| GUARDIANS OF THE UNIVERSE | CHRONOLOGY |
| Created by John Broome and Gil Kane |
Guardians of the Universe
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CHRONOLOGY
Guardians of the Universe first appeared in Green Lantern Vol. 2 #1 (July-August 1960): "The Planet of Doomed Men".
Below is the definitive list of appearances of Guardians of the Universe in chronological order. Flashback sequences or story entries will be followed by a [Flashback] note. Stories that for some reason are no longer part of current continuity will have a comment saying this in a note following the entry.
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Guardians of the Universe Chronology
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| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #40 (October 1965): "Secret Origin of the Guardians" [Flashback] |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #67/2 (March 1969): "The First Green Lantern" [Flashback] |
| Green Lantern Corps Quarterly #4/5 (spring 1993): "The Best Choice" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #1 (July-August 1960): "The Planet of Doomed Men" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #7 (July-August 1961): "The Day 100,000 People Vanished" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 3 #100 (July 1998): "In Brightest Days Past" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #9 (November-December 1961): "The Battle of the Power Rings" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #23/2 (September 1963): "The Green Lantern Disasters" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #30/2 (July 1964): "Once a Green Lantern, Always a Green Lantern" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #31 (September 1964): "Power Rings for Sale" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #34 (January 1965): "Three-Way Attack Against Green Lantern" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #37/2 (June 1965): "The Plot to Conquer the Universe" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #40 (October 1965): "Secret Origin of the Guardians" [Page 1 through page 9, panel 3] |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #40 (October 1965): "Secret Origin of the Guardians" [Page 9, panel 4 through page 24] |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #44 (April 1966): "Evil Star's Death-Duel Summons" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #47 (September 1966): "Green Lantern Lives Again" [Flashback] |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #46/2 (July 1966): "The End of a Gladiator" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #52 (April 1967): "Our Mastermind the Car" [Flashback] |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #51 (March 1967): "Green Lantern's Evil Alter Ego" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #55 (September 1967): "Cosmic Enemy Number One" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #56 (October 1967): "The Green Lanterns' Fight For Survival" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #58 (January 1968): "Peril of the Powerless Green Lantern" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #59 (March 1968): "Earth's Other Green Lantern" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #63 (September 1968): "This Is the Way the World Ends" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #64 (October 1968): "Death to Green Lantern" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #68 (April 1969): "I Wonder Where the Yellow Went?" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #70 (July 1969): "A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To Earth" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #72 (October 1969): "Phantom of the Space-Opera" |
| Justice League of America #80 (May 1970): "Night of the Soul-Stealer" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #76 (April 1970): "No Evil Shall Escape My Sight" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #77 (June 1970): "Journey to Desolation" |
| Justice League of America #81 (June 1970): "Plague of the Galactic Jest-Master" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #80 (October 1970): "Even an Immortal Can Die" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #81 (December 1970): "Death Be My Destiny" |
| World's Finest Comics #198 (November 1970): "Race to Save the Universe" |
| World's Finest Comics #199 (December 1970): "Race to Save Time" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #87 (December 1971-January 1972): "Beware My Power" |
| Superman Vol. 1 #247 (January 1972): "Must There Be a Superman?" |
| Flash Vol. 1 #222 (July-August 1973): "The Heart That Attacked the World" |
| Justice League of America #128 (March 1976): "Death-Visions of the Justice League" |
| Justice League of America #129 (April 1976): "The Earth Dies Screaming" |
| Flash Vol. 1 #237/2 (November 1975): "Let There Be Darkness" |
| Flash Vol. 1 #238/2 (December 1975): "The Day of the Falling Sky" |
| Flash Vol. 1 #241/2 (May 1976): "To Kill a Star" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #90 (August-September 1976): "Those Who Worship Evil's Might" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #91 (October-November 1976): "The Revenge of the Renegade" |
