Neal Adams Green Lantern comics covers

The upcoming Green Lantern flick focuses on the more cosmic of the hero's adventures. But, in the comics, some of the best stories were well-grounded here on earth. During the early 1970s, writer Denny O'Neill and artist Neal Adams did an acclaimed run on the title, which paired Green Lantern with Green Arrow in a series of across-America adventures that touches on hot issues of the day: politics, the generation gap, the media, drug abuse and racism.

Here are some of Adams' covers from that time: