Issue Details

Issue	#16
Published	July 1940
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	68
Editing	Sheldon Mayer

Cover Details - "Introducing the Green Lantern"

Characters	The Green Lantern
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Sheldon Moldoff
Inks	Sheldon Moldoff
Notes	Oddity: GL wears his power ring on his right hand.
Reprinted	in Golden Age Green Lantern Archives (DC, 1999 series) #1

8 page Green Lantern story "The Origin of Green Lantern"

Characters	Green Lantern [Alan Scott] (intro, origin); Dekker (Villain; Death)
Synopsis	Alan Scott becomes a railroad construction enginner and comes into the possession of a mysterious green lantern after the train crashes --- a lantern that endows him with tremendous powers and abilities by simply using his will power.
Genre	superhero
Script	Bill Finger (signed)
Pencils	Martin Nodell [as Mart Dellon] (signed)
Inks	Martin Nodell [as Mart Dellon] (signed)
Letters	Martin Nodell
Notes	Oddities: 1) GL wears the power ring on his right hand in the story; 2) he doesn't charge his ring but gets power my picking the lamp up; and 3) he repeats the oath in the last panel w/o charging the ring. Alan Scott is a construction engineer in this story; synopsis added by Craig Delich 2-29-08.
Reprinted	in Great Comic Book Heroes, The (Dial Press, 1965 series) #nn; in Secret Origins of the Super DC Heroes (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1976 series) #nn; in Golden Age Green Lantern Archives (DC, 1999 series) #1

6 page Hop Harrigan story "The Rescue"

Characters	Hop Harrigan
Genre	aviation
Script	Jon L. Blummer (signed)
Pencils	Jon L. Blummer (signed)
Inks	Jon L. Blummer (signed)
Letters	Jon L. Blummer
Notes	Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2-29-08.

1 page Believe It or Not filler

Genre	fact
Script	Robert L. Ripley
Pencils	Robert L. Ripley
Inks	Robert L. Ripley
Letters	Robert L. Ripley
Notes	Strip reprinted from newspaper feature.

2 page Mutt and Jeff/ Cicero's Cat filler

Characters	Mutt; Jeff; Cicero's Cat
Genre	sitcom
Script	Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Pencils	Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Inks	Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Letters	Al Smith [as Bud Fisher]
Notes	Strips taken from newspaper feature.

1 page Daisybelle filler

Characters	Daisybelle
Genre	children; humor
Script	Gene Byrnes (signed)
Pencils	Gene Byrnes (signed)
Inks	Gene Byrnes (signed)
Letters	Gene Byrnes
Notes	Strips reprinted from newspaper feature.

8 page Red, White and Blue story "Sealed Orders"

Characters	Red Dugan; Whitey Smith; Blooey Blue.
Genre	adventure
Script	Jerry Siegel?
Pencils	William Smith
Inks	William Smith

5 page Ben Webster story "The Sinister Mansion"

Characters	Ben Webster
Genre	adventure
Script	Russell Cole [as Edwin Alger] (signed)
Pencils	Russell Cole [as Edwin Alger] (signed)
Inks	Russell Cole [as Edwin Alger] (signed)
Letters	Russell Cole
Notes	Reprinted from newspaper strip. True writer/artist name [Cole] added by Craig Delich 2-29-08.

3 page Popsicle Pete story "Stamps"

Characters	Pete
Genre	gag
Script	Art Helfant
Pencils	Art Helfant
Inks	Art Helfant

1 page Jimmy Stone text story "Traitor's Treachery Part 3"

Characters	Jimmy Stone
Genre	adventure
Pencils	Sheldon Mayer (spot illo)
Inks	Sheldon Mayer (spot illo)
Letters	typeset

Half page All-American Comics Monthly Book Review text article "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"

Pencils	? (spot illo)
Inks	? (spot illo)
Letters	typeset

6 page Adventures in the Unknown story "The Exploding Buildings"

Characters	Alan; Ted; Jack
Genre	science fiction
Script	Carl H. Claudy (signed)
Pencils	Stan Aschmeier
Inks	Stan Aschmeier
Notes	A chapter of "The Infra-Red Destroyers".

2 page Mutt and Jeff/ Cicero's Cat filler

Characters	Mutt; Jeff; Cicero's cat
Genre	sitcom
Script	Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Pencils	Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Inks	Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Letters	Al Smith [as Bud Fisher]
Notes	Newspaper reprints.

1 page Believe It or Not filler

Genre	facts
Script	Robert L. Ripley
Pencils	Robert L. Ripley
Inks	Robert L. Ripley
Letters	Robert L. Ripley
Notes	Newspaper reprint.

4 page Scribbly story "Good-Bye Widow-Maker"

Characters	Scribbly
Script	Sheldon Mayer (signed)
Pencils	Sheldon Mayer (signed)
Inks	Sheldon Mayer (signed)
Letters	Sheldon Mayer

8 page Gary Concord the Ultra-Man story "The Power Plant Failure"

Characters	Gary Concord
Genre	superhero; science fiction
Script	Jon L. Blummer
Pencils	Jon L. Blummer
Inks	Jon L. Blummer
Letters	Jon L. Blummer
Notes	Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2-29-08.