"The Woodman": Eccentric millionaire Elias Twigg appears on Alan Scott's radio broadcast to advocate the many merits of wood, which his entire house and even his clothes and the food he makes for himself come from. More than that, he announces, there's a treasure hidden in his house that he offe
Green Lantern #21 is an issue of the series Green Lantern (Volume 1) with a cover date of August, 1946.
Synopsis for "The Woodman"
Eccentric millionaire Elias Twigg appears on Alan Scott's radio broadcast to advocate the many merits of wood, which his entire house and even his clothes and the food he makes for himself come from. More than that, he announces, there's a treasure hidden in his house that he offers to donate to the favorite of charity of whoever finds it. Alan nominates his "friend" Green Lantern to take up that challenge. However, gangster Trigger Moran heard about the treasure on the air as well, and his gang show up to steal it, with both parties falling afoul of tricks like trapdoors, staircase slides and animatronic scarecrows. Despite the difficulties all the wood in the house poses for him, Green Lantern eventually succeeds in finding the treasure. It turns out to be nothing but a chest of wooden nickels, making Trigger faint in disappointment. Twigg explains he put all the tricks into his house hoping to make it a fun place for children, and Green Lantern advises him to turn the building into a home for orphans as a charitable contribution to society.
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Synopsis for "The Good Humor Man"
Valentine Sweetheart is a rich man who has the sweetest disposition anyone's ever seen. His wife's infuriated by how he never stands up to confront a problem, even when criminals break into their house and rob them. This prompts her to finally leave him. Trying to solve the problem of his unshakeable sunny demeanor, Sweetheart has Doiby drive him to a dive bar and hires Hogface Hobbs' gang to try and make him lose his temper, which they attempt by beating him up. Doiby hears the scuffle from inside as the gang tries to rough up Sweetheart, and summons Green Lantern. Sweetheart refuses to press charges against Hogface's gang, saying they're working for him. Hitting Sweetheart doesn't work, and neither does robbing and vandalizing his office. However, the thugs are technically working for Sweetheart, and he refuses to press charges despite Green Lantern's suspicions. When even dropping Sweetheart in the river doesn't make him lose his composure, Hogface comes up with a plan based on Sweetheart saying he's planning to buy the Super Department Store the next morning. Since the gang's working for him, no-one can arrest them for robbing the store. Green Lantern and Doiby intervene anyway, and after a fight Hogface surrenders when he's knocked into a display of Green Lantern action figures and can't take seeing the hero everywhere he looks. However, Sweetheart points out he hadn't actually signed the paperwork putting the department store in his name when the gang robbed it, so they're guilty of armed robbery after all. Meanwhile, Doiby's managed to find Mrs. Sweetheart and brought her home. Her nagging finally causes him to snap and throw a box at Doiby's head in a rage.
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Synopsis for "What Makes Goitrude Go?"
Green Lantern and Doiby are rounding up some crooks when Doiby's cab goes over a cliff. Green Lantern snares the cab with a beam from his ring, then when Doiby drives his partner home, finds that the emerald energy's made the cab super-fast. Doiby gets the idea to enter in an auto race with his souped-up cab, and when a competitor with underworld connections sees how fast Doiby's unassuming jalopy can go, he calls some unscrupulous friends about having the world's fastest getaway car. Not being familiar with Goitrude's quirks, the criminals can't get their stolen car up to speed, but accidentally fire a signal rocket that calls Green Lantern. The crooks fend him off by spraying belladonna in his eyes and dilating his pupils. Next they kidnap Doiby, and force him to drive them around at gunpoint. Green Lantern flies at them, firing wildly with his ring and not realizing the cab's loaded up with dynamite that the criminals dump to keep it from blowing them to kingdom come in case GL scores a lucky hit. It does go off when his ray hits it, and the powerful blast knocks Green Lantern out. Meanwhile, Doiby ends up at the racetrack and decides to participate in the race after all, with the crooks jumping out to escape his crazed driving, only to realize Doiby can testify against them. Green Lantern catches up after a helpful doctor restores his vision, and helps capture up the crooks. Because Doiby's old cab dropped its engine in all the chaos, Green Lantern crawls under the hood and uses his ring to inject power into the old car so it can win the race.
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- Published by Jolaine Publications, Inc.
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