20 Mind-Blowing Facts You Never Knew About Green Lantern

15. New York's Mayor Was A Green Lantern Fan

In a hard hitting storyline featuring Green Lantern and Green Arrow, it was revealed that the latter's sidekick (Speedy) had become a heroin addict. This was a shocking and surprisingly serious moment in the history of DC Comics, a company which hadn't tackled many real life issues up until that point. This impressed New York mayor John V. Lindsay so much that he wrote the publisher a letter commending the story, and it was published in the next issue. After cleaning up, Roy Harper started working as a counsellor for various anti-drug programmes after this story and went on to become the hero known as Arsenal.