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Black Hand
Black Lantern Corps- Alias
- William Hand
- Species
- Human
- Home sector
- Sector 2814 (Coast City, Earth)
- First appearance
- Green Lantern #29 (1964)
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William Hand started out as a minor Green Lantern villain from Coast City. Geoff Johns reinvented him as a death-obsessed outcast, and he became Nekron's herald and the first Black Lantern.
His story is the thread that runs through Blackest Night.
Powers and abilities
- Black ring fueled by death
- Can raise the dead as Black Lanterns