Sunday, February 4, 2007

On this week's Sunday Funnies, we remind you of Alan Scott, the first Green Lantern. One of the core stable of DC Comics' super hero lineup in the Golden Age of comics, the original Green Lantern was very different from his successors. Although later changed to fit better with the newer stories, the Golden Age Green Lantern's power ring was magic (as opposed to being an alien weapon, like the later Green Lanterns' power rings). It was almost limitless in power, but it did have on weakness: wood. This was interesting, since Green Lantern had a power ring that could do almost anything Alan Scott could imagine, and yet all a bank robber had to do to get away was knock him upside the head with a baseball bat.



The Golden Age Green Lantern is pictured on this cover alongside his sidekick Doiby Dickles, the book's comic relief.