Black Lantern Corps

The Black Lantern Corps
First Appearance	Green Lantern (Vol. 4) #43 (September, 2009)
Creators	Geoff Johns, Ethan Van Sciver
HQ	None
Members	Nekron, Scar, The Black Hand, countless others
Rallying Cry	The Blackest Night falls from the skies, The darkness grows as all light dies, We crave your hearts and your demise, By my black hand, the dead shall rise!
Paraphenalia	Black Lanterns and Rings
Aliases	None

The Black Lantern Corps is an evil force in the DC Universe made up of the dead, reanimated by the Black Lanterns, powerful ancient artifacts controlled by the entity Nekron.

Origin

Nekron, the entity who represented death, was determined to extinguish life from the universe.  To this end, he created the Black Lanterns, artifacts capable of raising the dead as murderous living corpses.  The corpses came together as an army known as the Black Lantern Corps.

History

Nekron, a creature of pure darkness, created the Black Lantern Corps out of his hatred for all life, which he found completely intolerable.  This eventually put him at war with the Green Lantern Corps, the defenders of the universe who were able to narrowly defeat him.

Current members

• Black Hand – Referred to as "the black incarnate," the avatar of the Black Lanterns.

Former Members

Leadership

• Nekron^[29] – Leader of the Black Lantern Corps
• Scar^[30] – Guardian of the Corps and keeper of The Book of the Black

Blackest Night #1 (September 2009)

• Katma Tui
• Martian Manhunter
• Elongated Man
• Sue Dibny

Blackest Night #2 (October 2009)

• Aquaman – Named in issue #1 but not shown in costume.
• Deadman – Also featured in Blackest Night: Batman, which shipped the same week.
• Hawk (Hank Hall)
• Aquagirl (Tula)
• Dolphin
• Pariah
• Crispus Allen
• Tempest (Garth)
• Firestorm – Named in issue #1, shown in issue #2.
• Hawkgirl (Kendra Saunders) – Killed in issue #1, shown in issue #2.
• Hawkman (Carter Hall) – Killed in issue #1, shown in issue #2.

Blackest Night: Batman #1 (October 2009)

• Abattoir
• Blockbuster (Roland Desmond)
• Deacon Blackfire
• KGBeast
• King Snake
• Magpie
• The Trigger Twins – Tom and Tad Trigger
• Ventriloquist (Arnold Wesker)
• John Grayson
• Mary Grayson
• Jack Drake
• Janet Drake

Green Lantern Corps vol. 2 #39 (October 2009)

• Jack T. Chance – Shown but not named in Blackest Night #1
• Tomar-Re
• Jade – Named in Blackest Night #1 but not shown in costume.

Blackest Night: Superman #1 (October 2009)

• Superman (Earth-Two)
• Lois Lane (Earth-Two)
• Zor-El

Blackest Night: Titans #1 (October 2009)

• Terra (Tara Markov)
• Omen

Green Lantern vol. 4 #45 (October 2009)

• Amon Sur^[31]
• Blume
• Glomulus

Solomon Grundy #7 (November 2009)

• Solomon Grundy

Green Lantern Corps vol. 2 #40 (November 2009)

• Bzzd – Shown but not named in Blackest Night #1

Blackest Night #3 (November 2009)

• Alexander Luthor, Jr.
• Copperhead ("John Doe")
• Doctor Light (Arthur Light)
• Madame Rouge
• Maxwell Lord

Blackest Night: Superman #2 (November 2009)

• Psycho-Pirate (Roger Hayden) – Shown but not named in Blackest Night #3

Green Lantern vol. 4 #46 (November 2009)

• Khufu
• Chay-Ara
• Abin Sur – Named in Blackest Night #2 but not shown in costume.
• Arin Sur

Blackest Night: Titans #2 (November 2009)

• Terry Long
• Robert Long
• Hawk (Holly Granger)
• Pantha^[32]

Blackest Night: Batman #3 (December 2009)

• Tony Zucco
• Captain Boomerang (Digger Harkness) – Named in Blackest Night #1 but not shown in costume.

