Alan Scott

Alan Scott
Alan Scott, the original Green Lantern. Cover art for JSA #77 by Alex Ross.
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	All-American Comics #16 (July 1940)
Created by	Martin Nodell Bill Finger
In-story information
Full name	Alan Ladd Wellington Scott
Team affiliations	Justice Society of America Checkmate All-Star Squadron Sentinels of Magic
Partnerships	Doiby Dickles The Flash (Jay Garrick) Jade
Notable aliases	Sentinel, White King, Green Lantern
Abilities	Skilled hand to hand combatant Power ring grants: Flight Green light projection Invulnerability to any weapon not made of wood Solid light construct generation Mystical tracking Longevity

Alan Scott is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, and the first superhero to bear the name Green Lantern.^[1] He was created by Martin Nodell and Bill Finger, first appearing in the comic book All-American Comics #16, published in 1940.

Alan Scott fights evil with the aid of a magic ring that grants him a variety of supernatural powers.

Publication history

The original Green Lantern was created by an American artist named Martin Nodell.^[2] Nodell mentions Richard Wagner's opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung and the sight of a trainman's green railway lantern as his inspiration.^[3] After seeing this opera, Nodell sought to create a superhero who wielded a variety of magical powers from a magic ring, which he regularly recharged from a green lantern. Nodell wanted a colorful and interesting costume for his character, deriving from elements of Greek mythology.^[4] As Nodell recalled in an undated, latter-day interview,

When I sent it in, I waited into the second week before I heard the word to come in. I was ushered into Mr. [Max] Gaines' office, publisher, and after sitting a long time and flipping through the pages of my presentation, he announced, "We like it!" And then, "Get to work!" I did the first five pages of an eight-page story, and then they called in Bill Finger to help. We worked on it for seven years [through 1947].^[4]

Nodell chose the name "Alan Scott" by flipping through New York telephone books until he got two names he liked.^[5]

The character of Alan Scott made his debut in All-American Comics #16 (July 1940), fighting crime under the masked identity of "Green Lantern". He also appeared as part of the superhero team Justice Society of America in All Star Comics #3 (Winter 1940). He served as the team's second chairman in #7, but departed following that issue and returned a few years later, remaining a regular character. His villains tended to be ordinary humans, but he did have a few paranormal ones, such as the immortal Vandal Savage and the zombie Solomon Grundy. Green Lantern proved popular and was given his own series, Green Lantern, later that year. Most of his adventures were set in New York.

In 1941, Alan Scott was paired with a sidekick named Doiby Dickles, a rotund Brooklyn taxi driver. Doiby was not a big hit with readers and stopped appearing the following year. In 1948, Alan was paired with a canine sidekick named Streak. The dog proved so popular that he starred in his own solo side-stories.

After World War 2, superheroes declined in popularity. Green Lantern was cancelled in 1949 after 38 issues and All-American Comics dropped superheroes in favor of westerns. Alan Scott's final Golden Age appearance was in All-Star Comics #57 (1951). He remained out of publication for 12 years, and even after his revival he never got another solo series.

In 1959, DC Comics editor Julius Schwartz reinvented Green Lantern as a science fiction hero. The new Green Lantern, named Hal Jordan, was empowered by alien masters to serve as an interstellar lawman and had many adventures set in outer space. His powers were similar to Alan's but he was otherwise completely unrelated—Alan Scott never existed as far as the new stories were concerned. Hal Jordan proved popular, but readers still had an interest in the old Green Lantern. Some years later, Alan Scott reappeared as a guest star in The Flash #137 (1963).^[6] To avoid continuity conflicts with the Hal Jordan character, Alan Scott and all his old stories were written as being from a parallel universe. For most of the 1960s and 1970s, Alan Scott made guest appearances in books belonging to Silver Age characters, visiting their universe through magical or technological means. In 1976, he appeared regularly alongside his Justice Society comrades in the revived All-Star Comics and later Adventure Comics in stories set in the 1970s. In 1981, DC Comics launched All-Star Squadron, which featured Alan Scott and the Justice Society in a World War 2 setting.

