"Zero Hour: Crisis in Time!" is a
comic book crossover storyline published by
DC Comics in
1994, consisting of an eponymous five-issue central miniseries and a number of tie-in books. In it, the former hero
Hal Jordan, who had until then been a member of the intergalactic police force known as the
Green Lantern Corps, mad with grief after the destruction of his home town of
Coast City (during the "
Reign of the Supermen" storyline) and having obtained immense power as
Parallax, attempted to destroy, and then remake, the
DC Universe. The crossover involved almost every DC Universe monthly series published at the time. The issues of the series itself were numbered in reverse order, beginning with issue #4 and ending with #0 (i.e.,
Counting Down To Zero). The series was written and penciled by
Dan Jurgens, with inks by
Jerry Ordway. This series is noted for its
motif of the DC Universe gradually "fading out" as events reached their climax.