| Justice League of America #140 (March 1977): "No Man Escapes the Manhunter" |
| Justice League of America #141 (April 1977): "No World Escapes the Manhunters" |
| DC Super-Stars #14 (May-June 1977): "G--As In Guardians, Green Lantern, and Gorilla Grodd" |
| DC Special Series #1/2 (1977): "He Who Slaughters" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #96 (August-September 1977): "How Can an Immortal Die?" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #97 (October 1977): "The Mystery of the Mocker" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #99 (December 1977): "We Are On the Edge of the Ultimate Ending" |
| Metal Men Vol. 1 #54 (October-November 1977): "After the Ending" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #102 (March 1978): "Sign Up and See the Universe" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #107/2 (August 1978): "Tales of the Green Lantern Corps" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #116 (May 1979): "My Ring, My Enemy" |
| Brave and the Bold #155 (October 1979): "Fugitive from Two Worlds" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #126 (March 1980): "The Peril Pact" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #127 (April 1980): "Battleground: Oa" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #130/2 (July 1980): "The Trial of Arkkis Chummuck: Indictment" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #131/2 (August 1980): "The Trial of Arkkis Chummuck: Evidence" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #132/2 (September 1980): "The Trial of Arkkis Chummuck: Verdict" |
| Brave and the Bold #174 (May 1981): "To Trap an Immortal" |
| Tales of the Green Lantern Corps #1 (May 1981): "Challenge!" |
| Tales of the Green Lantern Corps #2 (June 1981): "Defeat!" |
| Tales of the Green Lantern Corps #3 (July 1981): "Triumph!" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #148 (January 1982): "Beware My Power" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #148/2 (January 1982): [Untitled] |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #149 (February 1982): "Death by Fire and Ice" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #150 (March 1982): "From Qward with Hate" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #151/2 (April 1982): "E'Spirit De Corps!" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #155 (August 1982): "With This Ring, I Thee Judge" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #159 (December 1982): "When Evil Stars Begin To Fall" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #161 (February 1983): "And They Shall Crush the Headmen" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #162 (March 1983): "Or Give Me Death" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #162/2 (March 1983): "The Price You Pay!" |
| Flash Vol. 1 #319 (March 1983): "A Slight Touch of Death" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #164 (May 1983): "Green Lantern the Barbarian" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #165 (June 1983): "The Curse of Krystayl" |
| DC Comics Presents #60 (August 1983): "Battle for the Universe" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #167/2 (August 1983): "Successor" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #168/2 (September 1983): "The Lyssandra Saga, Part One: Sins in the Stars!" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #169 (October 1983): "Off On a Tanjent" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #170 (November 1983): "The Inheritance" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #171 (December 1983): "Shelflife" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #172 (January 1984): "Judgment Day" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #177 (June 1984): "Interlude" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #177/2 (June 1984): "Final Duties" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #179 (August 1984): "Let Us Prey" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #181 (October 1984): "Take This Job and Shove It" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #185 (February 1985): "In Blackest Day" [Flashback] |
| Tales of the Green Lantern Corps Annual #1 (1985): "Those Who Worship Evil's Might" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #182 (November 1984): "It's a Dirty Job, But...!" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #183/2 (December 1984): "I, Lantern: Part 2" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #187 (April 1985): "A Day in His Life" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #193 (October 1985): "Dead Ringer" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #194 (November 1985): "5" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #195 (December 1985): "4" [Pages 1 through 19] |
| Crisis on Infinite Earths #5 (August 1985): "Worlds in Limbo" |
| Crisis on Infinite Earths #8 (November 1985): "A Flash of the Lightning!" |
| Crisis on Infinite Earths #9 (December 1985): "War Zone" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #195 (December 1985): "4" [Pages 21 through 23] |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #198 (March 1986): "1" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #198/2 (March 1986): "0" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #199 (April 1986): "Ignition" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 2 #200 (May 1986): "Five Billion Years" |
