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"I AM THE GREEN FLAME OF LIFE... AND THIS IS MY STORY. "MORE THAN FOUR BILLION YEARS AGO AS YOU RECKON TIME, THE IMMORTAL INHARITANTS OF THE PLANET OA DESIRED TO STEM THE TIDE OF EVIL UNLEASHED BY AN AMBITIOUS OAN CALLED KRONA. " TO THIS END THEY DEVISED A GARGANTILIAN POWER BATTERY, MYRIAD POWER RINGS, AND A CORPS OF DEDICATED STAR-ROVERS KNOWN AS GREEN LANTERNS TO WEAR THE RINGS "GRADUALLY SELF-EVOLVING INTO THE GUARDIANS OFTHE UNIVERSE THE OANS EVENTUALLY SET THEM-SELVES A SECOND TASK... "THE GATHERING-TOGETHER AND BANISHMENT OF MAGIC FROM THIER CLOCKWORK COSMOS. " THEY LOCKED ALL THE MAGIC THEY HAD GATHERED INTO THE HEART OF A STAR,WHERE IT WAS REMAIN FOR ALL ETERNITY "BUT EVEN THE SCIENTIFIC GENIUS OF THE OANS WAS NOT WITHOUT ITS FLAWS...FOR UNKNOWN TO THEM. THE MYSTIC STAR-HEART HAD BECOME A SENTIENT CREATURE... MYSELF...
"-ONE WHO KNEW THAT SOMEDAY DESPITE THE OANS, ITS SORCEROUS POWER WOULD BE RELEASED THROUGHTOUT THE UNIVERSE FOR GOOD AND ILL'AGAINST THAT HOUR. I WILLED A PORTION OF MY FORCE TO BREAK AWAY FROM THE SUN THAT HELD ME FAST.
"SPINNING THROUGH INTERSTELLAR SPACE I WENT , FOR UNTOLD EONS, MY MYSTO-MAGNETIC FIELD GATHERING
SPACE DEBRIS ABOUT ME ... TILL I RESEMBLED NOTHING MORE THAN A HUGE GREEN METEORITE.
"A FEW CENTURIES AGO I ENTERED THE GRAVITATIONAL FIELD OF THE THIRD OF A MEDIUM-SIZE STAR ON THE RIM OF THE MILKY WAY GALAXY...
THE GREEN FLAME
SHRREEEEEEE KRABOOM " THUS THAY DREW NEAR WHERE I LAY INTACT... "...BUT BROKEN OPEN. AND THERE IN THE HEART OF MY SHELL WAS A SMALL POOL OF FLAMING LIQUID METAL... " AND THEN MY VOICE RUMBLED FORTH FROM THE EMARALD GLOW BEFORE WHICH THE MEN TREMBLED... THREE TIMES SHALL I FLAME GREEN! FIRST.. TO BRING DEATH! SECOND.. TO BRING LIFE! THIRD.. TO BRING POWER! "THEN I ALLOWED MY FLAME TO EXPIRE.. MY METAL BEGAN TO COOL.. " AND OLD CHANG LAMPMAKER SPOKE ... MORE TO HIMSELF THAN ANYONE ELSE. THOUGH HIS WORDS WENT NOT UNHEARD... CHANG SAID:IT HAS COME--JUST AS THE OLD BOOK SAID IT WOULD! "BUT CHANG,ENTRAPTURED.DID NOT HEAR THIER WHISPERINGS.
MAN SIAD: HE TAKES A PART OF THE FALLEN STAR--AND IT DOES NOT HURT HIM!
WOMAN SAID: SUCH RASHNESS WILL BRING BRING DOWN THE WRATH OF THE EVIL ONE!
THE BALD MAN SAID: CHANG HIMSELF IS THE EVIL ONE--FOR THEY SAY HE READS OLD VOLUMES OF SORCERY!
"HE TOOK THE PIECE OF GREEN METAL HOME WITH HIM AND SINCE HE WAS A LAMPMAKER. HE WORKED IT THAT NIGHT INTO A THE SHAPE OF...
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THE BLACK HAIR MAN SAID: A LAMP-- MADE FROM FIRE OF THE EVIL ONE!
THE PURPLE HAT MAN SAID: OUR VILLAGE WILL SUFFER MUCH SHOULD THE GODS BE ANGRY!
THE BALD MAN SAID: WE MUST RID OURSELVES OF THE LAMP -- AND OF CHANG!
(EVERYONE COMES CHARGING IN CHANGS HOME)
DEATH! DEATH TO CHANG! BURN THE EVIL BOOKS! DIE,WIZARD!
CHANG SAID: PLEASE-- YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND --!
THE GREEN FLAME ("THEY NEVER WOULD.)
THE BALD MAN SIAD: HE IS DEAD! NOW WE WILL SMASH THIS -- NO! THE EMERALD GLOW AGIAN--! THREE TIMES SHALL I FLAME GREEN! FIRST... TO BRING...
DEATH!
WHEN CHANG WAS SLAINED BY SUSPECIOUS VILLAGERS, THE LAMP FLAMED AND SLEW HIS ATTACKERS. AFTER CENTURIES, THE LAMP PASSED INTO THE HANDS OF A MENTALLY ILL LAMP-MAKER AT ARKHAM ASYLUM. IN HIS HANDS, THE LAMP FLAMED AGIAN AND RESTORED HIS SANITY, GIVING HIM "LIFE"AGIAN. BY UNKNOWN MEANS,THE LANTERN HAD ENDED UP IN
THE HANDS OF ALAN SCOTT ON THE DAY OF THE DERAILMENT.
ALAN SCOTT THE GREEN LANTERN
THE LANTERN THEN FLAMED BEFORE SCOTT, FULFILLING ITS PROPHECY OF BRINGING POWER. THE LANTERN ISTRUCTED SCOTT TO FORM A RING FROM IT'S METAL, AND TOUCH THE RING TO THE LANTERN TO "CHARGE " IT. AFTER DOING SO ,SCOTT TRACKED DEKKER
TO HIS HIDEAWAY AND CONFRONTED HIS MEN. IN COURSE OF THE MELEE, SCOTT LEARNED OF THE GREEN FLAME'S WEAKNESS WHEN HE WAS INJURED BY A WOODEN CLUB AFTER METAL BULLETS AND BLACKJACK HAD FAILED. SCOTT PREVAILED, HOWEVER, AND DEAKKER SIGNED A CONFESSION FOR HIS DEEDS. THE STRAIN WAS TOO MUCH FOR DEKKER, WHO DIED IMMEDIATELY THEREAFTER. ALAN SCOTT THEN CREATED A COSTUME AND NAMED HIMSELF "GREEN LANTERN" AFTER THE SOURCE OF HIS POWER.
ALAN SCOTT IS THE FIRST EARTH GREEN LANTERN BEFORE HAL JORDAN,GUY GARNER,JOHN STEWART AND KYLE RAYNOR...!
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