Green Lantern #1

(Fall 1941)

Another Message to Our Readers (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Green Lantern: His Personal History (Table of Contents: 2)

Green Lantern / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Finger (signed)

Pencils

Mart Nodell (signed)

Inks

Mart Nodell (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Green Lantern [Alan Scott] (origin retold); Chang (lamp maker, un-named in the story, death); Mr. Billings, un-named in the story)

Synopsis

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 as Green Lantern.

Reprints

• in Golden Age Green Lantern Archives (DC, 1999 series) #1 ([June] 1999)

Keywords

green lantern (called the green lamp); oath; power ring

The Masquerading Mare! (Table of Contents: 3)

Green Lantern / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Finger (signed)

Pencils

Mart Nodell (signed)

Inks

Mart Nodell (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Irene Miller; "Scar" Jorgis (villain); Slink (villain); Gerald Davis (villain)

Synopsis

When Irene Miller inherits a racehorse named Jersey Queen, racketeer "Scar" Jorgis tries to buy it to keep it out of competition. Failing that, he tries to cripple the horse, but Green Lantern puts an end to that plot. Finally, Jorgis gets Irene's cousin to convince her to enter the horse in a "claiming race," and Irene loses ownership of Jersey Queen to Scar. After GL reclaims the horse, he forces confessions out of Scar and Gerald and returns Jersey Queen to Irene.

Reprints

• in Golden Age Green Lantern Archives (DC, 1999 series) #1 ([June] 1999)

Keywords

APEX Broadcasting; green lantern (called the lamp of power); Jersey Queen; oath; power ring

Indexer Notes

G.L. uses his ring to blind a gangster unless he talks.

Will Power Is the Flame of the Green Lantern! My Flame Shall Be Yours If You Develop Will Power! (Table of Contents: 4)

text article / 2 pages (report information)

Script

William Moulton Marston [as Dr. Wm. Moulton Marston] (signed)

Pencils

Mart Nodell (illustrations); ? (photograph)

Inks

Mart Nodell (illustrations); ? (photograph)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

non-fiction

Characters

William Moulton Marston (photograph); General George Washington; General Ulysses S. Grant

Synopsis

Extols the virtue of will power and uses two great men from American history as examples.

Reprints

• in Golden Age Green Lantern Archives (DC, 1999 series) #1 ([June] 1999)

Keywords

green lantern

Disease!! (Table of Contents: 5)

Green Lantern / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Finger (signed)

Pencils

Mart Nodell (signed)

Inks

Mart Nodell (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Irene Miller; un-named District Attorney (death); Mr. Van Smithers; un-named butler of Boss Filch; un-named crook dressed as Green Lantern (villain); Tommy Filch (Boss Filch's son); Boss Filch (villain); Commissioner Merril (villain)

Synopsis

After the district attorney accuses Boss Filch of stealing money meant for pneumonia serum and winds up dead, Green Lantern confronts Filch, but gets nowhere. GL mounts his own campaign to raise funds, stopping an impostor along the way, until Filch's son gets sick. Filch promises to confess to his grafting in exchange for help saving his boy. But Filch fingers Commissioner Merril, his partner in crime, as responsible for the D.A.'s murderer, so GL confronts him and collects the evidence needed to put him away too.

Reprints

• in Golden Age Green Lantern Archives (DC, 1999 series) #1 ([June] 1999)

Keywords

APEX Broadcasting; green lantern (called the lamp); oath; power ring

Introducing Bill Finger and Marty Nodell Creators of Green Lantern! (Table of Contents: 6)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script

Sheldon Mayer

Letters

typeset

Genre

biography

Characters

Bill Finger (photo); Martin Nodell (photo)

Synopsis

This contains short, informational biographies of Finger and Nodell.

Reprints

• in Alter Ego (TwoMorrows Publishing, 1999 series) #102 (June 2011)

Indexer Notes

This features does NOT appear in the Golden Age Green Lantern Archives Volume 1 (1999). Writer credit added by Craig Delich.

Arson in the Slums (Table of Contents: 7)

Green Lantern / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Finger (signed)

Pencils

Mart Nodell (signed)

Inks

Mart Nodell (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Irene Miller; un-named Fire Department Chief; Mrs. James; un-named Fire Inspector; un-named "Daily Tattle" reporter; Commissioner Grey; Mrs. Grey; un-named Grey children; Mr. Barton (villain, publisher of "The Daily Tattle"); Murker (villain); Gorley (villain)

Synopsis

As a series of fires breaks out in the tenements of Capitol City, Barton, the publisher of the Daily Tattle, campaigns for the razing of the slums. But when the fire inspector uncovers evidence of arson, a Tattle reporter overhears Barton conspiring with real-estate man Murker, and a commissioner accuses Merker of his crimes, Green Lantern must swing into action to save the fire inspector and reporter from murder attempts and free the kidnapped family of the commissioner before tricking a confession out of Barton.

Reprints

• in Golden Age Green Lantern Archives (DC, 1999 series) #1 ([June] 1999)

Keywords

APEX Broadcasting; green lantern (called the lamp of power); oath; power ring

Indexer Notes

Story takes place in Capitol City.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8) (Expand) /

All-Flash Quarterly / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9) (Expand) /

The Justice Society of America; All-Star Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10)

Sweet Adeline / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Art Helfant (signed)

Pencils

Art Helfant (signed)

Inks

Art Helfant (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Art Helfant

First Line of Dialogue or Text

I hear they's a drummer over to Burke's Hotel...

Genre

humor

Characters

Adeline

Indexer Notes

This filler does NOT appear in the Golden Age Green Lantern Archives Volume 1 (1999). Letterer credit added by Craig Delich.

Trailers of Treachery (Table of Contents: 11)

Hop Harrigan / text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Irwin Hasen (Green Lantern illustration); Sheldon Mayer (Hop Harrigan & Doiby Dickles illustration)

Inks

Irwin Hasen (Green Lantern illustration); Sheldon Mayer (Hop Harrigan & Doiby Dickles illustration)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

adventure; aviation

Characters

Hop Harrigan; Tank Tinker; Dolores; Doiby Dickles; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]

Synopsis

Green Lantern and Doiby help Hop fight off some tough-looking men seemingly after Tank, only to find out that the men were trying to help Tank lose weight for his girlfriend Dolores.

Reprints

• in Golden Age Green Lantern Archives (DC, 1999 series) #1 ([June] 1999)

Keywords

power ring

Indexer Notes

Art credit revisions by Craig Delich. We formerly credited Martin Nodell.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 12) (Expand) /

All-American Flying Club / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[Green Lantern in South America] (Table of Contents: 13)

Green Lantern / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Finger (signed)

Pencils

Mart Nodell (signed)

Inks

Mart Nodell (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Irene Miller; Doiby Dickles; un-named President of the Apex Broadcasting System; Jensen (APEX employee); Jose; un-named rebel spy (villain, Jose's father)); General Ranko (villain); President Carlos (villain)

Synopsis

Alan and Doiby head for South America to find out who has been tampering with Apex's short-wave outlet in Landavo and run right into a civil war caused by foreign agents seeking to overthrow the democratically-elected government. Green Lantern exposes the plot, opening the eyes of the misguided rebels and saving Landavo's democracy.

Reprints

• in Golden Age Green Lantern Archives (DC, 1999 series) #1 ([June] 1999)

Keywords

APEX Broadcasting; green lantern (called the green lamp); oath; power ring

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 14) (Expand) /

All-American Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

The "Big Six" Now Becomes the "Big Seven" (Table of Contents: 15) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 16) (Expand) /

Comicscope Co. of America / advertisement / 1 page (report information)