Following the lead set by Bob Haney and Neal Adams in a "Brave and the Bold" story that visually redefined Green Arrow into the version that appeared in comics between 1969 and 1986, O'Neil stripped him of his wealth and playboy status, making him an urban hero. This redefinition would culminate in the character that appeared in "Green Lantern/Green Arrow", with many stories also drawn by Adams, a socially conscious, left-wing creation that effectively took over Green Lantern's book to use him as a foil and straw man in sounding out the political concepts that would define that work. It was during this period that the most famous Green Arrow story appeared, in "Green Lantern" #85–86, when it was revealed that Green Arrow's ward Speedy was addicted to heroin. As a result of his work on "Green Lantern and Green Arrow", O'Neil recounted, "I went from total obscurity to seeing my name featured in "The New York Times" and being invited to do talk shows. It's by no means an unmixed blessing. That messed up my head pretty thoroughly for a couple of years. ... Deteriorating marriage, bad habits, deteriorating relationships with human beings – with anything that wasn't a typewriter, in fact. It was a bad few years there."