Some time back a board member was looking for a Silver Age Green Lantern story. As I recall, he remembered it as having a sequence where the hero enters a spaceship where he is struck with ring-rays of different colours. I thought the cover of Green Lantern #64, which I hadn’t read at the time, matched his description, but he’d already concluded against it because the issue’s synopsis didn’t match and the rays on the cover are all one colour.
(In the tale, Hal’s behaviour becomes erratic. The Guardians deprive him of his ring's use. A villain, posing as his benefactor, provides him with a set of alternative pink rings. His erratic behaviour continues, and wrecks his reputation. The cover is based on an early scene where four gangsters, wearing the rings, pledge death Green Lantern. They’re not used against him as weapons.)
I’ve not found a Green Lantern story that corresponds. But I can imagine certain other heroes of the era being misremembered as Green Lantern: Captain Atom, Doctor Solar, Nukla, Marvel’s Captain Marvel, the scarab-powered Blue Beetle.
The story might be the Captain Atom story from Captain Atom #81. Dr Spectro (from #79) returns as five smaller Dr Spectros. They emit rays of various colours from devices on their wrists and from their chests. Captain Atom is twice knocked out by their rays. At the climax he fights them aboard their space station. The issue can be found at Comic Book Plus.
I always thought that shattering scissors was overkill, only to emphasize his "superhair." How many people would break the scissors with their own superstrength?
It's like the things Wolverine has been shown to do with his claws. An ordinary machete blade (for example) is stronger than a tree (let's say), but it's not possible to cut down a tree with a single slice of a machete. Yet Wolverine is shown to do things even more extraordinary than that on a routine basis. And I don't care how sharp his claws are supposed to be. [That is probably my geekiest post in months.]
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Or the morgue, Mister Involuntary Manslaughter!
Actully this is just another Tuesday for Our Boy Jimbo!
Some time back a board member was looking for a Silver Age Green Lantern story. As I recall, he remembered it as having a sequence where the hero enters a spaceship where he is struck with ring-rays of different colours. I thought the cover of Green Lantern #64, which I hadn’t read at the time, matched his description, but he’d already concluded against it because the issue’s synopsis didn’t match and the rays on the cover are all one colour.
(In the tale, Hal’s behaviour becomes erratic. The Guardians deprive him of his ring's use. A villain, posing as his benefactor, provides him with a set of alternative pink rings. His erratic behaviour continues, and wrecks his reputation. The cover is based on an early scene where four gangsters, wearing the rings, pledge death Green Lantern. They’re not used against him as weapons.)
I’ve not found a Green Lantern story that corresponds. But I can imagine certain other heroes of the era being misremembered as Green Lantern: Captain Atom, Doctor Solar, Nukla, Marvel’s Captain Marvel, the scarab-powered Blue Beetle.
The story might be the Captain Atom story from Captain Atom #81. Dr Spectro (from #79) returns as five smaller Dr Spectros. They emit rays of various colours from devices on their wrists and from their chests. Captain Atom is twice knocked out by their rays. At the climax he fights them aboard their space station. The issue can be found at Comic Book Plus.
I always thought that shattering scissors was overkill, only to emphasize his "superhair." How many people would break the scissors with their own superstrength?
It's like the things Wolverine has been shown to do with his claws. An ordinary machete blade (for example) is stronger than a tree (let's say), but it's not possible to cut down a tree with a single slice of a machete. Yet Wolverine is shown to do things even more extraordinary than that on a routine basis. And I don't care how sharp his claws are supposed to be. [That is probably my geekiest post in months.]
"Lanterns" August 16
The "hypocritic" oath: I shall never claim to have moral standards or beliefs to which my own behavior does not conform. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
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