All-American Comics #16

(July 1940)

[The Origin of Green Lantern] (Table of Contents)

The Green Lantern / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bill Finger (signed)

Pencils:

Martin Nodell [as Mart Dellon] (signed)

Inks:

Martin Nodell [as Mart Dellon] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Martin Nodell

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Green Lantern [Alan Scott] (introduction, origin, railroad engineer); Chang (lamp maker); Joe (asylum guard); Billings (asylum patient); Jimmy (railroad worker); Dekker (villain, death)

Synopsis:

Construction engineer Alan Scott survives an explosion during a test crossing of a trestle bridge and learns he was saved by the green lantern he carried. The lantern tells how long ago a meteor was formed into a lamp by a Chinese lampmaker and how it protected him from his murderous neighbors. Later the lamp was found by an asylum inmate, who re-formed it into a lantern and was cured of his insanity by the lantern. Now it brings power to Scott, who forms a ring out of part of it and uses his new abilities to force a confession for the sabotage of the bridge out of Dekker, a rival contractor.

Reprints:

• in The Great Comic Book Heroes (Dial Press, 1965 series) #[nn] (1965)
• in Secret Origins of the Super DC Heroes (Crown Publishers, 1976 series) #[nn] (1976)
• in Golden Age Green Lantern Archives (DC, 1999 series) #1 (1999)

Keywords:

green lantern; oath; power ring

Indexer Notes

Oddities: 1) GL wears the power ring on his right hand in the story; 2) he doesn't charge his ring but gets power my picking the lamp up; and 3) he repeats the oath in the last panel w/o charging the ring.

[The Rescue] (Table of Contents)

Hop Harrigan / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jon L. Blummer (signed)

Pencils:

Jon L. Blummer (signed)

Inks:

Jon L. Blummer (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Jon L. Blummer

Content Information

Genre:

aviation

Characters:

Hop Harrigan

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2-29-08.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Believe It or Not / filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Robert L. Ripley

Pencils:

Robert L. Ripley

Inks:

Robert L. Ripley

Colors:

?

Letters:

Robert L. Ripley

Content Information

Genre:

non-fiction

Indexer Notes

Strip reprinted from newspaper feature.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Mutt and Jeff / Cicero's Cat / filler / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)

Pencils:

Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)

Inks:

Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Al Smith [as Bud Fisher]

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Mutt; Jeff; Cicero's Cat

Indexer Notes

Strips taken from newspaper feature.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Daisybelle / filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gene Byrnes (signed)

Pencils:

Gene Byrnes (signed)

Inks:

Gene Byrnes (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Gene Byrnes

Content Information

Genre:

humor; children

Characters:

Daisybelle

Indexer Notes

Strips reprinted from newspaper feature.

[Sealed Orders] (Table of Contents)

Red, White and Blue / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jerry Siegel?

Pencils:

William Smith

Inks:

William Smith

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Red Dugan; Whitey Smith; Blooey Blue.

[The Sinister Mansion] (Table of Contents)

Ben Webster / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Russell Cole [as Edwin Alger] (signed)

Pencils:

Russell Cole [as Edwin Alger] (signed)

Inks:

Russell Cole [as Edwin Alger] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Russell Cole

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Ben Webster

Indexer Notes

Reprinted from newspaper strip. True writer/artist name [Cole] added by Craig Delich 2-29-08.

[Stamps] (Table of Contents)

Popsicle Pete / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Art Helfant

Pencils:

Art Helfant

Inks:

Art Helfant

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Pete

Traitor's Treachery Part 3 (Table of Contents)

Jimmy Stone / text story / 1.67 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Sheldon Mayer (spot illo)

Inks:

Sheldon Mayer (spot illo)

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Jimmy Stone

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Table of Contents)

All-American Comics Monthly Book Review / text article / 0.67 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

? (spot illo)

Inks:

? (spot illo)

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

[The Exploding Buildings] (Table of Contents)

Adventures in the Unknown / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Carl H. Claudy (signed)

Pencils:

Stan Aschmeier

Inks:

Stan Aschmeier

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Alan; Ted; Jack

Indexer Notes

A chapter of "The Infra-Red Destroyers".

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Mutt and Jeff / Cicero's Cat / filler / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)

Pencils:

Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)

Inks:

Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Al Smith [as Bud Fisher]

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Mutt; Jeff; Cicero's cat

Indexer Notes

Newspaper reprints.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Believe It or Not / filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Robert L. Ripley

Pencils:

Robert L. Ripley

Inks:

Robert L. Ripley

Colors:

?

Letters:

Robert L. Ripley

Content Information

Genre:

non-fiction

Indexer Notes

Newspaper reprint.

[Good-Bye Widow-Maker] (Table of Contents)

Scribbly / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Sheldon Mayer (signed)

Pencils:

Sheldon Mayer (signed)

Inks:

Sheldon Mayer (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Sheldon Mayer

Content Information

Characters:

Scribbly

[The Power Plant Failure] (Table of Contents)

Gary Concord the Ultra-Man / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jon L. Blummer

Pencils:

Jon L. Blummer

Inks:

Jon L. Blummer

Colors:

?

Letters:

Jon L. Blummer

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction; superhero

Characters:

Gary Concord

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2-29-08.