Comic Title: All-American Comics #19
Publisher: DC (All-American Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: October 1940
Approx. On Sale Date: August 20, 1940 Copyright Date August 21, 1940
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1940
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
The publication dates listed in LoC records are NOT release dates.

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 64
Editor: Maxwell Charles Gaines

Title: (The Insurance Racket)
Pages: 8

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

Writer: Bill Finger
Artist: Mart Nodell

Reprinted In:
Golden Age Green Lantern Archives Vol. 1 HC (1999)

Feature Character(s)

• Green Lantern (last appearance in All-American Comics #18; next appearance in All-Star Comics #2)

Villain(s)

• Slade (a gambling boss; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Wolfe (Slade's lawyer; no further appearances)
• Slade's gang (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Joe Prentiss (a man with gambling debts; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Hodges and his wife (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story was not originally titled.

Synopsis:
Alan Scott saves a man from being run down by a car. Later, he learns that the man was killed in another accident. Alan investigates as Green Lantern, saving the life of another man, Hodges. GL learns that a gambling boss, Slade, is having the men sign insurance policies with him as the beneficiary. Then Slade has them killed. GL goes undercover as Mr. Titus and is the apparent victim of the same scheme. GL gets Slade’s men to confess, exposing the racket. In the confrontation however, Slade is killed.