Green Lantern (Volume 1) with a cover date of February, 1947.
Synopsis for "Once a Cop"
Mike Mattson was once Gotham City's police commissioner, even buying and moving into the old police station after a more modern replacement was built. However the years have not been kind to him, and Mattson feels like a washed-up failure with his glory days far behind him. Especially after seeing the powerful young crimefighter Green Lantern zooming by.
Flasher Gunn, a gang boss captured by Mattson in his younger days, escapes from prison to retrieve his loot, which was never found. In doing so, he holes up in Mattson's home. After the criminals flee following a battle where Green Lantern was knocked out by a wooden nightstick, Mattson leaves to hunt them down. He's overwhelmed, but when Green Lantern and Doiby catch up, they realize the gang must be up to something very specific, with the way they stole picks and crowbars and a large delivery truck, instead of a speedy getaway car. Playing a hunch, Green Lantern and his two companions return to the old police station where Mattson lives, and after making the truck crash with his ring and Mattson helping beat the gangsters into submission, Green Lantern reveals Flasher Gunn's missing loot was hidden in the cornerstone of the building. Mattson's gotten over his issues of past glory, having proven "Once a cop, always a cop."
Appearing in "Once a Cop"
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- Flasher Gunn
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- Mike Mattson
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Synopsis for "Happy Boithday"
It's Goitrude's "birthday" (the car being depicted as self-aware), and an eccentric man hops in asking Doiby to drive him to safety as he's being pursued by thieves led by Pinetop Paley. Then suddenly he changes directions and tries to buy the cab. Green Lantern's summoned, and after running off the crooks, it turn out the priceless Necklace of Nefertete was stolen from the eccentric man, Wren's, pocket. He explains to the duo that by trade he's a scout for the valuable and unusual and connects wealthy collectors with rare items, such as the necklace. And a vintage model sedan like Goitrude.
Pinetop and his flunkies come back and steal Goitrude, who acts on her own to help out Green Lantern in capturing the thieves. Eventually it's revealed that in his hurry to leave after the first fight and not be caught with the loot, Pinetop hid the necklace in Goitrude's gas tank. Doiby eventually agrees to sell Goitrude, figuring she deserves to live with a millionaire who can take proper care of her. It turns out he only wanted parts to complete the car in her model he already had, and Doiby gets the cab back, begging forgiveness.
Appearing in "Happy Boithday"
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- Pinetop Paley and his gang
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- Mr. Wren
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Synopsis for "Indestructible Jones"
Three small-time hoods see a vagrant try to kill himself by jumping off a bridge, and decide to get some quick cash by taking out an insurance policy on him then arranging his death. No matter what they try, throwing him into the path of Doiby's cab, feeding him poisoned food, tying him to train tracks, nothing works, because of some unexplainable dumb luck the vagrant seems to have. Even when he falls into a grain elevator in another attempt at ending his misery, he emerges unscathed, to Green Lantern's great bewilderment.
Appearing in "Indestructible Jones"
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- Herman
- Sherman
- Vermin
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- Willie Jones
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- Gotham City
- Gotham City Jail
- Alan Scott's apartment
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Notes
- Published by National Comics Publications, Inc.
- Also appearing in this issue of Green Lantern was:
- Gangplank Gus
Trivia
- Happy Boithday: This is the second story narrated by Goitrude, Doiby Dickles' taxi. The first one was in All-American Comics Vol 1 49.
- Indestructible Jones:
- The story is inspired in Michael Malloy's life.
- Second appearance of Sherman, Herman and Vermin. The first one was in All-American Comics Vol 1 71.
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