1. Martin Nodell was an American cartoonist and commercial artist, best known as the creator of the Golden Age superhero Green Lantern.
10 Facts About Martin Nodell
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Martin Nodell worked as an actor in both Chicago and New York, and began his drawing career by selling caricatures for theatrical publicity work before turning full time to comic book art.
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Martin Nodell began his illustrating career in 1938, working first as a freelancer.
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Interested in gaining more steady employment, Martin Nodell created designs for a new character that would become the Golden Age Green Lantern.
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Martin Nodell noticed a trainman waving a lantern along the darkened tracks.
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Martin Nodell coupled the imagery with elements from Richard Wagner's operatic Ring cycle as well as Chinese folklore and Greek mythology to create the hero.
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In 1950, Martin Nodell left comics to work in advertising and later joined the Leo Burnett Agency in Chicago as an art director.
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Martin Nodell met his future wife, Carrie, at Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York, in September 1940.
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Martin Nodell died December 9,2006, in a nursing home in Muskego, Wisconsin, of natural causes, almost one month past his 91st birthday.
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In 2011, Martin Nodell was nominated as a Judges' Choice for The Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame.