Cover: Sheldon Moldoff

All-American Comics #17

Aug 1940 · DC · 0.10 USD

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“The Sign of the Green Lantern”

From August 1940, this tenth-of-a-dollar issue of All-American Comics features a dynamic Sheldon Moldoff cover showing Green Lantern — cape billowing dramatically behind him — driving a gun-wielding villain down a staircase in a fierce close-quarters struggle. The small inset portrait of The Green Lantern in the corner adds a nice finishing touch to the bold, kinetic composition. Inside, Bill Finger and Marty Nodell bring "The Sign of the Green Lantern" to life, making this a genuinely exciting slice of superhero storytelling from the earliest days of the genre.

writer Bill Finger · artist, inker, letterer Marty Nodell · cover Sheldon Moldoff

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Full credits

writer Bill Finger

artist, inker, letterer Marty Nodell

cover pencils, inks Sheldon Moldoff

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When the company Alan Scott works for loses a job to another company, Scott discovers that the commissioner of public works is taking kickbacks from the company with the winning bid. Alan takes action as Green Lantern to put an end to their grafting scheme.

Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).