While eventually Scott was able to use his ring to form the sort of energy constructs that form the core of current Green Lanterns’ abilities, at first he mainly used it to do things that were likely convenient to the writers at the time. His powers weren’t exactly what you’d expect either. Wearing a costume of red, yellow and green, to say nothing of his purple cape and mask, the blond-haired Scott looked very different from all Green Lanterns since. The Starheart (which later was revealed to be not entirely benevolent) proved true to its word, and with his self-made ring, Alan Scott became the original Green Lantern. Hidden within a strange green flame, the Starheart had been placed within a railroad lantern and it instructed Scott to carve a ring from its metal, promising him great powers if he did so. Scott became Green Lantern when the Starheart-a mystical, sentient entity composed of highly concentrated magic-fell to Earth and saved him from a train wreck. Unlike later, better known Lanterns such as Hal Jordan and John Stewart, he wasn’t chosen by a Power Ring. Of all of the human Green Lanterns, Alan Scott has always been unique. He was a railroad engineer known as Alan Scott. Heck, he didn’t even go to outer space at all. No, when Green Lantern first debuted in the pages of ALL-AMERICAN COMICS #16 back in 1940, he wasn’t an intergalactic policeman assigned to Sector 2814. Heck, even the most well known Green Lantern, Hal Jordan, is but a mere 56 years old. However, it’s not hard to forget that much of what we associate with Green Lantern-the oath, the Green Lantern Corps, Sinestro, the constant space-faring-didn’t arrive until much later. DC Comics’ beloved oath-saying hero is turning 75 this year, and with a monthly series of comics still on the shelves and a new movie arriving in time for his 80 th, it’s clear that the character is still running strong.
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