Green Lantern
Green Lantern, real name Len Lewis, debuted in Just Imagine Stan Lee and Dave Gibbons Creating Green Lantern (December, 2001). Creators Stan Lee and Dave Gibbons based this version on the original character created by Martin Nodell and Bill Finger.
A professor is looking for something called "The Tree", mentioned in Norse legends as Yggdrasil, and in Christianity as the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. He finally traces the plant to an area in Africa. But when he finds the Tree, his assistant shoots him, steals a cutting and runs, intending to sell it to the highest bidder. But the tree shows the professor its history, which includes a race of prehumans, then grants him some of its power, to serve as a lantern in these dark times.
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“Meanwhile the mind from pleasure less
Withdraws into its happiness;
The mind, that ocean where each kind
Does straight its own resemblance find;
Yet it creates, transcending these,
Far other worlds and other seas,
Annihilating all that’s made
To a green thought in a green shade,”
—Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)
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At 11, Let’s Pretend/& we did/& I, the poet, still do, Thank God!”
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