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Black Hand BLACK HAND (William Hand)CHRONOLOGY 
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The Original Universe

CHRONOLOGY

Black Hand first appeared in Green Lantern Vol. 2 #29 (June 1964): "Half A Green Lantern is Better Than None!".

Below is the definitive list of appearances of Black Hand in chronological order. Flashback sequences or story entries will be followed by a [Flashback] note. Stories that for some reason are no longer part of current continuity will have a comment saying this in a note following the entry.

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Black Hand Chronology

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Green Lantern Vol. 4 #43 (early September 2009): "Blackest Night Prologue: Tale of the Black Lantern" [Flashback]
Green Lantern Vol. 4 #33 (September 2008): "Secret Origin, Book 5"
Green Lantern Vol. 4 #34 (October 2008): "Secret Origin, Book 6"
Green Lantern Vol. 4 #35 (November 2008): "Secret Origin, Book 7"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #29 (June 1964): "Half A Green Lantern is Better Than None!"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #39 (September 1965): "Practice Makes the Perfect Crime"
Flash & Green Lantern: The Brave and the Bold #2 (November 1999): "Lightspeed"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #84 (June-July 1971): "Peril in Plastic"
Flash Vol. 1 #258 (February 1978): "The Day Flash Ran His Last Mile"
Flash Vol. 1 #259 (March 1978): "Black Hand--the Kill-Proof Criminal"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #146 (November 1981): "Prisons and Other Cages"
Green Lantern Vol. 2 #147 (December 1981): "Do Not a Prison Make"
Green Lantern Corps #205 (October 1986): "Bad Reputation"
Green Lantern Corps #206 (November 1986): "In Deep"
Justice League America #28 (July 1989): "A Date with Density"
Justice League America #51 (June 1991): "My Dinner With G'Nort"
Guy Gardner Reborn #1 (1992): [Book One]
Underworld Unleashed #1 (November 1995): "Underworld Unleashed"
Starman: The Mist #1 (June 1998): "Good Girls and Bad"
Flash Vol. 2 #183 (April 2002): "Crossfire, Prologue: Tricked!"
Green Lantern: Rebirth #1 (December 2004): "Blackest Night"
Green Lantern Vol. 4 #5 (November 2005): "Feeding Frenzy"
Green Lantern Vol. 4 #6 (December 2005): "Black Sheep"
Green Lantern Vol. 4 #43 (early September 2009): "Blackest Night Prologue: Tale of the Black Lantern"
Blackest Night #0 (June 2009): "Blackest Night: Death Becomes Us"
Blackest Night #1 (September 2009): "Blackest Night"
Blackest Night #2 (October 2009): "Blackest Night"
Blackest Night #3 (November 2009): "Blackest Night"
Blackest Night #4 (December 2009): "Blackest Night"
Blackest Night #5 (January 2010): "Blackest Night"
Green Lantern Vol. 4 #52 (May 2010): "Life Blood"
Blackest Night #8 (May 2010): "Blackest Night"
Green Lantern Vol. 4 #56 (September 2010): "The New Guardians, Chapter Four"
Green Lantern Vol. 4 #59 (December 2010): "Lorek Tarr Lok"
Green Lantern Vol. 4 #60 (January 2010): "Fear Factor"