ALAN SCOTT is the first to bear the name GREEN LANTERN, wielding a ring that focuses a mystical green flame. He was one of the first to put on a cape, becoming a founding member of the JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA. The hulking monster known as Solomon Grundy is believed to be the reincarnation of a man named Cyrus Gold. When he plunged into Gotham City's Slaughter Swamp and died, Gold was reborn, a creature of rotted wood and swamp muck, nearly brainless, yet able to recall the Solomon Grundy nursery rhyme from which his name was derived. Originally a foe of Green Lantern (Alan Scott) and the Justice Society Grundy near-immortal form kept him in his "prime" for decades.