In 1986, the editors at DC Comics decided that all its characters should exist within the same setting and effected this change with the Crisis on Infinite Earths miniseries. Alan Scott now shared the same fictional world as Hal Jordan. DC Comics decided to write the character out of continuity in a one-shot book entitled Last Days of the Justice Society, in which he was "forever" trapped in an extra-dimensional realm. The character was brought back in the 1990s due to fan interest. Rather than update Alan Scott as a contemporary young hero as had been done with Batman and Superman, Alan Scott was instead written as a veteran of World War 2 with a magically prolonged lifespan. To distinguish Alan Scott from Hal Jordan, his superhero codename was for a time changed to "Sentinel" and he lost his magic ring, manifesting his powers through his glowing hands instead.^[7] In JSA #50 (2003) he regained his classic codename and ring, though he remained apart from Hal Jordan's Green Lantern Corps. He was a regular character in JSA and Justice Society of America.

In 2011, DC Comics again rebooted their fictional properties, and their new version of Alan Scott once again exists in a parallel universe where Hal Jordan and his Green Lantern Corps do not exist. The new Alan Scott is no longer a grizzled veteran of World War 2, but a fresh young superhero. He first appears in Earth 2 #3 (2012) with a completely redesigned sleek, solid green suit with no cape.

Fictional character biography

Golden and Silver Ages

Discovery

Thousands of years ago, a mystical "green flame" fell to Earth in ancient China as a meteor. A voice in the flame predicted that it would act three times: once to bring death, once to bring life, and once to bring power. For the first prophecy, a lamp-maker crafted the green metal of the meteor into a lamp. In fear and as punishment for what they thought sacrilege, the local villagers killed him, only to be destroyed by a sudden burst of the green flame. For the second, in modern times, the lamp came into the hands of a patient of a mental institution who fashioned the lamp into a modern lantern. The green flame restored him to sanity and gave him a new life. For the third, by 1940, after having already fulfilled the first two-thirds of this prophecy, the lantern fashioned from the meteoric metal fell into the hands of Alan Scott, a young railroad engineer. Following a railroad bridge collapse, the flame instructs Scott in how to fashion a ring from its metal, to give him fantastic powers as the superhero Green Lantern. He adopts a colorful costume of red, purple, yellow, and brown. He becomes a crimefighter in his first adventure, defeating the crooks who caused the accident. He also discovers his powers' weakness to wood when he is bludgeoned with a club.^[1] Alan is a founding member of the Justice Society of America, and is its second chairman.

Scott uses his ring to fly, walk through solid objects by "moving through the fourth dimension",^[8] paralyze or blind people temporarily, hypnotize them, create rays of energy, melt metal as with a blowtorch, and cause dangerous objects to glow, among other things. It could also allow him and others to time travel. Occasionally, he uses it to read minds or create solid objects and force fields in the manner usually associated with fellow Green Lantern Hal Jordan. His ring could protect him against any object made of metal, but would not protect him against any wood- or plant-based objects.^[1] This was said to be because the green flame was an incarnation of the strength of "green, growing things".

During the 1940s, Green Lantern seemed to alternate between serious adventure, particularly when Solomon Grundy, his nemesis, appeared and light comedy, usually involving his sidekick, Doiby Dickles. Toward the end of his Golden Age adventures, he was reduced to the role of a sidekick to Streak the Wonder Dog, a heroic canine cut from the mold of Rin-Tin-Tin and Lassie.

Justice Society of America

A part of Scott's early history is filled out with retroactive continuity. All-Star Squadron Annual #3 states that the JSA fought a being named Ian Karkull, who imbued them with energy that retarded their aging. This allowed Scott and several other members, as well as their spouses, to remain active into the late 20th century without infirmity. The events of that incident also led Scott to take a leave of absence from the JSA, explaining why the character vanished from the roster for a time.

Scott was a member of the Justice Society of America in 1951 when the team was investigated by the "Joint Congressional Un-American Activities Committee," a fictional organization based on the real-life House Un-American Activities Committee. They were accused of possible communist sympathies and asked to reveal their identities. The members declined the offer, and many of the members retired in the 1950s.

The team re-forms in the 1960s with Scott as a member, though little is known of their adventures during this time, save for stories about their team-ups with the Justice League of America, the parallel world Earth-One, and cross-universe adventures Scott shares with Earth-One's Green Lantern, Hal Jordan.

From the late 1940s to the 1970s, Scott runs the Gotham Broadcasting Company (GBC), which ends up ruined by creditors. After this, the Psycho Pirate temporarily drives Alan mad and the rest of the JSA help him recover. Jay Garrick helps him start a new career as a scientist and he eventually regains control of the GBC, which he continues to run.

