Green Lantern gets another bright idea

[dochermes]

This is from THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD# 30, way back in Ju1y 1960 before the Justice League even had their own comic. That`s the android Amazo there using his duplicate power ring on our heroes. Since at this time the ring had no effect on anything colored yellow, Hal Jordan shows his usual quick thinking by inhaling a lungful of chlorine gas and

Comments

[baronlaw]

Inhaled as much chlorine gas as I could....

Yeahhhhh

Good Idea.

[dochermes]

What cracks me up about Gardner Fox`s Silver Age stories is that there is a big emphasis on SCIENCE, yet page after page has things happening that just wouldn`t work. But as an eleven year old, you just bought the explanation and enjoyed the awe.

[full_metal_ox]

See also the 80's Rankin-Bass cartoon series SILVERHAWKS, which made a big point of ending each episode with an astronomy lesson--after the characters had spent the preceding half-hour roaring merrily through the interstellar void with the top down.

[full_metal_ox]

I suppose we can at least be grateful that Hal wasn't up in the frozen tundra amidst Frank Zappa's huskies.

[dochermes]

`I will just eat as much of this yellow snow as I can, it should protect me.`