| AKU | ATLAS |
| Created by John Broome and Gil Kane |
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Aku; Art by Gil Kane
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PLANETARY INFORMATION
Name: Aku
Location: Somewhere in the constellation Monoceros
Space Sector: 2813
Environment: Earthlike
Dominant Lifeform: Akuans
Prominent Inhabitants: Ibr; Alyssha; Cosmo
First Appearance: Green Lantern Vol. 2 #6 (May-June 1961): "The World of Living Phantoms!"
Creators: John Broome and Gil Kane
HISTORY
Aku is a pale blue world in the constellation of Monoceros. Centuries ago Ibr, the chief scientist of Aku, came up with a plan to artificially extend the life-energies of the citizens of Aku. The inhabitants of Aku would be placed in a state resembling sleep and suspended animation in special underground chambers while thought-images projected from their minds would carry on their lives above in a seemingly advanced super-scientific civilization. When the thought-energies of two of the Akuans' became entangled electronically it caused the system to go haywire and only with the help of Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) things were restored to normal, with two exceptions. The two Akuans that threw off the system had fallen in love and didn't want to return to their sleep-like state. Instead they became the only real people walking the surface of Aku.