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| Showcase Presents: Green Arrow, Vol. 1 | 
 enlarge | Authors: Jack Miller, Ed Herron, Gardner Fox, Bob Haney
Publisher: DC Comics
Category: Book
List Price: $16.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 545817
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 528
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 10.2 x 6.6 x 1.2
ISBN: 1401207855
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9781401207854
ASIN: 1401207855
Publication Date: January 4, 2006
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 Dated and Derivative September 30, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Travel back in time and see comics that were written with a younger audience in mind than they have been for the past 25 years or so. Though they may have been entertaining back when first printed this collection of Green Arrow creaks under the weight of it's age and the social mores of it's time.
The length of the stories is very hampering. It is simply not possible to tell a good story with plot development, character development and action sequences in the limited number of pages Green Arrow got as the back-up feature in a comic.
Green Arrow can be a great character in the right hands. Denny O'Neil & Neal Adams, Frank Miller, Kevin Smith. Here though you see why he was a firm low 2nd tier hero. Incredibly derivative of Batman with teenage sidekick, wealth, car and plane all seemingly taken straight from the pages of Detective Comics with a piece of Silly Putty.
As a whole, the stories are short, and gimmicky, being solved on the last page with the magical appearance of an arrow with just the right characteristics to solve the problem. It would have taken incredible talent to produce good stories in the length allowed.
As well, being a sign of the times, the unabashed sexism displayed in the portrayal of the wanna-be female Green Arrow is just not acceptable to a modern reader.
Until the very final stories featured in Brave and Bold this is really not a good collection. The final story featuring Batman and the re-envisioned socially relevant Oliver Queen and Green Arrow elevate this to the three stars I gave it. This gives a hint of what he would become in Green Lantern/Green Arrow and the future.
 Tales of a couple of "straight arrows"!! May 13, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a real fun collection. Sure Green Arrow was kind of derivative of Batman. Where Batman had the Batcave, the Batmobile, the Batplane, Robin and even a female counterpart in Batgirl, Green Arrow had the Arrow Cave,the Arrow Car, the Arrow plane, Speedy and even a female counterpart in Miss Arrowette. They were both millianaire playboys with youthful boy wards and there was even a Bat and Arrow signal. What can you say except DC knew a good thing when they saw it in Batman, so they tried to repeat their success with Green Arrow. Unfortunately for Ollie Queen and Roy Harper, the never achieved the iconic level of the Dynamic Duo.
This may be due in part to the fact that the Emerald Archer never faced the villainous A-squad that Batman did. Almost anyone can rattle off a few of Batman's rogue's gallery if given a minute. But how many even serious comics fans are familiar with Green Arrow foes such as: Iron Archer, the Pneumatic Man, The Birdman Gang and Bonzo the Ape Archer?
The stories are often gimmicky, problems are solved by using some kind of convenient trick arrow. This is probably in part because that as back-up stories many of G.A.'s tales are pretty short and require a speedy resolution, such as one provided by a trick arrow. But Green Arrow's skill with a bow and quick wit is cited as often as his crazy arrows as the reason for his triumphs, and later, longer stories often required Green Arrow and Speedy to actually use their gray matter to solve problems. And sometimes the gimmicks were just downright amusing: Boxing Glove or Umbrella arrow anyone? This is a delightful and imaginative and BIG compliation. Because there are almost 70 stories here, you can read several a day for weeks before you finish. Read'em while your cooking,doing the laundry or leave this volume lying around the toilette to class it up. Here are a few highlights:
Adventure Comics # 259-The Green Arrows of the World- Inspired by America's green Arrow, crack archers from around the globe have taken on the mantle of the Green Arrow in their repective countires. "Counterfeit" Carson torpedoes their first ever convention. Featured Trick Arrows: Boxing Glove arrow, Jiu-Jitsu arrow, Lava arrow, Time Bomb arrow, Vine arrow, and Heli-Spotter arrow.
World's Finest Comics # 95-Green Arrow vs. Red Dart- A new hero, the Red Dart, enters the scene. But is he all he seems? Featured Trick Arrows: Flashlight arrow, Umbrella arrow.
World's Finest Comics # 97- Menace of the Mechanical Octopus-Green Arrow and Speedy draw a bead on some dastardly thieves using the Greatest Getaway Vehicle EVER, a giant flying,submersible, metal octopus! Featured Trick Arrows: Rope arrow, Short Circuit arrow, Acetylene arrow, Aqua-Lung arrow, Fire Cracker arrow.
Adventure Comics # 256-Green Arrow's First Case-The pulse pounding Origin of the Green Arrow! Featured Trick Arrows: Rope arrow, Net arrow, Drill arrow(for opening coconuts), Fake Uranium arrow.
Adventure Comics # 258-Superboy meets the Young Green Arrow- Perennial busybody Superboy learns through his time machine that he just tinkered together, that new classmate Ollie Queen will one day don the mantle of Green Arrow. He decides to "help". Featured Trick Arrows: Boomerang arrow, Pitchfork arrow, Boxing Glove arrow, Rope arrow.
World's Finest Comics #113-The Amazing Miss Arrowette-A yucky girl aims to fight crime by imitating her hero, Green Arrow. Featured Trick Arrows: Hairpin arrow, Powder-Puff arrow, Boxing Glove arrow, Hand Lotion arrow(?), Hair Tint arrow, Needle and Thread arrow, Hair-Net arrow.
