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Title: The Golden Age Green Lantern Archives, Vol. 1 (DC Archive Editions) by Martin Nodell, Bill Finger ISBN: 1-56389-507-2 Publisher: General Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.57 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Even better than the first volume!
Comment: I have always made it a habit to tell people about the DC Archive Edition reprints of Golden Age comicbooks. They are a veritable MIRACLE! Without them, it would have been impossible for me to ever read comicbooks from the 1930s and 1940s. You see, time was when comicbooks were not dutifully collected and kept in Mylar bags like today. In fact, they were little more than "read-once-then-use-for-fish-wrappers". More than this, many of these Golden Age comics had very low print runs and were printed on inferior paper due to the paper shortage during the War Years. The DC Archive Editions therefore exist to collect these gems of American Pop-Culture into durable and elegant reprint editions for us today.
The second volume of the Golden Age Green Lantern Archives gives us more stories of Alan Scott (Green Lantern) and his bumbling sidekick, Doiby Dickles. We see in this volume a more confident Alan Scott, who is a lot more comfortable in his role as a mystery-man who helps out. The highlights of this volume are the great, epic four-parters (from GL#2 and GL#3). Book-length stories were very uncommon in the Golden Age. Usually editors get their writers/artists to produce short stories that are usually kept in drawers as "reserved-material". And usually a comic book is made up of four such short stories. Therefore, the editor has a lot of freedom packing in stories from his "reserved-material" should a writer/artist fail to turn in stories in any given month. However, the rare book-length epics (like those collected here) really allows the writer and artist to strut their stuff. Bill Finger and Mart Nodell gives us a great crime mystery in GL#2 and a whimsical adventure to an El-Dorado-like paradise in GL#3.
Other highlights of this volume includes Doiby Dickles discovering GL's secret identity for the first time. The battle against the modern-day Napoleon is collected here also (this is where we learn that Alan Scott's middle name is Wellington). We also see Alan and Irene's first kiss. Overall, the stories in this volume should bring a smile and an occasional tear to you as you read them. They are so simple and yet so endearing.
Irwin Hasen is the regular artist on the All-American comics collected here while Martin Nodell is busy turning in all those four-parter book-length stories in GL#2 and #3. The foreword to this volume is written by that pioneer of Golden Age Fandom, Jerry Bails.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Original Green Lantern's Debut
Comment: Artist Martin Nodell created the Golden Age Green Lantern after seeing a railway lantern one night. The stories in this volume are written by the very talented Bill Finger - the "O. Henry of American comic books". This volume includes the very first appearance of the Green Lantern, Alan Scott, in All-American Comics #16 (July 1940) as well as his early stories in that same title and in his own book Green Lantern #1. Includes the first appearance of Irene Miller and Doiby Dickles. See Alan flirt endlessly with Irene and develop a true friendship with Doiby. This volume also includes an essay by Dr. William Moulton Marsten on Will-Power. Marsten is also the inventor of the lie detector and the creator of the original Golden Age Wonder Woman.
One thing that I especially like about the stories in this volume is how most of them are about "real" issues and crime. No super-villains here. No cosmic mumbo-jumbo. Just a person with a gift of power who wants to be helpful to the public. In the 1970s, Dennis O'Neil and Neal Adams came up with a series of "Relevance" stories starring the Silver Age Green Lantern and Green Arrow. Those stories were considered revolutionary because by then comics was all about fighting the super-villain of the month. Suddenly, there were stories about real crime, corruption, drugs, religious fanatics and the sort. But then, "Relevance" stories have always been in comics in the 1940s. Especially these Bill Finger penned classics here. Moreover, they appear less "forced" here than in the 1970s works (although I love those Hard-Travelling Heroes stories a lot also).
Interestingly, Alan Scott is still a vital character in today's comics, appearing constantly in the current Green Lantern and JSA series in his original persona (unlike the revamped Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman). Today, he appears very much as a guide and a source of wisdom for the new generation of heroes. Reading about his heroic exploits in these early stories, it's not difficult to see that he is more than qualified to guide us all today to higher aspirations.
Rating: 5
Summary: Original Lantern gets Green light
Comment: O.K., O.K. the storyline is a little, well, little. But when the original Lantern goes into action, this book comes alive and is pretty exciting. Even for 1st time readers.
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Title: The Golden Age Flash Archives, Vol. 1 (DC Archive Editions) by Gardner F. Fox, Dale Crain, E. E. Hibbard ISBN: 1563895064 Publisher: General Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: All Star Comics Archives, Vol. 1 by Garner Fox ISBN: 1563890194 Publisher: General Pub. Date: 14 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: The Green Lantern Archives, Vol. 1 (DC Archive Editions) by John Broome, Gil Kane, Joe Giella ISBN: 1563890879 Publisher: General Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: The Green Lantern Archives, Vol. 2 (DC Archive Editions) by John Broome, Gil Kane, Joe Giella ISBN: 1563895668 Publisher: General Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Golden Age Starman Archives Volume 1 by Gardner Fox ISBN: 1563896222 Publisher: General Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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