Alan Scott

Alan Scott is the original Green Lantern created by Bill Finger, also known as The Sentinel was a paranormal super-hero vigilante previously active in Gotham City. He was a compatriot of Earth-2's Batman on the Justice Society of America and was made a figure of Gotham City's history in New Earth continuity. He is not to be confused with post-Silver Age Green Lanterns, who are space cops while Alan Scott was a mystical detective/vigilante.

History[]

Pre-Crisis[]

Golden Age (Earth Two)[]

Silver Age (Earth One)[]

New Earth[]

Origins[]

Alan Scott was a man in the 1930s who in 1939 found, "Starheart", a mystical entity from space bound within the form of a crystal green lantern. Using Starheart, Scott became the detective/vigilante, "Green Lantern" and gained supernatural powers with his only notable weakness being wood. Green Lantern acted as a vigilante/detective in Gotham during its 1930s/1940s and was a founding-member of the Justice Society of America which fought the Nazis in World War II.

Glory Days[]

One of Alan's enemies in Gotham City was the hulking zombie, "Solomon Grundy", created by Gotham's mysterious, "Slaughter Swamp". By the end of Scott's career, Solomon Grundy lived as a creature of urban-myth in Gotham City's sewer system. Other enemies who Scott fought include the Sportsmaster who fought with weaponized sports equipment, the Fiddler who fought with a weaponized fiddle, and Harlequin who would become Scott's lover before leaving him to join the FBI.

Scott's presence in Gotham would result in the mayor creating a statue of him in his honour. Green Lantern became a popular Gotham figure, with a young Thomas Wayne having been his, "Junior Lantern" fan and kept a photograph of the two together in Wayne Manor.

One fight with Sportsmaster caused the destruction of a local-store owned by Irish immigrant Samuel Sullivan; demolishing it with an exploding baseball. Sullivan blamed Scott for the incident and became obsessed with ideas of, "False Hope". Sullivan subsequently murdered the mayor with a baseball bat and left his corpse at Green Lantern's statue with the words, "Made of Wood", becoming the first, "Made of Wood" Killer. While not caught for his crimes, Sullivan was institutionalized at Arkham Asylum in the December of 1948.

While in Metropolis, Alan got in a fight with the Icicle in the city's skies. This battle was witnessed by a young Bruce Wayne and Tommy Elliot, who were taken to Metropolis as part of a business-trip with Dr. Thomas Wayne. Due to being delayed from watching Green Lantern's fight, the two were grounded to stay in their hotel for the remainder of the trip. The two never told anyone about the fight that they saw.

Retirement[]

In 1951, the U.S. government's McCarthyist Un-American Activities Committee pressured Alan into retirement. Around ten years later, Green Lantern resumed vigilantism in Gotham City to fight the murderous vigilante, "The Reaper". While overpowered in this fight, Reaper was able to seriously wound Scott by hitting him with a wooden nunchaku that bypassed his force-field.

After the emergence of superheroes like Batman and Superman, Scott would inconsistently come out retirement under the moniker of, "Sentinel". One notable instance was when a corpse turned up at the feet of Green Lantern's statue with the words, "Made of Wood". Batman investigated the killing and wound up teaming up with Green Lantern to find the new "Made of Wood" Killer. The new killer kidnapped former commissioner Jim Gordon who was also on the case, and tried to kill him with the Sportsmaster's baseball bat.

Batman and Sentinel found the killer to be Samuel Sullivan's grandson, Francis Sullivan who found his grandfather's journal and wished to finish the killer's work. Scott tried to reason with Sullivan only for Batman to knock him unconscious when Francis tried attacking Scott. In the Batcave, Batman apologized for this and Scott forgave him before leaving the Bat with Sportsmaster's baseball-bat and a note reading, "The bat that knocked out Green Lantern in 1948-" to add to his trophy collection.

New 52[]

Powers and abilities[]

Background Information and Notes[]

Marty Nodell created and designed Green Lantern initially, when National Periodicals bought the ip they assigned Bill Finger as writer of the series where he was given full credit. Finger greatly expanded the characterzation of Alan Scott and created the original Green Lantern mythology writing the series for seven years.

Trivia[]

The super-villains Solomon Grundy, Vandal Savage and Sportsmaster whom Batman has fought originate as golden age enemies of the Green Lantern. Scott also had a prominent villain called, "Harlequin", an alias similar to those assumed by Batman's enemies Duela Dent and Dr. Harleen Quinzel.