgery. (OM 31)

Elu emerges renewed from his healing tank. Thanks to the Green Man, he believes that none have witnessed his true form. Tigorr brings the two surviving Vegans from the Viathan onboard: Oho-Besh, a minstrel from Changralyn, and Yndamaati, Kalista's niece from Euphorix. Artin brings them to Refuge, an artificial moon he has secretly been building above the planet Kuraq. Dorg emerges as leader of the refugees, dissenting and asking why go to wild Kuraq when the moon is inhabitable? Tigorr replies that the refugees must take hold of their own destiny. There the Green Man receives a mental message for Primus from Nimbus. Nimbus explains how he unsuccessfully tried to strip away X'Hal's evil. In retaliation, she used the chaotic energies of the emerging universal Crisis and trapped him between six other-dimensional worlds. These worlds combined to form the new world, Kuraq. Ryand'r also receives a message: from his sister Koriand'r on Tamaran. And on New Alliance, Harry Hokum receives Rynoc and the others. Shlagen fearfully reveals to Harry Hokum that the Omega Men are no more. (OM 33)

When the Dominators and Khunds began forming an Alliance for the invasion Earth, several Vegan races (the Okaarans, Gordanians, Psions and New Citadel) join them. This powerful Alliance imprisons many of the universe's greatest heroes on the Starlag. The Starlag is based in the Vegan system and run by the Citadel. By this time, the Spider Guild are working simply as "independent contractors" to the Alliance instead of joining it. The Dominion sends a fake distress call from Primus and Kalista which lures Tigorr and the other Omegans into a Durlan trap. In this hopeless battle, three Omega Men are killed: Ynda, Felicity and the Green Man. All the others, including Broot, Harpis, Doc, Shlagen, Oho Besh, Ryand'r and Tigorr are captured. (INV 1) (See also the L.E.G.I.O.N. Chronology)

Powers

The Green Man's blood contains a deadly poison. All people of his race have this trait, an evolutionary adaptation to ward off predators.