# Creator of Green Lantern passes away. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 18, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creator-of-green-lantern-passes-away/384671 "2006-12-18T19:11:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creator-of-green-lantern-passes-away/384671/1 "2006-12-18T19:11:03Z")
In the [blackest day…](http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/books/12/12/obit.nodell.ap/index.html) You know the rest. Rest in peace, he had a good life. ---
**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creator-of-green-lantern-passes-away/384671/2 "2006-12-18T19:30:57Z")
You might appreciate [this](http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp12132006.shtml) installment from Something Positive. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creator-of-green-lantern-passes-away/384671/3 "2006-12-18T20:00:11Z")
The Golden Age GL is one of my favoriye comics characters. Thank you, Mr. Nodell. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creator-of-green-lantern-passes-away/384671/4 "2006-12-18T20:42:56Z")
Wonder how he ended up in Muskego. Glad at least one comic paid tribute-will be looking for more. Brian ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creator-of-green-lantern-passes-away/384671/5 "2006-12-18T21:13:26Z")
First the creator of Rocky & Bullwinkle, now this… My childhood is slowly dying ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creator-of-green-lantern-passes-away/384671/6 "2006-12-18T21:36:15Z")
[QUOTE=BMalion] In the [blackest day…](http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/books/12/12/obit.nodell.ap/index.html) [/QUOTE] 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! ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creator-of-green-lantern-passes-away/384671/7 "2006-12-18T22:33:10Z")
[QUOTE=Canadjun] 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! [/QUOTE] 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!” ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creator-of-green-lantern-passes-away/384671/8 "2006-12-18T22:49:34Z")
[QUOTE=Canadjun] Wasn’t it blackest **night**? … [/QUOTE] True, I was a bit confused. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creator-of-green-lantern-passes-away/384671/9 "2006-12-18T22:51:34Z")
This is a topic more fitting to Cafe Society. I’ll see if it can get recharged there. ---
**Author:** ![DiggitCamara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@DiggitCamara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiggitCamara)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creator-of-green-lantern-passes-away/384671/10 "2006-12-18T23:17:01Z")
[QUOTE=Canadjun] 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! [/QUOTE] Nitpicking _The Nitpicker_==it’s “darkest night”. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creator-of-green-lantern-passes-away/384671/11 "2006-12-18T23:52:54Z")
[QUOTE=DiggitCamara] Nitpicking _The Nitpicker_==it’s “darkest night”. [/QUOTE] Actually it was originally “blackest.” ---
**Author:** ![DiggitCamara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@DiggitCamara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiggitCamara)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creator-of-green-lantern-passes-away/384671/12 "2006-12-19T00:02:32Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] Actually it was originally “blackest.” [/QUOTE] So… you’re telling me, that unbeknownst to myself, I _am_ **the Nitpicker**? And that my only weakness is Gaudere-nite? ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creator-of-green-lantern-passes-away/384671/13 "2006-12-19T01:08:21Z")
He used to be at Megacon every year selling commisions. I wish I could have gotten one. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creator-of-green-lantern-passes-away/384671/14 "2006-12-19T01:24:40Z")
[QUOTE=furryman] He used to be at Megacon every year selling commisions. I wish I could have gotten one. ☹ [/QUOTE] 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: > **[Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos](https://www.yahoo.com/)** > > Latest news coverage, email, free stock quotes, live scores and video are just the beginning. Discover more every day at Yahoo! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creator-of-green-lantern-passes-away/384671/15 "2006-12-19T02:06:23Z")
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”. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creator-of-green-lantern-passes-away/384671/16 "2006-12-19T04:01:43Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creator-of-green-lantern-passes-away/384671/17 "2006-12-19T05:48:10Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] Actually it was originally “blackest.” [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creator-of-green-lantern-passes-away/384671/18 "2006-12-19T06:23:57Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] 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. [/QUOTE] If it was in trade paperback, it was probably [DC Blue Ribbon Digest #9, May 1981 “Secret Origins of Super Heroes”](http://www.treasurycomics.com/images/gallery/digests/dcspecial09.gif), 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.