The Green Lantern is the primary alias shared several fictional characters, superheroes appearing in comic books published by DC Comics. The first Green Lantern (Alan Scott) was created by writer Bill Finger and artist Martin Nodel in All-American Comics 16 (July 1940).
Each Green Lantern possesses a power ring and lantern power that gives the user great control over the physical world as long as the wearer has the will and strength sufficient to continue. The ring is one of the most powerful weapons in the universe, and can be very dangerous. Although the ring of the Golden Age Green Lantern (Alan Scott) was magically powered, the rings worn by all subsequent Lanterns were technological creations of the Guardians of the Universe who granted such rings good candidates. These people were the police known as the intergalactic Green Lantern Corps.
After World War II, when sales of superhero comic books generally declined, DC no longer publish new adventures of Alan Scott Green Lantern. In 1959, the beginning of the Silver Age of DC Comics editor Julius Schwartz, a writer named John Broome and artist Gil Kane to revive the Green Lantern character, this time with test pilot Hal Jordan, who became the founder of Justice League America. In 1970, writer Dennis O'Neil and artist Neal Adams team of Green Lantern with archer Green Arrow innovative, socially conscious, and award-winning stories rooted feelings of law and order oriented populist lantern green arrow. Several cosmically themed series, later, as well as random subjects in the role of Green Lantern of Earth. The most significant of these are John Stewart and Guy Gardner, Hal Jordan and Kyle Rayner.
Each of the lanterns Green Earth was a member of one or the other Justice Society of America or Justice League of America, and John Stewart was introduced as one of the protagonists in both Justice League and Justice League Unlimited animated series. The Green Lanterns are often depicted as close friends of different men who have been the Flash, the most remarkable friendships have been between Alan Scott and Jay Garrick (Golden Age Green Lantern and Flash), Hal Jordan and Barry Allen (Silver Age Green Lantern and Flash), and Kyle Rayner and Wally West (the modern age Green Lantern and Flash) and Jordan is friends with the West.
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