Alan Scott's Origin: The FIRST Green Lantern Comic 

1:18 knowing the creative origin and inspiration behind the Golden Age Green Lantern it really makes you wonder why the Golden Age Red Lantern wasn’t a thing sooner.

The thing I really wish that the comics would explore more is the fact that Alan is supposed to be a Gotham hero. My absolute _favorite_ scene in Batman: Hush isn't the twists or Jason or the Superman fight or anything. It's Bruce and Tommy as children looking up at the sky in abject awe towards Alan Scott. I need this for Batman. I need to see Batman having _one_ superhero idol, one person that's what Batman saw as hope as a child. I want to see him bitter and blaming Alan for abandoning Gotham. For him to consider everything he has to deal with, in some small way, Alan Scott's fault. It's very Grey Ghost, I know, but not in the in-universe fiction way.

Great video! I love Alan Scott’s origin (mainly because of New 52). I think he would make a great protagonist for a movie too without needing to deal massive lore. It’s crazy how he was inspired by trains. Never knew that

As some others have mentioned, this origin is more fully fleshed out with a new retcon in Alan Scott: The Green Lantern #2. Looking forward to your review of that issue!

Billings actually showed up again in yesterday's issue! Very tragic.

Thanks so much! I love these Golden Age Origins! I begged Mom & Dad for "The Great Comic Book Heroes" and loved the G. L. Origin! They could make a movie about the Golden Age Johnny Thunder. Say, you think they would do that?

Well if u want to see the connection between Alan and billings, go read Alan Scott The Green Lantern issue 2.

In all fairness, if I suddenly found myself in possession of a magic ring that let me fly by thinking really hard about it, I too would wonder if I could also do the first dumb thing that crossed my mind.

Good stuff! Fascinating!

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Years ago I read that Green Lantern was inspired by Aladin and his Magic Lamp and Alan's last name was originally going to be Ladd but there was already a Hollywood actor named Alan Ladd so his name was changed to Alan Scott.

Good stuff.

Finished reading the first issue of Sandman and the first two of GL (my favorite GL) and just started Jay Garrick Flash. Seems to be new twists of execution to go along with the change in subject matter. I think DC is missing one thing to go along with the new stuff added to the old. While GL is gay, Sandman is butting heads with the military-industrial complex, and Jay is experiencing a Twilight Zone experience, I think two things are needed. 1) Golden Age characters hiding non-white backgrounds and 2) actions and interests that connect with societal issues that happened between the Golden Age and today.

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Imagine if you had a name like "comicstorian" but didn't cover stuff like this and did almost exclusively new comics...