Progeny

It was eventually revealed that in the late 1960s that Scott marries the woman with the dual identity Rose and Thorn. The two have a pair of children who would grow up to become the superheroes Jade and Obsidian of the team Infinity, Inc..^[9]

In the 1980s, Scott married his reformed former nemesis, Molly Mayne, also known as The Harlequin, reconciling with his son and daughter.^[9]

Post-Crisis on Infinite Earths

The Last Days of the Justice Society of America Special (1986) one-shot tells how Adolf Hitler caused a massive wave of destructive energy to erupt over the post-Crisis Earth in 1945. Scott and the JSA, fresh from burying their Earth-Two comrades Robin and Huntress, enter into a limbo dimension in order to fight an eternally recurring Ragnarok.

The Return

Through the machinations of Waverider, the JSA teammates are able to leave limbo and begin living in the post-Crisis Earth they had fought to save.^[10] The mini-series is followed by Justice Society of America (1992–1993), which shows how Alan Scott adjusts to his new world. In the short-lived series, the JSA fight the newest incarnation of the Ultra-Humanite as well as Pol St. Germain and Kulak the Sorcerer. Scott reconnects with his wife and children, stating in issue #1 that Molly "is pretty much handling things at the company..." and that Jade and Obsidian "... are fine off doing their own thing in Hollywood. Not too interested in being super-heroes." The series ends with issue #10, not with the team disbanding, but with the members gathering together at their first formal meeting after returning home.

Alan follows Guy Gardner and a small group of heroes to investigate a mysterious distress from Oa, only to be defeated by Hal Jordan, who now calls himself Parallax, having been driven mad after the destruction of his home, Coast City. After the confrontation, Alan discovers that an artist, Kyle Rayner, inherits the remaining Green Lantern ring. After meeting the young hero, he informs him of the situations with Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps. During the Zero Hour event, Alan witnesses the villain Extant incapacitate and kill several of his JSA teammates. After suffering defeat by the villain, Alan gives Kyle his original ring, passing the name "Green Lantern" to him.^[11] Alan's ring was later destroyed by Parallax.

For a time, the Starheart became part of Scott's body and he adopts the name Sentinel, becoming a founding member of a new JSA.^[1] Thanks to the rejuvenative properties of the Starheart, Scott's physical body is again temporarily revitalized so that he resembles a man in his 30s or early 40s. This drives his wife Molly, who has not been affected, to sell her soul to the demon Neron in exchange for youth. Alan enters the demonic realm, with help from entities such as the Phantom Stranger and Zatanna, and, with Kyle Rayner's aid, manages to win Molly's soul back, reuniting Molly's essence with her souless being.

He has since been physically altered again so that he more closely resembles his true chronological age. He returns to using the name "Green Lantern" during the JSA's battle with Mordru. He continues to fight crime in his original costumed identity, rebuilding a ring and serving as an elder statesman to the Justice Society of America and to the superhero community in general.

In Green Lantern: Rebirth, Alan and his daughter Jade, assist the surviving members of the Green Lantern Corps, Hal Jordan, who had been possessed by the ancient fear entity Parallax, John Stewart, Guy Gardner, Kyle Rayner, and Kilowog, in defeating the Parallax-possessed Ganthet. Alan is increasingly weakened due to Parallax's failed attempts to control him as it did with Jordan, Stewart, Gardner, and Kilowog, so it decides to kill him instead. However, Jordan, with the aid of The Spectre, breaks free from Parallax' influence, and saves Alan from the fear entity.

During the Rann-Thanagar War, Kyle Rayner's power ring revealed that Scott is an honorary member of the Green Lantern Corps.

Infinite Crisis and 52

During the Infinite Crisis, Scott and his daughter Jade, along with many others, travel with Donna Troy to the center of the universe to save it from Alexander Luthor, Jr.. Though they manage to succeed in saving the universe, Jade dies on this mission. A year later, Scott is still active and relatively youthful compared to his true age, but now wears an eyepatch having lost his eye in a Zeta beam transporter accident while returning from space. Though Scott loses his daughter, he tells Kyle Rayner that he still has family both through relations and close friendships, among which he counts Kyle.

