The guardians that live on the planet OA originally created the lantern as a means of capturing the entity of will known as ION the entity was used first to power the robot police force created by the guardians called the manhunters after the manhunters massacred sector 666 of space they were disbanded and the lantern or central power battery was then used to create a police force of green lanterns 2 for each of the 3600 sectors of space
Aladdin's Lantern was created on 1938-09-17.
Lotus Lantern was created in 1999.
Lantern Books was created in 1998.
Coleman Lantern was created in 1914.
Lantern - album - was created in 2005-02.
Raise the Red Lantern was created in 1991.
Invisible Lantern was created on 1988-01-01.
The Green Lantern Chronicles was created in 2009.
The Lord's Lantern in Budapest was created in 1999.
Green Lantern Corps was created in 1959.
Black Lantern Corps was created in 2009.
White Lantern Corps was created in 2010.