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Coasters ?

Coul it possibly be,Guardner ist named after Billy GUY and Carl GARDNER from the 50ties and 60ties Band The Coasters? It seems hardly coincidential that those names appear adjacent to one another... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.142.234.27 (talk • contribs) 12:02, 29 December 2005

Nah. He was named for the astronaut.Arcayne 04:39, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No, he wasn't. As the article correctly states, he was named for Guy H. Lillian III and Gardner Fox. 71.174.94.28 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 21:50, 2 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Appearance in DCAU

In Superman: TAS, Season 3, The Brightest Day, the thief that tries to steal Jimmy Olsen's camera at the beginning of the episode bears a striking resemblence to Guy.

Superbuddies

I think it would be a good idea to include some information on his interactions in the Superbuddies runs. It might be hard to pin down a place in the timeline, but he did have Sinestro's ring. I'll dig out my issues and trades later. --waffle iron 19:27, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

He did not have Sinestro's ring during the Superbuddies arc. While never explained, he did not have a green ring on, but was able to create green-energy constructs. It was never explained. And completely off topic, probably never will be. On another note, while he was alway portrayed as a boor, Giffen was good enough to give us flashes of insight into the character which gave him quite a bit of depth. The article should reflect that.

I Can't Believe It's Not The Justice League should not be considered 'removed from continuity' unless anyone has any citation for the matter. Without the citation it's either unexplainable, or a retcon. I also think it makes sense to try and figure out where these stories could be placed- a good spot might be right before Identity Crisis.. *shrug* I think the new Guy Gardner book is expected to shed light on all these issues.camtin 20:40, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Should add a section about his costume(s). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.239.77.234 (talk) 03:34, 22 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

When did his mother die?

Unless I missed it, Guy's mother is still alive. She's listed as dead in the article. Major Force tried to kill her but she was away on a casino junket and killed the house-sitting neighbour thinking it was her.

After Emerald Twilight

Do we know for a fact that Ganthet offered the last ring to Guy first? My interpretation of that story was that Guy was simply bragging to his guests at Warriors and that this might not actually be true. Then again, I could be wrong. Thoughts? Rajah1 07:41, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Editing for Grammar

Unsure who is editing the tense of the article into the present, but I took the time to correct the grammar. Please explain here if you have issue with my edits, because the edits I've made are in keeping with good composition.Arcayne 05:20, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Answers.com

I am noticing some remarkable structural similarities between this article and the same article here at Answers.com. Anybody got some heads up on that?Arcayne 05:30, 11 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, Answers.com has a deal with Wikipedia to republish the content on wikipedia.

To Arcayne Re: Grammar

Comic book articles are supposed to deal in present tense, as they are fiction.
Example 'Superdude runs to the Washington Monument and saves Reporter Lady from Fish-Head'. Not 'Superdude ran to the Washington Monument and saved Reporter Lady from Fish-Head'. Lots42 14:58, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I am sorry, I am not sure to what you are referring. Could I ask you to cite that part of the MOS for comic books that iterates that? As well, if I changed the verb tense, it was quite likely that the grammar was weaker and inconsistently used. - Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 15:12, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(writing_about_fiction)

I'd do the magic HTML to directly link to the part about 'present tense' but I am lacking in that skill. I had to do a text find for 'present tense'.

P.S. I understand that the grammar in general was most likely subpar.

Lots42 04:11, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Warriors

I think there should be more information about Guy's 'Warriors' club. His life and times there were very important to him, not to mention a whole bunch of other superheros. Supergirl, Fire, Phantom Stranger, all the heros who came by to visit. It was where Arisa's wake was held.

Also, all the Warriors staff who became Guy's friends and didn't have anything to do with the JLA. I'd add all this info myself but the last time I did it was deleted.

Lots42 23:07, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't mean to sound so snooty in the above comment or comments. Lots42 06:00, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Where did he get Sinestro's ring?

what happened to it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.141.132.24 (talk) 05:23, August 28, 2007 (UTC)

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Merge Alternate versions of Green Lantern

merge/nom - The section that was split from original article by an ambitious editor to form a new "Alternate versions" article for all the characters. This section was already limited, and does not need to be split off to form a stub article. It's a detriment to the original article, and at this point the alternate versions article does not need to exist. 66.109.248.114 21:26, 21 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

support remerge - these should have never been split, especially w/o discussion. Characters like Gardner and Stewart were never THE Green Lantern, only A Green Lantern -- 69.182.73.240 05:41, 24 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

