Posted on 12/12/2006 3:05:18 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
(Miami-AP) December 12, 2006 - The creator of the comic book superhero Green Lantern has died.
Martin Nodell, who invented the character that used his magical ring to fight crime, died Saturday in Wisconsin at the age of 91.
According to the senior editor of Comics Buyer's Guide, Nodell was looking for a new idea for a comic book when he was waiting for a New York subway and saw a train operator waving a lantern displaying a green light.
Nodell imagined a young engineer, Alan Scott, a train crash survivor who discovers in the debris an ancient lantern forged from a green meteor. Scott constructs a ring from the lamp that gives him superpowers, and becomes a crime fighter.
The first Green Lantern appearance came in July of 1940.
Maybe that was it.
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