Week 4 of the 52 maxi-series reveals that Scott lost his left eye during a period when he and several other superheroes were declared missing approximately 11 months prior to the events of Checkmate #1. The Zeta Beam that Adam Strange had hoped to use for teleporting the heroes away from the time-space ripple caused by Alexander Luthor, Jr.'s actions was splintered by the ripple itself, mutilating the heroes in various ways.^[12]

In Week 5, Alan goes to the wife and daughter of Animal Man to tell them that Animal Man is missing in space. This gives Ellen Baker more hope that her husband is alive.^[13]

In Week 29, Alan, Wildcat, and Jay Garrick (Flash) are the only members of the JSA present on Thanksgiving. They talk about the other members of the JSA and about the new Infinity Inc., which is a new version of a team of which Alan's daughter, Jade, was a member.^[14]

After being put into a comatose state during an attack by the Gentleman Ghost, Alan envisions Jade, who tells him goodbye and grants him another portion of her green energy. His missing eye is replaced by a green glowing orb that, due to its mystical origins and connection to Jade, allows him to track astral and mystical energy forms such as ghosts.

One Year Later

During the missing year, Scott has joined Checkmate at the rank of White King, with his JSA teammate Mister Terrific as his Bishop. Scott soon finds himself in a moral conflict with Black Queen Sasha Bordeaux over the violent nature of Checkmate, particularly after Bordeaux and her team slaughter dozens of Kobra operatives during a raid on a facility. Bordeaux contends that the ends justify the means, while Scott adheres to the principle that heroes should not kill unless absolutely necessary. Bordeaux responds by suggesting that Scott resign. Concurrent with this internal conflict, Scott and the White Queen (Amanda Waller) try to keep the organization from being discontinued by political forces.

After the rise of the being Gog, Alan Scott allies with the Justice Society members that oppose Gog's simplistic view of the world. However, after encountering a Justice Society from an alternate universe in which his daughter Jade is still alive, he considers asking the seemingly all powerful being to raise his daughter from the dead.^[15] Later, Sandman learns that Gog is rooting himself into the Earth, and if he remains for one more day, the Earth will no longer be able to survive without him. The rest of the JSA arrive to kill Gog by separating his head from the Earth, which is the only way to save the planet. The Society members ally with Gog in an attempt to protect him until they see him attempt to attack a Society member. All of Gog's followers, including Magog, turn on him, causing Gog's blessing on them to be undone.^[16] The JSA are able to topple Gog and send him to the Source Wall, but Alan is unable to see his daughter.^[17]

In the Final Crisis storyline, Alan led a resistance against Darkseid's forces as one of the superheroes responding to Article X. In Final Crisis #5, he is shown defending Checkmate's Switzerland HQ from the Justifiers. Though Donna Troy tries to place the Justifier helmet on him, Hawkman saves him.

In the Blackest Night crossover, Alan and the rest of the JSA battle the reanimated Kal-L and Black Lantern versions of dead Justice Society members. After Jakeem Thunder is knocked out, Alan is one of the heroes who adds his powers into a "Black Lantern Bomb" designed to mimic Jakeem's Thunderbolt abilities, destroying all of the Black Lanterns in New York.^[18] In the final battle of the event, his daughter Jade is resurrected by the power of white light.^[19]

Brightest Day

In the beginning of the Brightest Day crossover event, Alan lies in the arms of Obsidian, convulsing and writhing as a green light pours from his body.^[20] His body possessed, Alan flies off with his JSA teammates in hot pursuit, eventually led the team to Germany. The JSA meet up with Batman's new Justice League and find that Jade, who had been staying on Oa since her resurrection, has returned to Earth inside a green meteor, later revealed to be the legendary Starheart that gave Alan his powers. Sebastian Faust tells the two teams that the Starheart has been gradually taking control of people on Earth for quite some time. Now that it is on Earth, it is growing more powerful and driving metahumans all over the world insane. Jade states that the Starheart captured her in space and purposely brought her to Earth to find Alan and that it is her fault that her father is now in danger. Just then, Alan awakens and his costume transforms into a suit of armor identical to the one he wears in Kingdom Come, and he then tells the assembled heroes that he intends on destroying the world.^[21]

