ZHARAN PEL	BIOGRAPHY
	Created by Roger Stern, Gil Kane & Jerry Ordway

Zharan Pel; Art by Gil Kane

PERSONAL DATA

Occupation: Green Lantern
Status: Deceased
Homeworld: Unknown
Space Sector: 2813
Group Affiliation(s): Green Lantern Corps
Hair: None
First Appearance: Doomsday Annual #1 (1995): "In Blackest Night"
Creators: Roger Stern, Gil Kane & Jerry Ordway

HISTORY

The Green Lantern of Sector 2813, Zharan Pel served nearly a quarter of a million years ago. He came upon a small world on the fringes of his sector, under siege by an alien creature.

Zharan Pel battled the Armageddon Creature (thousands of years later to be known as Doomsday). Adapting to the Green Lantern's power, the creature soon overcame Zharan Pel, killing him and taking his power ring. The Guardians of the Universe appeared as projections, which were obliterated by the Armageddon Creature.

Sensing the Guardians as powerful enemies, the creature used the ring to confront his foes. In a matter of hours, Doomsday made his way towards Oa, killing and disarming hundreds, and wounding a thousand more Green Lanterns. Arriving on Oa, the creature was halted by a Guardian. Locked in a contest of wills, the Guardian faltered as the Armageddon Creature adapted to his power.

Realizing the Armaggeddon Creature would soon overcome him and then advance on to the Central Power Battery, the Guardian released the totality of his energies, which destroyed the power ring. The creature was seemingly destroyed...

Unknown to the survivors, the explosion tore a hole in space, hurling the creature light years away... towards Calaton... - Doomsday Annual #1

Zharan Pel was memorialized in the Crypts of the Green Lantern Corps on Oa.

BLACK LANTERN: ZHARAN PEL

During the event known as the Blackest Night, black rings desecrated the Crypts. The ring placed itself upon his corpse, downloaded all of his memories and created a duplicate of his body that rose from the grave as a member of the Black Lantern Corps.

POWERS AND WEAPONS

As a Green Lantern, Zharan Pel possessed a power ring and power battery.

CHRONOLOGY

For a definitive list of appearances of Zharan Pel in chronological order click here

GLCWP NOTE

The Doomsday Annual establishes a fair amount of backstory on the DC Universe. Along with a history of Doomsday, we learn of the early years of Darkseid, and it is implied the planet Khundia is in Space Sector 2813, but has most recently been revealed as being in Sector 422. The GLCorps story details one of the Corps bloodiest battles, until Nekron or the Crisis. The first Guardian to die in over 3 billion years, and one of the few ways to destroy a power ring. I recommend this book, it's got some great Gil Kane art. This one's an event.