Smallville, Green Arrow, and related characters are copyright ©2007 Warner Bros. Entertainment & DC Comics. This is a fan site and not authorized by the CW or DC. The term "Kryptonite" is a trademark of DC Comics. Page copyright ©2007 KryptonSite, unless the material is noted as coming from someplace else or being by an individual author. Green Arrow on Smallville is played by Justin Hartley.
LEASE DO NOT TAKE GRAPHICS, NEWS, SPOILERS, ETC. FROM KRYPTONSITE WITHOUT FIRST ASKING PERMISSION AND PLACING A LINK TO KRYPTONSITE.COM. OR, JUST SEND PEOPLE OVER TO THIS SITE! THANKS!
|
Return to KryptonSite - The Web's First Source for Smallville
The Green Arrow character was first introduced in More Fun Comics #73 in 1941. The same issue introduced Aquaman. Justin Hartley should be happy, since a good part of his 2006 employment came from that same 10 cent comic book. Green Arrow's original costume was a bit of a Robin Hood motif. He had a sidekick dressed in red named Speedy, and the character had many gadgets. He had an Arrowcave and an Arrowplane, was a millionaire, and more or less was "Batman with a bow and arrow." He even could be summoned by an Arrow-signal. The Green Arrow was one of the few characters from comics' Golden Age who had an uninterrupted run that went through to the Silver Age. Although he did not have his own comic book, he appeared in More Fun and then Adventure Comics for several decades. In fact, Green Arrow was one of only five DC Comics characters to not enter comics limbo between the Golden and Silver Ages. (Those other characters? Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and Aquaman). It was toward the end of this run that Green Arrow became one of the earliest members of the Justice League of America, joining the team in the book's fourth issue.
The Neal Adams redesign is the most familiar and enduring version of the character, and this is the version seen on Superfriends and Justice League Unlimited. In GL/GA, Oliver Queen no longer had his fortune, and he became a streetwise crusader for the working class and the underprivileged. This laid-back Green Arrow butted heads with the much more conservative Green Lantern, and the two took a "road trip" for several issues. This storyline also featured a 2-parter where the Green Arrow learned that his sidekick, Speedy, had become addicted to drugs. After the acclaimed GL/GA run, Oliver Queen's alter ego began appearing again in back-up stories, most notably in Detective Comics. He also had an on-and-off relationship with Dinah Lance, the Black Canary, a fellow Justice Leaguer. In the early 1980's he was featured in his own comic book mini-series. In the latter part of the decade writer/artist Mike Grell reinvented the Green Arrow yet again, Dark Knight-style, in a miniseries titled The Longbow Hunters. This "new take" was popular and led to a new, ongoing Green Arrow series written by Grell. This new series was intended for a more mature audience and went out with a "mature readers" label. This version of Green Arrow was older, weathered, and more violent than he had been seen before. Grell's run continued for 80 issues. After Mike Grell's take on the character, writer Chuck Dixon took over and the book became a little more mainstream. This era in Oliver Queen's life was short-lived, as he died in a plane explosion in issue #101. Oliver Queen's recently-discovered son, Connor Hawke, took over the book for a few years following that, and it wasn't until a few years later that famed director Kevin Smith revived the Green Arrow character and series.
Oliver Queen's origins on Smallville are not yet known. We know he's good with a bow and arrow. He went to private school with Lex Luthor in his younger days. His family was rich, and his parents are deceased. Oliver inherited a fortune, and successfully runs the Queen family companies. Ollie first puts on the costume in the Smallville episode "Arrow." The week before, in "Wither," we saw him in something similar to the Neal Adams design. Since then we've seen him fight crime and forge a romance with Lois Lane. In "Justice," Ollie heads out to save the world with his new band of allies. Is this the last we'll see of Oliver Queen on television? We'll have to see....
Showcase Presents - classic stories featuring Green Arrow & Speedy - over 500 pages! Green Arrow: Quiver by Kevin Smith Return to KryptonSite - The Web's First Source for Smallville |
Who
Is The Green Arrow?
The
character didn't really become unique or memorable, though, until
the late 1960's when artist Neal Adams redesigned him for an issue
of The Brave & The Bold, a Batman team-up comic. Soon,
Green Arrow teamed up every month in 
Now,
Oliver Queen is very much alive and in post-One Year Later DC continuity,
he is the mayor of Star City.