Real name: Richard Turpin
First appearance: All-American Comics#26 (May 1941)
Abilities: Loan sharking
Worst act: Fraud, assault
Created by: Bill Finger (script), Irwin Hasen (art)
Moving into the gritter world of loan sharking, this time we see the Green Lantern take on Richard Turpin (Do his friends call him 'Dick'? Little Highwayman joke).
Turpin seems to be a real piece of work; first he gives money to desperate people then he forges their names on the contract, trapping them in a never-ending spiral of debt.
Green Lantern tries a more subtle approach but still ends up smacking his thugs around and dragging them all to jail. Still topical, sadly.
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