Character Evolution
Silver Age
Power Ring (Earth-Three)
Power Ring (Earth-Three)
The villainous Joseph Harrolds originally hailed from Earth-Three, a parallel universe of Earth-One and Earth-Two where supervillains, not heroes, dominated. Eventually, he met his counterpart Hal Jordan who defeated him by overloading his ring with excessive energy, which Harrolds could not control. He was not shown to have a weakness to anything specific like Jordan or Alan Scott. Like the rest of the Syndicate, he was imprisoned between universes by Jordan. Unlike the later versions of the character, this Power Ring was shown to have incredible willpower, even using the lantern itself as a weapon, a feat which even for the most powerful Green Lanterns impossible. Though it varied throughout his appearances, his early costume consisted of a black body piece with one green stripe running down both sides of his body, white gloves and green boots, while his later costume was a green body piece with white gloves and white boots. Both had a green mask covering his eyes and an "X" symbol on his chest, lantern and ring. (The ring was shaped like a triangular shield instead of a Green Lantern ring's circular form.)

Power Ring is one of the few comic book characters to have been shown progressively aging throughout his tenure as a villain. In his early appearances he had thick, light brown hair, while later issues showed his hair being darker in color and clearly receding.

Post-Crisis Qwardian
Power Ring (Qward)
Power Ring (Qward)
With no multiverse in place, new ventures were taken to reintroduce Power Ring and the rest of the Syndicate. When Hal Jordan brough up a file on an old J.L.A. case, he mentioned to Oberon an old supervillain group called the Crime Syndicate, a group the League, the J.S.A. and even Captain Comet fought years ago. The Power Ring shown had the Pre-Crisis version's costume, but was a bald Qwardian being. This version, along with the rest of that Syndicate, were never mentioned again in later stories. (Justice League Quarterly #8)

Modern Age
Power Ring II
Power Ring II (Antimatter Universe)
Power Ring II (Antimatter Universe)
Power Ring was later brought back again in JLA: Earth-2, which introduced the Antimatter Universe version of the Crime Syndicate (now from "Amerika"). Whereas the original was a counterpart of Hal Jordan, this one was a blond-haired version of Kyle Rayner, who was weak-willed and cowardly. He was tricked into taking the ring from the previous owner (whose last name, Harrolds, is only mentioned), and as such ended up semi-possessed by Volthoom, the entity inhabiting the ring. (There was never any mention of a lantern.) He was friendly with fellow C.S.A. member Johnny Quick (paralleling the friendship between Kyle Rayner and Wally West). When he and the rest of the Syndicate ended up on the positive-matter Earth, he was brutally defeated by Aquaman (as native inhabitants always win in their own universe) and ended up retreating.

In contrast to the original Power Ring, who had superb willpower and concentration, this Power Ring was actually manipulated by Volthoom (presumably the monk who had originally owned the ring, but was killed by Harrolds) who lived on as a spirit inhabiting the ring. While he let Power Ring think he was in control, Volthoom was in fact slowly coming to dominate the young man, having him hunger for more and more of the ring's power.

This Power Ring had the same general color scheme as Pre-Crisis Power Ring, though with a more sleek look. He also wore a visor covering his eyes, silver metal bracers on his forearms and green metal boots going up to his knees. The "X" was now a smaller emblem on his left breast, and he wore his ring on his index finger rather than his middle one.

Power Ring III
Power Ring III (Antimatter Universe)
Power Ring III (Antimatter Universe)
At the start of the JLA: Syndicate Rules story arc in 2004, Power Ring revealed a planet ripe for conquest to the rest of the Syndicate: Qward. The Syndicate went to ravage the planet, committing all sorts of atrocities, until the antimatter universe was briefly destroyed by the travels of Krona (a longtime enemy of the Green Lantern Corps) and rebuilt following the events of JLA/Avengers. After the universe's restructuring, a new Power Ring (a counterpart to John Stewart) appeared, with a similar story of receiving the ring from Harrolds (though it is said that he was a marine in the Amerikan slave armies, of which the blonde Power Ring never claimed he was apart.) while he noticed something was amiss, he simply thought he was always Power Ring. This in turn led to the Syndicate seeking revenge against the Justice League, whom they blamed for their universe's shift.

This Power Ring's costume was generally the same as the blonde Power Ring, though his ring was now round in sha

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