Comic Title: Green Lantern Special #1
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1988
On Sale Date: July 19, 1988 Shipping Date July 19, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #6

Shipping Date July 21, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #144

Copyright Date August 8, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Shipping Date July 19, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #760

Newsstand Date August 2, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #760

Cover Price: $1.50
Page Count: 48
Editor: Dennis J. O'Neil

Title: "With This Ring..."
Pages: 38

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

Writer: James C. Owsley
Penciller: Tod Smith
Inker: Denis Rodier
Letterer: Todd Klein
Colorist: Anthony Tollin

Feature Character(s)

• Green Lantern (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #620; next appearance in Secret Origins #36)

Guest Star(s)

• Superman (last appearance in World of Metropolis #4; next appearance in Superman #23)

Supporting Character(s)

• John Stewart (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #606; next appearance in Cosmic Odyssey #1)
• Appa Ali Apsa (last appearance in Green Lantern Corps #224; next appearance in Green Lantern Special #2)

Villain(s)

• Gordon Holmes (captain of the guard at a prison; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Several prison guards (Harley and Gosney named; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Members of a Senate committee (no further appearances)
• A jet pilot (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #601; no further appearances)
• Mrs. Holmes and her daughter (Gordon's family; no further appearances)
• Dorian Alexander (a resistance leader; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Lester Wills and various revolutionaries (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
John Stewart is the subject of a Senate committee investigation hearing after he is suspected of killing Carol Ferris and causing millions of dollars in property damage. There is insufficient evidence to indict John, but the nation of South Nambia wants to charge him with diamond theft. A crime which Hal Jordan acually perpetrated. John is extradited and is tortured while in prison.

Hal believes that he should help John, but he also wants to uphold the law. He visits Appa Ali Apsa on Oa for advice. He receives none, but he does retrieve John's lost power ring. He returns to Earth and delivers the ring to John.

Stewart is initially opposed to using the ring to escape, but he eventually does. He breaks out several political prisoners too including Dorian Alexander and Lester Wills. John then joins the fight against apartheid in South Nambia.

Superman visits Hal and demands that he control John. Jordan initially rejects Superman's demands, but eventually concedes that he must act. During a festival in South Nambia, John and Hal fight. The revolutionaries detonate a bomb during the fight which kills many people and sinks a new tanker. John and Hal join forces to save lives.

In the aftermath, John tries to give his ring back to Hal, who refused. John decides to journey into space to clear his head.