Green Lantern vol. 2 #90 (Sep. 1976) picked up the numbering where the previous run left off four years earlier, and this time the series stayed in continuous publication until 1988.

Green Arrow was also back as Hal's comrade-in-arms, but the stories this time around returned to their original scifi flavor rather than the "relevant" adventures that made up the previous run.

This renewed partnership lasted until Green Arrow was phased out of the series three years later, and Hal Jordan reclaimed the solo spotlight in his own title once again.

In the final Green Lantern-Green Arrow storyline in Green Lantern vol. 2 #116-122 (May-Nov. 1979), Guy Gardner returns and learns of his status as alternate Green Lantern to Hal Jordan.  However, when trying to charge his ring with a defective power battery, Guy is flung into the Phantom Zone, a dimension where criminals from Superman's home planet Krypton were imprisoned.  Thinking Guy dead, Hal slowly begins to form a relationship with Guy's girlfriend, Kari Limbo, but just as Hal and Kari are about to be married, Guy's true fate is revealed and the wedding is called off. 

However, Guy's accident has left him with brain damage, and Kari remains with Guy to nurse him back to health.  Thus, Guy Gardner is once again written out of DC Comics, but when he makes his return in 1985, he stays for good. 

In the next couple of issues, Hal and Green Arrow go their separate ways and Hal returns to work right back where he started: at Ferris Aircraft with Thomas Kalmaku (no longer referred to as "Pieface") and Carol Ferris, who, since issue #83, has known that Hal and Green Lantern are one and the same.  Over time, they reignite their relationship.

Following a breach of the Green Lantern code where Hal put his personal concerns above his duties as protector of Space Sector 2814, his bosses, the Guardians of the Universe, banished him from Earth for an entire year so that he could spend more time patrolling his entire space sector and helping those in need on other planets besides Earth.  In Green Lantern vol. 2 #151 (Apr. 1982), he says goodbye once again to his girlfriend, Carol Ferris. 

From issues #152 to #171, Hal Jordan remained off Earth in exile having adventures that varied wildly in terms of quality, making this one of the least favorite periods of the series in the eyes of longtime fans.

With issue #172, Hal is allowed by the Guardians to return to Earth.  Once there, he reconnects with Carol, Tom, and Ferris Aircraft.

However, it isn't long before his duties as protector of Space Sector 2814 once again conflict with his personal life.  Just as the villainous Demolition Team attacked Ferris Aircraft, Hal was called away by the Guardians to a distant planet in trouble.

Upon his return to Earth, and with Ferris Aircraft all but destroyed, Carol gave Hal an ultimatum: either the ring or her.  After seeking counsel from some of his superhero friends, Hal made his choice and quit the Green Lantern Corps in Green Lantern vol. 2 #181 (Oct. 1984).

With that, and with Guy Gardner still incapacitated, John Stewart is selected by the Guardians to replace Hal permanently as Green Lantern of Space Sector 2814. 

John Stewart remained as Green Lantern for well over a year, but events soon conspired to bring Hal Jordan back to the spotlight as Green Lantern once again.

In 1985, a storyline that crossed over into all of DC's comics began.  This story, known as "Crisis on Infinite Earths" has several major repercussions on the Green Lantern title.

First, Guy Gardner, who had then-recently recovered from his 1979 accident, was given a ring by the Guardians and made a full member of the Green Lantern Corps in order to help out due to the threat facing the entire universe.

Second, in Green Lantern vol. 2 #198 (Mar. 1986), Hal Jordan was given his ring back after having proven himself too valuable an ally by assisting the Corps during the Crisis.

Third, many Guardians and members of the Green Lantern Corps perished during the Crisis, and the Guardians that remained realized that they must leave our universe for another dimension where they could advance to their next stage of existence.

Fourth, the immortal women warriors known as the Zamarons, who back in 1962 first turned Carol Ferris into the unstable Star Sapphire, were revealed to be the female mates to the Guardians.  Thus, the Zamarons accompanied the Guardians on their other-dimensional journey.

