Green Lantern #23 is an issue of the series Green Lantern (Volume 1) with a cover date of December, 1946.
Synopsis for "Doiby Dickles, Da Stunt Man"
Alan Scott and Doiby Dickles are driving nearby a shoot for an adventure film when a stuntman does a dive over a cliff but accidentally causes an avalanche and traps himself inside a cave. Alan changes to Green Lantern and blazes through the rock with ease, but almost losing his life causes the stuntman to walk off the set. To avoid being blacklisted for breaking his contract, the stuntman talks the gullible Doiby into taking his place, which the cabbie accepts at the prospect of having his name up in lights. The other stunts Doiby participates in go dangerously wrong too, like a pool of oil-slicked water catching fire and the alligator he's supposed to wrestle breaking the tape on its mouth and really attacking him. Green Lantern saves his friend, but the prospect of stardom keeps Doiby from heeding the emerald crusader's advice to walk away from this arrangement. When Doiby performs his last stunt, the duo find out that some of the extras are actually the Gatson gang, who were trying to kill Doiby because they hid the gold bullion they'd stolen at the bottom of the pool he was supposed to dive into. Later Doiby sees his last name up in lights just like he'd been hoping, but is disappointed when it's actually a billboard for pickles, not Dickles.
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Synopsis for "The Man Who Went Back"
The station's biggest stockholder, Simon Foster, announces he's leaving modern society because he's sick of all the noise and machinery. He moves to a rustic town called Nirvana, but assents to let Green Lantern come along, with the hero there to try to talk him out of pulling his investment in the station. Foster soon learns the good old days weren't always so good when his hotel has no hot water, no steam heating, there's no-one in town with the technology to fix his eyeglasses or dentures when they break, and every single law enforcement worker in town is prone to packing up and going on fishing vacations because ordinarily there's no crime. Ordinarily, since it turns out a group of gangsters try to kidnap Foster to steal his money when they're far out in the boonies where they expected little resistance. After Green Lantern catches them, Foster demands to be taken back to modern civilization immediately.
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- Doiby Dickles
- Simon Foster
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- Shark
- Snapper
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Synopsis for "Long Live Da King"
The king of the country of Royalia dies, and since his son Rob is still only a child, Duke Dangloss takes over the throne until Rob comes of age. Later Rob's traveled to America to study when an assassin tries to kill him. He hops in a cab to get away, and decides to change his name to hide, choosing the name of the cabbie's license: Dickles. Ten years later, Rob's friend Count Hobart tracks down Doiby and, because Rob had changed his name to match the cabbie's, tells him the best thing to do would be for Doiby to impersonate the prince while Hobart searches for the real Prince Rob, to keep Dangloss from seizing the throne. Alan talks him into it, then switches to Green Lantern to keep an eye on his friend.
On the way to Royalia, the plane's almost shot down, but Green Lantern saves the passengers, and Doiby extends royal hospitality to the pilot. Not long after "Prince" Doiby injures one of Duke Dangloss's henchmen who demands satisfaction. Doiby's compelled to agree to the duel so that the royal lineage doesn't look afraid. He doesn't know a thing about dueling, but Green Lantern saves the day by using his ring on Doiby's sword and making it fight like a master all by itself. An explosion comes from the palace, and when he flies by, Green Lantern learns the crown jewels were stolen. The fleeing thief wielding the royal scepter hits Lantern over the head with it, and manages to knock him out. He comes to quickly and the prince's loyal forces pursue the thieves. Duke Dangloss unsurprisingly turns out to be responsible, and Green Lantern divines the reason why the theft was carried out: the real Royalian crown jewels were sold and replaced with fakes, like a wooden scepter painted gold. Doiby's pilot from before turns out to be the real Prince Rob, and assumes the throne.
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Synopsis for Cotton-Top Katie: "The Perfessor"
Katie meets the self-styled genius known as The Perfessor, and his very dangerous chemistry set. Incendiary, acidic, and explosive mayhem ensues.
Appearing in Cotton-Top Katie: "The Perfessor"
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- Cotton-Top Katie (First appearance)
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- The Perfessor
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- Perfessor's gang, all boys
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- Published bi-monthly by Jolaine Publications, Inc.
- First issue for Cotton-Top Katie by Harry Lampert.
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