The Justice Lords are a fictional team of anti-heroes/anti-villains who first appeared in the two-part Justice League episode "A Better World", which was broadcast on November 1, 2003.
174-549: The Justice Lords were brought into DC Comics' canonical multiverse with The Multiversity Guidebook #1 by Grant Morrison in 2015. Their world is situated on Earth-50 . The Justice Lords are an alternate Justice League from a parallel Earth. After Lex Luthor is elected President of the United States , kills the Flash , and establishes policies resulting in a potential nuclear war, Batman , Superman , and Wonder Woman storm
348-425: A Justice League member, Green Arrow will also appear in crossovers with stories featuring other DC flagship characters from time to time. Of his Justice League colleagues, classic stories depict Ollie as having an ongoing feud with Hawkman owing to their differing outlooks on life, and more recently, he has been depicted as a good friend of his Justice League United colleague Animal Man . Green Arrow has also been
522-658: A "Justice Configuration", isolated from the wider Omniverse. Eventually, it would be judged, and if found to still be tainted with the violence of its beginning, it would be destroyed. As told in Crisis on Infinite Earths #7, the DC Universe was a single positive matter Universe until a scientist named Krona from the planet Oa altered the very moment of the creation of the Universe, causing it to split into countless similar universes and an antimatter universe. Oa, however, had no duplicates in
696-449: A 'black ops' super-team as the team's tactical consultant. His time in the Elite is notable for showing a brief affair with Dawn , the wife of the team's magical expert, Manitou Raven . Judd Winick took over as Green Arrow 's writer and made many changes. Mia Dearden , the new Speedy, was revealed to be HIV positive and attempts were made to expand Green Arrow's Rogues Gallery with Merlyn
870-612: A Green Arrow story published in Green Lantern (vol. 2) No. 87, was Green Arrow's writer for the next several years. In 1976, the Green Lantern/Green Arrow title was re-launched, without the socially conscious themes of the original series, with O'Neil writing and Mike Grell drawing. After the title moved to solo Green Lantern stories, solo Green Arrow stories appeared in World's Finest Comics . In his solo series, Oliver landed
1044-628: A Multiverse of its own: the universe of Earth-616 in the Marvel Multiverse. The universes were rarely referred to with specific names within the stories but were named in the "Real World" (both officially and unofficially) using the name of the editorial, imprint or even an element in particular. While in the comic books the concept of a "real" Multiverse was avoided, the Multiverse played an important role in cartoon series and live-action shows. In summary, from 1986 to 1999, everything not happening in
1218-585: A box that seemingly makes him regain his memory. It is revealed that Martian Manhunter realized Amanda Waller's plans to make the world hate metahumans, so he agreed to create a telepathic implant which will make Ollie fully believe in Waller's goals. Oliver helps disable the Amazon bots and the heroes regain their powers. In the aftermath, Oliver explains he had to do it because the Justice League disbanded so quickly when
1392-429: A companion of necessity when Green Arrow was forced to leave Seattle after false accusations of aiding terrorists. Grell's run ended with Green Arrow vol. 2 No. 80, shortly after Dinah dumped Oliver. During this period, the writer also redefined the character's origin in the four-part 1992 limited series , Green Arrow: The Wonder Year . Grell portrayed Oliver Queen as a thrill-seeker who inherits his family business at
1566-589: A cover story for what transpired, referencing the original Green Arrow origin story, as well as Mike Grell's version. After the end of the ongoing series, DC Comics published a four-part bi-monthly Black Canary miniseries in which Green Arrow teamed up with Black Canary to help get Sin into school and establish a new life. This series concluded with the Black Canary accepting his proposal. This resulted in DC Comics publishing three interconnected specials revolving around
1740-433: A cross-country road trip to pick up old possessions of Oliver's, most notably a spare Green Lantern power ring entrusted to him by Hal Jordan many years earlier. The story also revealed that Oliver knew all along that Connor was his son and was even present at his birth, but that Oliver ultimately abandoned Connor and his mother, because of his fear of the responsibilities of fatherhood. Meltzer's storyline would continue into
1914-572: A fictional character. The success of this story led to the first team crossover between the new Justice League of America (JLA) and the Golden Age JSA, in the stories "Crisis on Earth-One" ( Justice League of America #21) and "Crisis on Earth-Two" ( Justice League of America #22), published in late 1963. This story arc started the tradition of a yearly crossover between the JLA and the JSA, and established firmly
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#17328698258352088-399: A focal point among all the worlds in every universe). Some of the heroes of Earth knew about other Earths and their own counterparts and fought side by side on many occasions. Later, a scientist from one universe named Kell Mossa (known initially only as Pariah ) created another device that would allow him to attempt the same thing Krona had attempted before. His actions accidentally awakened
