History ComicBook / GreenLantern1941

* ImmediatelyProvenWrong: The first story has a colleague telling Alan he's worried the head of a rival company will try to get revenge for their company getting the contract to build an important bridge. Alan tells him to stop worrying. The next panel has the bridge bombed, and Alan the only survivor because he was holding onto the magic lantern.

''Green Lantern 1941'' is the first volume of ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'' which tells the adventures of the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] Green Lantern Alan Scott.[[note]]Although he actually got his start in and ran up until superhero stories were phased out of ''All-American Comics''. [[/note]]

The book ran for 38 issues before being cancelled in 1949. The first five issues and the seventh were written by Bill Finger, with Joseph Greene, Henry Kuttner, Alfred Bester, Robert Bernstein, John Broome and Robert Kanigher writing the remaining 33. Martin Nodell did the art through issue 25 with Alex Toth and Irwin Hasen working on the remaining 13 issues.

For the related character sheet see Characters.GreenLantern1941.

* WhenTreesAttack: [[https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Green_Lantern_Vol_1_22#Synopsis_for_.22The_Invisible_World.22 In one of Alan Scott's stranger adventures]], he and sidekick Doiby Dickles shrink down to microscopic size and discover a world of walking, talking trees called Mossboles. The Mossboles are stealing food from the other inhabitants of the micro-world, who had been stealing Doiby's goldfish in order not to starve. Yeah. Anyway, in the end, Alan discovers that the trees just want to eat some dirt, which doesn't exist in the micro-world, so he enlarges them to full size and turns them loose in the forest. Problem solved.

* GratuitousAnimalSidekick: Streak the Wonder Dog near the end of the comics' run. A Heroic Dog sidekick for Alan Scott. Who has internal monologues so the audience knows what he's thinking.

* GratuitousAnimalSidekick: Streak the Wonder Dog. A Heroic Dog sidekick for Alan Scott. Who has internal monologues so the audience knows what he's thinking.

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-->“It is believed that the Rattle Watchmen, who patrolled New Amsterdam in the 1650′s, carried lanterns at night with green glass sides in them as a means of identification. When the Watchmen returned to the watch house after patrol, they hung their lantern on a hook by the front door to show people seeking the watchman that he was in the watch house. Today, green lights are hung outside the entrances of police precincts as a symbol that the ‘Watch’ is present and vigilant.”

For the related character sheet see [[Characters/Earth2GreenLantern Characters.Earth-Two Green Lantern]].

* TapOnTheHead: What Green Lantern's vulnerability to wood usually came down to. Most Golden Age stories would have GL get knocked out by some convenient wooden object or another falling on his head midway through so the villains would have a chance to get away, and the story could make it to full length.

* TapOnTheHead: Most Golden Age stories would have GL get knocked out by some convenient wooden object or another falling on his head midway through so the villains would have a chance to get away and things could be extended to full length.

* WhenTreesAttack: In one of Alan Scott's stranger adventures, he and sidekick Doiby Dickles shrink down to microscopic size and discover a world of walking, talking trees called Mossboles. The Mossboles are stealing food from the other inhabitants of the micro-world, who had been stealing Doiby's goldfish in order not to starve. Yeah. Anyway, in the end, Alan discovers that the trees just want to eat some dirt, which doesn't exist in the micro-world, so he enlarges them to full size and turns them loose in the forest. Problem solved.

* QuoteMine: Not one, but two Golden Age stories involved criminals framing Alan Scott by stringing together words spoken on his radio broadcasts to make a record that seems to make him say something incriminating.

''Green Lantern 1941'' is the first volume of ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'' which tells the adventures of the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] Green Lantern Alan Scott.[[note]]Although he actually got his start in and ran up until superhero comics were phased out of ''All-American Comics''. [[/note]]

* DeathByOriginStory: Jimmy Henton was a friend of Alan's who was killed in the same train wreck in which Alan gained access to the Starheart.

* VehicularSabotage: While Alan's original introduction in ''All-American Comics'' made it clear that it was the bridge that was sabotaged by his business rival which lead to the catastrophic train accident that killed all onboard besides Alan in the retelling in ''Green Lantern'' #1 its not made clear whether it was part of the train or the bridge where the explosion originated from.

* DiedInYourArmsTonight: When Alan woke from the injuries he sustained in the accident, and being introduced to the Starheart, the first thing he did was stumble over to cradle Jimmy Henton's body.

''Green Lantern 1941'' is the first volume of ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'' which tells the adventures of the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] Green Lantern Alan Scott.

* TheUnsmile: An entire Golden Age story [[note]] "The Smile That Wins" [[/note]] was built around Alan Scott's disturbing smile.
* VehicularSabotage: While Alan's original introduction in ''All-Star Comics'' made it clear that it was the bridge that was sabotaged by his business rival which lead to the catastrophic train accident that killed all onboard besides Alan in the retelling in ''Green Lantern'' #1 its not made clear whether it was part of the train or the bridge where the explosion originated from.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: There were a few chapters where Green Lantern would refuse to believe someone was really cursed with bad luck or his current opponent was really a legendary evildoer. In spite of getting his powers from magic, his archenemy being the reanimated hulk Solomon Grundy, and all the magical heavyweights he threw down with or fought alongside in the Justice Society.

* FoeRomanceSubtext: Harlequin isn't shy about her obsession with GL, and while GL claims not to feel the same about her he's still got subtext. The fact that Harlequin was later revealed to be mostly a government agent who is infiltrating villain groups rather than a dangerous supervillain in her own right helped later writers use this subtext to see the two get married, but in this boot there's no real reciprocated feelings.

* AnIcePerson: His recurrent enemy the Icicle.

* FoeRomanceSubtext: Harlequin isn's shy about her obsession with GL, and while GL claims not to feel the same about her he's still got subtext. The fact that Harlequin was later revealed to be mostly a government agent who is infiltrating villain groups rather than a dangerous supervillain in her own right helped later writers use this subtext to see the two get married, but in this boot there's no real reciprocated feelings.

->''Into the humdrum reality of everyday life, into a world harassed by crime, there comes a fantastic being with strange supernatural powers. A being determined to stamp out evil and bring justice where it has never been before. This is the man called '''Green Lantern!'''''\\
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''Green Lantern 1941'' is the first volume of ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'' which tells the adventures of the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] Green Lantern Alan Scott. The book ran for 38 issues before being cancelled in 1949. The first five issues and the seventh were written by Bill Finger, with Joseph Greene, Henry Kuttner, Alfred Bester, Robert Bernstein, John Broome and Robert Kanigher writing the remaining 33. Martin Nodell did the art through issue 25 with Alex Toth and Irwin Hasen working on the remaining 13 issues.\\
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->''Into the humdrum reality of everyday life, into a world harassed by crime, there comes a fantastic being with strange supernatural powers. A being determined to stamp out evil and bring justice where it has never been before. This is the man called '''Green Lantern!'''''

''Green Lantern 1941'' is the first volume of ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'' which tells the adventures of the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] Green Lantern Alan Scott. The book ran for 38 issues before being cancelled in 1949. The first five issues and the seventh were written by Bill Finger, with Joseph Greene, Henry Kuttner, Alfred Bester, Robert Bernstein, John Broome and Robert Kanigher writing the remaining 33. Martin Nodell did the art through issue 25 with Alex Toth and Irwin Hasen working on the remaining 13 issues.