Green Lantern was first introduced in All-American Comics #16, where Alan Scott was the only survivor of a rail road crash due to a lucky green lantern. This was a magical lantern, and it spoke to Alan of it's origin: Thousands of years ago, a mystical "green flame" fell to Earth. The voice of the flame prophesied that it would act three times: once to bring death, once to bring life, and once to bring power. By 1940, after having already fulfilled the first two-thirds of this prophecy (death when it crashed, life when it healed the insanity of the person who found it), the flame had been fashioned into a metal lantern, which fell into the hands of Alan, who was a young civil engineer at the time. The flame instructs Scott in how to fashion a ring from its metal, to give him fantastic powe