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Issue: Green Lantern #2
Publication Date: January 1942
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Issues: #2 of 38 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: A Superman DC PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Jolaine Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/19/1941
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 21 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): M. C. Gaines (managing editor); Sheldon Mayer (assistant editor)
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration.

Alan Scott works for APEX Studios in this issue.
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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
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Martin Nodell [as Mart Nodell] (signed)
Inker(s): Martin Nodell [as Mart Nodell] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Green Lantern
Character(s): Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Doiby Dickles
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In Content Item: FlagGolden Age Green Lantern Archives #2 published March 2002
as Green Lantern #2 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGolden Age Green Lantern Archives #2 published March 2002
as [untitled] [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Editorial Advisory Board

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Good Books for Christmas
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Pages: 0.67
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Green Lantern

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Irwin Hasen [as Mart Nodel] (4 panels, signed); Howard Purcell (inset)
Inker(s): Irwin Hasen [as Mart Nodel] (4 panels, signed); Howard Purcell (inset)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Green Lantern
Character(s): Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Doiby Dickles
Synopsis: The frontispiece features G.L. and Doiby in four panels from previously published stories.
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In Content Item: FlagGolden Age Green Lantern Archives #2 published March 2002
as Presenting a Complete Four-Chapter Novel-Length Story of Green Lantern with Doiby Dickles! [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Oddity: the page spells Nodell's name as "Nodel".

Writer Bill Finger is given a by-line on this page. One panel displays G.L. having green flames surrounding his body as he flies.
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The Tycoon's Legacy, Chapter 1

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Finger (signed)
Penciller(s): Martin Nodell [as Mart Nodell) (signed)
Inker(s): Martin Nodell [as Mart Nodell) (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Green Lantern
Character(s): Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Doiby Dickles; Irene Miller; un-named President of APEX Broadcasting; Charlie (APEX engineer); Mr. Stromboli; Maria Stromboli; Joe Stromboli (Maria Stomboli's uncle, a porter); P. G. Jeffers (head of the Jeffers Corporation); Elias Slagg (Jeffer's lawyer, death); Baldy [Arnold Corbin] (villain, introduction); Paul Blane (villain, President of the Jeffer's Corporation); Vice-President of Jeffer's Corporation); Lester Vane (villain, Jeffer's nephew)
Synopsis: Alan Scott's promotion to announcer at APEX Studios leads the Emerald Crusader into a case involving an out-of-work lawyer, a decidedly crooked lawyer and a mental patient who claims he was cheated out of a $5 million inheritance.
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In Content Item: FlagGolden Age Green Lantern Archives #2 published March 2002
as The Tycoon's Legacy [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: On page 3, when G.L. hit a crook on the jaw, it left behind an image of a "green lantern". Story takes place in Capitol City.
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The Tycoon's Legacy, Chapter 2

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Finger (signed)
Penciller(s): Martin Nodell [as Mart Nodell] (signed)
Inker(s): Martin Nodell [as 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; Joe Stromboli; Frank Benton Joe's lawyer); Elias Slagg (death); Baldy [Arnold Corbin, called John Corbin in story] (villain); Paul Blane (villain); Lester Vane (villain, death); Mr. Delber (villain, Mr. Blane's secretary); "Bail" Martin (villain)
Synopsis: The mysterious murders of several key individuals in the case brings the Master of Light into conflict with a weird crime boss named "Baldy."
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: G.L. charges his ring, but doesn't say oath.
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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: Gimme a box of forty-fours!
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Pages: 2
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Feature(s): The Justice Society of America; All-Star Comics
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Feature(s): All-Flash Quarterly
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The Tycoon's Legacy, Chapter 3

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Finger (signed)
Penciller(s): Martin Nodell [as Mart Nodell] (signed)
Inker(s): Martin Nodell [as Mart Nodell] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Green Lantern
Character(s): Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Doiby Dickles; Joe Stromboli; Maria Stromboli; John Larson (death, mentioned by name only); Mrs. Larson (John's wife); Frank Benton; Baldy [Arnold Corbin] (villain); Paul Blane (villain); Mr. Delber (villain); "Bails" Martin (villain)
Synopsis: After a direct confrontation with Baldy, Green Lantern discovers that this mysterious criminal is involved with a crooked loan racket, wherein the people taking out loans are hurt in some way so that they can't pay off the loan and their collateral can be seized.
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In Content Item: FlagGolden Age Green Lantern Archives #2 published March 2002
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
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The Vanished Senator

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation
Feature(s): Hop Harrigan
Character(s): Hop Harrigan
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Pages: 2
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Superman Is in the Movies!

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): The Adventures of Superman
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Here's Another Message from Hop Harrigan!

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Feature(s): All-American Flying Club
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Will Power Games

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): William Moulton Marston
Penciller(s): ?
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational
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The Flash Celebrates the President's Diamond Jubilee Birthday!

Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): E. E. Hibbard
Inker(s): E. E. Hibbard
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Genres: opinion, superhero
Feature(s): The Flash
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Feature(s): Mutt & Jeff
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The Tycoon's Legacy, Chapter 4

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Finger (signed)
Penciller(s): Martin Nodell [as Mart Nodell] (signed)
Inker(s): Martin Nodell [as Mart Nodell] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Green Lantern
Character(s): Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Doiby Dickles; Irene Miller; Joe Stromboli; Maria Stromboli; Frank Benton; Mrs. Morley; Dorrit [aka Paul Blane] (villain, death); Baldy [Arnold Corbin] (villain); Mr. Delber (villain); Meeley (villain)
Synopsis: Alan pools resources to finance the services of a group of lawyers (known as the Crime Clinic) to investigate the Jeffers Loan Corporation, only to find out that Baldy has threatened all of the people who have taken out loans.
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In Content Item: FlagGolden Age Green Lantern Archives #2 published March 2002
as The Tycoon's Legacy [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 14
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Fredric March, Will Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, C. Aubrey Smith, Mischa Auer

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Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): Screen Scoops
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Disclose Notes: Composed of elements from "Screen Scoops" previously printed in Movie Comics: Fredric March and Will Rogers from one page in Movie Comics #2, Adolphe Menjou from another in #2, Mischa Auer and C. Aubrey Smith from separate pages in #3.
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Feature(s): All-American Comics
First Line: Follow the further adventures of Green Lantern...
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Wow and Double Wow!

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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Leading Comics
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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And Now the "Big Seven" Becomes the "Big Eight"!

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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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