The Unofficial Biography of...

Created by Mart Nodell and Bill Finger

Illo by Mike Parbocek and Mike Manley?

Alter Ego: Alan Ladd Scott
Occupation: President, Scott Telecommunications Inc.
Marital Status: married
Known Relatives: Jennifer-Lynn Hayden ( daughter ), Todd Rice ( son ), Molly Catherine Mayne-Scott ( wife ), Rose Forrest-Canton ( as Alyx Florin; wife, deceased )
Group Affiliation: Justice Society of America, All-Star Squadron, Green Lantern Corps ( affiliate member )
Base of Operations: Gotham City, NJ
Current Status: semi-active
Height:6'1"(now 5'11") Weight:201 lbs. (now 190 lbs.)
Eye Color: blue Hair Color: blonde
First Appearance: All-American Comics# 16, April, 1940.

.....Raised in the Midwest, young Alan Scott made his way to New York City when he began college. After two years in Pre-Med, he switched his studies to engineering and after graduation, found work building railroad bridges in the American Southwest. His contractor, a swindler named Dekker, had used substandard materials and had failed to follow all the safety gidelines. During a test run on one of the trains, Scott was nearly killed when the tressles collapsed, and his friend Jimmy wasn't so lucky. Wishing for the power to make things right and to bring Dekker to justice, his parayers were answered by a fragment of The Starheart, a collection of the "wild magic of the universe" collected by the Guardians of Oa millions of years ago. The Starheart Fragment was carved into a railroad lantern and now was giving Scott its power to bring his dreams into reality.

.....After bringing Dekker and his cronies to justice, Scott found that he could tap into the power of the lantern with a ring carved into the shape of the lantern that he wore on his left hand. Like the "mystery-men" that began to fill the newspapers in late 1939, he too wore a costume, more like a dramatic operetta character, with a large flowing cape and a mask to hide his identity.

....After several adventures in Metropolis, he moved to Gotham City in early 1940, taking a job with WXYZ, a radio station. He began as a news reporter and soon became somewhat a star in his own right, with many reports about the new hero, The Green Lantern. At the station, his confidant and chauffeur was Charles "Doiby" Dickles, a cabbie who later became aware of Scott dual ID and aided him on many cases.

.....After meeting another hero, Keystone City's Flash, The Green Lantern was asked by the US govenment to aid British Intellegence. That case led to the formation of THE JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA, which he was a founding member and second chairman. He struck up friendships with the Flash and Hawkman, and after the Flash left to persue other interests, Green Lantern became its second chairman. On one case in June of 1941, however, he felt the limitations that his humanity still held as he was unable to stop the death of a young boy. Feeling that he might be spreading himself too thin, he also took a leave of absence. His friendships still held together, and he joined the Army before he might be drafted in late 1941, before the outbreak of the Second World War. His buddy Doiby re-enlisted too, though he was a Sargent to Scott's "buck private".

.....Captured along with the active JSA members, The Green Lantern soon joined the Presidentialy mandated ALL-STAR SQUADRON and was semi-active with that group. When the US officially entered World War II, Scott was released from his military service to continue broadcasting. ( It is not known if the US Government knew of his secret ID )

.....At the end of the War, with the retirement of several of the active JSA members, The Green Lantern and The Flash rejoined the group as active members, but neither returned to chair the assembly.

.....Two villain appeared after the War who would later impact Scott's life. One was created by the Manhunter Cult, to keep Green Lantern occupied. Molly Mayne was a gifted college athlete in an era when women were not expected to excell at such things. When trying to be forceful or independant, she ran into the chauvanistic feeling that women were better suited to remain in the backround. Mayne fought Green Lantern as The Harlequin, a sort-of villainess who later used her abilities as an undercover agent for the FBI. When she faded from both Green Lantern's and Alan Scott's life ( she worked as his secretary in real life ), she moved to Europe to work her way up the company ladder.

..... The second villainess to affect Green Lantern's life was The Thorn, a schitophrenic villainess of the Flash. After aiding him in capturing her, she fell in love with Green Lantern, but this remained dormant during her treatment for her psychosis.

.....In early 1951, Green Lantern, along with the other active JSA members went into retirement rather than reveal their ID's to the Government. Scott used this time to build his place in the business world until he was able to purchace WXYZ. He renamed the company Gotham Broadcasting Company and continued to maintain an active presense in the day-to day operations, but grew distant from his friends. After being released from her treatments, The Thorn aquired the identity of Alyx Florin and met and fell in love with Scott. After a very brief courtship and marriage, her malevolent side manifestied itself. Aftraid of harming Alan, she faked her own death, but found herself to be pregnant. Giving birth to twins, she gave them up for adoption.

