Comic Title: DC Comics Rarities Archives Vol. 1 HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2005
On Sale Date: December 15, 2004 Direct Market Date December 15, 2004
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Direct Market Date December 1, 2004
Source: Previews, Vol. 14 #8 (#188)

Cover Price: $75.00
Page Count: 348

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Heroes Are Born -- Not Made"
Pages: 13

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

Writer: Alfred Bester
Artist: Paul Reinman

Reprinted From:
Big All-American Comic Book #1 (1944)

Feature Character(s)

• Green Lantern (last appearance in All-American Comics #62; next appearance in All-American Comics #63)

Supporting Character(s)

• Doiby Dickles (last appearance in All-American Comics #62; next appearance in All-American Comics #63)

Villain(s)

• Pop (the bell-ringer of Baxton; disguised as Medusa; no further appearances)
• Pop's gang (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Adams (a banker; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Leslie Banks (his heir; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Green Lantern and Doiby visit the town of Baxton where a criminal claiming to be Medusa terrorizes the town. Medusa kills a banker apparently by turning him to stone, but GL deduces the body is just a statue. The clues point to the banker's heir Leslie Banks as the killer. She even confesses to the crime when authorities close in, but GL realizes that the real killer was Pop, the bell-ringer of Baxton. He killed the banker, so that Leslie would use her inheritance for the good of others. Pop commits suicide by hanging himself from the bell tower.