The Green Arrow 1: The Golden Age Omnibus

Dc returns to great restorations. For a while they had yellowed looking archives. Robin archive vol 2 , starman vol 2. But they returned to greatness. The stories are typical stuff of the era mostly crime fighting with a few supervillians .

Outstanding. They would not give us a Green Arrow Archive, thinking it wouldn't sell. Well think again, Now we have an Omnibus(about the size of three Archives) saving the fan some money but taking a toll on the hands and wrists. . . it's a wristbuster! Starting in 1941 with the first appearance of Green Arrow and Speedy in More Fun # 73, and later in World's Finest Comics, an all star book about one and one half times the size of a regular comic, headlined by Superman and Batman( it sold for $ .15), and finishing in June 1947, this volume contains every Green Arrow story except for his teamup stories as part of The Seven Soldiers of Victory. In the history of World Finest Comics, only the Big Two had more appearances than Green Arrow. One of my alltime favorites, at last in reprint. Well written and consistently drawn,primarily by George Papp, who stuck with the feature until he was promoted by DC to lead artist on Superboy in the late 1950s. GA has a Rogues' Gallery similar to Batman and the Silver-age Flash: Bullseye, Professor Millions, the Skylark, and others are all here in their earliest stories. The last story features the introduction of the Arrow Signal(cousin of sorts to the Bat Signal). Much needed, and long overdue. Thank you DC. Now can we have Volume 2 . . . and Omnibus editions of Johnny Quick, and Vigilante, etc.

Finally - something from the Golden Age about Green Arrow. Some of the stuff from the 50's and early 60's has surfaced but not from when he and Speedy first began their war on crime. A welcome edition with LOTS of stories, taking you all they way from the early to later 40's. He was in some ways a Batman clone but these stories prove he could stand on his own quote well. He even had a rogue's gallery, so to speak. If you only like the socially conscious stuff this may be a bore for you, but it sure fills a big gap in the character's history especially for us old fuds who never got into the New 52 or most anything done after the year 2000. Not knocking the new stuff, just saying these stories are all pretty much cops and robbers.

In my opinion, fantastic book, if you enjoy the older fun golden age tales then give it a try. Although simple quick short comic stories, they are more family & fun - especially since most comic stories today are more darker & serious (although I must admit to watching 'ARROW' and other various dc comics tv series & find them interesting & somewhat entertaining, if sometimes a bit soap opera-ish & a liitle more violent then I prefer my heroes ). Plus it includes the golden age origin of the green arrow & speedy ( which differs from the silver age & recent origin(s) of Oliver Queen).

I LOVED it!! As someone who loves the heroes of both DC and Marvel's Golden Age, I was really excited to see this offered for sale. I had read some of the Golden Age Green Arrow in the Seven Soldiers Archives and was interested to see more. The characters are actually nicely written and the stories not as formulaic as you would think. Some nice touches included the fact that Green Arrow and Speedy didn't get along at first, kept trophy case and even had some recurring villains. All in all, my fondest hope is that DC and/or Marvel will publish omnibus editions of more of the golden age heroes!

It has every comic my husband and I have been looking for at every con we went to. This omnibus is everything a true Green Arrow fan needs in their lives.

5 Stars to DC for finally putting out a Golden Age Green Arrow collection! Please keep reprinting the Green Arrow, as the stories are fun to read, especially for those of us over 60!

Waiting a lifetime for this book! Fabulous quality reproduction. Hope they issue a volume 2 as the next 800 pages of GREEN ARROW were the best in the series.

I'd have bought this if it only included Green Arrow's entire run in More Fun Comics. But as well as that, this huge volume has his earliest appearances in Adventure Comics and Worlds Finest Comics. The art improves as the volume progresses, and the recurring appearances of Professor Million and Bullseye give the plot more continuity than a batch of separate stories. Teen sidekick Speedy appears in every story, 20 years before his modern counterpart becomes a member of the Teen Titans. Enjoy.

I should have bought this earlier!

if you love old dc comics this is for you the price is high but well worth it as to find and buy the all original comics would go into the tens of thousand'sthe artwork varies as one would expect over the thirty years covered as do the standard of the stories both up and downalways seen as the poor mans batman these tales bring the emerald archer into his own with the arrow car - trick arrows - and some clever twists to the tales giving a lot of social changes along the way.is it worth getting the answer is yes as it will give more than a weeks worth of reading - best taken in thirty page chunks

I love the DC Archives. They are the right size and they have stylish black dustwrappers.The omnibuses are not so good. They are too big and too heavy. The Green Arrow Omnibus's cover has separated from the pages before I got to 1944. That is why I gave this one only one star and why I will only buy the omnibuses I must have in future.I would not have bought the Green Arrow Omnibus if it had not been for lockdown. I like Green Arrow but he is not Batman. However, some of these stories were written by Don Cameron, one of the best Golden Age Batman writers, and Joe Samachson, a biochemist who also wrote stories for Mystery In Space. There are some stories about real science, not the hocus pocus of the CW shows.If it had not been for the cover tearing itself off, I would have given it five stars because there are some very good stories in it. One is about shorting stock, not something you often find in modern children's literature. Green Arrow and Speedy met Robin Hood. They fought pirates. We all like stories about pirates. One of the stories is called "Doom Over Gayland." I wonder if Dr Wertham knew about that.