.....Several years later, as Gotham City began a slow slide to decay and internal corruption, a new vigilante stalked the criminal element. Known as The Reaper, he dealt out justice at the end of twin barrels of guns. Fearing the worst, Green Lantern confronted the "lawman" and was severly injured. His friends in the JSA came to his aid, but were unable to find The Reaper, who left for Europe soon afterwards.

.....Time went on, and just over ten years ago, a new Green Lantern began to appear on the West Coast. After meeting him and some of the "new generation" of heroes, Scott and his fellow JSA members began to come out of retirement, at least on a semi-active basis. During a downturn in the economy, however, Scott lost control of GBS and turned back to engineering for a while. Six years ago, Scott met his children, now in their late teens, as super-heroes Jade and Obsidian as members of the team called INFINITY INC.

.....However, the long-lost family that he had always longed for was not to be for long. Even as The Thorn revealed to Green Lantern and her children that she was their mother, and soon died by her own hand, that the Harlequin reentered their lives, only to reveal herself as Molly Mayne and the two were married, that Scott and his fellow JSA members were lost, seemingly forever in another dimension.

.....Mayne used her own private monies to start up a cable "superchannel" in Los Angeles, and after Alan Scott's disappearance, turned it into a full-fledged cable network, Scott Telecomunications Inc. When Green Lantern and the others returned, Alan took up the presidency of the company and his relationship with his new wife. The Starheart, however, began to grow in power and sought to control every aspect of Scott's life. It rejuvinated him to his early 20's, distancing him from Molly, now in her mid-sixties. He took to calling himself Sentinel, to distance himself from his Green Lantern past and wore a new, mnore modern costume. After the battle with Extant and Parallax during Zero Hour, the ring and lantern were depowered, and the Starheart dwelt within his body. Later, the malevolent spirit of the Starheart was destroyed and Scott retained a small measure of his youthfulness, though he now appears in his late 50's. The "green flame" dwells within him and he has returned to the original costume, though he still calls himself Sentinel. He spends most of his time adventuring with the newly reformed inter-generational Justice Society.

.....Originally, The Green Lantern's powers were derived from a ring made of a fragment from the "magic lantern", itself part of the Starheart. The Starheart was the collection of "wild" or chaos magicks drawn together by the Guardians of the Universe. This force, over milleneum, became sentient and became increasingly self-aware of its powers. When Scott first began to use it, it seldom spoke to him. Its abilities were to create objects from green energy and would last as long as Scott willed their existience. The energy could not affect wood, or protect himn from it. He could fly and its uses were limited only by his imagination and will.

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Chronological Listing of Comic Book Appearances

