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First Appearance: Green Lantern #59 (March 1968)
Name: Guy Darrin Joseph Gardner
Name Meaning: Guy(Irish Gaelic)-Warrior, Darrin(Irish Gaelic)-Great, Joseph(Hebrew)-He shall increase, Gardner(Middle English)-Gardener
Height: 6'0"-6'2" (or whatever height the artist feels like that day)
Weight: 180-240 (or whatever the artist feels like that day, yet again)
Eyes: Blue, any shade (has also been green couple of times, and once was badly miscolored brown)
Hair: Red (Orange most the time, but has ranged from strawberry blond to blood red depending on the colorist)
Hometown: Baltimore, Maryland
Religion: Certain evidence points to Guy being raised Catholic, but Guy is not very religious
Occupation: Superhero, Barkeep, former teacher and case worker
Education: 2 Bachelor's degrees from Michigan University- in education and psychology, probable Master's(or close) in education
Known Relatives: Rolly Gardner(father,deceased), Peggy Louise(mother), Mace(brother, deceased at this time), unnamed maternal aunt, Cardone(ancestor), Lumita(future daughter), Gunner Gardner(future descendant), Manzo & Crocker & Buxton Gardner (half-sister future descendants), Stonewall Fencer(highly probable descendant)
Group Affiliation: Standby member of Justice League America, former Green Lantern, Buck Wargo's Monster Hunters
Guilty Pleasure: Adult - having Monkees Albums, Kid - wreaking toy trains

Guy's history

Born the second son to Rolly and Peggy Gardner in Baltimore, Maryland, Guy was always considered second best. Guy's only other sibling was the supposedly model son. Guy usually earned either his father's apathy or anger. Guy first tried to win approval from his father by getting good grades in school. Once Guy figured out that he could not win he turned into a rebel. Guy started stealing cars, getting into fights and dropped out of high school. When Guy turned 18 he stole a car and was caught. Instead of going to jail the two cops took Guy to face his brother, Mace - who was a police officier. Mace knocked a handcuff Guy around, then gave Guy some money to help him turn his life around. Guy actually followed this brother advice, and credited Mace with saving his life. Guy worked several jobs and got his high school equivalency. Guy then worked his way through college, earning two bachelors degrees in education and pyschology, while occassionally reading engineering books, and participating in baseball, gymnastics, and football- in which he became an All American.

After Guy graduated he came back to Baltimore and became a teacher at Baltimore High. Guy was a favorite teacher with many of the students, as he truly cared about them and their future. On a school trip that Guy chaperoned to California, Guy was injured trying to save one of his student's during an earthquake. Both Guy and the student were on a bridge that collapsed, and were saved from death by Green Lantern Hal Jordan. Hal recognized Guy as his alternate Green Lantern, a position Guy was unaware that he held. Due to Guy's injury, Guy was passed over as Earth's alternate Green Lantern in favor of John Stewart. After many months of being bed-ridden Guy recovered enough to walk with a cane. During this time he met psychic Kari Limbo, who informed him he was heir to a great tradition involving the color green. Guy and Kari started dating, and during the summer when Guy was off from teaching he travelled the country with Kari. It was on one of these trips, in New Mexico, when Guy first told of his love to Kari. At a later date in Coast City Guy was proposing to Kari when they were interrupted by a future timetraveling Guy and companions. Later on Guy was contacted by Hal Jordan and was informed that he was an alternate Green Lantern. Hal gave Guy a GL ring and informed him where his battery was while Hal was heading to Oa to check into power problems he was having. Unbeknownest to Hal, the problem was with his battery. When Guy tried to recharge his ring with Hal's battery he was thrown into the phantom zone.

In consequence to Guy's being thrown into the phantom zone and later being tortured by Sinestro, Guy suffered brain damage. During this time, though, Guy fought and defeated the interdimensional demon Sapol who was trying to find a way to Earth to conquer this dimension. Hal in the meantime came back to Earth but was not able to stop Guy from charging his ring with the bad battery. Guy was presumed dead, and Hal went to inform Kari of Guy's fate. Kari was quite upset, but then latched onto Hal as the closest person resembling Guy. Hal had broken up with Carol Ferris and willingly entered into a relationship with Kari. It was on Hal and Kari's wedding day that Guy psychic attempts to reach Kari finally paid off. Guy was able to see Hal and Kari in the dimension he was in, but try as he may he had only been able to make Kari pause briefly with his attempts to communicate. At Kari's wedding, though, she went into a trance and scratched out in the dirt the shape of the phantom zone projector. Hal and Superman then went into the phantom zone and discovered Guy was still alive. Hal launched a plan to get Guy back, and fought Sinestro and a braindamaged and angry Guy. Hal defeated Sinestro and brought Guy back to Earth but Guy was in a coma. Kari tried to communicate with Guy psychically but he had shut himself off to her. Guy stayed in the coma for several years, but had not shut all his psychic awareness off for he heard the GL call to battle against Krona but could not respond. Guy was finally brought out of his coma by a faction of the Guardians to be their tool during the Crisis of Infinite Earths

Guy's future

Two possible futures for Guy have been shown. The first possible future is currently not possible at this time(til a writer wises up and brings Ice back), as Guy was shown to eventually marry Ice. They then settle down in suburbia and have a child.

In the second Guy Gardner annual, it was shown that Guy and his legend will live on - for many millennia. It has not been revealed who Guy had children with, but a daughter and several other descendants have been seen. Guy's daughter Lumita seems fairly well tempered and has the markings of a Vuldarian. Guy's possible descendent Stonewall Fencer, who an observer thought was quite arrogant, is a metamorph. Of Guy's other descendents: Gunner Gardner did not show any powers when seen but was able to activate the Cyber-reality inducer and when Guy consciousness was placed into Gunner's body it morphed to Vuldarian form; Buxton is hot tempered and did not show any powers; Crocker looks to be part Colean with no natural powers but she uses yellow power rings as her ancestor Guy did at one time; and Manzo is a tall strong woman with Vuldarian skintone.