2262-478: A horde of demons, the body of Oliver having made contact with his soul and convincing him to return to save their son. Dover is defeated and actually consumed by the Beast, who then leaves of his own accord. Oliver also finds himself independently wealthy again, as Dover had transferred all his financial assets to Oliver in anticipation of taking over his body. He also picked up a new sidekick, Mia Dearden , who would become
2436-488: A job as a newspaper columnist, which allowed him to articulate his political beliefs in a more public field. In World's Finest No. 255 (1979), Queen unsuccessfully ran for Mayor of Star City. In May through August 1983, Green Arrow appeared for the first time in his own comic book, a four issue limited series . This miniseries introduced a running rivalry between Green Arrow and the supervillain Count Vertigo . In 1985,
2610-463: A master archer, and Count Vertigo , a foreign dignitary with the power to disrupt his enemy's balance and perception. Other recurring villains have included China White , Clock King , Cupid , Brick , and Constantine Drakon . Since the 2000s, the longstanding DC supervillain Deathstroke has often been depicted as having a particular grudge against Green Arrow. Two versions of Green Arrow exist in
2784-611: A member of the Outsiders , both in its incarnation as a covert superhero team led by Batman and in its New 52 form as a secret society based around various weapon clans, including an Arrow Clan which Oliver is the rightful head of. In the Golden Age of Comic Books , Green Arrow and Speedy were also affiliated with the superhero group the Seven Soldiers of Victory . Recurring Green Arrow villains of course include his archenemies Merlyn ,
2958-642: A member of the Sinestro Corps as he fights for Superman, while John Stewart is killed along with most of the Corps. The premise of a Justice League-type super-team establishing a totalitarian state for what they see as the good of humanity was explored in Marvel Comics ' original Squadron Supreme miniseries, its recent reworking of that story , in WildStorm 's The Authority and the " Titans Tomorrow " storyline of
3132-509: A monstrous fighter who challenges Earth's mightiest combatants and goes on a rampage. The Lords, especially Lord Superman, are happy to fight him. After a hard fight, Lord Superman lobotomizes Doomsday with his heat vision. Lois Lane is surprised by this, saying it is unlike him. Watching the interview from prison, Lex Luthor immediately recognizes that the Lords are not the League. The League escapes from
3306-547: A near-fatal attack during the events of the Infinite Crisis, as well as used his recuperation time to retrain. He works with several expert instructors including a sensei known as Natas , who also trained Deathstroke , and becomes proficient in several martial arts including the use of swords, which he makes use of on occasion during this time, and proves that he and his family are now formidable combatants when battling Deathstroke and later Batman's rogue protégé Jason Todd . He
3480-620: A new Green Arrow series following Oliver's disappearance at the end of Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths , with Sean Izaakse illustrating and launching in April 2023. On April 25, the day of the first issue's release, it was announced that the initial six-issue miniseries would become a twelve-issue maxiseries. Oliver eventually reunites with Connor Hawke , Roy Harper , Black Canary , Red Canary, and Liam Harper after defeating Merlyn . Oliver has seemingly worked with Amanda Waller and starts arresting his family. During his work with Waller, he digs up
3654-457: A new Multiverse was created. The new Multiverse consisted of 52 positive matter universes, an Antimatter Universe and a Limbo. The main continuity still occurred in New Earth (also called Earth-0), Earths 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10 resembled Earths One, Two, Three, Four, S, and X of the original Multiverse respectively. Earths 13 and 50 were Vertigo and the rebooted Wildstorm Universe, while Earth-17 became
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#17328698258353828-551: A new character, Oliver's son Connor Hawke . Connor, however, proved a less popular character, and the original Oliver Queen character was resurrected in the 2001 "Quiver" storyline , by writer Kevin Smith . In the 2000s, the character has been featured in bigger storylines focusing on Green Arrow and Black Canary , such as the DC event The Green Arrow/Black Canary Wedding and the high-profile Justice League: Cry for Justice storyline, prior to
4002-451: A new owner of Queen Industries, the result of a hostile takeover, arrives to enforce peace and rebuild the city. This self-proclaimed 'Queen' has a connection to Green Arrow's father and claims to be upholding the Queen family legacy where Oliver failed. In 2011, DC chose to relaunch its titles with new No. 1 issues and a refreshed continuity and called this initiative The New 52 . Green Arrow
4176-409: A power disruptor to permanently remove their powers. The Lords are sent back to their Earth, and Luthor expresses his intention to enter politics. The Lords' proposed alterations of mainstream Earth have repercussions in the first two seasons of Justice League Unlimited . The events of "A Better World" aid Amanda Waller 's crusade against the destructive capabilities of the metahuman population if
4350-586: A previous relationship. In Green Arrow (vol. 2) #100–101, Queen infiltrated a group of eco-terrorists known as the Eden Corps and sacrificed his life to prevent the group from detonating a bomb that would destroy the city of Metropolis . Superman attempted to intervene, but ultimately did not after Queen rebuked him for suggesting that Queen allow him to sever the arm attached to the bomb. The exchange between Queen and Superman pays tribute to Frank Miller's 1986 work The Dark Knight Returns . Queen later admits in
