Comic Title: Golden Age Green Lantern Archives Vol. 1 HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1999
On Sale Date: April 14, 1999 Direct Market Date April 14, 1999
Source: Previews, Vol. 9 #2 (#122)

Direct Market Date April 14, 1999
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, April 14, 1999

Direct Market Date April 14, 1999
Source: Diamond Shipping List, Shipping This Week: April 14

Cover Price: $49.95
Page Count: 224
Editor: Rick Taylor

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: (The Insurance Racket)
Pages: 8

Feature(s):
Green Lantern (Alan Scott of Earth-2)

Writer: Bill Finger
Artist: Mart Nodell

Reprinted From:
All-American Comics #19 (1940)

Feature Character(s)

• Green Lantern (last appearance in All-American Comics #18; next appearance in All-Star Comics #2)

Villain(s)

• Slade (a gambling boss; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Wolfe (Slade's lawyer; no further appearances)
• Slade's gang (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Joe Prentiss (a man with gambling debts; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Hodges and his wife (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story was not originally titled.

Synopsis:
Alan Scott saves a man from being run down by a car. Later, he learns that the man was killed in another accident. Alan investigates as Green Lantern, saving the life of another man, Hodges. GL learns that a gambling boss, Slade, is having the men sign insurance policies with him as the beneficiary. Then Slade has them killed. GL goes undercover as Mr. Titus and is the apparent victim of the same scheme. GL gets Slade’s men to confess, exposing the racket. In the confrontation however, Slade is killed.