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Issue Details

Issue #9
Published Late Fall 1943
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 60
Editing Sheldon Mayer, Ted Udall (assistant)
Notes Green Lantern uses his new [and last version] oath beginning in this issue. Hop Harrigan's All-American Flying Club is advertised in this issue. Notes added by Craig Delich 7-2-08.

Cover Details

Characters Green Lantern; Doiby Dickles.
Genre superhero
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff
Inks Sheldon Moldoff
Notes Green Lantern uses his new [and last version] oath beginning in this issue. Hop Harrigan's All-American Flying Club is advertised in this issue. Notes added by Craig Delich 7-2-08.

13 page Green Lantern story "The School For Vandals"

Characters Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Doiby Dickles; Villains: The Whistler, Spitz, Poodle, Boxer.
Synopsis Green Lantern is unaware that a vicious criminal named "The Whisler" is being aided by a group of boys who attend a reform school that Alan Scott has just been named Dean of.
Genre superhero
Script Alfred Bester
Pencils Martin Nodell
Inks Martin Nodell
Notes Synopsis added by Craig Delich 7-2-08.

13 page Green Lantern story "Love Shouldn't Happen To a Dog"

Characters Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Doiby Dickles; V: Venus O'Mylo.
Synopsis While helping the Emerald Crusader wrap up a gang of crooks, Doiby spies the female leader of the mob and immediately deserts Green lantern for his "new love."
Genre superhero
Script Alfred Bester
Pencils Martin Nodell
Inks Martin Nodell
Notes G.L. doesn't charge his power ring or repeat his oath in this story. Synopsis added by Craig Delich 7-2-08.

3 page Mutt and Jeff filler

Characters Mutt; Jeff.
Genre sitcom
Script Al Smith [signed as Bud Fisher]
Pencils Al Smith [signed as Bud Fisher]
Inks Al Smith [signed as Bud Fisher]
Letters Al Smith
Notes Newspaper strip reprints. Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 7-2-08.

6 page Hop Harrigan story "Patsy the Punk Commits Haki Saki"

Characters Hop Harrigan; Tank Tinker; V: Haki Saki (I).
Genre aviation
Script Jon L. Blummer (signed)
Pencils Jon L. Blummer (signed)
Inks Jon L. Blummer (signed)
Letters Jon L. Blummer

2 page text story "Deaf Witness"

Genre adventure
Script Evelyn Gaines (signed)
Letters typeset

13 page Green Lantern story "The Tale of the Timid Terrors"

Characters Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Doiby Dickles; Villains: Lawyer Tree, Bouncer Tree, Prof Tree.
Synopsis Three men named Tree, each of them bitter with misery and frustration in their lives, chance upon each other and turn to crime in order to gain the strength, wit and courage they need to be leaders.
Genre superhero
Script Alfred Bester
Pencils Martin Nodell
Inks Martin Nodell
Notes Modified synopsis added by Craig Delich 7-2-08.