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"Perils of the Trapper": Green Lantern does a live broadcast about how effective modern crime prevention techniques are, which is heard by a mountain man villain calling himself the Trapper, who plans to fight against law and order using techniques it's never seen before. Like kidnapping a man c

Green Lantern #37 is an issue of the series Green Lantern (Volume 1) with a cover date of April, 1949.

Synopsis for "Perils of the Trapper"

Green Lantern does a live broadcast about how effective modern crime prevention techniques are, which is heard by a mountain man villain calling himself the Trapper, who plans to fight against law and order using techniques it's never seen before. Like kidnapping a man carrying a lot of money with a fishing line, then using him as a human shield to keep a cop from shooting at him. Then when the cop pursues him inside the building, the cop finds out the Trapper wired the door to the room where he was hiding to explode. Next the Trapper robs an armored car by causing lamp posts to fall in front of it and block the street, then set off concealed explosives underneath the car. Green Lantern's on the case by then, and withstands a woodcutting axe built to work like a boomerang, but the Trapper gets away with the unconscious hero when Green Lantern grabs his foot and it turns out his boots are electrified.

The Trapper takes Green Lantern to his underground hideaway, where he tosses the hero into the sewer channel to drown him with constricting wood-fiber ropes. GL manages to rub his ropes against the rough concrete and tear free before he runs out of breath, then comes back up and pummels the Trapper unconscious.

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  • Mack (Single appearance)
  • Budd (Single appearance)

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Synopsis for Streak: "The Unexpected Guest"

Alan Scott leaves Streak in the care of his secretary, who's about to leave for a vacation in the country. While on their little journey, Streak captures the notorious Polka Dot Gang.

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Synopsis for Sargon: "The Secret of 13"

On his way back from a fishing trip, Sargon stops at a roadhouse and at the bartender's suggestion plays #13 on the jukebox. This broadcasts a threat for all the patrons to pile their valuables on the table, which is soon backed up by bullets flying through the windows. Sargon demands answers from the bartender, since the record was his suggestion. The bartender insists some guys just installed, and as he says that they come running back in to collect the loot. Sargon tosses them about with this magic, but one of them he turned upside down knocks him out with a pistol-whip. The thieves attach wheels to the reindeer statue outside the roadhouse, tie Sargon and the bartender to it, and send it rolling downhill toward a river.

Later the same crooks pull their same scheme at a skating rink, but Sargon shows up and captures them by creating boxers out of the ice. He reveals that the bartender's yelling finally woke him up, and he made the reindeer statue come to life and sprout wings to fly them to safety.

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  • Sharp and his gang

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Synopsis for "Too Many Suspects!"

Criminal Del Lupin's released from jail, reflecting bitterly on how he made the mistake of thinking consenting to a truth serum injection wouldn't make him confess his crimes. He plans to make that the basis of a new scheme. Shortly afterward, Green Lantern responds to one of Doiby's signal rockets to realize it was fired from next to police headquarters, and Doiby's confessing to pulling off a jewelry heist and shooting a guard. Green Lantern refuses to believe his partner could do such a thing, and the police chief agrees with him. Mainly because they have half a dozen other men confessing to the same crime, who've been through all lie-detection methods the police have and their stories didn't change. Someone's figured out how to make people falsely confess to crimes.

This continues for some time, with vicious robberies committed in broad daylight. Green Lantern flies around with a miniature movie camera capturing footage, and when he analyzes his findings, realizes something all the crimes have in common. Soon Green Lantern himself makes a confession to a robbery, and the real perp panics because he knows he didn't do something as stupid as try to hit Green Lantern. He quickly makes plans to find out what's going on before he's found out and arrested.

At the scene of Green Lantern's public confession, he sees the perpetrator, who tries to flee by climbing the wall outside the building. The hero pursues, and Del Lupin shoots at him with a bullet that gives off smoke and makes Green Lantern see himself in the crook's place. That's why everyone confessed: they really did think they saw themselves committing Del Lupin's crimes. Del Lupin slips off the roof then, but Green Lantern's unable to help because the crook shot him in the arm and temporarily paralyzed it. Later, Green Lantern explains to the police chief how he figured out Del Lupin was behind it: because he was in every group of confessing men, and nobody paid attention to his real confessions among the storm of fake confessions.

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  • Del Lupin (Flashback and main story) (Single appearance; dies)

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  • "Too Many Suspects!" was reprinted in Detective Comics #440.
  • Final Golden Age Appearance of Sargon the Sorcerer

Trivia

  • While in his first stories Alan Scott is described as being immune to metals, he is wounded by bullets from Del Lupin in this issue.


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