4524-480: A quest in a beat-up pickup truck to "find America", along the way witnessing the problems of corruption, racism, pollution, as well as overpopulation confronting the nation. One story (in issues #78-79) was even widely interpreted as an allegory for the Manson Family cult murders, though O'Neil has emphasized that the story was about the authoritarian left and not Manson. In Green Lantern (vol. 2) #85–86 , it
4698-570: A racist serial killer using drone-like security technology in Seattle to systematically target criminals and potential criminals based on computer profiling and police data. In 2016, DC relaunched its entire line of titles once again with the DC Rebirth event, this time intending to restore elements from the DC Universe prior to Flashpoint , while also maintaining the continuity of the New 52. Ben Percy remained
4872-445: A range of special situations. Green Arrow enjoyed moderate success in his early years, becoming the cover feature of More Fun , as well as having occasional appearances in other comics. Throughout his first twenty-five years, however, the character never enjoyed greater popularity. In the late 1960s, writer Denny O'Neil , inspired by the character's dramatic visual redesign by Neal Adams , chose to have him lose his fortune, giving him
5046-486: A reboot of the Multiverse termed "5G", which would have fixed all of DC's publishing history into a single coherent continuity, stretching from World War II to the present day, with stories going forward focussing on new characters or aged versions of current ones. "A Brave New World", intended to be the first story set in this continuity, was published in Wonder Woman #750. This reboot was cancelled due to delays caused by
5220-581: A result, he avoided being revived and "re-imagined" for the Silver Age, as the Flash , Green Lantern , and others were. Aside from sharing Adventure Comics with him, issue No. 258 featured an encounter between a younger Oliver Queen and Superboy. The Green Arrow and Speedy feature during this period included a short run in 1958 written by Dick and Dave Wood and drawn by Jack Kirby . For much of this period, Green Arrow's adventures were written by France Herron , who
5394-516: A ripple effect that affected several past events, Earth-13 (Vertigo Universe) and Earth-50 (new Wildstorm Universe). Similar to the result of Crisis on Infinite Earths , a new mainstream Earth is created from the former three, with a whole new history. Most of the stories have been retold anew but certain events of New Earth remain (such as Batgirl being crippled by the Joker). Since it was established after Infinite Crisis that if something ever happened to
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5568-506: A special publishing deal with Milestone Media , DC Comics published a new series of comic books that told the stories of the heroes living in Dakota City , formed mostly by African American superheroes and other minorities. These characters lived in a universe separated from the DC Universe (known as the Dakotaverse or Milestone Universe). The event known as Worlds Collide presented one of
5742-528: A story about a rogue Justice League had more story potential as the Crime Syndicate was simply evil. The episode is similar to a Dan Jurgens Justice League America story, "Destiny's Hand". In that story, the Atom dreams about the original Justice League becoming oppressive rulers of the world. Doctor Destiny tries to make this "dream universe" absorb the mainstream reality, and the modern Justice League fights
5916-461: A unique rogues gallery of villains. His supporting cast has changed wildly over the course of the series, but has tended to include his sidekick Speedy ( Roy Harper and Mia Dearden ) and his fellow superhero and main romantic interest, Black Canary . His son Connor Hawke has also been a part of the Arrow vigilante family, along with Black Canary's adopted daughter Sin . For a brief time, Green Arrow
6090-588: A very important ingredient within DC Comics' publications. It helped (among other things) to explain continuity errors, to retell and retcon stories, and to incorporate foreign elements that could actively interact with everything else and allow them to have an "existence". Continuity flaws between the established Earth-Two and several stories from the Golden Age were given separate Earths. "Imaginary" stories and sometime divergences of Earth-One were given also separate realities (such as Earth-B and Earth-A). In addition to
6264-501: A very young age. Changed by his sojourn on the island, Oliver decided to take up crime fighting as a means of rebelling against his responsibilities. During his first adventure in Star City, Oliver meets an old flame, Brianna Stone, a former college radical who warns him if he continued to carry his bow, he would one day have to use it for real. Grell's limited series also established Queen's attraction toward dangerous women. Once Grell left
6438-701: A wealthy playboy, the use of an Arrow-Signal to summon him, as well as a clown-like arch foe named Bull's Eye, similar to Batman's arch-foe, the Joker . His and Speedy's first origin stories were told in More Fun Comics No. 89. Green Arrow began as a back-up feature in More Fun Comics , but within four months the Green Arrow and Speedy replaced Doctor Fate and the Spectre as the cover feature. In Superhero Comics of
6612-542: Is a superhero who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics . Created by Mort Weisinger and designed by George Papp , he first appeared in More Fun Comics No. 73 on September 19, 1941 ( cover dated November 1941), the same issue that debuted Aquaman. His real name is Oliver Jonas Queen , a wealthy businessman, owner of Queen Industries, and a well-known celebrity in Star City . He uses this position to hide
