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GREEN LANTERN #1

Cover Date: Fall 1941
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1941-09-23

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Cover Credits:
Art: Howard Purcell


Feature: "His Personal History" (13 Pages)


Credits:

Bill Finger (script)
Martin Nodell (art)
Sheldon Mayer (edits)

Feature Character(s):

Green Lantern (Alan Scott; retells his origin from All-American Comics #16)


Feature Reprinted in:

Golden Age Green Lantern Archives #1 (2002)

 

Story: "Masquerading Mare" (15 Pages)

Credits:

StoryBill Finger
ArtMartin Nodell
LetteringMartin Nodell
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Green Lantern (Alan Scott; last in All-American Comics #31)

Supporting Character(s):

Irene Miller (last in All-American Comics #31; inherits an estate and a Jersey Queen, a racehorse)

Villain(s):

Scar Jorgis (first appearance; a racketeer and a race fixer)

Story Reprinted in:

Golden Age Green Lantern Archives #1 (1999)


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Feature: "Will Power is the Flame of the Green Lantern" (2 Pages)


Credits:

William Moulton Marston (script)
Martin Nodell (art)
Sheldon Mayer (edits)


Comment(s):

A text article about will power.

Feature Reprinted in:

Golden Age Green Lantern Archives #1 (1999)

 

Second Story: "Disease!" (13 Pages)

Credits:

StoryBill Finger
ArtMartin Nodell
LetteringMartin Nodell
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Green Lantern

Supporting Character(s):

Irene Miller

Villain(s):

Boss Filch (first appearance; steals hospital funds)

Location(s):

Apex Broadcasting

Story Reprinted in:

Golden Age Green Lantern Archives #1 (1999)


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Third Story: "Arson in the Slums" (13 Pages)

Credits:

StoryBill Finger
ArtMartin Nodell
LetteringMartin Nodell
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Green Lantern

Supporting Character(s):

Irene Miller

Villain(s):

Barton (first appearance; publisher of Daily Tattle; in on an arson plot)
Merker (first appearance; real estate owner in on an arson plot)

Location(s):

Capitol City

Story Reprinted in:

Golden Age Green Lantern Archives #1 (1999)


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Fourth Story: "Trails of Treachery" (2 Pages)

Credits:

ArtIrwin Hasen, Sheldon Mayer
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Hop Harrigan (last in All-Flash Quarterly #2/2; next in All-Star Comics #7/2)

Guest Star(s):

Green Lantern (Alan Scott)

Supporting Character(s):

Tank Tinker (in between All-American Comics #32 and #33)
Doiby Dickles

Comment(s):

This is a text story with two illustrations.

Story Reprinted in:

Golden Age Green Lantern Archives #1 (1999)


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Fifth Story: [Green Lantern in South America] (13 Pages)

Credits:

StoryBill Finger
ArtMartin Nodell
LetteringMartin Nodell
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Green Lantern (next in All-Star Comics #7)

Supporting Character(s):

Irene Miller (next in All-American Comics #33)
Doiby Dickles (next in All-Star Comics #7)

Villain(s):

Kraut (first appearance; foreign agent creating a civil war in Landovia)

Location(s):

Landovia, South America


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