Starman is sent into space to search for Alan, and finds that Alan has constructed a massive fortress on the surface of the moon. Before Starman can warn the others, Alan appears in front of him and tears his gem, the source of his abilities, from his chest, thus rendering him powerless.^[22] The Starheart uses its influence to corrupt various metahumans with magical or elemental abilities, which creates chaos across the globe. Realizing that the heroes must defeat Alan in order to end the chaos, Batman recruits Miss Martian to get a mental lock on Starman, which, in turn, provides the Justice League with Alan's location. Batman then assembles a small strikeforce consisting of himself, Jade, Hourman, Donna Troy, Jesse Quick, and Mr. America, all of whom have a low chance of being possessed by the Starheart. Mister Miracle arrives and informs the team that Alan has most likely installed Fourth World defenses in his base and offers to use his knowledge of such technology to guide them through the fortress.^[23] When they finally find him, Jade uses her powers to restore Alan to normal.^[24] With his sanity restored, Alan chooses to allow the Emerald City he created on the moon to stay, and the city becomes populated by various magical creatures from throughout the DCU.^[25]

After the events of the Brightest Day, Alan and the rest of the JSA travel to the city of Monument Point, which has been attacked by a superpowered terrorist named Scythe. Just before being defeated, Scythe snaps Alan's neck.^[26] In the subsequent story, it is revealed that Scythe is the product of Nazi genetic engineering, and that Alan and Jay had been tasked by the president with killing the experiment back when he was in infancy during World War 2. The two heroes could not agree on a course of action, and, as a result, Scythe was allowed to live.^[27] Doctor Mid-Nite discovers that the injuries Alan sustained have rendered him paralyzed, and that any attempt to heal himself could break his constant concentration, which could result in the Starheart once again regaining control of his body.^[28]

Jade visits her bed-ridden father in the Emerald City, and offers to use her abilities to help him walk again. Alan declines his daughter's offer, reasoning that if the Starheart were to once again take over his body, it could result in the deaths of everyone in the city. Eclipso attacks the city, which results in Jesse Quick having to get Alan to safety.^[29]

Later, the JSA try to take down the villain D'arken who has broken free from imprisonment beneath Monument Point and absorbed the powers of JSA members, but D'arken is too powerful. Due to this only non-superpowered and magical members fight D'arken. The JSA tells Alan that unleashing the Starheart is the only way to destroy D'arken. However, after releasing the Starheart energies, Alan's body begins to incinerate. Afterwards, the JSA attend a funeral for Alan, whom they believe to be dead.^[30]

Powers and abilities

Alan Scott wields a magical ring that can produce a variety of effects. The extent of the ring's ability has never been rigorously defined, but three consistent traits are that it allows him to fly, that its effects are accompanied by a green light, and that it cannot directly affect anything made of wood.

In Scott's earlier appearances, he would project a beam of green light from his ring that could do variety of things such as move objects, melt metal, shrink objects, or put out fires. He rarely used it as an actual weapon and preferred to fight with his fists like any other pulp adventure hero would do. The ring made him invulnerable to any weapon not made of wood.

In later appearances, he started conjuring solid objects. These objects could be of any shape and size such as: a sword to cut a rope, chains to bind a prisoner, a parachute to slow his fall, and a disembodied fist to beat his foe. But they were always pure green in color and would vanish as soon as he stopped concentrating on them. Alan controlled these objects telekinetically. These conjured objects, later referred to as "constructs", would become the signature power of Green Lanterns in later decades.

At the start of many stories, Alan charged his ring by touching it to a green lantern, which would give him 24 hours of power (regardless of how heavily he used it).

Alan's ring cannot affect anything made of wood or plant matter. He can conjure a green shield to block bullets, but a wooden club will pass right through it effortlessly. Solomon Grundy, a zombie whose body is partially made from swamp matter, is highly resistant to Alan's powers.

In the mid-1980s, DC merged Alan Scott and Hal Jordan into a shared setting and eliminated parallel universes from the narrative. Because these two characters were unrelated, the writers altered Alan's powers to differentiate him from Hal. Alan's constructs were now wreathed in green flame, highlighting their magical (and not technological) nature. He physically merged with his lantern, meaning he no longer needed to recharge as Hal needed to. In 1995, he lost his magical ring but learned to manifest his power through his glowing hands instead (this change was reversed in JSA #50).

In the beginning, Alan's power was vaguely connected to the mystical power of the living world; "green, as are the plants, the growing things!".