6786-436: Is a rich, thrill-seeking activist who is attacked, thrown overboard and washes up on an island where he learns of a smuggling operation. Upon witnessing the inhabitants' slave-like living conditions, he begins to take down the smugglers' operation. He eventually returns to civilization changed by his experiences. In the final part of the story, Oliver claims that a mutiny or the actions of a group of heroin dealers could be used as
6960-707: Is defeated, but the Source Wall at the boundary of the Multiverse is cracked and the Batman Who Laughs manages to escape into the main DC Universe. The story is continued in Justice League . In Snyder's run on Justice League , the crack in the Source Wall allows the Totality, a small meteorite bearing immense power, to enter the Multiverse from the Source beyond. Lex Luthor retrieves the Totality and eventually frees Perpetua,
7134-474: Is destroyed except for five Earths (the Silver Age 's Earth-One, the Golden Age 's Earth-Two, Charlton Comics ' Earth-Four, Fawcett Comics ' Earth-S and Quality Comics ' Freedom Fighters' Earth-X). Later, the universe is recreated as one single universe from those five. The crossover event Convergence (2015) officially retconned the events of Crisis after heroes in that series went back in time to prevent
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7308-416: Is eventually forced to resign from his position as mayor after a scandal where he learns that he had been secretly funding the Outsiders , essentially a bounty hunter team at this point in their history, coupled with his uncertain position with the voting public, having never had much more than 50% of the city on his side at a time. Queen is convinced to resign his position in exchange for his successor leaving
7482-432: Is eventually used by the grandfather of Stanley Dover in an attempt to gain power over the monster that Dover accidentally bound to his grandson, Dover intending to take Oliver's body- possible only due to his lack of a soul- and use his access to the JLA's resources to find the monster. At the climax of the story, Oliver's soul returns from heaven, re-inhabits his resurrected earthly form and helps his son Connor Hawke fight
7656-457: Is once again recreated by higher beings from the Source, with Wonder Woman ascending alongside them to protect it. The New 52/Rebirth multiverse is restored largely as it was prior to the events of Dark Nights: Death Metal . As well as this, a new infinite web of multiverses appears, the Multiverse developing into an Omniverse. It is established that all events in DC's publishing history have occurred within this new Omniverse, with characters gaining
7830-660: The Teen Titans comic book. The idea of metahumans taking control of humans, and of Superman leading them to make a better world, is also developed in the Elseworlds mini-series Kingdom Come . According to Bruce Timm 's DVD commentary, Batman was to form the Outsiders as a counter-superteam of the Lords but the idea was discarded. In the Avengers Annual #2, the Avengers are sent to an alternate world by an early version of Kang
8004-831: The Arrow TV series were also adapted into the comic books in 2015 (though Felicity was later removed from the continuity). The archer Shado , though not part of Oliver's unit of heroes, has also been a recurring character in Oliver's life. Additionally, Green Arrow has been regularly paired with his fellow superhero Green Lantern ( Hal Jordan ) in comics, as the two co-starred in the series Green Lantern/Green Arrow together for many years. The Arrow version of Team Arrow include Roy Harper/Arsenal , Sara Lance/White Canary , Thea Queen /Speedy, Laurel Lance/Black Canary , Curtis Holt/Mister Terrific , Rene Ramirez/Wild Dog , Rory Regan/Ragman , Evelyn Sharp/Artemis and Dinah Drake/Black Canary . As
8178-720: The Arrowverse . Green Arrow and Speedy first appeared in More Fun Comics No. 73 ( cover-dated November 1941), which was illustrated by artist George Papp . When Mort Weisinger was creating the character, aside from the obvious allusions to Robin Hood , he took inspiration from a movie serial, The Green Archer , based on the novel by Edgar Wallace . He retooled the concept into a superhero archer with obvious Batman influences. These include Green Arrow's sidekick Speedy, his use of an Arrowcar and Arrow-Plane for transportation, his use of an Arrow-Cave as his headquarters, his alter ego as
8352-521: The COVID-19 pandemic and the firing of publisher Dan DiDio, who was the main architect of 5G. The original plans for 5G were recycled into the Future State event, which followed Dark Nights: Death Metal . Dark Nights: Death Metal and its companion comics act as a conclusion to Dark Nights: Metal , Flash Forward and Scott Snyder's run on Justice League . Perpetua destroys much of the Multiverse while
8526-598: The Clock King , Richard Dragon , as well as John Diggle, a character originally created for the TV series Arrow . When Oliver meets Shado, he learns she had a daughter from Oliver's father (Robert Queen) named Emiko, whom Komodo has raised as his own daughter. When Oliver returns to the island as part of his investigation into the Outsiders, and in search of a relic known as 'the green arrow', he discovers that his father had survived to
8700-623: The Earth-Two Green Arrow died in the Crisis on Infinite Earths , still wearing red boots and gloves. The Golden Age Earth-2 character had been retconned as a time-lost member of the original Seven Soldiers of Victory superhero team, recovered by the Justice League and Justice Society. After the Crisis, the Earth-Two Green Arrow and Speedy were retconned out of existence altogether, given
8874-528: The Elseworlds imprint. None of these stories were ever intended to be included in the "real" continuity of the DC Universe. Certain characters were reinvented in a mature context and were published under the Vertigo imprint. Most of the times, the characters depicted within the Vertigo imprint had no relation to the original DC Universe's versions, nor did the events have influence over the new Universe. Later, under
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#17328698258359048-471: The Quiver storyline (where he is resurrected) that he refused due to both his own issues at this point in his life and the more practical issue that he would be useless as an archer with one arm. Queen's death allowed the writers to shake up the status quo by making Connor Hawke a replacement Green Arrow. The series, now written by Chuck Dixon , would continue with Hawke as the main focus until issue No. 137, when
9222-535: The Wedding Special , but they come home to find Connor has been kidnapped. This storyline led directly into the second arc that followed the rescue of Connor from a mysterious foe. Connor is eventually found, now having recovered thanks to manipulation by Doctor Sivana . With issue No. 15, Andrew Kreisberg took over as the series writer. Oliver is transformed into a Black Lantern Corps member and attacks his former allies, notably his son, wife and sidekick. During
9396-806: The White House and confront President Luthor in an attempt to prevent the war. When President Luthor tells Superman no matter how many times he sends him to prison, he would find a way back to power, Superman kills President Luthor with his heat vision, and decides he likes this new form of "justice". The others also lose faith in humanity. For two years, the Justice Lords seize the world's governments and begin ruling with an iron fist. Using their satellite base for surveillance, they ban free speech, limit elections , and eliminate crime by lobotomizing criminals and supervillains through Lord Superman's heat vision, although they justify their behavior as "temporary" and for
9570-608: The "evil" old Justice League. In the DC Animated Universe itself, the Superman: The Animated Series episode "Brave New Metropolis" depicted an alternate Superman becoming a dictator after Lois Lane 's death. The episode was also written by Stan Berkowitz. The alternate universe presented in Injustice: Gods Among Us also shared much similarity to the Justice Lords, in that a parallel version of
9744-558: The "mainstream" continuity appearing in DC comics was either a non-canonical story or happened in a completely different and separate reality/universe/multiverse. In 1999, the unexpected and overwhelming success of Elseworlds' Kingdom Come and other stories, led to the creation of the concept known as Hypertime in order to publish crossovers with those characters and the mainstream continuity. This structure gave "existence" to alternate timelines, stories in Elseworlds , appearances in other media and any other appearance of DC characters in
9918-412: The 1970s, everything that was published or related officially to DC Comics' titles could become part of the Multiverse, although much of it remained largely uncatalogued. The names of the worlds were usually in the format Earth, hyphen, spelled numeral/letter/name . In the case of worlds with numerals, the "rule" of spelling the number was not always followed, even within the pages of the same issue. As
10092-492: The 1994 DC Comics mini-series Zero Hour . In Zero Hour , where Hal Jordan seeks to remake the universe after the trauma of Coast City 's destruction drives him to destroy the Green Lantern Corps to gain the power to remake the universe, Queen is forced to shoot his old friend at a pivotal moment. Now tightly integrated in the DC Universe, the character Connor Hawke was introduced and revealed as Oliver Queen's son from
10266-439: The 50th anniversary of DC Comics drew near, major events were proposed for the celebration: an encyclopedia ( Who's Who in the DC Universe ) and a crossover of the ages, characters, and worlds appearing in DC's comics. As told in the letter section of Crisis on Infinite Earths #1, as the research started in the late 1970s, it became evident that there were many flaws in continuity. The way used to circumvent some of these errors
10440-486: The Anti-Monitor, who then devoured Pariah's entire universe (aside from Pariah himself) and began to do the same to other universes (Pariah originally believes that the opposite is true; that his experiment destroyed the universes, which awakened the Anti-Monitor, until the truth is revealed to him). The time period of Earth when this takes place or the name of this Earth are never revealed. Green Arrow Green Arrow
10614-589: The Batman Who Laughs reshapes Earth-0 according to his whims, creating the Metalverse. The Batman Who Laughs successfully steals Wally's new power, becoming a godlike being known as the Darkest Knight. He kills Perpetua and creates his own Multiverse of twisted worlds called "The Last 52". Wonder Woman gains the power necessary to fight him and eventually destroys him in the Death Sun at the end of time. The Multiverse
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#173286982583510788-519: The Bold , and several DC Universe Animated Original Movies . In live action, he appeared in the series Smallville , played by actor Justin Hartley , and became a core cast member. In 2012, the live action series Arrow debuted on The CW , in which the title character was portrayed by Stephen Amell , and launching several spin-off series, becoming the starting point for a shared television franchise called
10962-556: The Brainiac/Luthor entity. The growing fear that the League might become the Lords reaches a climax in this episode, when the Flash exceeds his maximum speed to destroy Brainiac, vanishing into the Speed Force . With Flash supposedly dead and Luthor at his mercy, Superman is put in the same position as his Justice Lord counterpart, but resists the temptation and proclaims that he is his own person. J'onn then senses Flash's presence, and
11136-457: The Conqueror ; the original Avengers take over the world and imprison other super-beings, allegedly for their own good. The idea of altering criminals to prevent them from returning to crime was also part of the DC Comics miniseries Identity Crisis (albeit using magic and primarily intended to protect the heroes' secret identities) and in Marvel Comics ' original Squadron Supreme miniseries. In Grant Morrison 's series The Multiversity ,
11310-601: The DC Universe; when other DC characters like longtime friend Hal Jordan (also known as Green Lantern ) appeared, they did so in street clothes and used only their civilian names. In place of the superhero community, Grell created his own supporting cast. In addition to Shado, Grell introduced Seattle police Lieutenant Jim Cameron, who was disgusted with Green Arrow's vigilante actions (including killing criminals), renegade CIA agent Greg Osborne, who began to monitor Queen's activities, as well as mercenary Eddie Fyers , initially introduced as Queen's adversary, but later to become
11484-431: The DCU. This miniseries brought back several heroes from the ages of DC Comics that were obliterated by the crisis events. They were trapped by a godlike incarnation of Brainiac outside of time (or Vanishing Point as this "place" is called). At the end of the crossover, Brainiac sent these heroes back to their own timelines, and also successfully sent Zero Hour Hal Jordan, pre- Flashpoint Superman and other heroes back to
11658-421: The Dark Multiverse. At the end of the series, Wally sits in the Mobius Chair, gaining omniscience and residual power from Dr. Manhattan. In an epilogue published in The Flash #750, Wally surveys the timestream and notices multiple contradictions and inconsistencies within history, the result of Manhattan's reckless tampering with time. This was originally intended to lead into the Generations miniseries and
11832-426: The Earth during " The Final Night ", Hal speaks with Oliver's soul in the afterlife. The two agree to bring back a version of Oliver Queen: one without a soul (so Oliver may properly stay in Heaven) and with no memory of the events of The Longbow Hunters mini-series or of the subsequent events that followed, up until his death, Oliver reasoning that things went wrong for him after the events that drove him to kill for
12006-400: The Flash. The final set contained Hawkgirl and the Brainiac versions of Superman and Batman. In 2012 Treehouse Kids released its Heroics line of collectable figurines, which includes Justice Lords Superman as a chase figure . According to the DVD commentary on the second part of "A Better World", although the Justice Lords began as a Crime Syndicate of America story, the writers decided that
12180-607: The Golden Age , Mike Benton writes that "their front cover star status was probably due to Speedy's appeal – teenage sidekicks were the current rage." They were also given a spot as one of five back-up features to be promoted in one of the earliest team-up books, Leading Comics , starting with issue No. 1 (Winter 1941). They appeared in More Fun until issue No. 107 (January 1946), and then moved to Adventure Comics from No. 103 (April 1946) to No. 269 (February 1960). Green Arrow and Speedy also appeared in various issues of World's Finest Comics until issue No. 140 (March 1964). He
12354-513: The Green Arrow/Black Canary wedding that tied into that month's " Countdown " stories. These were The Black Canary Wedding Planner , JLA Wedding Special , as well as The Green Arrow/Black Canary Wedding Special . The wedding special worked as a lead-in for a new Green Arrow/Black Canary series. At the conclusion of the wedding special, the Black Canary is forced to kill Green Arrow after he appears to go mad and attacks her. The new ongoing series picked up on this, quickly revealing that Green Arrow
12528-454: The Justice League, save for Batman, became oppressive rulers of the world after Superman was tricked by the Joker into killing Lois Lane, their unborn child, and destroying Metropolis with a nuclear bomb, for which Superman kills the Joker in retaliation, leading to his descent to tyranny. The alternative Batman, who had formed an underground Resistance movement to combat Superman's methods, brings in
12702-525: The Justice Lords were brought into mainstream comic continuity, being revealed to originate from Earth-50. Multiverse (DC Comics) In most of the DC Comics media, the Multiverse is a "cosmic construct" that is composed of the many fictional universes the stories of DC media take place in. The worlds within the multiverse share a space and fate in common, and its structure has changed several times in
12876-408: The League had been involved in mind-wiping various villains in the past to conceal their secret identities. During this time, the character also appeared in a number of other titles, such as the Justice League , when he is temporarily brought into a 'reserve League' created by Batman after the original League is nearly killed by the powerful Gamemnae , and Justice League Elite , where Oliver joins
13050-425: The League successfully pulls him back to reality. Realizing they have estranged themselves from those they are trying to protect and still fearful of the future, Superman publicly announces the complete dissolution of the Justice League. However, Green Arrow challenges him, saying the Justice League was bigger than any individual and would continue without the original seven, and Superman changes his mind, deciding for
