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 GUARDIANS OF THE UNIVERSECHRONOLOGY 
Created by John Broome and Gil Kane

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Guardians of the Universe
The Original Universe

CHRONOLOGY

Guardians of the Universe first appeared in Green Lantern Vol. 2 #1 (July-August 1960): "The Planet of Doomed Men".

Below is the definitive list of appearances of Guardians of the Universe in chronological order. Flashback sequences or story entries will be followed by a [Flashback] note. Stories that for some reason are no longer part of current continuity will have a comment saying this in a note following the entry.

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Guardians of the Universe Chronology

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Green Lantern Vol. 2 #40 (October 1965): "Secret Origin of the Guardians" [Flashback]
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #67/2 (March 1969): "The First Green Lantern" [Flashback]
Green Lantern Corps Quarterly #4/5 (spring 1993): "The Best Choice"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #1 (July-August 1960): "The Planet of Doomed Men"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #7 (July-August 1961): "The Day 100,000 People Vanished"
Green Lantern Vol. 3 #100 (July 1998): "In Brightest Days Past"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #9 (November-December 1961): "The Battle of the Power Rings"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #23/2 (September 1963): "The Green Lantern Disasters"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #30/2 (July 1964): "Once a Green Lantern, Always a Green Lantern"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #31 (September 1964): "Power Rings for Sale"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #34 (January 1965): "Three-Way Attack Against Green Lantern"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #37/2 (June 1965): "The Plot to Conquer the Universe"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #40 (October 1965): "Secret Origin of the Guardians" [Page 1 through page 9, panel 3]
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #40 (October 1965): "Secret Origin of the Guardians" [Page 9, panel 4 through page 24]
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #44 (April 1966): "Evil Star's Death-Duel Summons"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #47 (September 1966): "Green Lantern Lives Again" [Flashback]
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #46/2 (July 1966): "The End of a Gladiator"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #52 (April 1967): "Our Mastermind the Car" [Flashback]
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #51 (March 1967): "Green Lantern's Evil Alter Ego"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #55 (September 1967): "Cosmic Enemy Number One"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #56 (October 1967): "The Green Lanterns' Fight For Survival"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #58 (January 1968): "Peril of the Powerless Green Lantern"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #59 (March 1968): "Earth's Other Green Lantern"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #63 (September 1968): "This Is the Way the World Ends"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #64 (October 1968): "Death to Green Lantern"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #68 (April 1969): "I Wonder Where the Yellow Went?"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #70 (July 1969): "A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To Earth"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #72 (October 1969): "Phantom of the Space-Opera"
Justice League of America #80 (May 1970): "Night of the Soul-Stealer"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #76 (April 1970): "No Evil Shall Escape My Sight"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #77 (June 1970): "Journey to Desolation"
Justice League of America #81 (June 1970): "Plague of the Galactic Jest-Master"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #80 (October 1970): "Even an Immortal Can Die"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #81 (December 1970): "Death Be My Destiny"
World's Finest Comics #198 (November 1970): "Race to Save the Universe"
World's Finest Comics #199 (December 1970): "Race to Save Time"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #87 (December 1971-January 1972): "Beware My Power"
Superman Vol. 1 #247 (January 1972): "Must There Be a Superman?"
Flash Vol. 1 #222 (July-August 1973): "The Heart That Attacked the World"
Justice League of America #128 (March 1976): "Death-Visions of the Justice League"
Justice League of America #129 (April 1976): "The Earth Dies Screaming"
