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Just like the turning into a letter and mailing himself thing. That’s the kind of thing that, today, you’d expect from Plastic Man, not Green Lantern.

But, the lack of imagination has always been my pet theory. I think that the closest it ever came to being verified in print was when the rogue Guardian said he chose Kyle for his imagination.

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That, however, is Firestorm’s storytelling engine, not Green Lanterns.

I think that’s actually very brilliant. Teleportation in the DCU seems fairly commenplace, with teleporter stations hidden around most cities(and Batman even has that one teleporter hidden near the south pole, just in case some villians start some trouble down there…)

Anyway, any decent hero can find a way to teleport into a hideout, and there are tons of guys who can turn invisible, and a few guys who can shrink down and walk under the door, so supervillian hideouts ought to be prepared for stuff like that. But who would think of a superhero turning himself into a letter and mailing himself in?

Hal’s been written interestingly when his own arrogance/ego/thrillseeking fearlessness is what causes his downfall.

(Speaking of Showcase, the GL volumes of that do show the up side to the Silver Age tendency to narrate what’s going on right in front of us in the panel. Even though they’re printed in black and white, the captions always tell us when something is yellow, so we’re never confused.)