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This Green Lantern was Alan Scott, an engineer who had come into possession of a magic lantern.
 
From this, he crafted a magic ring which gave him a wide variety of powers.
 
The limitations of the ring were that it had to be "charged" every 24 hours by touching it to the lantern for a time, and that it did not work on wood.
 
Nodell had originally planned to give Green Lantern the alter ego "Alan Ladd," this being a linguistic twist on Aladdin, who had a magic lamp and magic ring of his own.
 
DC considered the wordplay distracting and foolish, and the character's name was changed before publication to "Alan Scott."
 
In May 1942, the film This Gun for Hire suddenly made the journeyman actor of the same name a movie star.
 
Nodell would always joke that they'd missed a great opportunity.[2]
 
Green Lantern was a popular character in the 1940s, featured in both All-American Comics and in his own title and co-starring in Comic Cavalcade along with Flash and Wonder Woman.
 
He was a charter member of the Justice Society of America, whose adventures ran in All Star Comics.
 
After World War II, the popularity of superheroes declined.
 
The Green Lantern comic book was cancelled with issue #40 (October 1949).
 
All Star Comics #57 (1951) was the character's last Golden Age appearance.
 
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In the late 1950s, DC Comics successfully revived superheroes, ushering in what became known as the Silver Age of comic books.
 
Rather than bringing back the same Golden Age heroes — as Atlas Comics, the 1950s precursor of Marvel Comics, unsuccessfully attempted — DC reimagined them as new characters for the modern age.
 
Following the successful revival of the Flash in Showcase #4 (Oct. 1956), a new Green Lantern was introduced in Showcase #22 (September-October 1959).
 
This Green Lantern was Hal Jordan, a test pilot who was given a power ring by a dying alien, Abin Sur, and who became a member of the Green Lantern Corps, an interstellar organization of police overseen by the Guardians of the Universe.
 
The Corps' rings were powerless against anything colored yellow, due to a necessary impurity in the ring.
 
Jordan's creation was motivated by a desire to make him more of a science fiction hero, editor Julius Schwartz having been a longtime fan of that genre and literary agent who saw pop-culture tastes turning in that direction.
 
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