“When all is dark and in despair,
The night’s made bright by Flashlight’s glare!
All evil things had best beware,
By seven lights this oath I swear!”
Flashlight’s oath, The Green Lantern#11
Chosen as protector of earth by the Custodians of the Cosmos, Hank Hallmark wields a powerfull flashlight weapon capable of seven power settings,from offensive to defensive maneuvers.
Flashlight is the analog to Green Lantern from earth-36.
Note: Flashlight is mentioned by name only in Action Comics #9, but first appears in The Multiversity #1.
The Green Lantern
Flashlight was summoned by the Custodians of the Cosmos when events in earth 0 threatened the whole multiverse. He reunited with several green lanterns of other universes to travel to earth 15 to rescue the Green lantern of earth 11. On the dead earth 15 they faced the Golden Lantern, who warned them about the uncoming multiwar.
Return of Flashlight
Refusing to accept the death of his lover, Red Racer, Flashlight when on a universal quest searching for the way to found him and bring his lover back.
After asking for help to Optiman (also returned thanks to the Black Lens) and received the reject of his bosses, the Custodians of the Cosmos, Flashlight broke several rules of the Rainbow Patrol, including awakening the dangerous Prisioner X from the Gaolworld before going to face Inframan. Flashlight was convinced than Red Racer had became in some kind of coherent information, traveling back in time, causing an anti-entropy discharge than was being used by the villian Inframan to feed of the energy to grow in complexity and power. When Flashlight send the Un-Beast against Inframan, the villian was erased, leaving the energy free to materialize as a returned Red Racer, who embraced his lover, reunited again.