Comic Title: Last Days of the Justice Society of America TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2017
On Sale Date: May 10, 2017 Direct Market Date May 10, 2017
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Direct Market Date May 10, 2017
Source: Previews, #341

Cover Price: $29.99
Page Count: 336
Editor: Robin Wildman

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Tale of the Green Lantern"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Green Lantern (Alan Scott Post-Crisis)

Writer: Roy Thomas
Artist: George Freeman
Letterer: Jean Simek (Izzo)
Colorist: Anthony Tollin

Reprinted From:
Secret Origins #18 (1987)

Feature Character(s)

• Green Lantern (earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Secret Origins #31)

Supporting Character(s)

• Irene Miller (earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in All-Star Squadron #67)

Villain(s)

• Several villagers (no further appearances)
• Albert Dekker and his men (Dekker dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Bart Murdock and his men (Murdock dies in this story; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Chang (a lampmaker; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Billings (a mental patient; no further appearances)
• Mrs. Smythe and Joe (a philathropist and a guard; no further appearances)
• Jimmy Henton (a friend of Alan Scott; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Danny Miller (Irene's brother; no further appearances)
• Homer Wake and his daughter (no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Guardians of the Universe (in flashback to the creation of the Starheart)
• Green Lantern Corps (in flashback to their creation)

Comments:
This story is an adaptation of All-American Comics #16 and All-American Comics #18.

Billings is said to reside in Arkham Asylum in the 1930s. However, Arkham was not founded at that time. It is possible that the asylum was simply a precursor to the modern day Arkham.

Synopsis:
Billions of years in the past the Guardians of the Universe gathered the magic in the universe and formed the Starheart. A piece of the meteor broke off and landed on Earth where it was found by a chinese lampmaker. When he was killed by superstitious villagers, the meteor, now in the form of a lamp, brought death to those responsible.

Over the years the lamp switched hands many times and was eventually given to a mental patient, Billings, who fashioned the lamp into a train lantern. The lantern then restored his mind, allowing Billings to leave the asylum.

The lantern was then used in a train in the American west. When that train crashed in a bridge explosion, the lantern was found by Alan Scott, the engineer who designed the bridge. He discovers that a rival named Dekker had destroyed the bridge. The lantern spoke to Scott and instructed him to create a ring of power which enabled him to bring Dekker to justice. Alan then became a super-hero, the Green Lantern.

A short time later at the World's Fair in New York, Alan met Irene Miller who told Alan that her brother was falsely imprisoned and framed by Bart Murdock. Green Lantern stops Murdock's men during a robbery, then rescues a judge's daughter whom Murdock has kidnapped. Murdock and Green Lantern then battle atop the Perisphere. When Murdock slips, he falls to his death, but not before admitting that Danny Miller was framed.