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Green Lantern: A TVCU Quickie

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Haven't done a quickie in while, but I want to complete the Justice League series. What's a quickie?   See this blog. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "Green Lantern"  is the codename of a number of fictional superheroes who appear in comic books published by  DC Comics . They fight evil with the aid of rings which grant them a variety of extraordinary powers. The first Green Lantern was created in 1940 during the first superhero craze that began with  Superman . His name was  Alan Scott , and mostly fought common criminals in New York with the aid of his magic ring. His series was cancelled in 1949 during a general decline in the popularity of superhero comics. In 1959, to capitalize on the booming popularity of science fiction, the Green Lantern character was reinvented as a man named Hal Jordan  who works for an interstellar law enforcement agency known as the Green Lantern Corps. Over the years, DC Comics introduced a number of additi...