Other versions

The New 52

Following DC's September 2011 reboot of its fictional universe, Alan was reintroduced in issue 1 of Earth 2 as the young dynamic head of GBC productions on Earth 2 (a parallel world within the DC Multiverse).^[31][32] On June 1, 2012, DC announced that Scott would be reimagined as a gay man.^[33] In issue 3, Scott is revealed to have a boyfriend named Sam, to whom he intends to propose while on vacation in China. Before he can do so, however, the train on which the couple is travelling is suddenly wrecked. A mysterious green flame protects Scott and heals him; a disembodied voice informs him that the crash was caused by a force that threatens the whole world, and that Sam did not survive. The grief-stricken Scott is then told that he will be given the power to avenge his love and protect the world. The flame creates a costume for him, and molds Sam's engagement ring into a power ring with which Scott can harness his power. Reborn as the Green Lantern, Scott proceeds to help the other survivors and swears vengeance for Sam.^[34] This version of Green Lantern is associated with The Green, a mystical realm/entity that connects all botanical life on Earth.

Kingdom Come

In the Kingdom Come limited series by Mark Waid and Alex Ross, Alan is the only Green Lantern on Earth. He lives in an orbital space station called New Oa from which he protects Earth from alien attacks, and has ceased to meddle in human affairs. When Superman comes out of retirement, he rejoins the Justice League to help suppress the rogue superhumans that are causing chaos throughout the world. After the crisis is resolved, he joins the United Nations as the ambassador of the sovereign nation of New Oa.

Alan Scott's costume in this series was styled after the full plate armor of medieval knights. In the regular books, he has sported this armor on several occasions when he uses high amounts of power.^[25]

JSA: The Unholy Three

Another version of Alan Scott was seen briefly in JSA: The Unholy Three as a post-WW2 agent called the Lantern whose use of his power ring was invaluable to the intelligence community for its ability to discern truth from lies. The ring and Alan's hand were destroyed by a Superman gone rogue.

Green Lantern: Evil's Might

In the Elseworlds tale, Green Lantern: Evil's Might, Alan Scott is depicted as the young leader of a gang called the Bowery Greens. He steals a magical green gem similar to Kyle Rayner's ring and later steals Kyle's lantern. In a final showdown, he fatally wounds Kyle, but is absorbed into Kyle's ring.

The Golden Age

In the Elseworlds series "The Golden Age", Alan Scott finds himself under investigation from the House Un-American Activities Committee because of his refusal to turn over employees suspected of communist activities. In the final battle with Dynaman, Johnny Quick refers to him as "the big guy", implying that he may have been the most powerful hero of the era (although this is likely also a reference to Alan's large physical stature).

Superman & Batman: Generations

In Superman & Batman: Generations, a version of Alan Scott was featured, this version's ring being explained as having originally been a Green Lantern ring that was lost on Earth long ago. In this storyline, it is stated that the first time Alan used his ring, he was knocked out from behind by a man with a wooden club, causing Alan to believe the ring was weak against wood, thereby causing a mental block (a similar explanation serving to account for the Green Lantern Corps' rings' weakness to yellow).

52

In the final issue of 52, a new Multiverse is revealed, originally consisting of 52 identical realities. Among the parallel realities shown is one designated "Earth-2". As a result of Mister Mind "eating" aspects of this reality, it takes on visual aspects similar to the pre-Crisis Earth-Two, including the Green Lantern among other Justice Society of America characters. The names of the characters and the team are not mentioned in the panel in which they appear, but the Green Lantern is visually similar to Alan Scott.^[35]

Based on comments by Grant Morrison, this alternate universe is not the pre-Crisis Earth-Two.^[36]

It has been revealed in Justice Society (vol. 3) #20 that the post-Crisis Earth-2 Alan Scott is dead as stated by his daughter Jade who encountered the New Earth Scott and was shocked to see the New Earth counterpart to her father still alive.

Superman: Red Son

Scott is also shown as a member of the Green Lantern Marine Corps in Superman: Red Son.^[37]

In other media

Television

• Alan Scott appears in the Smallville episode "Absolute Justice" portrayed by Doug Pinton. He is a super hero in the 1970s and a CEO of an unnamed broadcasting company, who was arrested for fraud by the government in a mission to take down the JSA. He like the others tried to take the blame for all crimes though he and the rest were never convicted. As the law was now aware of his superhero identity, Scott retired from heroics. In present day, Clark Kent and Chloe Sullivan find old black-and-white footage of Alan (his power ring is visible on his left hand), along with his criminal record. Very little is said about him but was confirmed he was still alive by Stargirl and hinted he had children. His power ring and lantern battery are shown, in a display case at the JSA Brownstone as well as his portrait in the JSA painting. In the television series' comic book continuation, it is revealed that Alan was a member of the Green Lantern Corps.^[38]

• Alan Scott appears in the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "Crisis: 22,300 Miles Above Earth!" voiced by Corey Burton.

