Book opens w/ a shot of Hal Jordan freaking out in what appears to be psychological turmoil. The title of the story is "Peril of the Powerless Green Lantern!" Story begins w/ Hal being congratulated for work well done @ the Evergreen Insurance Company by his boss, Mr. Lawford. Hal's given some time off & goes camping. While fishing, Hal notices an explosion from over the hills in Cosmidor City. He changes into GL* & flies to check it out. He zeroes in on the blazing Cosmidor Corporation ("chemical supplies & radiation labs") where he rescues some young ladies. Soon after, Hal begins to act a bit odd. He busts into David's Jewelry across the street to find some criminals looting it. Hal takes care of the criminals, but then makes off w/ the booty himself. Having a change of heart as he gets further away, Hal returns to Cosmidor City & returns the jewels to the owner, probably David himself.
Hal returns to his camp where he finally lands a fish. Later he goes to a drive-in movie where he acts a bit psycho. There is an earthquake which causes an avalanche. Hal changes to GL to help. After the disaster he ends up cleaning up the area w/ his ring. While everyone praises & thanks him, he feels funny & thinks something is not normal w/ himself. Scene shifts to the Guardians monitoring Hal & thinking he may be suffering from "combat fatigue". They decide to interfere. When Hal returns to camp, still as GL, he goes to recharge his ring, but finds it is no longer on his finger*. A Guardian appears in Hal's lantern & tells him that he needs to take a vacation from being GL.
For an entire day Hal loafs @ the base of a tree, but then hears the cry of a girl. A sister & brother are running from a grizzly bear. Hal, w/o the aid of the ring, manages to best the bear, who runs off chased by bees. Ends up the girl & boy (Eve & Buddy Doremus) are the offspring of the owner of Cosmidor Corporation. They invite Hal to rest @ their mansion. Hal takes them up on it & falls for Eve. During his stay @ Doremus Mansion, Hal realizes he heasnt had the "emotional disturbances" since he has been ringless & @ the same time the Guardians find an impurity within his ring that has been causing said disturbances.
One night Hal comes upon four thieves in the mansion, dons his GL suit* w/o ring, & takes the thieves on. It goes well until one of them hits Hal in the head w/ a statuette. They swarm Hal, pull pistols, & fire, but just as bullets near, the Guardians are returning Hal's ring & just in time it turns the bullets to dust. GL then captures the thieves. The Doremus family swarms in to laud GL. Eve runs up to make sure Hal is safe. GL follows, worried about Eve finding an empty room. Amazingly, Hal opens the door to greet Eve. Ends up that the Doremus Corporation explosion had caused the ring flaw & also, the Guardians "dematerialized" a duplicate Hal to trick Eve.
*It is interesting to note that in the Silver & Bronze Ages, Green Lantern actually "changed" into his uniform. For example, in this issue, Hal is able to wear the uniform w/o possession of the ring. A bronze age example is in GL Corps Tales V.1 #1 when Hal dons Abin Sur's uniform. It is w/ Volume 3 when this changes. The modern version, of course, is that the ring is what suddenly brings about the transformation into GL, suit & all.
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