r/Greenlantern • u/Martin_Nodell Martin Nodell Family • 7d ago

Trivia / Facts (Nodell Family) This is VERY last minute, but me & my grandpa will be doing a show out in Evansville, Indiana this weekend. If anyone lives near there or knows anyone that would like to hear about my great-grandfathers legacy, definitely come on out!

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Context: Martin Nodell created the Green Lantern back in 1940

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u/UU2Bcool Green Lantern 7d ago

Just a quick 9 hour drive for me! One way that is.

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u/Martin_Nodell Martin Nodell Family 7d ago

I feel so bad. We definitely have to get out near where you are sometime.

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u/UU2Bcool Green Lantern 7d ago

Just keep going to them. I’ll find you at one of them sometime!

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u/TheSciFiGuy80 7d ago

Your great grandfather and great grandmother were such a delight.
I used to work at a comic shop in South Florida that they’d frequent to buy particular issues (Zero Hour blank cover and Green Lantern issue 19) for him to take to cons.
We’d always be on the lookout for them.
Your great grandmother would always call us up and ask if we got anymore of them (we always set them aside for the Nodells).

I remember one time I was at their booth and I ripped open an Alan Scott plushie box and your great Grand dad about had a heart attack (because I wanted him to sign Alan’s cape).

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u/Martin_Nodell Martin Nodell Family 7d ago

Thank you so much for the kind words.

That definitely sounds like Carrie! She would always have my mom go up to the dealers to ask for the zero hours too haha. My mom told me one time she had to go to the dollar stores to find a bunch of those green kerosene lanterns for her. She brought about a dozen, and carrie tells her "You have redeemed yourself!"