“Remember that time I saw that power battery and I didn’t pick it up? Man, I should have bought that. And as the years went by I would mention it to my wife a lot. I don’t think I had the money on me and there were not any ATM machines in close proximity. The seller had a very cheap price on it, but I still walked away from buying it for some reason. This had come out a few years prior to me seeing this at the flea market and it was a pretty expensive collectible, which was why I didn’t own it. As we were wondering up and down the rows I suddenly saw something that I never thought I would see at a flea market: a DC Direct Green Lantern 1:1 scale replica power battery and ring. My sixth ring has a funny little story behind it: Shortly after my wife and I met I started introducing her to flea markets in the area. Since this was a custom made band, it was sized to my finger size 13 RING NUMBER SIX: This little piece of jewelry encapsulated so much of my childhood. Every time I take it out of it’s ring box I’m instantly ported back to the moment I took the ring out of the package for the first time - still on the sales floor of Newbury Comics and just standing there in total amazement. I learned quickly that the right wasn’t a true sterling silver ring, it was merely plated with silver, and a few months after wearing it a lot I noticed the silver was starting to wear off the inside of the ring. Not some plastic promo piece, but a real piece of jewelry! A real power ring! The ring was a size 11 1/2 which at the time could fit on to the middle finger of my right hand. And since I was in charge of ordering stuff for the store, OF COURSE I was going to order a ring for myself. It was the perfect way to cross pollinate and get both buyers that were fans of Hal Jordan and Kyle Rayner. The box said it was the “Kyle Rayner” ring and it had the updated 90’s Green Lantern logo/font, but that sucker was all about Hal Jordan. It still held the chunky design of the 1980’s ring. I’d try to make rings out of clay, but they were too brittle and would always break or crack. The rings I could make out of construction paper would always rip or get ruined. I’ve always wanted a Green Lantern Power Ring. I’d run and soar and when I was done I’d sleep and dream green thoughts. In the early 90’s.Īs a kid I would trace the green lantern logo onto green construction paper and I’d cut it out and fashion a paper ring that would help propel me out of the house and into the backyard a vast universe of monsters and evil doers whom I would defeat by creating giant green monsters, or a boxing glove, or a giant fishing net. Before I graduated high school my father and I had successfully completed a complete run of the Silver Age Green Lantern series, all 224 issues, including his debut appearances in DC Comics’ “Showcase” issues 22, 23 and 24, from 1959. He was amazing.Īll throughout grade school my father and I would hit up comic book conventions and flea markets and try to collect all the issues of the Green Lantern comic since his debut in 1959. I can’t even remember how old I was when I picked up my first comic book with this green clad warrior who could create anything he thought of with a magic green ring. My love and obsession with Green Lantern goes back as far as I can remember.
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