N'Gon

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N'Gon is an evil alien whom in the past had mysteriously split into two separate beings; each immediately vowing to kill the other.

To enable this, N'Gon attacked individuals to assume their form to gain increased fighting ability. This attack is an eye blast that creates a distinctive flash in the eyes just before firing. Eventually, N'Gon's quest led to the logical goal of stealing the power ring of a Lantern of the Green Lantern Corps. However, his first attempt was thwarted when he attacked Green Lantern Archon Z'gmora in another dimension when the mortally wounded Lantern ordered his ring to self-destruct so the villain cannot use it.

Using his Z'gmora's form, N'Gon sends a fake distress call to Green Lantern Hal Jordan who is on monitor duty at the JLA headquarters. Although suspicious of this call when he is not on good terms with Z'gmora, Jordan travels to the other dimension to render assistance. Once there, N'Gon attacks and would have killed Jordan if the Lantern had not separated his consciousness into a ghost like being at the moment of the attack. While Jordan desperately attempts to assert remote mental control of his now stolen ring, N'Gon grows accustomed to the ring enough to attempt to get the next level of personal power, Superman.

Back on Earth, Superman is in the middle of rescuing a falling construction worker when he is whisked away by N'Gon to the other dimension. Although Superman is momentarily fooled by N'Gon with his impersonation of Jordan, the real Jordan reenters his own body and warns Superman of the imposter convincingly enough for the Man of Steel to recognize him. With his cover blown, N'Gon attacks Superman with the power ring while Superman attempts a defense against the powerful weapon by wrapping his cape around one of his arms to use his cape's all yellow S symbol as a crude shield.

However, N'Gon uses the ring to create a massive boulder of green kryptonite to incapacitate the Kryptonian so he can use his personal attack to steal Superman's form. However, Jordan manages to throw a rock at N'Gon to break his concentration enough to dispel the kryptonite to allow Superman to recover and counter-attack. After more fighting, Superman manages to grab N'Gon, drag him a safe distance from Jordan and attempt to break through the alien's power ring created personal force field with a full strength punch. The resulting blow creates a loud sonic boom like sound and evidentally overwhelms the field as Superman immediately brings back a barely conscious N'Gon in his true form while returning Jordan's ring.

While Jordan contains N'Gon for delivery to justice, Superman brooded how he was abducted just as he was saving an innocent man from certain death and now there seems nothing he could do for him. Jordan calmly suggests they might have a chance to save him since different dimensions have different rates of time progression. As the superheroes return to Earth, this proves to be the case as they emerge just in time to save the falling man (DCCP No.26, Oct 1980: "Between Friend and Foe!").