Comic Title: Showcase Presents Green Lantern Vol. 1 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2005
On Sale Date: September 28, 2005 Direct Market Date September 28, 2005
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Direct Market Date September 14, 2005
Source: Previews, Vol. 15 #7 (#199)

Direct Market Date September 14, 2005
Source: Comic Shop News, #948

Cover Price: $9.99
Page Count: 528
Editor: Robert Greenberger

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Prisoner of the Power Ring"
Pages: 15

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

Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Gil Kane
Inker: Joe Giella

Reprinted From:
Green Lantern #10 (1962)

Feature Character(s)

• Green Lantern (last appearance in Justice League of America #8; next appearance in Green Lantern #10)

Supporting Character(s)

• Tom Kalmaku (last appearance in Green Lantern #9; next appearance in Green Lantern #10)

Villain(s)

• Several robots of the miniature world (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Dr. Jason Blanding, Mrs. Blanding, Beverly Blanding, and Will Chambers (a scientist, his wife, daughter, and daughter’s boyfriend; no further appearances)

Comments:
Green Lantern is shown speaking directly with his ring. He uses this ability to learn of Abin Sur’s past shortly after this story, as seen in the second story of Green Lantern #16.

Synopsis:
While piloting a new jet for Ferris Aircraft, Hal Jordan spots an unmarked plane which he believes belongs to a group of smugglers. He follows the plane to where it lands, and switches to Green Lantern. When he begins to activate his ring, a woman from inside the ring pleads with him to not use the ring, or it will destroy her. GL tackles the crooks without his ring, but when one of them attempts to esacpe he has a momentary lapse and uses the ring for a brief moment. He is able to apprehend the crooks and turn them over to the authorities without using the ring further.

Green Lantern then attempts to contact the girl inside his ring. She has disappeared however. He then decides to ask his ring directly. It responds by telling him the story of Jason Blanding, a scientist who has discovered a way to shrink things and people to microscopic size. Dr. Blanding and his family shrink themselves to microscopic size and choose to live in the atomic world in an attempt to escape the wars and chaos of the normal world.

In the new microscopic world, Dr. Blanding has created robots to help run the world. However, these robots begin to malfunction and begin to get violent due to a green radiation which has filtered into this world. In an attempt to contact the outside world, Dr. Blanding’s daughter Beverly steps into a radiation beam which allows her to contact Green Lantern through his ring.

Upon learning the story Green Lantern shrinks himself to tiny size and finds the family unharmed but in danger from the warring robots. GL uses his power ring to defeat them, and then he returns to the normal world with the Blanding family, who no longer wish to remain in the atomic world.