13224-562: The League to establish an embassy on Earth as a secondary Watchtower and maintain a closer relationship with governments and law enforcement. Justice Lord Superman makes a non-speaking cameo appearance in the My Adventures with Superman episode "Kiss Kiss Fall in Portal". Additionally, Overman , the versions of Superman from the Fleischer cartoons and the DC Animated Universe also makes cameos in
13398-669: The League, preventing it from succumbing to the temptation that created the Lords. Luthor hacks the Justice League Watchtower to attack Cadmus headquarters, causing extensive collateral damage to the surrounding area. The public turns against the League, and they decide to decommission the Watchtower and faithfully surrender (except for Batman, who wants to clear the League's name on his own). However, Cadmus decides to retaliate, sending Galatea (a clone of Supergirl ) and an army of genetically engineered metahumans to destroy
13572-451: The League; Batman and Question fear that what happened to the Lords' Earth would happen to theirs when Luthor nearly wins the presidency, and the Question tries to kill Luthor. The League's apparent degeneration cast it into an increasingly bad light. However, it successfully recruits the populist, astute Green Arrow as its political conscience; he puts the role of Cadmus in perspective for
13746-421: The Lords decide to "assist" their counterparts by having their tyranny on the League's world, and trick them into going to the alternate Earth. When the League arrives, they are imprisoned and rendered unconscious. They are later transferred to cells designed to neutralize their powers, and Lord Batman stays behind to keep watch over them. When the rest of the Lords arrive on mainstream Earth, they meet Doomsday ,
13920-408: The Lords to fight the League, playing on their worst fears: Superman becoming a Justice Lord, and Green Lantern and Hawkgirl's failed relationship and her pariah status on Earth and Thanagar. Only Flash appeared to be the most unaffected by his replica's taunts due to his optimistic nature, and the androids were quickly destroyed, though the group of androids was merely a delaying tactic on the part of
14094-422: The Lords' methods are wrong, after sarcastically saying if his parents were alive, they would be proud of his actions. Lord Batman saves the League from the alternate Earth's security forces and sends them back to their reality. On mainstream Earth, Superman approaches Lex Luthor for help against the Lords, who agrees in exchange for a presidential pardon, and so the League distracts the Lords to allow Luthor to use
14268-662: The Modern Age still happening. In parallel, Captain Atom: Armageddon tells the story of how Captain Atom of the DC Universe causes the recreation of the Wildstorm Universe upon its destruction (and possibly its Multiverse as well). The recreated universe became part of the newly recreated DC Universe. The aftermath of Infinite Crisis and Captain Atom: Armageddon ( 52 , Countdown to Final Crisis and Final Crisis ) showed that
14442-472: The Modern Age was still being the main continuity, younger readers could not follow the stories of the mainstream versions of the DC heroes, just as had happened prior to the original Crisis on Infinite Earths . In order to overcome these new problems, a new event was created to restart the DC Comics' Universe. In the Flashpoint miniseries (May–September 2011), the Flash alters the timeline of Earth-0 creating
14616-644: The Multiverse but did have a twin in the antimatter universe: Qward. A satellite on each of these planets was created in the cataclysm and it was there where the embodiments of the Multiverse were born: the Monitor and the Anti-Monitor . The two battled to a standstill and eventually rendered one another comatose. The Multiverse had countless duplicates of planet Earth. Every Earth had a different history from one another but they always developed heroes and inspired heroic ages (which, according to Harbinger, it somehow made them
14790-484: The Multiverse for the first time, but it also presented key features of the Multiverse: all the universes vibrate at a specific frequency which keeps them separated; these "barriers" could be trespassed by "tuning" to that vibration. Because people could also "tune-in" these worlds in dreams, some people wrote comic books with the stories from those worlds they dreamed, which explained why Barry Allen knew about Jay Garrick as
14964-684: The Omniverse and Hypertime exist alongside each other as parts of a larger Divine Continuum, with the Omniverse corresponding to Space and Hypertime corresponding to Time. It also organizes previous Crisis events into Omniversal Crises and Hypertime Crises, with the "Crisis on Infinite Earths", "Infinite Crisis", "Final Crisis", "Multiversity", "Dark Nights", and "Dark Crisis" being Omniversal Crises while "Zero Hour", "the Kingdom", "Flashpoint/New 52", "Convergence", "DC Rebirth/Doomsday Clock", and "Flashpoint Beyond/New Golden Age" were Hypertime Crises. The Multiverse
15138-529: The Outlaws establish that the pair fell out badly, leading Oliver to expel him from Q-Core, as well as prompting Roy's own downward spiral. He is based once again in Seattle and supported in his vigilante activities by a small team of close friends who are tech geniuses. In addition, his romantic history with the Black Canary, his friendship with Green Lantern (Hal Jordan), and his being a father (to both Connor Hawke and Shado's son Robert Queen II) did not take place as