World's Finest Comics #114-Green Arrow's Alien Ally-The battling bowmen team up with atiny little alien who looks like the alien Fred Flintstone used to hang out with in order to clobber a big alien super-criminal. Featured Trick Arrows" Alien arrow.
World's Finest Comics # 117-The Cartoon Archer-The master bowman is ridiculed by the Press! Por Que!? Featured Trick Arrows: Boomerang arrow, Fire Extinguisher arrow, Battering Ram arrow, Fan arrow, Boxing Glove arrow.
World's Finest Comics # 136-Magician Boss of the Incas-The Emerald Archer disguises himself as an Incan warrior in order to vanish the evil wizard, the Mighty Micro. featured Trick Arrows: Fire Cracker arrow, Rain arrow, Lightning arrow, Rope arrow, Vacuum arrow.
Brave and the Bold #85-The Senator's Been Shot!-This one was written by Bob Haney and drawn by Neal Adams! "Relevent" late 60's Green Arrow joins forces with Batman to puzzle out the murder of a Senator, a senator Bruce Wayne may have to replace! Also, the fellas doubt their effectiveness as heroes. Featured Trick Arrows: Unfortunately none:(
Great comics at greatest prize November 3, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Great comics with very-difficult-to-find material, in a phone-book size very useful for those afternoons in which you have a lot of spare time and want to review old material about your favourite character. Includes the Kirby material. I'm still enjoying it. If you are a Green Arrow fan, then you MUST buy it.
Besides, i'm spanish and i live in Spain. I have to say that the package arrived the day they told me and i had no problem with it. If you're foreigner, don't fear to buy here. ;)
SILVER AGE TREASURE TROVE April 11, 2006
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
Green Arrow is probably one of those characters who is always destined to be a bit of a second banana to more popular heroes. He's been around since making his debut in More Fun Comics in 1941, and unlike some of the other heroes (flash, Green Lantern) the Golden age and Silver Age Green Arrow were both named Oliver Queen. This latest edition of Showcase Presents concentrates on the Silver Age Green Arrow who made his first appearance in the pages of Adventure Comics # 250 as a back-up feature to Superman. This book reprints several dozen Green Arrow stories from the pages of Adventure Comics, Worlds Finest Comics, and The Brave and the Bold. Most of the stories are only 6 - 8 pages in length and involve Green Arrow and his sidekick Speedy tracking down some sort of two-bit criminal with their wide array of trick arrows.
A few things are interesting about the character right off the bat...First, the writers were doing their best to make Green Arrow and Speedy into another Batman and Robin. Both Oliver Queen and Bruce Wayne are wealthy, [...]types with young wards who come under their guidance. Green Arrow had his Arrow Car, Arrow Plane, his secret Arrow Cave hideout, and the police even had their own Arrow Signal to contact GA when there was trouble. Unfortunately what Green Arrow didn't have his writers like Bob Kane or classic villains like the Joker or the Riddler. One thing that these early Silver Age stories did have going for them is the art of Jack Kirby. Now Kirby fans might be a bit disappointed as this is not Kirby at his finest. It's not close to what fans are used to from his 1960's period. There could be a couple of reasons for this...First he probably didn't have an inker as strong as Joe Sinnott, second, and more likely, was the fact that in the 50's DC's editors really didn't encourage a lot of artistic style from their artists. They wanted books finished quickly and Kirby could crank out the pages as fast as anyone. Lee Elias took over the art chores after Kirby left and did a commendable jog. He was unspectacular but steady.
Most of these tales were written by Ed Herron or Robert Bernstein, a couple of guys kind of lost in the annals of comic lore although Herron is somewhat famous as the creator of Captain Marvel Jr. in 1941 for Fawcett Comics. As mentioned, Green Arrow and Speedy fight crime with a variety of outlandish trick arrows including: rope arrows, short circuit arrows, aqualung arrows, fire cracker arrows, harpoon arrows, glue arrows, buzz saw arrows, and many, many more. I think my favorite is the dry ice arrow. And then there is his villains which are not exactly the Flash's Rogues Gallery...Mighty Mr. Miniature, Phantom Bandit, Camouflage King, The Pneumatic Man, and the Spectrum Man. There are also a large number of Sci-Fi style elements with the pair battling a giant mechanical Octopus and a robotic archer that fires rapid-fire arrows, as well as numerous alien threats. You had to love the 50's!
While most of these stories are throwaway quickies, there are a few notable stories. "Green Arrow's First Case" from Adventure #256 tells the story of GA's origin. "World's Worst Archer" from Adventure #262 relates how GA first met Roy Harper and took him on as his ward and sidekick. Another important story from a historical sense is from Justice League of America #4 where Green Arrow is elected to membership in the JLA. In a story from Brave & the Bold #85 Green Arrow teams with Batman to track down a man who tried to kill a Senator. This story features a cover and art by Neal Adams and it may be the first time Green Arrow sported his now trademark goatee. At least when Batman sees him he says that he didn't recognize him at first.
This is a welcome edition to the Showcase Presents series which, along with the House of Mystery and Jonah Hex editions is reprinting material that has not been seen in decades. Pure silver age fun and excitement!
Reviewed by Tim Janson
Showcase Presents: Green Arrow, Vol. 1 February 24, 2006
12 out of 19 found this review helpful
Similar to the marvel essentials same format big books in black and white.This volume include
ADVENTURE COMICS 250- 269 - 1958 to 1960
THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD 50,71,85- 1963 TO 1969
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA 4- 1961
WORLDS FINEST COMICS 95-134,136,138,140-1958 TO 1962
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