When active, a power ring will encase its user in a protective, life-supporting force field. The size, complexity, and strength of these constructs is limited only by the ring-bearer's willpower whatever the wearer imagines, the ring will create. The power ring's most distinctive effect is the generation of green, solid-light constructs, mainly weapons, the precise physical nature of which has never been specified. No hard upper limit to the power ring's capabilities has yet been demonstrated it is often referred to as the most powerful weapon in the DC universe. The new version of the ring is created by the Guardians of the Universe, who also create the Green Lantern Corps. When the Green Lantern character was reinvented, beginning with the introduction of Hal Jordan, the magic ring concept was replaced with a scientifically-based one. This early version of the ring is shown as being powerless against wooden objects. Later writers revised this to be a fragment of an object called the Starheart, the result of the Guardians of the Universe collecting and isolating most of the magic forces in the universe. Īlan Scott's ring is powered by the Green Flame, a magically empowered flame contained within a metallic alien orb that was found and forged into a lantern and ring by a lampmaker named Chang. Creator Martin Nodell has cited Richard Wagner's opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung and the sight of a trainman's green railway lantern as inspirations for the combination of a magical ring and lantern. The first appearance of a power ring was in All-American Comics #16 on July 14, 1940, the flagship title of comic book publisher All-American Publications, which featured the first appearance of Alan Scott. The power ring first appeared in All-American Comics #16 on July 14, 1940. A power ring is an object featured in American comic books published by DC Comics.
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