Alan Scott: The Green Lantern by Tim Sheridan and Cian Tormey (New Golden Age)

[Jody Garland]

One small detail that might fly over peoples' heads: the Dr. Freeman mentioned is almost certainly Dr. Walter Freeman, the self-aggrandizing psychologist who pioneered and commercialized the use of the lobotomy in the mid-20th century, taking it from a last-case procedure into a cure-all.

Edit: They also finally (sorta) gave Alan his original intended name, Alan Ladd!

[king of hybrids]

Either of Alan’s marriages being lavender marriages or him using Molly or Rose as beards would be pointless if Hoover or Arkham’s infamously unsecured records already had enough proof to get the yellow journalism engine going, and no one in the JSA would have thanked him for ‘taking the bullet’ like that.

[CaptCleghorn]

One small detail that might fly over peoples' heads: the Dr. Freeman mentioned is almost certainly Dr. Walter Freeman, the self-aggrandizing psychologist who pioneered and commercialized the use of the lobotomy in the mid-20th century, taking it from a last-case procedure into a cure-all.

It flew over mine.

Edit: They also finally (sorta) gave Alan his original intended name, Alan Ladd!

This is a great and fun development.

[The Darknight Detective]

Edit: They also finally (sorta) gave Alan his original intended name, Alan Ladd!

I have never understood the Alan Ladd thing, since the famous movie star was a nobody at the time GL first appeared.

[Jody Garland]

Apparently Ladd was getting mainstream attention from film roles as early as 1939, so while he wasn't as big a star as he would be in a few years, he was known enough in 1940.

[thwhtGuardian]

Or his sexuality could be more fluid and he loved those women as well?

We won't know until someone decides to tell those stories, but I don't get the hang up either way.

That said the pacing in this issue was a drag. I get that we needed to see Alan's relationship to the murder victim in order for the story to progress, but then we should have actually seen that relationship form. The flashback should have started with Alan checking himself into Arkham and meeting Billie and showed us how their relationship grew rather than dumping us in at the end and just telling us how important she was to him.

[The Darknight Detective]

Apparently Ladd was getting mainstream attention from film roles as early as 1939, so while he wasn't as big a star as he would be in a few years, he was known enough in 1940.

He wasn't anywhere near known to the poblic at the time of GL's first appearance. He was still doing uncredited roles the following year in 1941.

[Jody Garland]

He wasn't anywhere near known to the poblic at the time of GL's first appearance. He was still doing uncredited roles the following year in 1941.

Interesting. Not to derail this, I just skimmed Ladd's Wikipedia page. Sounds like he was doing a weird mix of credited but small roles and outright uncredited all while having been under contract since 1933. Guy's career took long enough to happen.

[CaptCleghorn]

The first I had seen anything regarding the Alan "Ladd" Green Lantern was in Steranko's History of Comics. Could just have been a story that was false, but too fun to debunk.

[signalman112]

In case people are too lazy to look up ALAN LADD here is a photo cover from his DC comic of 1950's.

DCAlanLadd.jpg

[Jon Clark]

I heard that the original proposed name for the character was Alan Ladd as a sort of nod to Aladdin but it was shot down as the editor claimed Alan Ladd wasn't a realistic name (or some such) which was prior to the actor becoming well known. Sounds apocryphal and it isn't like unusually punny names weren't part of superhero comics.

[CaptCleghorn]

I heard that the original proposed name for the character was Alan Ladd as a sort of nod to Aladdin but it was shot down as the editor claimed Alan Ladd wasn't a realistic name (or some such) which was prior to the actor becoming well known. Sounds apocryphal and it isn't like unusually punny names weren't part of superhero comics.

That was the story mentioned in Steranko's History of Comics along with a mention of DC's later Alan Ladd book.

[Hypo]

Alan Scott: The Green Lantern #3 Preview
Writer: Tim Sheridan
Artist: Cian Tormey

[Frontier]

Back during Corrigan's "flashier" era.

[The Invincible Beawulf]

A Christmas gift from my mother :