Long before he was ever cast as Green Lantern , millions of people around the world already agreed Nathan Fillion was born to play Hal Jordan. Even though his Lantern role has taken a different path, fans can take comfort in one of the strangest comic book coincidences of all time: that DC Comics somehow broke the laws of time to cast Fillion in the role... before the actor's 18th birthday.

Superman Chose A Familiar Man To Become Earth's Green Lantern

Action Comics #642 (1989) by Elliot S. Maggin, Gil Kane & Glenn Whitmore

Superman Holds Green Lantern's Uniform in Action Comics #642 Cover

To understand this million-to-one comic book coincidence(?) fans must head all the way back to January of 1989, when Action Comics #642 hit comic book shelves everywhere. With a shocking new

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