Comic Title: Great Comic Book Super-Heroes HC
Publisher: Dial Press
Cover Date: 1965
On Sale Date: November 15, 1965 Copyright Date November 15, 1965
Source: Library of Congress, Pamphlets 1965

Cover Price: $9.95
Page Count: 192

Notes:
A second edition was published by Bonanza Books/Crown Publishing

Title: (The Origin of the Green Lantern)
Pages: 8

Feature(s):
Green Lantern (Alan Scott of Earth-2)

Writer: Bill Finger
Artist: Mart Nodell

Reprinted From:
All-American Comics #16 (1940)

Feature Character(s)

• Green Lantern (Alan Wellington Scott; an engineer; origin and first appearance; next appearance in All-American Comics #17)

Villain(s)

• Dekker and his men (head of a construction company; dies in this story; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Jimmy (Alan Scott’s friend; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Citizens of old China and Billings (a former asylum inmate; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story relates the origin of Green Lantern, Alan Scott. Alan only appears in costume in the last panel of this story.

The history of Green Lantern’s magic lamp is related to him by the Flame of Life which is present in the lamp itself.

This story was not originally titled.

Synopsis:
A young engineer, Alan Scott, is involved in a fatal train wreck. His life is spared by the Flame of Life, a green energy residing in a magic lamp. The lamp tells Alan it will bring him power over evil. Alan uses the power to catch the men who sabotaged the train. Then he fashions a costume for himself, adopting the identity of Green Lantern.