• Alan Scott makes a brief non-speaking cameo in the Young Justice episode "Humanity", where he is shown in archival footage of the JSA.

• While he never made an appearance, Alan Scott was alluded to in the Green Lantern: The Animated Series episode "Steam Lantern". In the episode, Hal Jordan travels to another dimension where a hero named Gil Broome (the eponymous Steam Lantern) was inspired by a Green Lantern who wore red and had a cape.

Films

Green Lantern has a cameo in the opening credits of DC Universe animated film Justice League: The New Frontier where he is seen being forced out of heroics by the government.

Video games

• Alan Scott appears in DC Universe Online, voiced by Jason Phelps.
• A statue of Alan Scott is seen in Batman: The Brave and the Bold - The Videogame.

Novel

Sleepers is a trilogy created by Mike Baron and written by Christopher J. Priest. Each volume focuses on a different Green Lantern including Alan Scott.

Action figures

In 2010, Green Lantern was released in Wave 14 of Mattel's DC Universe Classics toyline.^[39]

Collected Editions

• Golden Age Green Lantern Archives Vol. 1 (Green Lantern Vol. 1 #1 and All-American Comics #16-30)
• Golden Age Green Lantern Archives Vol. 2 (Green Lantern Vol. 1 #2-3 and All-American Comics #31-38)
• JSA Presents: Green Lantern (Green Lantern: Brightest Day, Blackest Night (one-shot); JSA: Classified #25, #32-33)
• Crisis on Multiple Earths: The Team-Ups Vol. 1 (Green Lantern Vol. 2 #40)
• Crisis on Multiple Earths: The Team-Ups Vol. 2 (Green Lantern Vol. 2 #45, 52)

References

External links

• Green Lantern (Alan Scott) at the Comic Book DB
• Alan Kistler Profile on Green Lantern
• Unofficial Green Lantern Profile
• JSA Fact File: Green Lantern
• Earth-2 Green Lantern Index
• Green Lantern Corps profile on Alan Scott
• Alan Scott's profile on the DC Database Project

Green Lantern   Media Creators Bill Finger Martin Nodell John Broome Gil Kane Dennis O'Neil Neal Adams Ron Marz Darryl Banks Geoff Johns Doug Mahnke Comics Main series All-American Comics "Snowbirds Don't Fly" "Emerald Twilight" "Emerald Knights" "Circle of Fire" "Green Lantern: Rebirth "Sinestro Corps War" "Secret Origin" "Blackest Night" "Brightest Day" "War of the Green Lanterns" Other Batman: In Darkest Knight Comic Cavalcade The Green Lantern Chronicles Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn Green Lantern: Evil's Might Green Lantern: Mosaic Green Lantern: New Guardians Green Lantern Corps: Recharge Green Lantern/Superman: Legend of the Green Flame Green Lantern versus Aliens Related media Television and films Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths. Green Lantern: Emerald Knights Green Lantern Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters Green Lantern: The Animated Series Green Lantern: First Flight In other media Legends of the Superheroes Justice League of America (TV film) Justice League (TV series) Justice League Unlimited Justice League: The New Frontier Batman: The Brave and the Bold DC Universe Online Justice League: Doom Justice League: War The Lego Movie Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham Justice League: Throne of Atlantis   Universe Characters Main Alan Scott Hal Jordan Guy Gardner John Stewart Kyle Rayner Jade Thaal Sinestro Simon Baz Supporting Bleez Controllers Alexandra DeWitt Doiby Dickles Carol Ferris The Flash Green Arrow Guardians of the Universe (Ganthet, Sayd) Thomas Kalmaku Molly Mayne Obsidian Jillian Pearlman Donna Troy Saint Walker Zamarons Green Lantern Corps Abin Sur Arisia Rrab Aya Boodikka Ch'p Earth-Man Flodo Span G'nort Graf Toren Green Man Iolande Ion Isamot Kol Jack T. Chance Katma Tui Ke'Haan Kilowog Kreon Lar Gand Medphyll Mogo Raker Qarrigat Rond Vidar Salaak Sodam Yat Soranik Natu Stel Tomar-Re Tomar-Tu Turytt Enemies General Atrocitus Doctor Polaris Effigy Evil Star Fatality Gambler Goldface Harlequin Hector Hammond Icicle Krona Larfleeze Major Disaster Major Force Manhunters Nero New Gods Ranx Solomon Grundy Sonar Sportsmaster Star Sapphire Vandal Savage Weaponers of Qward Sinestro Corps Anti-Monitor Arkillo Lyssa Drak Hank Henshaw Karu-Sil Mongul Parallax Sinestro Superboy-Prime Amon Sur Black Lantern Corps Black Hand Nekron Emotional spectrum Red Lantern Corps Agent Orange Sinestro Corps Green Lantern Corps Blue Lantern Corps Indigo Tribe Star Sapphires Black Lantern Corps White Lantern Corps Locations Coast City (Ferris Aircraft) Gotham City Korugar Mogo the Living Planet Oa Qward Ranx the Sentient City Miscellany Power ring (equipment) Darkstars The Green Alien Races Source Wall Green Lantern (Great Adventure) Green Lantern Coaster (Warner Bros. Movie World) Green Lantern: First Flight (Magic Mountain)