Flash Vol. 1 #237/2 (November 1975): "Let There Be Darkness"
Flash Vol. 1 #238/2 (December 1975): "The Day of the Falling Sky"
Flash Vol. 1 #241/2 (May 1976): "To Kill a Star"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #90 (August-September 1976): "Those Who Worship Evil's Might"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #91 (October-November 1976): "The Revenge of the Renegade"
Justice League of America #140 (March 1977): "No Man Escapes the Manhunter"
Justice League of America #141 (April 1977): "No World Escapes the Manhunters"
DC Super-Stars #14 (May-June 1977): "G--As In Guardians, Green Lantern, and Gorilla Grodd"
DC Special Series #1/2 (1977): "He Who Slaughters"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #96 (August-September 1977): "How Can an Immortal Die?"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #97 (October 1977): "The Mystery of the Mocker"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #99 (December 1977): "We Are On the Edge of the Ultimate Ending"
Metal Men Vol. 1 #54 (October-November 1977): "After the Ending"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #102 (March 1978): "Sign Up and See the Universe"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #107/2 (August 1978): "Tales of the Green Lantern Corps"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #116 (May 1979): "My Ring, My Enemy"
Brave and the Bold #155 (October 1979): "Fugitive from Two Worlds"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #126 (March 1980): "The Peril Pact"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #127 (April 1980): "Battleground: Oa"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #130/2 (July 1980): "The Trial of Arkkis Chummuck: Indictment"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #131/2 (August 1980): "The Trial of Arkkis Chummuck: Evidence"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #132/2 (September 1980): "The Trial of Arkkis Chummuck: Verdict"
Brave and the Bold #174 (May 1981): "To Trap an Immortal"
Tales of the Green Lantern Corps #1 (May 1981): "Challenge!"
Tales of the Green Lantern Corps #2 (June 1981): "Defeat!"
Tales of the Green Lantern Corps #3 (July 1981): "Triumph!"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #148 (January 1982): "Beware My Power"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #148/2 (January 1982): [Untitled]
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #149 (February 1982): "Death by Fire and Ice"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #150 (March 1982): "From Qward with Hate"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #151/2 (April 1982): "E'Spirit De Corps!"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #155 (August 1982): "With This Ring, I Thee Judge"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #159 (December 1982): "When Evil Stars Begin To Fall"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #161 (February 1983): "And They Shall Crush the Headmen"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #162 (March 1983): "Or Give Me Death"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #162/2 (March 1983): "The Price You Pay!"
Flash Vol. 1 #319 (March 1983): "A Slight Touch of Death"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #164 (May 1983): "Green Lantern the Barbarian"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #165 (June 1983): "The Curse of Krystayl"
DC Comics Presents #60 (August 1983): "Battle for the Universe"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #167/2 (August 1983): "Successor"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #168/2 (September 1983): "The Lyssandra Saga, Part One: Sins in the Stars!"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #169 (October 1983): "Off On a Tanjent"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #170 (November 1983): "The Inheritance"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #171 (December 1983): "Shelflife"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #172 (January 1984): "Judgment Day"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #177 (June 1984): "Interlude"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #177/2 (June 1984): "Final Duties"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #179 (August 1984): "Let Us Prey"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #181 (October 1984): "Take This Job and Shove It"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #185 (February 1985): "In Blackest Day" [Flashback]
Tales of the Green Lantern Corps Annual #1 (1985): "Those Who Worship Evil's Might"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #182 (November 1984): "It's a Dirty Job, But...!"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #183/2 (December 1984): "I, Lantern: Part 2"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #187 (April 1985): "A Day in His Life"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #193 (October 1985): "Dead Ringer"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #194 (November 1985): "5"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #195 (December 1985): "4" [Pages 1 through 19]
