Green Lantern #19 is an issue of the series Green Lantern (Volume 1) with a cover date of April, 1946.
Synopsis for "Sing a Song of Disaster"
Following a strange "radio beam", several planes crash. The survivors claim they were lured by the seductive songs of mythical harpies. Because the incidents involve radio-guided planes losing their way, Alan Scott's dispatched to investigate. He's convinced the crashes were no accident, as the wreckage was looted. Investigating the most recent site as Green Lantern, he finds tracks indicating cargo was carried away. By following it he finds a gang of armed hoods, but though he melts their guns with his beam, one of them accidentally hits him in the face with a tree branch while fleeing, stunning the hero long enough for the criminals to escape into the mountains.
Meanwhile, the airline company's chief dispatcher, Hawk, is accosted by his father who thinks he should be willing to do anything he expects his employees to do, and tries to force Hawk to fly the route himself. Even bringing out some of Hawk Sr.'s coworkers to force him onto a plane. Green Lantern shows up and fights off Hawk Sr.'s mob. Eventually, Hawk gives in and goes to fly the route himself, but his doctor reveals why his son wouldn't fly to Hawk Sr.: Hawk has a heart condition that will kill him if he goes to too high of an elevation. Hawk survives, thanks to Green Lantern flying alongside the plane and covering it in a protective sheath from his ring. The harpies appear, but the plane crashes through the side of a mountain to a secret hideout. It has equipment that distorted the "radio beam", causing planes to crash, and a projector that created images of harpies to make people think monsters were responsible instead of scientific trickery. The mastermind of the plot was Bragg, one of Hawk's employees, who was after his job as chief dispatcher as well as the loot from the wrecks. After seeing photos brought back from the adventure, Doiby's smitten with the images of the beautiful harpies.
Appearing in "Sing a Song of Disaster"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Bragg
- his gang
Other Characters:
- Mr. Hawk, air dispatcher
- Mr. Hawk, railroader
- Mr. Black, pilot
Locations:
- Diablo Pass
Items:
- Green Flame of Life Power Ring
- Harpies (film projections)
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "Dickles Vs. Fate"
Doiby's having a crisis of self-worth with the way Green Lantern gets all the credit for their victories against crime. This is only made worse when the unsophisticated cabbie misconstrues Alan saying he's "priceless" as "worthless". Doiby vows to get a new vocation and make a name for himself. After being talked into a skiing demonstration that gets an amused reaction from all the onlookers, Doiby's offered a job at the sporting goods store that held the demonstration.
Meanwhile, Alan Scott's alone keeping an eye on an important charity boxing match when suddenly the favored contender is shot dead. He quickly switches to Green Lantern, and follows the trajectory of the bullet to a box where some gangsters are just about to leave, and do when one of them turns off the lights. Green Lantern finds a box containing the murder weapon, and from the address on the box tracks it to the sporting goods store where Doiby now works, which gangster Ben Boynton's been using as a hideout.
Green Lantern finds the gangsters, and a fight breaks out between the hero and the gang that ends when Doiby, who came in to ask his boss a question, accidentally bops Green Lantern on the head with a baseball bat while being hustled out of the office again. The Boynton gang leaves to attend the sports at the Ice Carnival, where they've talked Doiby into being their star contender at a skating race. Through his comical antics he comes in first, which actually thwarts Boynton's plan: his racket involved betting heavily against the favored contenders at sporting events, and using underhanded tactics to making sure they didn't win. Green Lantern gives Doiby all the credit for this bust, but Doiby's still annoyed when his picture in the paper gets mixed up with an image from a movie poster.
Appearing in "Dickles Vs. Fate"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Ben Boynton
- his gang
Other Characters:
- Kid Dolan (Dies)
- Jinx Jackson
Locations:
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Synopsis for "Jonah Was a Jinx"
Jonah Thistle was born with horrible bad luck, causing disasters everywhere he went, and was even run out of his hometown for it. By chanc,e he climbs into Doiby's cab to escape from someone pursuing him, and the entire cab is destroyed in a blast of bad luck. Doiby brings Jonah to the most capable person he knows, Alan Scott, who refuses to believe in bad luck, but agrees to help when a group of gangsters led by the notorious Smiler try to capture Jonah. Their idea is to take out insurance policies on buildings, then shove Jonah inside and wait for the building to destroy itself through his catastrophic luck so they can collect on the policy. Worse, Smiler was anticipating having to tangle with Green Lantern at some point, and has a weapon effective against the hero's powers: wooden blowdarts coated with knockout venom. During their second encounter, Jonah's bad luck infects Smiler, who inhales just a little too hard when preparing to shoot Green Lantern with a lethal dart and ends up swallowing it himself. Green Lantern and Doiby argue about whether bad luck is real despite the influx of disasters that've followed Jonah's arrival in town. As Alan Scott, he has Jonah appear on his radio show to prove nothing bad will happen, when midway through the broadcast the building burns down.
Appearing in "Jonah Was a Jinx"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Smiler Smythe (Dies)
- his gang
Other Characters:
- Jonah Thistle
Locations:
- Pleasantview
Items:
Vehicles:
Notes
- Also appearing in this issue of Green Lantern was:
- Mutt & Jeff (newspaper strip reprints) by Al Smith
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