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This map is slightly less comprehensive than Corwin’s.  It still includes all of Johns’ work on Green Lantern, but I don’t include as many of the spinoffs.  I did a lot of this binding as the series was still going, and across three different binderies.  Obviously, the primary Green Lantern series mentioned here is the one that began in 2005.  The series that began in 2011 is in the final volume.

Green Lantern:  Secret Origin (HC)
Green Lantern #29-35

Green Lantern:  Rebirth (TPB)
GL:  Rebirth #1-6

(The trades/hardcovers of Rebirth have the 6 page prologue that was originally published in Wizard, and much more easily found in GL Secret Files 2005.)

Green Lantern Corps:  Recharge (TPB)
GLC:  Recharge #1-5

No Fear
Green Lantern Secret Files 2005 (main story)
Green Lantern #1-9
Green Lantern Secret Files 2005 (profiles)

Revenge of the Green Lanterns
Green Lantern #10-20

(I kept the backups from #18-20 in place because the story in #18 shares a page with the end of the main story.  I didn’t feel like copying those pages.)

The Sinestro Corps War
Green Lantern:  Sinestro Corps Special #1
Green Lantern #21
Green Lantern Corps #14
Green Lantern #22
Green Lantern Corps #15
Green Lantern #23
Tales of the Sinestro Corps:  Parallax #1
Green Lantern Corps #16
Tales of the Sinestro Corps:  Cyborg-Superman #1
Green Lantern #24
Tales of the Sinestro Corps:  Superman-Prime #1 (backup)
Green Lantern Corps #17
Tales of the Sinestro Corps:  Superman-Prime #1 (main story)
Green Lantern Corps #18
Green Lantern #25
Tales of the Sinestro Corps:  Ion #1
Green Lantern:  Sinestro Corps Secret Files #1

Green Lantern Corps:  Ring Quest (TPB)
Green Lantern Corps #19-20, 23-26

Green Lantern Corps:  Sins of the Star Sapphire (TPB)
Green Lantern Corps #27-32

War of Light
Green Lantern #26-28
Blackest Night:  Tales of the Corps #2 (story 1 – Red Lantern)
DC Universe #0 (3 page GL sequence)
Final Crisis:  Rage of the Red Lanterns #1
Green Lantern #36-37
Green Lantern #38 (main story only)
Blackest Night:  Tales of the Corps #2 (story 2 – Carol Ferris)
Green Lantern #39-41
Green Lantern #42 (minus epilogue)
Blackest Night:  Tales of the Corps #1 (story 1 – Blue Lantern)
Green Lantern #38 (Origins and Omens)
Blackest Night:  Tales of the Corps #1 (story 3 – Indigo)
Green Lantern #42 (epilogue)

(I am only including the Johns-written stories, mainly because those are the only ones I’m interested in. If I were binding the GLC series instead of getting the trades, I would put the remaining stories in there. Most of the material after the main portion of GL #42 could probably be ordered in different ways according to the reader’s preference. GLC #21-22 would be an optional arc to include after GL #28.)

Green Lantern Corps:  Emerald Eclipse (TPB)
Green Lantern Corps #33-38

Blackest Night:  Volume 1
Green Lantern #43
Blackest Night #0-1
Green Lantern Corps #39
Green Lantern #44
Blackest Night #2
Blackest Night: Superman #1
Green Lantern #45
Green Lantern Corps #40
Blackest Night:  Batman #1-3
Blackest Night #3
Green Lantern #46
Green Lantern Corps #41
Blackest Night:  Superman #2-3
Green Lantern #47
Blackest Night #4
Blackest Night:  WW #1
Green Lantern Corps #42

Blackest Night: Black Skies
Adventure Comics #4-5
JLA #39-40
Booster Gold #26-27
Weird Western Tales #71
Catwoman #83
Power of Shazam! #48
Starman #81
The Question #37
Blackest Night: JSA #1-3

(This was my volume of supplemental material that slows down the main narrative, but stories I still enjoyed.  It’s completely optional.)

Blackest Night:  Volume 2
Green Lantern Corps #43
Green Lantern #48
Blackest Night #5
Green Arrow #30
Green Lantern #49
Blackest Night #6 (1-12)
Blackest Night: WW #2 (1-10)
Blackest Night #6 (13-20)
Blackest Night:  WW #2 (11-22)
Blackest Night #6 (21-23)
Adventure Comics #7
Blackest Night:  WW #3
Green Lantern Corps #44
Phantom Stranger #42
Green Lantern #50
Atom and Hawkman #46
Green Lantern#51
Green Lantern Corps #45
Blackest Night #7
Green Lantern Corps #46
Green Lantern #52
Blackest Night #8
Green Lantern Corps #47
Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps #3 (last story – BN #0 commentary)
Blackest Night Director’s Cut

Brightest Day
Brightest Day #0-24

(This story is completely optional, as it really diverts from the main GL storylines.  If I were to redo this set, I would keep BD #0 and move it into the next volume.)

Green Lantern:  Brightest Day
Green Lantern #53-55
Green Lantern Corps #48-52
Green Lantern #56-60
Green Lantern:  Emerald Warriors #1-7
Green Lantern Corps #53-57
Green Lantern #61-62

War of the Green Lanterns
Green Lantern #63-64
Green Lantern Corps #58
Green Lantern:  Emerald Warriors #8
Green Lantern #65
Green Lantern Corps #59
Green Lantern:  Emerald Warriors #9
Green Lantern #66
Green Lantern Corps #60
Green Lantern:  Emerald Warriors #10
Green Lantern #67
War of the Green Lanterns Aftermath #1-2
Green Lantern Corps #62, 61
Green Lantern:  Emerald Warriors #12, 11, 13
Green Lantern Corps #63

First and Last
Green Lantern #1-12
Green Lantern Annual #1
Green Lantern #0
Green Lantern #13-14
Green Lantern Corps #13-15
Green Lantern #15-16
Green Lantern Corps #16
Green Lantern Corps Annual #1
Green Lantern #17-20

(The last half of this book contains “Rise of the Third Army” and “Wrath of the First Lantern”.  Most of the issues from the GL spinoff series actually did not impact the main GL series during this time.  During #17-20, Hal Jordan and Sinestro’s stories continue directly through the GL issues without skewing into the other series.  I only included the GLC issues from “Third Army” because the annual was a pivotal chapter that couldn’t be skipped, and the GLC issues before it help set it up.)

I originally bound the issues between Sinestro Corps War and Blackest Night in a different way:

Green Lantern:  Rage of the Red Lanterns
Green Lantern #26-28
Green Lantern Corps #21-22
Final Crisis:  Rage of the Red Lanterns #1
Green Lantern #36-37
Green Lantern #38 (main story only)

Green Lantern:  Origins and Omens
Green Lantern #39
Green Lantern Corps #33-36
Green Lantern Corps #37 (pg 1-6, “To Save Daxam…!”)
Green Lantern #40-41
Green Lantern #42 (minus epilogue)
Green Lantern Corps #37 (cover and pg 7-end)
Green Lantern Corps #38 (minus final page)
Green Lantern #38 (Origins and Omens)
Green Lantern #42 (epilogue)
Green Lantern Corps #38 (final page)
DC Universe #0 (pg 14-16)
Blackest Night:  Tales of the Corps #1-3

(This book feels too choppy to me, especially since I had to bind the DCU #0 story out of order, since I had already bound the previous book.)