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Molly Mayne was a brilliant athlete in school, so good that she could defeat any male competitor. For that reason men shunned her, and she never had a boyfriend. Distraught, Mayne decided she had to hide her beauty and talents and become, in her own words, “a mousy secretary”. |
She became the secretary to Alan Scott, program director for Gotham City radio station WXYZ, who was secretly the Green Lantern. One of the station’s advertisers suggested a radio drama in which Green Lantern would play himself. His opponent would be a female comic book character called the Harlequin. Green Lantern went to Maynne and told her he would do the program. Mayne immediately fell in love with the masked hero. |
However, Alan Scott told Mayne that Green Lantern was to busy fighting criminals to become romantically involved. Anguished, Mayne decided that she would become a criminal herself in order to attract the Green Lantern’s attention, and adopted the guise of the Harlequin, the fictional criminal from the radio show. |