Crisis on Infinite Earths #5 (August 1985): "Worlds in Limbo"
Crisis on Infinite Earths #8 (November 1985): "A Flash of the Lightning!"
Crisis on Infinite Earths #9 (December 1985): "War Zone"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #195 (December 1985): "4" [Pages 21 through 23]
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #198 (March 1986): "1"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #198/2 (March 1986): "0"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #199 (April 1986): "Ignition"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #200 (May 1986): "Five Billion Years"
Superman Vol. 2 #14 (February 1988): "Last Stand"
Green Lantern Vol. 3 #7 (December 1990): "Homecoming"
Green Lantern Vol. 3 #8 (January 1991): "Bringing It Together"
Green Lantern Vol. 3 #9 (February 1991): "The Two and Only!"
Green Lantern Vol. 3 #13 (June 1991): "Ch. 1: The Chore; Ch. 2: The Gore; Ch.3: The Corps"
Green Lantern Vol. 3 #14 (July 1991): "Structures"
Green Lantern Vol. 3 #16 (September 1991): "Scriptures"
Green Lantern Vol. 3 #17 (October 1991): "Sculptures"
Green Lantern: Ganthet's Tale (1992): "Green Lantern: Ganthet's Tale"
Green Lantern Corps Quarterly #2 (fall 1992): "The Book of Answers"
Green Lantern Vol. 3 #33 (late November 1992): "The Third Law, Part One: Big Questions"
Green Lantern Vol. 3 #34 (December 1992): "The Third Law, Part Two: Entropy"
Green Lantern Vol. 3 #35 (January 1993): "The Third Law, Part Three: Act of Faith"
Green Lantern Corps Quarterly #6/2 (fall 1993): "What Price Honor?"
DC Universe: Trinity #1 (August 1993): "Green Lantern"
DC Universe: Trinity #2 (September 1993): "Reunion"
Green Lantern Corps Quarterly #7/4 (winter 1993): "Green Hell!"
Green Lantern Vol. 3 #48 (January 1994): "Emerald Twilight Part One: The Past"
Green Lantern Vol. 3 #49 (February 1994): "Emerald Twilight Part Two: The Present"
Green Lantern Vol. 3 #50 (March 1994): "Emerald Twilight Part Three: The Future"
52 #31 (February 2007): "Human Resources"
World War III #1 (June 2007): "A Call to Arms"
Green Lantern Vol. 4 #11 (June 2006): "Revenge of the Green Lanterns, Part Two"
Green Lantern Vol. 4 #13 (August 2006): "Revenge of the Green Lanterns, Part Four"
Ion #4 (September 2006): "Torch Bearer, Part 4"
Ion #5 (October 2006): "Torch Bearer, Part 5"
Ion #6 (November 2006): "Torch Bearer, Part 6"
Green Lantern Vol. 4 #15 (December 2006): "Wanted: Hal Jordan, Chapter Two"
Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps Special #1 (August 2007): "Sinestro Corps, Prologue: The Second Rebirth"
Green Lantern Vol. 4 #21 (September 2007): "Sinestro Corps, Chapter One: Fear & Loathing"
Green Lantern Vol. 4 #22 (October 2007): "Sinestro Corps, Chapter Two: Running Scared"
Green Lantern Corps Vol. 2 #15 (October 2007): "The Battle of Mogo"
Green Lantern Vol. 4 #23 (November 2007): "Sinestro Corps: Broken Laws"
Green Lantern Vol. 4 #25 (January 2008): "Sinestro Corps: Birth of the Black Lantern"
Green Lantern Vol. 4 #27 (March 2008): "Sinestro Corps Epilogue: The Alpha-Lanterns, Part II"
Green Lantern Vol. 4 #28 (April 2008): "Sinestro Corps Epilogue: The Alpha-Lanterns, Part III"
Green Lantern Vol. 4 #39 (April 2009): "Agent Orange, Part One"
Green Lantern Vol. 4 #40 (May 2009): "Agent Orange, Part Two"
Green Lantern Vol. 4 #41 (June 2009): "Agent Orange, Part Three"
Green Lantern Vol. 4 #42 (August 2009): "Agent Orange, Part Four"
Green Lantern Corps Vol. 2 #38 (September 2009): "Emerald Eclipse, Conclusion"
Blackest Night #1 (September 2009): "Blackest Night"
Green Lantern Vol. 4 #46 (November 2009): "Feared"
Blackest Night #4 (December 2009): "Blackest Night"
Blackest Night #5 (January 2010): "Blackest Night"
Green Lantern Vol. 4 #51 (April 2010): "Parallax Rebirth, Part Two"
Blackest Night #7 (April 2010): "Blackest Night"
Blackest Night #8 (May 2010): "Blackest Night"
Green Lantern Vol. 4 #59 (December 2010): "Lorek Tarr Lok"
Green Lantern Vol. 4 #63 (April 2011): "War of the Green Lanterns, Prologue"
Green Lantern Vol. 4 #64 (May 2011): "War of the Green Lanterns, Part One"
Green Lantern: Emerald Warriors #9 (June 2011): "War of the Green Lanterns, Part Six"
Green Lantern: Emerald Warriors #10 (July 2011): "War of the Green Lanterns, Part Nine"
Green Lantern Vol. 4 #67 (August 2011): "War of the Green Lanterns, Conclusion"
War of the Green Lanterns: Aftermath #1 (September 2011): "War of the Green Lanterns: Aftermath, Part One"
War of the Green Lanterns: Aftermath #2 (October 2011): "War of the Green Lanterns: Aftermath, Part Two"