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Martin Lewis Money

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Martin Nodell, who created the Green Lantern and helped create the Pillsbury Doughboy, died last Saturday in a Muskego, Wisonsin nursing home. He was 91.

Nodell was born November 15, 1915 in Philadelphia. He learned his craft at Chicago's Art Institute, the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and the Pratt Institute in New York. He started working as a freelance artist in 1938. After being regularly stiffed by the independent companies, Nodell went to the largest publisher, DC Comics, and asked for work. Nodell was directed to a DC affiliate, All American.

Despite some work from All American, Nodell's luck didn't change until 1940 when Sheldon Mayer, the company's senior editor, suggested that Nodell try and come up with his own character. Seeing a subway conductor waving a lantern with a green light inspired Nodell to create the now classic comic hero, Green Lantern. A few days later, Nodell brought his ideas and sketches to Mayer.

"I thought the publisher would let me down easy," recounts Nodell. "(Mayer) said, 'We like it. Get to work.'"

Mayer also brought in legendary comics writer Bill Finger to help with the story, which was attributed to "Bill Finger and Mart Dellon." The first Green Lantern comic book came out in July of 1940 and was an immediate hit.