Fifth, the Guardians decreed that the Green Lanterns no longer needed to divide themselves up one to a space sector anymore.  They were free to align themselves as they wished.  The Guardians also stated that both Hal Jordan and John Stewart could remain as dual Green Lanterns stationed on Earth.

With the Guardians' permission for the surviving members of the Green Lantern Corps to patrol the universe as they saw fit, five alien Green Lanterns accompanied Hal and John Stewart back to Earth, and once again, with Green Lantern vol. 2 #201 (Jun. 1986) Hal Jordan's series had a title change and became host to permanent co-stars.

The seven members of Earth's Green Lantern Corps thus included: Hal Jordan of Earth, John Stewart of Earth, Katma Tui of Korugar, Salakk of Slyggia, Ch'p of H'lven, Arisia of Graxos IV, and Kilowog of Bolovax Vik.

While the colorful alien Green Lanterns certainly had their fans, sales kept dwindling on this title until it was finally canceled with Green Lantern Corps vol. 1 #224 (May 1988).  Ultimately, the 1976 revival of this title proved successful even with its many ups and downs over the years, lasting a full 12 years before the plug was pulled.

However, before the series ended, one final twist was revealed: a heretofore untold chapter of the history of the Guardians of the Universe.  It seemed that when the females of planet Oa left their male counterparts behind because, being immortals, they no longer needed to reproduce, they eventually landed on the planet of Korugar and took the men of that planet as their lovers.  When the male Oans, by then having taken on the responsiblities of being the Guardians of the Universe, learned of this, they felt pangs of jealousy and thought about striking back against the female Oans and the Korugarians.

The Guardians' logic and reason prevailed, and they decided that such behavior would be beneath ones who would declare themselves to be Guardians of the Universe.  To ensure that they would never in the future change their minds and cause harm to their former mates, by then known as the Zamarons, or the people of Korugar, they made a pact that no Guardian nor any of their representatives would ever cause harm to them.  To enforce their pact, they used their vast mental powers to program their giant Central Power Battery to return to the nothingness from which the Guardians had created it if the pact was ever broken.

Unknowing of this pact and the effect it would have on their own powers, the Green Lantern Corps brought their arch enemy, Sinestro, to Oa to face trial for all his various crimes.  The verdict was guilty, and the punishment was death.  Sinestro knew of the Guardians' pact, but before he could reveal it to save his life, the Green Lanterns executed him.

As the battery began to decay, it started to absorb the energy from the rings of the Green Lanterns.  As more and more Green Lanterns began to lose their powers, Hal Jordan, in a last ditch effort to preserve the green power, flew straight into the power battery itself.  There, he discovered that Sinestro had not died after all.  His mind still existed and he was possessing the power battery and commanding its energy to attack Hal as he reached the heart of the giant lantern and its yellow impurity that was necessary to maintain the green energy in fixed form.  As Sinestro, in the power battery, started to absorb more and more of the energy from the Green Lanterns, Hal unleashed the yellow impurity on Sinestro, which fully ended his existence.  The yellow impurity was then resealed before it could completely overwhelm the green energy. 

The end result: the majority of Green Lantern rings were now powerless forever and no new rings could be created, but the few Green Lanterns around the universe who still had power in their rings would remain Green Lanterns.  This included Hal Jordan, Guy Gardner, Ch'p, G'Nort and just a few others.  The rings of John Stewart and his love, fellow Green Lantern Katma Tui, were now powerless along with those of Salakk, Kilowog, and Arisia.

With that, the Green Lantern title that, except for a four-year break in the 1970s, ran continuously since 1960 came to an end.

However, that was not the end of Hal Jordan's life as Green Lantern.  The next phase of his career in comics had Hal once again become a secondary feature: this time in Action Comics Weekly, where he was featured in most of its 42 issues.