Comic Title: Green Lantern:Emerald Dawn #1
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: December 1989
On Sale Date: October 31, 1989 Shipping Date October 31, 1989
Source: Previews, #8

Shipping Date October 31, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #172

Shipping Date November 2, 1989
Source: Advance Comics, #10

Copyright Date October 31, 1989
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1989

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $1.00
Page Count: 32
Editor: Andrew Helfer

Title: "The Sign"
Pages: 23

Feature(s):
Green Lantern (Hal Jordan Post-Crisis)

Writer: James C. Owsley
Penciller: Mark D. Bright
Inker: Romeo Tanghal
Letterer: Albert Tobias De Guzman
Colorist: Anthony Tollin

Reprinted In:
Green Lantern:Emerald Dawn TPB (1991)
Green Lantern:Hal Jordan Vol. 1 TPB (2017)

Feature Character(s)

• Green Lantern (last appearance in Green Lantern:Emerald Dawn #1; next appearance in Green Lantern:Emerald Dawn #2)

Supporting Character(s)

• Jack Jordan (Hal's brother; last appearance in Green Lantern:Emerald Dawn #1; next appearance in Green Lantern:Emerald Dawn #4)
• Carol Ferris (earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Green Lantern:Emerald Dawn #2)
• Abin Sur (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #642; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #614)

Other Character(s)

• Martin H. Jordan (Hal's father; dies in flashback; no further appearances)
• Craig (a control tower operator; in flashback; no further appearances)
• Andy (a pilot; next appearance in Green Lantern:Emerald Dawn #2)
• Dee (Jack's girlfriend; next appearance in Green Lantern:Emerald Dawn #4)
• Carl Ferris (President of Ferris Aircraft; first post-Crisis appearance; no further appearances)
• Biff (a pilot; next appearance in Green Lantern:Emerald Dawn #6)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• Hal Jordan (as a young boy; earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Green Lantern:Emerald Dawn #1)
• Jack Jordan (in flashback; next appearance in Green Lantern:Emerald Dawn #1)

Comments:
This story, which continues in Green Lantern:Emerald Dawn #2, retells the origin of Green Lantern with new details. Slightly different accounts of Hal's origin are shown in Action Comics Weekly #614 and Secret Origins #36 both of which occur concurrently with this story.

Synopsis:
As a boy Hal Jordan idolized his father test pilot Martin Jordan. However, Martin died in a plane crash after failing to eject. Hal witnessed the crash.

Years later Hal grew into adulthood with the goal of following in his father's footsteps. However, Hal was a screw-up and was grounded from flying. To drown his sorrows, Hal went to the bar with his friends. After leaving with his brother Jack and two friends, Hal was involved in a car crash, that left one of his friends paralyzed. Hal had been drinking.

Hal awoke in the hospital and despite a raging headache checked himself out. He went to Ferris Aircraft to log time in the simulator. Suddenly, the simulator lifted into the air and brought Hal to the crash site of an alien ship. The alien inside was dying and bequeathed to Hal his magic ring and lantern.

Although he initially believes himself to be hallucinating, Hal begins to enjoy the power provided by the ring. Unable to accept responsibility for the car crash, Hal blames a road side near which he crashed. He attempts to destroy the sign with the ring, but because the sign is yellow, Hal merely crashes into it, knocking himself unconscious.