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Name: Alan Scott  
   
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Date of Birth: 16th September 1941
   
Place of Birth: Scotland, UK
   
Profession: Actor
 
 
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Green Lantern


Alan Scott, the original Green Lantern
Art by Alex Ross

Publisher DC Comics
First appearance All-American Comics #16
Created by Bill Finger
Martin Nodell
Statistics
Real name Alan Ladd Wellington Scott
Status Active
Affiliations JSA, Sentinels of Magic
Previous affiliations All-Star Squadron
Notable aliases Sentinel
Notable relatives Alyx Florin/Rose Canton (first wife, deceased), Jennie-Lynn Hayden (daughter), Todd James Rice (son), Molly Mayne Scott (second wife)
Notable powers Given by the mystical Starheart.

Alan Scott is a fictional hero of from the DC Comics universe and the first superhero to bear the name Green Lantern.

History

Thousands of years ago, a mystical "green flame" fell to Earth. The voice of the flame prophesied that it would act three times: Once to bring death, once to bring life, and once to bring power. By 1940, the flame had been fashioned into a metal lantern, which fell into the hands of Alan Scott, a young engineer. Following a railroad bridge collapse, the flame instructed Scott how to fashion a ring from its metal, to give him fantastic powers as the superhero Green Lantern. He adopted a colorful costume and became a crimefighter.

(Years later, the green flame would be retconned as the expunged magical characteristics of the Guardians of the Universe from the Earth-1 universe. This collective force was hidden in the heart of a star and became sentient, leading to its name of Starheart. A later story, placed after the Crisis on Infinite Earths, implied a connection to an ancient member of the Green Lantern Corps. A still-later story brought back the Starheart, although kept it in the single post-Crisis universe.)

Scott used his ring to fly, to walk through solid objects (by "moving through the fourth dimension"), to paralyze or blind people temporarily, to create rays of energy, sometimes solid objects, and force fields, to melt metal as with a blowtorch, to cause dangerous objects to glow, and even occasionally to read minds. His ring could protect him against any object made of metal, but would not protect him against wood, rubber (in the second story, he is laid low by a rubber sap), or any other plant-based substance. The reason stated being that the green flame was an incarnation of the strength of "green, growing things".

Scott was a charter member of the Justice Society of America, beginning in All-Star Comics #3 (Winter 1940). He served as the team's second chairman, in #7, but departed following that issue, only to return a few years later. He has been a key member of the group ever since.

During the 1940s, Green Lantern seemed to alternate between serious adventure - particularly when his arch-nemesis, Solomon Grundy, appeared - and light comedy, such as his sidekick Doiby Dickles. Toward the end of his Golden Age adventures, he was even 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.

Scott was a member of the JSA 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 but stated to have been created after the death of Senator Joseph McCarthy on Earth-2. They were accused of possible Communist sympathies and asked to reveal their identities. The JSA declined, and most of the membership retired for the 1950s.

(One piece of retroactive continuity fills out early Scott history. All-Star Squadron Annual #3 states that the JSA fought a being who imbued them with energy that retarded their aging, allowing Scott and many others (as well as their spouses) to remain active into the late 20th century without infirmity. The events of that incident also lead to his taking a leave of absence from the JSA, explaining why the character vanished from the roster for a time.)

The team re-formed in the 1960s with Scott as a member, though little is known of their adventures during this time save for their team-ups with the Justice League of America of the parallel world Earth-1, and a few cross-universe adventures Scott shared with Earth-1's Green Lantern, Hal Jordan.

It was eventually revealed that in the late 1950s or early 1960s, Scott had married the woman with the dual identity Rose and Thorn, and the two had a pair of children who would grow up to become the superheroes Jade and Obsidian, of the team Infinity Inc..

In the late 1970s, Scott ran a broadcasting corporation, which was ruined by creditors. Scott was temporarily driven mad by the Psycho Pirate, but the rest of the JSA helped him back from the brink. His friend Jay Garrick helped him start a new career as a scientist.

In the 1980s, Scott married his longtime nemesis (now reformed), Molly Mayne, a.k.a. The Harlequin, and reconciled with his son and daughter. Following the Crisis on Infinite Earths, which merged all parallel realities into one, the source of Scott's power was revealed to be the mystical "Starheart", which additionally helped retard Scott's aging process. For a time, the Starheart was part of Scott's body and he adopted the name Sentinel, becoming a founding member of a new JSA.

Thanks to the rejuvenative properties of the Starheart, Scott's physical body was temporarily youthened, so that he resembled a man in his 30s or early 40s. While he has since been restored to his true physical age, he continues to fight crime in his costumed identity.

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