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Green Lantern 12

GREEN LANTERN #12

Cover Date: Summer 1944
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1944-06-10

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Cover Credits:
Art: Paul Reinman


Story: "It's Bad for Business" (12 Pages)

Credits:

StoryAlfred Bester
ArtMartin Nodell
Assistant editingJulius Schwartz, Ted Udall
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Green Lantern (Alan Scott; last in All-American Comics #59)

Supporting Character(s):

Doiby Dickles (last in All-American Comics #59)

Villain(s):

a gang of robbers (Jake, Bud and Gus named, using Dickles Ink as a front for robberies; first appearance of all)

Other Character(s):

Miss Brown (secretary at Dickles, Ink.; first appearance)
an ink company representative (first appearance)
Police officers
Robbery victims

Location(s):

Gotham City


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Second Story: "Doiby Dickles Enters High Sassiety" (13 Pages)

Credits:

StoryHenry Kuttner
ArtMartin Nodell
Assistant editingJulius Schwartz, Ted Udall
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Green Lantern (Alan Scott)

Supporting Character(s):

Doiby Dickles

Villain(s):

Amanda and Zenobia (two "sisters," actually con-men disguised as elderly women running a charm school; first appearance of both)
"Knuckles" Ryan (first appearance)
"Butch" Collins (first appearance)
"Chisel" Jones (first appearance)

Other Character(s):

Mrs. Van Swell (first appearance)
her butler (first appearance)


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Third Story: "The Gambler" (13 Pages)

Credits:

StoryAlfred Bester
ArtMartin Nodell
Assistant editingJulius Schwartz, Ted Udall
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Green Lantern (Alan Scott; next in Comic Cavalcade #7)

Supporting Character(s):

Doiby Dickles (next in Comic Cavalcade #7)

Villain(s):

Gambler (Steven Sharpe; first appearance; also appears in flashback to origin; next in flashback in Starman Vol. 2 #22)
the Gambler's gang (Joey named; first appearance of all)

Other Character(s):

Helen (former girlfriend of Steven Sharpe; first appearance; in flashback)
police officers


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