Secret Origins(v3)# ../All-American Comics(v1)# 16-19
All-Star Comics(v1)# 2
All-American# 20-22
DC Special# 29/Secret Origins(v3)# 31 November 7, '40
All-Star# 3-4/All-Star Squadron# 67 November 22-27, '40
All-American# 23-28
All-Star# 5
All-American# 29-30
All-Star# 6
Impulse: Bart Saves the Universe
All-American# 31
Green Lantern(v1)# 1
All-American# 32
All-Star# 7 ending June 27, '41
All-Star Squadron Annual# 3 June 28, '41
DC 2000# 1-2 June 30-July 3, '41
All-American# 33
GL# 2
All-American# 34-37
GL# 3
Golden Age Secret Files #1
All-Star# 10
All-American# 38-40
Justice League(v1)# 193/All-Star Squadron# 1-4 December 6-8, '41
GL# 4 December 8, '41
All-Star Squadron Annual# 1 January 12, '42
All-Star Squadron# 19-25, Annual# 2, 27 February 9-12, '42
All-Star Squadron# 31-32 February 22-23, '42
Green Lantern:Fear Itself
All-Star Squadron# 36-42, 45-46 thru early March '42
All-Star Squadron# 64, 50, 53-54, 57-60 from March 31 thru April 15, '42
Young All-Stars# 2-3 thru May 3, '42
YAS# 7-9
Young All-Stars Annual# 1 May 23, '42
YAS# 25
All-American# 43/YAS# 27 June '42
YAS# 30-31
Wonder Woman(v2)# 130-133
All-Star Comics 80pg Giant# 1/3 June 27, '42
GL# 5
All-American# 44-46
GL# 6
Comic Cavalcade# 1
All-American# 47-49
GL# 7
CC# 2
All-American# 50-51
CC# 3
All-American# 52-53
GL# 8
CC# 4
GL# 9
All-American# 54-55
GL# 10
CC# 5
All-American# 56-57
GL# 11
CC# 6
All-Flash# 14 ( teamed with The Flash )
All-American# 58-59
GL# 12
CC# 7
Green Lantern Corps Quarterly #8
All-American# 60-61
GL# 13
CC# 8
All-American# 62-63
GL# 14
CC# 9
Big All-American Comics# 1
All-American# 64-65
All-Star(v2)# 1 early February '45
All-American Comics(v2)# 1 February 22, '45
All-Star(v2)# 2 late February '45
All-Star #24
Last Days of the Justice Society #1 April 15, '45
GL# 15
CC# 9
All-American# 66-67
All-Star# 25
GL# 16
CC# 10
All-American# 68
All-Star# 26
GL#17
CC# 12
All-American# 69
All-Star# 27
GL# 18
CC# 13
All-American# 70-72
All-Star# 28
GL# 19
CC# 14
All-American# 73-75
All-Star# 29
GL# 20
CC# 15
All-American# 76-77
All-Star# 30
GL# 21
CC# 16
All-American# 78-79
All-Star# 31
GL# 22
CC# 17
All-American# 80-81
All-Star# 32
GL# 23
CC# 18
All-American# 82-83
("The Will of William Wilson")
All-Star# 33
GL# 24
CC# 19
All-American# 84-85
All-Star# 34
GL# 25
CC# 20
All-American# 86-87
All-Star# 35
GL# 26
CC# 21
All-American# 88-89 September '48
All-Star# 36
GL# 27
CC# 22
All-American# 90-91
All-Star# 37
GL# 28
CC# 23
All-American# 92-93
All-Star# 38
GL# 29
CC# 24
All-American# 94-95
All-Star# 39
GL# 30
CC# 25
All-American# 96
GL# 31
All-American# 97
All-Star# 40
CC# 26
All-American# 98
GL# 32
All-American# 99
All-Star# 41
CC# 27
Damage #12
All-American# 100
GL# 33
All-Star# 42
CC# 28
GL# 34
All-Star# 43
CC# 29
GL# 35
All-Star# 44
Flash(v3) #161 (flashback)
GL# 36
All-Star# 45
GL# 37
All-Star# 46
GL# 38
All-Star# 47-51
Justice Society(v1)# 2, 3, 6-8 February '50
All-Star# 52-57
Adventure Comics(v1)# 466/3 ( flashback ) February 21, '51
Superman Family# 207 may no longer be in continuity
Secret Origins(v3)# 50/5
Showcase# 55
Flash(v2)# 137
Justice League(v1) #21-22
Justice League (v1) #29, 37-38 No longer in continuity
Green Lantern(v2)# 40, 45, 61
JLA:Incarnations# 1
Justice League(v1)# 64-65, 73-74, 82-83, 91-92, 101-103
Flash(v2)# 231
All-Star# 58-59
Justice League(v1)# 135-137 No longer in continuity
All-Star# 60-66, 68
Justice League(v1)# 147-148
All-Star# 69-70
Showcase# 99
Green Lantern(v2)# 107-109, 111-112
All-Star# 72-74
Justice League(v1) #166 (flashback)
Justice League(v1) #159-160
Adventure# 461-463 No longer in continuity
Adventure #465
Justice League(v1)# 171-172
Adventure# 466/3
Spectre(v3) #54 (flashback)
Starman(v2) #11 (flashback)
Justice League(v1)# 183
Wonder Woman(v1)# 291 no longer in continuity
Justice League(v1)# 195
Infinity Inc# 1-4, 8-12
Justice League(v1)# 231-232 No longer in continuity
America vs the Justice Society# 1-4 of 4 no longer in continuity
IInc# 20/Crisis# 4
IInc# 21
Infinity Inc Ann# 1 ending July 27
IInc# 21, 22/Crisis# 5/All-Star Squadron# 53
Crisis# 12
IInc# 25, 26
Last Days of the Justice Society# 1
Armageddon: Inferno# 3-4
Justice Society(v2)# 1/Green Lantern Corps Quarterly #1-3/JSA(v2) #1-7
Superman: The Man of Steel #20
Justice League Europe# 48-50
Justice Society(v2)# 8-10
GLCQ# 4-7
Action Comics# 690
Zero Hour# 4-3
Guy Gardner: Warrior# 29
Spectre(v3) #62
JLA(v3)# 28-31
JSA Secret Files and Origins# 1
JSA(v3)# 1-5
Day of Judgement #1-5
JSA(v3) #6-10
SF&O: Guide to the DC Universe 2000 #1
Stars n' STRIPES #8
JLA(v3) #38-41
Starman(v2) #.., 73
Martian Manhunter #18-19
Hourman #18
JSA(v3) #11-15
Hourman #19
Sins of Youth #1
SOY Secret Files and Origins #1
SOY: Starwoman and the JSA jr. #1
Sins of Youth #2
Golden Age Secret Files #1
JSA(v3) #16-25
Wonder Woman(v2) #168
JSA Secret Files #2
JLA(v3) #58
JSA: Our Worlds at War #1
World's finest: Our Worlds at War #1
Impulse #78
JSA(v3) 26-30

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