Green Lantern Corps vol. 2 #41 (December 2009)

• Ermey
• Ke'Haan – Shown but not named in Blackest Night #1
• Fentara Rrab
• Marata Rrab
• Santara Rrab

Blackest Night #4 (December 2009)

• Azrael (Jean Paul Valley Jr.)
• Atom (Al Pratt) – Named in issue #1, shown in issue #4.
• Jean Loring

Blackest Night: Titans #3 (December 2009)

• Baby Wildebeest – Shown but not named in issue #2^[33]

Green Lantern vol. 4 #47 (December 2009)

• Laira – Named in issue #45, shown in issue #47.
• Qull of the Five Inversions – Named in issue #45, shown in issue #47.
• Roxeaume of the Five Inversions

Doom Patrol vol. 5 #4 (January 2010)

• Celsius
• Tempest (Joshua Clay)
• Negative Woman
• Cliff Steele's original body

Booster Gold vol. 2 #26 (January 2010)

• Blue Beetle (Ted Kord)

R.E.B.E.L.S vol. 2 #10 (January 2010)

• Stealth
• Harbinger

Outsiders vol. 4 #24 (January 2010)

• Katana's late husband and children:
  • Maseo Yamashiro
  • Yuki Yamashiro
  • Reiko Yamashiro

Blackest Night #5 (January 2010)

• Damage
• Clone of Bruce Wayne
• Animal Man
• Ice (Tora Olafsdotter)
• Wonder Woman
• Superman
• Superboy (Kon-El)
• Kid Flash (Bart Allen)
• Green Arrow (Oliver Queen)
• Donna Troy

Justice League of America vol. 2 #39 (January 2010)

• Vibe
• Zatara

Teen Titans vol. 3 #77 (January 2010)

• Ravager (Grant Wilson)
• Ravager (Wade DeFarge)
• William Wintergreen
• Adeline Wilson

Blackest Night: The Flash #1 (February 2010)

• Professor Zoom
• Solovar

Justice League of America vol. 2 #40 (February 2010)

• Steel (Hank Heywood III) – Shown but not named in issue #39.

Blackest Night: JSA #1 (February 2010)

• Sandman (Wesley Dodds)
• Doctor Mid-Nite (Charles McNider)
• Mister Terrific (Terry Sloane)
• Johnny Quick

Green Lantern vol. 4 #49 (February 2010)

• Driq

Suicide Squad vol. 1 #71 (March 2010)

• Fiddler
• Psi
• Ravan
• Atom (Adam Cray)

Weird Western Tales #71 (March 2010)

• Scalphunter
• Super-Chief
• Bat Lash
• Jonah Hex
• Quentin Turnbull

Catwoman vol. 3 #83 (March 2010)

• Black Mask (Roman Sionis)

The Power of Shazam! #48 (March 2010)

• Osiris (Amon Tomaz)
• Sobek

Secret Six vol. 3 #17 (March 2010)

• Yasemine Soze

Blackest Night: The Flash #2 (March 2010)

• Mirror Master (Sam Scudder)
• Golden Glider
• Rainbow Raider
• Top
• Trickster (James Jesse)

Starman vol. 2 #81 (March 2010)

• Starman (David Knight)

Green Lantern vol. 4 #50 (March 2010)

• Aquababy
• Bug-Eyed Bandit
• Green Lantern (Hal Jordan)

The Question #37 (March 2010)

• Question (Charles Victor Szasz)

Blackest Night: The Flash #3 (April 2010)

• Captain Boomerang (Owen Mercer)

Blackest Night #7 (April 2010)

• Air Wave (Harold Jordan)

Green Lantern Corps vol. 2 #46 (May 2010)

• Alexandra DeWitt
• Anti-Monitor

Brightest Day #23 (April 2011)

• Swamp Thing

Green Lantern vol. 5 #20 (May 2013)

• Hal Jordan

Media

The different versions of the Green Lantern uniform in the Injustice 2 video game included the color and symbol of the black lantern uniforms, black lantern characters appear in the DC Legends video game.