Earth-Two Gardner Fox Associated characters Accountable (Jimmy Olsen) Aquawoman Atom (Al Pratt) Batman (Bruce Wayne, Thomas Wayne) Big Barda Black Canary Brainwave Brutaal Crimson Avenger Darkseid Desaad Doctor Fate Doctor Mid-Nite Flash (Jay Garrick) Furies of Apokolips Fury Green Lantern (Alan Scott) Hawkgirl Jade Sandy Hawkins Hawkman Hourman Huntress (Helena Wayne) Icicle Johnny Quick (Johnny Chambers) Liberty Belle Mister Miracle Mister Terrific (Michael Holt) Mister Terrific (Terry Sloane) Power Girl Psycho-Pirate Red Tornado (Lois Lane) Robin Robotman (Robert Crane) Sandman (Wesley Dodds) Sonia Sato Solomon Grundy The Spectre Sportsmaster Starman (Ted Knight) Star-Spangled Kid Steel Steppenwolf Stripesy Superman (Clark Kent) Superman (Val-Zod) Johnny Thunder Ultra-Humanite Wildcat The Wizard Wonder Woman Wotan Associated teams All-Star Squadron Infinity Inc. Injustice Society Justice Society of America Seven Soldiers of Victory World's Finest Team Publications and storylines America vs. the Justice Society Earth 2: World's End "Flash of Two Worlds" World's Finest Related topics Apokolips The Green Multiverse (DC Comics)

Justice Society of America Gardner Fox Sheldon Mayer Initial Members The Atom Doctor Fate The Flash Green Lantern Hawkman Hourman Sandman Spectre Other Members Amazing Man (Markus Clay) Atom Smasher Batman Black Adam Black Canary Captain Marvel Citizen Steel Cyclone Damage Doctor Fate (Hector Hall) Doctor Mid-Nite Hawkgirl Hourman (Rick Tyler) Hourman (Matthew Tyler) Hippolyta Huntress (Helena Wayne) Jakeem Thunder Johnny Thunder Judomaster (Sonia Sato) King Chimera Magog Manhunter (Kate Spencer) Miss America Mister America (Jeffrey Graves) Mister Terrific (Terry Sloane) Mister Terrific (Michael Holt) Obsidian Power Girl Red Tornado (Ma Hunkel) Red Tornado (android) Robin Sandman (Sandy Hawkins) Star-Spangled Kid (Sylvester Pemberton) Stargirl Starman (Ted Knight) Starman (Jack Knight) Starman (Thom Kallor) S.T.R.I.P.E. Superman Wildcat (Ted Grant) Wildcat (Tom Bronson) Wonder Woman Enemies Golden Age Black Dragon Society Brainwave Evil Star Injustice Society King Kull Per Degaton Psycho-Pirate Solomon Grundy Ultra-Humanite Vandal Savage The Wizard Wotan Silver and Bronze Ages Axis Amerika Baron Blitzkrieg Dragon King Mordru Kobra Kung Modern Age Black Adam Extant Gog Isis Johnny Sorrow Kid Karnevil Mekanique Onimar Synn Roulette Related teams All-Star Squadron Freedom Fighters Infinity, Inc. Justice League Seven Soldiers of Victory Squadron of Justice Young All-Stars Young Allies Publications All Star Comics America vs. the Justice Society DC Comics Two Thousand Earth 2 Related Articles "Absolute Justice" (Smallville episode) Earth-Two The Golden Age

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