![]() ![]() O'Neil vividly characterizes his two heroes, but they still lack true depth. Though professing to portray moral complexities, these stories make their""real life"" malefactors as purely evil as standard costumed villains. Influenced by magazine illustrators, Adams's art was acclaimed at the time for its realism, but now seems to glamorize naturalistic subjects. ![]() O'Neil thus started a trend of""relevant"" comics that quickly faded. Green Lantern is clued into social ills by the newly radicalized superhero archer Green Arrow, whom O'Neil revamped into a contemporary Robin Hood. O'Neil compared Green Lantern to a policeman, accustomed to unquestioningly accepting the status quo. ![]() As sales for DC's Green Lantern fell, young writer O'Neil, influenced by '60s liberal politics, decided to have superheroes confront real social issues of the time, including racism, political corruption and capitalistic exploitation of workers. These frequently reprinted Green Lantern/Green Arrow stories from the early '70s are both a harbinger of things to come in American comics and a dead end. ![]()
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