Green Lantern #2 (2013)

Green Lantern pursues Baldy, and finds both Delber and Blane working late into the night. Blane gets a sudden phone call, but Green Lantern answers for him and hears a mysterious voice relate a series of numbers. As he leaves, Blane panics at the thought of the hero learning what those numbers mean. Meanwhile, Joe and Maria are rescued, and Green Lantern throws the kidnappers in with the orderlies he locked up in his secret hideout already. He finds a list of addresses on the crooks and coerces an explanation out of one by blinding him with the power ring, finding out that Baldy instructs his men to injure people but make it look like the victims suffered an accident. By interviewing the people on the list, Green Lantern learns they all owe money to the Jeffers Corporation, and if they can't pay it the company will seize their property, causing Lantern realize this is all a huge predatory scam. Because they have no money to pay their obligations, the victims also have no money to hire lawyers and fight back, prompting Green Lantern to suggest to Frank Benton they start a low-income law clinic where the patrons pay a little at a time instead of all at once. Benton agrees to round up all the lawyers he knows who need work to carry out this plan. Alan Scott and Doiby go around hustling donations for startup money, and one of the people Alan visits is Paul Blane. Mainly to let Blane know afterward that he can expect to be hit with a huge class-action lawsuit in his near future.

Baldy reacts to this legal threat by sending thugs to threaten the victims not to participate in the lawsuit, but Green Lantern finds out and captures them. Anticipating that if intimidating the victims didn't work, Baldy will attack the law clinic itself, he and Doiby stake out its headquarters and interrupt the gangsters who do indeed appear to try and destroy the law clinic. Green Lantern deposits those crooks in with all the others in his hideout.

Meanwhile, Irene Miller and Doiby go to the Jeffers Building to do some investigating late at the night. Delber catches them snooping and pulls a gun, but is prevented from shooting them by the timely arrival of Green Lantern. Rather than being there in the middle of the night because he's the true identity of Baldy, however, Delber's there because he's been embezzling from the company to pay off gambling debts. Green Lantern lets him go, with how the Jeffers Corporation will have much bigger things to worry about soon.

Not long afterward, Alan Scott and Frank Benton have an argument in front of the law clinic that important records have gone missing, and Benton appears to be the thief. He angrily storms out, but is offered employment by someone who tells him where he can have a meeting with Baldy about joining the organization. This was all a ruse, and he relays the address to Green Lantern who shows up instead. However, Baldy throws tear gas at him and gets away while the hero's overcome by the fumes.

The trial begins, and Green Lantern brings in all the criminals he's been gathering at his hideout to confess the inner workings of the racket. Corbin and Blane are called in to testify, and a wounded Corbin comes in exclaiming that Blane is Baldy and tried to shoot him. However, Blane is brought in, barely alive, explaining that Corbin is Baldy, and he shot himself in the arm after roughing up Blane to sell his story of Blane being the real criminal mastermind. Corbin knew Blane was an ex-con and would call and tell him a series of numbers--the ones Green Lantern overhead on the phone--because that was his ID number in prison, and it was a sharp reminder of how he'd be sent back if he did anything to endanger Corbin's scheme. Green Lantern corroborates this by finding a bald cap attached to Baldy's mask in Corbin's rooms.

With Baldy put away and the scam put to rest, Joe Stromboli gets the money he was promised, and vows to use it to repay the victims of the accident scam. The first thing he uses it for, however, is to invite Alan Scott, Doiby Dickles, and Irene Miller to a spaghetti dinner with his extended family.