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Issue: Green Lantern #1
Publication Date: January 1941
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Issues: #1 of 38 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: A DC PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Jolaine Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/23/1941
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 17 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): M. C. Gaines (managing editor); Sheldon Mayer (assistant editor)
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration. On-sale date of September 26 in ad in Star Spangled Comics #2 (November 1941).
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was on-going series
Format Notes:  
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Cover, Front
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Howard Purcell
Inker(s): Howard Purcell
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ? (logo design)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Green Lantern
Character(s): The Green Lantern [Alan Scott]
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In Content Item: FlagGolden Age Green Lantern Archives #1 [First Printing] published June 1999
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: First appearance of the trademarked Green Lantern logo used in many variations over the decades. Patent and Trademark Office trademark serial number 444,484. Filed for trademark protection for magazine publication by All-American Comics, Inc. of New York, New York on June 13, 1941. All-American claimed to Patent and Trademark Office that the logo had been in use since May 1, 1941 (from the Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, Volume 529, Number 2, August 12, 1941).
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Another Message to Our Readers

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Green Lantern: His Personal History

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Finger (signed)
Penciller(s): Mart Nodell (signed)
Inker(s): Mart Nodell (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Green Lantern
Character(s): 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.
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In Content Item: FlagGolden Age Green Lantern Archives #1 [First Printing] published June 1999
as Green Lantern -- His Personal History [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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The Masquerading Mare!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Finger (signed)
Penciller(s): Mart Nodell (signed)
Inker(s): Mart Nodell (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Green Lantern
Character(s): 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.
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In Content Item: FlagGolden Age Green Lantern Archives #1 [First Printing] published June 1999
as The Masquerading Mare [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: G.L. uses his ring to blind a gangster unless he talks.
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Will Power Is the Flame of the Green Lantern! My Flame Shall Be Yours If You Develop Will Power!

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): William Moulton Marston [as Dr. Wm. Moulton Marston] (signed)
Penciller(s): Mart Nodell (illustrations); ? (photograph)
Inker(s): Mart Nodell (illustrations); ? (photograph)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational
Character(s): 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.
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In Content Item: FlagGolden Age Green Lantern Archives #1 [First Printing] published June 1999
as Will Power [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Disease!!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Finger (signed)
Penciller(s): Mart Nodell (signed)
Inker(s): Mart Nodell (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Green Lantern
Character(s): 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.
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In Content Item: FlagGolden Age Green Lantern Archives #1 [First Printing] published June 1999
as Disease [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
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Introducing Bill Finger and Marty Nodell Creators of Green Lantern!

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Sheldon Mayer
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational
Character(s): Bill Finger (photo); Martin Nodell (photo)
Synopsis: This contains short, informational biographies of Finger and Nodell.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: This features does NOT appear in the Golden Age Green Lantern Archives Volume 1 (1999).
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Arson in the Slums

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Finger (signed)
Penciller(s): Mart Nodell (signed)
Inker(s): Mart Nodell (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Green Lantern
Character(s): 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.
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In Content Item: FlagGolden Age Green Lantern Archives #1 [First Printing] published June 1999
as Arson in the Slums [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: Story takes place in Capitol City.
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): All-Flash Quarterly
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Pages: 0.5
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Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Justice Society of America; All-Star Comics
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Pages: 0.5
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Art Helfant (signed)
Penciller(s): Art Helfant (signed)
Inker(s): Art Helfant (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Art Helfant
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Sweet Adeline
Character(s): Adeline
First Line: I hear they's a drummer over to Burke's Hotel...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: This filler does NOT appear in the Golden Age Green Lantern Archives Volume 1 (1999).
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Trailers of Treachery

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Irwin Hasen (Green Lantern illustration); Sheldon Mayer (Hop Harrigan & Doiby Dickles illustration)
Inker(s): Irwin Hasen (Green Lantern illustration); Sheldon Mayer (Hop Harrigan & Doiby Dickles illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation
Feature(s): Hop Harrigan
Character(s): 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.
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In Content Item: FlagGolden Age Green Lantern Archives #1 [First Printing] published June 1999
as Trailers of Treachery [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): All-American Flying Club
First Line: Here's more good news for members of the All-American Flying Club!
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Pages: 1
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Green Lantern in South America

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Finger (signed)
Penciller(s): Mart Nodell (signed)
Inker(s): Mart Nodell (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Green Lantern
Character(s): 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.
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In Content Item: FlagGolden Age Green Lantern Archives #1 [First Printing] published June 1999
as Green Lantern [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): All-American Comics
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Pages: 1
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The "Big Six" Now Becomes the "Big Seven"

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Letterer(s): ?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Comicscope Co. of America
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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