Green Lantern #60

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Synopsis

Arthur Blount slaves away, day and night, at the Quickway Loan Company, hoping to earn enough money for an operation, in Rome, before he dies. Late one night, Blount feels a terrible paralysis sweep over him, and believes that his time has come. Suddenly, a masked man, garbed in colonial attire, enters the room. With a wave of his cane, the vault door melts open. 10 minutes later, the vault has been emptied, and the man, calling himself the Lamplighter, has departed. Shortly thereafter, Blount's paralysis wears off. To Blount's astonishment, the vault door has also returned to normal. Doubting his sanity, Blount, nonetheless, calls the police. The Evergreen Insurance Company, having insured Quickway against theft, finds Blount's story a little too incredulous to be true. Hal Jordan, their top claims adjuster, is sent to Quickway to investigate the veracity of Blount's account. Jordan interrogates Blount, while surreptitiously using his power ring to probe Blount's mind for the truth. Switching to his costumed identity, as the Green Lantern, Jordan searches the city with his power ring for any sign of the Lamplighter. The next evening, the colonial criminal re-appears, this time at the Elite Jewel Emporium. Encasing the clients in giant diamond prisons, the Lamplighter is startled by the sales clerk, Cindy Corbett, when she re-enters from the back room. With a wave of his cane, the Lamplighter transforms Corbett into a stunning beauty. Corbett is so taken with her new appearance that she cannot tear herself away from the mirror. The Lamplighter resumes his theft, only to be interrupted again, this time by the Green Lantern.The Lamplighter blasts the Green Lantern with a heat beam from his cane, but the Green Lantern's protective aura diffuses the attack. The Green Lantern sends a chandelier crashing down upon the Lamplighter, who counters by transforming the chandelier into a whirling buzz saw blade. As the blade rockets towards the Emerald Gladiator, the Green Lantern...