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What is the first instance in the DC Comics when a superhero that was not a designated member of the Lantern Corps wielded a Green Lantern ring?

To clarify, by "wielded", I mean someone who used it for a while, and properly, rather than someone who just wore it.

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    You're going to have to clarify what exactly counts as "wielding" the ring here. Even in the 90s, some non-Corps folks could already throw a light beam or make a basic construct, but that was very limited in time; while others could wield it for longer but did so later. Basically, a third of the characters from this CBR article "Green Lantern: 15 Other Heroes Who Have Worn The Ring" could be the "first", depending on said definition.
    – Jenayah
    Commented Feb 12, 2021 at 17:17
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    It depends on what would be considered a green lantern ring. The golden age Green lantern Alan Scott wore a ring made from a green meteor that was later retconned to have been an ancient heavily modified Green lantern ring. And this was before tbhe Green lantern corps was even invented in the comic.
    – Bjorn Eriksson
    Commented Feb 13, 2021 at 18:45

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The earliest example I know of was the Flash (Barry Allen) wielding Hal Jordan's ring in Green Lantern Vol 2 #20, published in April 1963.

He didn't make heavy use of it, but he did perform a few ring-based feats, like projecting a hand construct in one of the pages below, and shrinking himself in a later one.

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