MARTIN NODELL

MART'S COMCIS CAREER ONLY LASTED 12 YEARS, BUT HE LEFT HIS MARK BY CREATING GREEN LANTERN. HE BROKE INTO COMICS IN 1938 AND WORKED ON "STREAK SLOAN," "LARRY HARRIGAN," "SANDS OF DOOM," "THE RAVEN," "BUCK STEELE", AND CREATED "GREEN LANTERN" IN 1940 FOR NATIONAL (DC COMICS). IN THE WINTER OF 1940 HE BROUGHT SOME OF HIS SAMPLES TO THE EDITOR OF ALL-AMERICAN COMICS, SHELDON MAYER. MR. MAYER SAID HE WAS LOOKING FOR A NEW SUPER-HERO TO ADD TO THEIR LINEUP OF MONTHLY BOOKS, AND THAT HE WOULD BE WILLING TO COMSIDER ANY GOOD IDEAS THAT MART HAD. MART FIRST THOUGHT OF THE IDEA FOR GREEN LANTERN WHEN HE WAS AT A TRAIN STATION WHEN A TRAINMAN WAS WAVING A GREEN LANTERN. WHEN THE TRAIN PULLED IN HE HAD A TITLE: GREEN LANTERN. IN ROUGHLY A WEEK'S TIME HE HAD FASHIONED A CHARACTOR, GIVING HIM SOUL AND SUBSTANCE. CHECKING THROUGH THE PHONE BOOK, MART CAME UP WITH SEVERAL POSSIBLE NAMES, INCLUDING ALAN LADD. I PUT THE PACKAGE TOGETHER AND HE BROUGHT IT TO MR. MAYER. WITHIN A WEEK, MR. MAYER CALLED HIM TO COME AND SEE THE PUBLISHER, MR. GAINES. MR.GAINES APPROVED OF IT AND HE GOT TO WORK QUIKLY. MR. MAYER ALSO TOLD HIM THERE WAS AN ACTOR NAMED ALAN LADD AND MART CHANGED THE NAME TO ALAN SCOTT.MART ORIGINALLY SIGNED HIS STORIES WITH THE NAME "MART DELLON," BUT SOON REVERTED TO HIS REAL NAME. HE CONTINUED TO DRAW GREEN LANTERN FOR SEVERAL YEARS. IN 1948 MART JOINED THE STAFF OF TIMELY COMICS (MARVEL COMICS) WHERE HE PENCILLED POPULAR CHARACTERS SUCH AS: CAPTAIN AMERICA, SUBMARINER, AND THE HUMAN TORCH, PLUS SOME WESTERN AND FANTSY STORIES. LATER HE CREATED THE PILSBURY DOUGH BOY. NOW RETIRED, MART CONTRIBUTED HIS LAST COMICS WORK TO GREE LANTERN (3RD SERIES) #19 (DEC., 1991), FOR WHICH HE DREW A SHORT SEQUENCE FEATURING HIS FAMOUS CREATION, ORIGINAL GREEN LANTERN ALAN SCOTT.