| Superman Vol. 2 #14 (February 1988): "Last Stand" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 3 #7 (December 1990): "Homecoming" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 3 #8 (January 1991): "Bringing It Together" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 3 #9 (February 1991): "The Two and Only!" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 3 #13 (June 1991): "Ch. 1: The Chore; Ch. 2: The Gore; Ch.3: The Corps" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 3 #14 (July 1991): "Structures" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 3 #16 (September 1991): "Scriptures" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 3 #17 (October 1991): "Sculptures" |
| Green Lantern: Ganthet's Tale (1992): "Green Lantern: Ganthet's Tale" |
| Green Lantern Corps Quarterly #2 (fall 1992): "The Book of Answers" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 3 #32 (early November 1992): "Chaos Coming" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 3 #33 (late November 1992): "The Third Law, Part One: Big Questions" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 3 #34 (December 1992): "The Third Law, Part Two: Entropy" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 3 #35 (January 1993): "The Third Law, Part Three: Act of Faith" |
| Green Lantern Corps Quarterly #6/2 (fall 1993): "What Price Honor?" |
| DC Universe: Trinity #1 (August 1993): "Green Lantern" |
| DC Universe: Trinity #2 (September 1993): "Reunion" |
| Green Lantern Corps Quarterly #7/4 (winter 1993): "Green Hell!" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 3 #48 (January 1994): "Emerald Twilight Part One: The Past" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 3 #49 (February 1994): "Emerald Twilight Part Two: The Present" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 3 #50 (March 1994): "Emerald Twilight Part Three: The Future" |
| 52 #31 (February 2007): "Human Resources" |
| World War III #1 (June 2007): "A Call to Arms" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 4 #11 (June 2006): "Revenge of the Green Lanterns, Part Two" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 4 #13 (August 2006): "Revenge of the Green Lanterns, Part Four" |
| Ion #4 (September 2006): "Torch Bearer, Part 4" |
| Ion #5 (October 2006): "Torch Bearer, Part 5" |
| Ion #6 (November 2006): "Torch Bearer, Part 6" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 4 #15 (December 2006): "Wanted: Hal Jordan, Chapter Two" |
| Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps Special #1 (August 2007): "Sinestro Corps, Prologue: The Second Rebirth" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 4 #21 (September 2007): "Sinestro Corps, Chapter One: Fear & Loathing" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 4 #22 (October 2007): "Sinestro Corps, Chapter Two: Running Scared" |
| Green Lantern Corps Vol. 2 #15 (October 2007): "The Battle of Mogo" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 4 #23 (November 2007): "Sinestro Corps: Broken Laws" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 4 #25 (January 2008): "Sinestro Corps: Birth of the Black Lantern" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 4 #27 (March 2008): "Sinestro Corps Epilogue: The Alpha-Lanterns, Part II" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 4 #28 (April 2008): "Sinestro Corps Epilogue: The Alpha-Lanterns, Part III" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 4 #39 (April 2009): "Agent Orange, Part One" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 4 #40 (May 2009): "Agent Orange, Part Two" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 4 #41 (June 2009): "Agent Orange, Part Three" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 4 #42 (August 2009): "Agent Orange, Part Four" |
| Green Lantern Corps Vol. 2 #38 (September 2009): "Emerald Eclipse, Conclusion" |
| Blackest Night #1 (September 2009): "Blackest Night" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 4 #46 (November 2009): "Feared" |
| Blackest Night #4 (December 2009): "Blackest Night" |
| Blackest Night #5 (January 2010): "Blackest Night" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 4 #51 (April 2010): "Parallax Rebirth, Part Two" |
| Blackest Night #7 (April 2010): "Blackest Night" |
| Blackest Night #8 (May 2010): "Blackest Night" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 4 #59 (December 2010): "Lorek Tarr Lok" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 4 #63 (April 2011): "War of the Green Lanterns, Prologue" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 4 #64 (May 2011): "War of the Green Lanterns, Part One" |
| Green Lantern: Emerald Warriors #9 (June 2011): "War of the Green Lanterns, Part Six" |
| Green Lantern: Emerald Warriors #10 (July 2011): "War of the Green Lanterns, Part Nine" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 4 #67 (August 2011): "War of the Green Lanterns, Conclusion" |
| War of the Green Lanterns: Aftermath #1 (September 2011): "War of the Green Lanterns: Aftermath, Part One" |
| War of the Green Lanterns: Aftermath #2 (October 2011): "War of the Green Lanterns: Aftermath, Part Two" |