In the blackest day…
You know the rest.
Rest in peace, he had a good life.
You might appreciate this installment from Something Positive.
The Golden Age GL is one of my favoriye comics characters.
Thank you, Mr. Nodell.
Wonder how he ended up in Muskego.
Glad at least one comic paid tribute-will be looking for more.
Brian
First the creator of Rocky & Bullwinkle, now this…
My childhood is slowly dying
Wasn’t it blackest night?
Trying to remember from far more years ago than I’m willing to admit…
In brightest day,
In blackest night,
No evil shall escape my sight.
Let those who worship evil’s might,
Beware my power,
Green Lantern’s Light!
That’s the Silver Age (Hal Jordan) oath. The Golden Age oath is:
“…and I shall shed my light over dark evil.
For the dark things cannot stand the light,
The light of the Green Lantern!”
True, I was a bit confused.
This is a topic more fitting to Cafe Society. I’ll see if it can get recharged there.
Nitpicking The Nitpicker==it’s “darkest night”.
Actually it was originally “blackest.”
So… you’re telling me, that unbeknownst to myself, I am the Nitpicker?
And that my only weakness is Gaudere-nite?
He used to be at Megacon every year selling commisions. I wish I could have gotten one. 
I had spoken with him several times over the years at MegaCon, and I actually have a beautiful commission from him, made out to me:
There was actually a whole story about the silver-age oath titled, imaginatively enough, “The Origin of Green Lantern’s Oath”, in Green Lantern (volume 2) #10 (Jan 62).
It’s “blackest night”.
Yup, I remember reading that story in a collection. Each line of the oath referred to a specific early case of the Silver Age GL’s.
Indeed, though I find “darkest” flows better. Just my two cents.
I honestly wouldn’t have known Nodell’s name before he passed, but Green Lantern was the character which got me reading comics in the first place. I’m sorry to hear that he is gone.
If it was in trade paperback, it was probably DC Blue Ribbon Digest #9, May 1981 “Secret Origins of Super Heroes”, and it also had the origins of the Atom (Ray Palmer), Swamp Thing, Batgirl, Aqualad, Krypto, Dr. Fate, Green Arrow and Speedy.
Hmm, you got a lot for 95 cents in 1981.