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Publisher: DC

Title: Green Lantern
Issue: 1
Page Count: 68
Publish Date: Fall 1941
Volume:
Contributors: Editor: M. C. Gaines (managing editor); Sheldon Mayer (assistant editor)

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Green Lantern #1
Owner: RedFury

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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Features:Green Lantern
Pages:1
Pencils:Howard Purcell
Inks:Howard Purcell
Letters:? (logo design)
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Green Lantern [Alan Scott]


Story Title: Another Message to Our Readers - promo (ad from the publisher)
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Green Lantern: His Personal History - comic story
Features:Green Lantern
Pages:2
Pencils:Mart Nodell (signed)
Inks:Mart Nodell (signed)
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.


Story Title: The Masquerading Mare! - comic story
Features:Green Lantern
Pages:13
Pencils:Mart Nodell (signed)
Inks:Mart Nodell (signed)
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.


Story Title: Will Power Is the Flame of the Green Lantern! My Flame Shall Be Yours If You Develop Will Power! - text article
Pages:2
Pencils:Mart Nodell (illustrations); ? (photograph)
Inks:Mart Nodell (illustrations); ? (photograph)
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.


Story Title: Disease!! - comic story
Features:Green Lantern
Pages:13
Pencils:Mart Nodell (signed)
Inks:Mart Nodell (signed)
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.


Story Title: Introducing Bill Finger and Marty Nodell Creators of Green Lantern! - text article
Pages:1
Letters:typeset
Genre:biography
Characters:Bill Finger (photo); Martin Nodell (photo)
Synopsis:This contains short, informational biographies of Finger and Nodell.


Story Title: Arson in the Slums - comic story
Features:Green Lantern
Pages:13
Pencils:Mart Nodell (signed)
Inks:Mart Nodell (signed)
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.


Story Title: [ no title ] - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:All-Flash Quarterly
Pages:0.5


Story Title: [ no title ] - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:The Justice Society of America; All-Star Comics
Pages:0.5
Letters:typeset


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Sweet Adeline
Pages:2
Pencils:Art Helfant (signed)
Inks:Art Helfant (signed)
Letters:Art Helfant
Genre:humor
Characters:Adeline


Story Title: Trailers of Treachery - text story
Features:Hop Harrigan
Pages:2
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)
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.


Story Title: [ no title ] - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:All-American Flying Club
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Green Lantern in South America - comic story
Features:Green Lantern
Pages:13
Pencils:Mart Nodell (signed)
Inks:Mart Nodell (signed)
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.


Story Title: [ no title ] - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:All-American Comics
Pages:1


Story Title: The "Big Six" Now Becomes the "Big Seven" - promo (ad from the publisher)
Pages:1


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Features:Comicscope Co. of America
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


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