Comic Title: Green Lantern #38
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: July 1965
On Sale Date: May 27, 1965 Copyright Date May 27, 1965
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1965

Frequency: Monthly, with the exception of Feb., May, Aug. and Nov.
Cover Price: $0.12
Page Count: 32
Editor: Julius Schwartz

Title: "Menace of the Atomic Changeling"
Pages: 12

Feature(s):
Green Lantern (Hal Jordan of Earth-1)

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Penciller: Gil Kane
Inker: Sid Greene

Reprinted In:
Green Lantern Archives Vol. 5 HC (2005)
Showcase Presents Green Lantern Vol. 2 TPB (2007)
Green Lantern Omnibus Vol. 2 HC (2012)
Green Lantern:The Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 2 HC (2018)
Green Lantern:The Silver Age Vol. 4 TPB (2019)

Feature Character(s)

• Green Lantern (last appearance in Justice League of America #36; next appearance in Green Lantern #38)

Supporting Character(s)

• Tomar-Re (last appearance in Green Lantern #19; next appearance in Green Lantern #46)

Villain(s)

• The Changeling (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Ixnal and his assistant (archaeologists; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Hal Jordan is summoned by fellow Green Lantern Tomar-Re to battle an evil changeling. The changeling was found on an uninhabited world devastated by a nuclear holocaust. The creature was the ability to assume any form. When it assumes a living form, it causes the original to fall into a coma. Tomar-Re has followed the creature to Earth.

When Hal and Tomar-Re track down the creature, they find it is immune to their power rings, because they must first learn the creature's true form. Hal eventually tricks the changeling by forcing it to assume the form of a power-ring created tiger. During the change, Hal causes the tiger to disappear. This causes the changeling to be stuck between forms as a nuclear explosion cloud, which is the creature's true form. Tomar-Re congratulates Hal, then returns the creature in stasis to the dead planet from which it came.