support merge -- User:Redhead911 unilaterally created article without discussion with other editors, circumventing the consensus process. --Tenebrae 19:39, 24 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Support merge - As noted above, the characters are not alternate versions Green Lantern, they are other characters who have used the name green lantern. And based on the page's current criteria, it would eventually duplicate Green Lantern. - jc37 21:23, 24 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Support - As per above. Also, as with most of the resent bold splits (lots of alts and other media), this took what could be seen as a relevant section and made it into what comes close to a "Trivia only" article. - J Greb 22:05, 24 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Conditional Support - so long as it is specified as Eartth's Green Lantern (or #2814), as there is an entire corps of Greeen Lanterns. I actually thoght this was going to be a list of all the GLs ever mentioned. - Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 23:58, 24 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merge - there is no reason for the alternate versions entry as they all (rightly) have their own articles and the main Green Lantern article already holds them all together. (Emperor 22:25, 26 October 2007 (UTC))[reply]

discussion closed with consensus to merge. 66.109.248.114 23:35, 15 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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U of M

Gardner then went to college, working his way through to support himself, and emerging from the University of Michigan with bachelor's degrees in education and psychology. One of his closest friends at U of M was John Henry Irons.

Uh when was it established that John Henry Irons went there? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.245.125.29 (talk) 21:20, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In a story done in the first two issues of Showcase '96. 71.174.94.28 (talk) 21:46, 2 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Brothers?

How many brothers does guy have? there were one or two that made appearances in Birds of Prey but i don't see a listing for them.. (Curefreak (talk) 09:52, 21 May 2008 (UTC))[reply]

There was one brother, who went completely cuckoo banannas and became 'Militia'. Lots42 (talk) 23:25, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

References

I put a lot of effort into making all of the references actually functional, instead of just plain text. Why were they deleted?

MrBlonde267 (talk) 15:26, 8 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Kari Limbo red link

Hi Brian. I see that you didn't care for the red link for Kari Limbo. If she wasn't already linked in other articles, I wouldn't bother linking it here. But since she is, I thought it would be helpful as there is the possibility that someone might create the article. Cheers, GentlemanGhost (talk) 21:02, 20 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Martin Milner

The Martin Milner comment is based on a comment by Howard Chaykin. Is taht really enough ? -- Beardo (talk) 00:28, 27 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Confused by a statement about Warrior

There is a line at the end of the Warrior book: However, this new direction only lasted for 30 issues of Guy Gardner: Warrior (which crossed over in the Way of the Warrior with Justice League America and Hawkman featuring cameos of Lobo and former-Green Lantern Probert) and his many several appearances over a span of ten years.

However, this is confusing as it implies that the new direction of Warrior after he was revived in Superman lasted for 30 issues of Warrior, but that series was over before the whole Death of Guy as part of the Worlds at War series. Sgetz (talk) 17:32, 16 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: no consensus to move. Favonian (talk) 20:11, 19 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Guy Gardner (comics) → Guy Gardner – This Guy Gardner is more notable than the astronaut. He gets more page views a day than the astronaut does in a month. Currently Guy Gardner is a disambiguation page, but since the only two links are to this one and the astronaut, a hatnote will do if the move happens. Relisted. Jenks24 (talk) 04:36, 10 June 2012 (UTC) JDDJS (talk) 16:16, 2 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - the dab (comics) is so very common with comics chracters that I don't see this as necessary. - jc37 15:58, 10 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

However if the proposer is correct and the comic character is actually the primary meaning of the term Guy Gardner then as per Wikipedia:Primary meaning this should be at Guy Gardner. The reason that most comic characters are use the dab (comics) is that many of them are not the primary meaning of the term (ie someone typing Abomination is not more likely looking for the comic character than every other article of the same name combined. The frequency of the dab (comics) should have no bearing whatsoever on this disucssion because if this is the primary meaning of the term the rational that cause most articles about comic characters to use the dab in question does not exist and therefore it should not be used. The only question that should be asked here is the character the primary meaning of Guy Gardner and if it is the move should be made since that is standard procedure for primary meanings. To be clear I do not know if this is the primary meaning or not but simply pointing out that the above oppose rational does not reflect standard practice.--174.93.167.177 (talk) 03:26, 12 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. Note Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Is there a primary topic?, linked to above, reads in part A topic is primary for a term, with respect to long-term significance, if it has substantially greater enduring notability and educational value than any other topic associated with that term and later In a few cases, there is some conflict between a topic of primary usage and one of primary long-term significance. In such a case, consensus determines which article, if either, is the primary topic. That's exactly the case here, and while I'm strongly of the opinion that the astronaut trumps the comic character (who is a marginal part of the fictional universe in question), it's safest to say no primary meaning. Andrewa (talk) 09:31, 19 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Alter ego: real name or GL?

There's a discussion about whether the alter ego should be *different* from the article name. Please chime in over at Template_talk:Infobox_comics_character#Alter_ego.3F. Thanks, Aristophanes68 (talk) 01:13, 13 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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