Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Green Arrow's Most Useful Trick Arrow!!

Roy and Ollie are lounging around watching TV...


And this gives us an excuse for a Silver-Age Kirby-drawn-and-plotted version of Green Arrow's origin!

Also, it gives us an excuse for some shirtless Oliver Queen, which seems to be required for marketing purposes these days...


Anyway, the crucial problem with people poking their nose around "Starfish Island" is this:

OK, here's one lesson for aspiring crime-fighters--DON'T LEAVE A DIARY CARVED IN STONE REVEALING YOUR SECRET IDENTITY. Just a thought...

So how can they stop these pesky explorers from, well, exploring?

And so, presenting the single most important arrow in Green Arrow's quiver:

The Fake-Uranium Arrow!! Of use in sooo many situations...


Ha ha--let's screw up scientific investigation, just to protect your secret identity!!

So, how long until they use that arrow on the TV show?!? Guys? Hello?

From Adventure Comics #256 (1959), as reprinted in World's Finest Comics #187 (1969)

2 comments:

Bill said...

Those old school masks rock

Unknown said...

Is Ollie smoking a pipe in that first panel?! Could a directors cut reprint of Snowbirds Don't Fly be far around the corner, complete with a digitally restored page of a distraught Roy's "I learned from watching YOU!!!" be far behind?