15312-495: The Silver Age version ( Katar Hol ) in the same continuity without a good explanation. The interaction of "possible timelines" also created continuity holes. This led to a new crisis to address the problem: the Zero Hour . The resulting universe had a slightly re-written story with no continuity errors even though it was acknowledged that reality-shattering events did happen (including the Crisis on Infinite Earths ). This Universe kept
15486-529: The Titans were not ready for future loose ends. He then further states that if they all had been more communicative as they did in the past, the events of Absolute Power would never had happened. Batman , Superman , and Wonder Woman begrudgingly agree with Oliver's reasonings and tell Oliver that they are bringing back the Justice League. As with other DC superheroes, Green Arrow has an extensive supporting cast of characters, sometimes called Team Arrow , along with
15660-586: The US government and serve as a defense against the independent Justice League headed by Superman and Batman should they ever go rogue. Following the cancellation of JLA at the conclusion of the Forever Evil storyline, Green Arrow appears in its replacement series, Justice League United , also written by Lemire. Lemire and Sorrentino left Green Arrow after issue No. 34, to be replaced by writers Andrew Kreisberg and Ben Sokolowski, and artist Daniel Sampere. Kreisberg
15834-440: The Universe was "splintered" and the original Multiverse was restored briefly, showing that the entire Hypertime and many other appearances of the DC characters were part of the original Multiverse, including Tangent Comics which were published 12 years after the Multiverse was no more. In the end of Infinite Crisis , the multiverse is merged back as a New Earth with a new continuity with many stories re-written and many others from
16008-480: The Watchtower and kill the rest of the League on board. The League subdues the clones and Supergirl defeats Galatea. When Batman finally convinces Waller that Luthor is responsible for the attack, they confront him in his Lexcorp offices, only to be beaten back by Lex, who demonstrates unnatural speed and strength due to Brainiac secretly being in his body for several years. In "Divided We Fall", Brainiac and Luthor unite into an entity that creates duplicate androids of
16182-534: The archer, Constantine Drakon , as well as Danny Brickwell (the Brick ) joining the cast of existing Green Arrow villains such as the illusion-casting Count Vertigo and the enigmatic Onomatopoeia , the latter of whom, himself, was a relatively recent addition. Other DC villains, such as the Riddler , made guest appearances throughout his run. 2006 saw the title (along with other DC comics titles) jump " One Year Later " after
16356-467: The battle, Connor says he never really forgave his father, while Oliver's internal monologue reveals his thoughts, which express concerns for his "family" and disgust at his actions. The team manage to disable Oliver by freezing him with liquid nitrogen . In the Cry for Justice miniseries, JLA foe Prometheus destroys Star City, as part of a grand scheme to "hurt" the Justice League community of heroes. During
16530-467: The book. Lemire's story introduces new mysteries concerning Oliver's original time on the island where he was shipwrecked, as well as a central mythology concerning the ancient Arrow Clan and several other weapon-themed analogues to the Arrow, known as the Outsiders. New antagonists include Komodo, who Oliver learns was his father's archer apprentice and apparent murderer. It has also seen the New 52 debut of several characters, such as Count Vertigo , Shado ,
16704-440: The character's relaunch alongside most of DC's properties in 2011. Green Arrow was not initially a well-known character outside of comic book fandom: He had appeared in a single episode of the animated series Super Friends in 1973. In the 2000s, the character appeared in a number of DC television properties, including the animated series Justice League Unlimited , Young Justice , The Batman and Batman: The Brave and
16878-404: The collapse of the Multiverse. After the conclusion of Crisis on Infinite Earths , the concept of a single Universe containing most elements of the "surviving Earths" was established and heavily enforced to avoid the continuity problems of the Multiverse. However, alternate realities that affected the new DC Universe appeared very quickly. In Superman (vol. 2) #8, a Universe inside the Universe
17052-450: The concept of a Multiverse and the designation of names, Earth-One being the JLA reality and Earth-Two the JSA reality. The success of these crossovers spawned publications telling the further stories of the Golden Age heroes in the present-day parting from many of the stories told, thus establishing a more defined continuity for every universe. This concept of parallel Earths with differences in locations, persons and historical events became
17226-446: The concept of one universe, one timeline. Such a timeline was "mapped" from the beginning to the present (1994) at the back cover of Zero Hour #0 that also included certain key dates in the future. The need to publish stories outside the strict DC Universe continuity led to the creation of certain DC imprints . Stories that set DC characters in different situations after the Crisis on Infinite Earths , were published by DC Comics under
17400-506: The creation of the JSA, where other heroes met for the first time, created the story " Flash of Two Worlds " in The Flash #123 (1961), where Barry Allen, the new Flash, is transported to the Earth where the original Flash, Jay Garrick, existed. To Allen, Jay Garrick's world was a work of fiction as it was in the real world. This story not only presented the encounter of two worlds and the existence of
17574-483: The creator of the Multiverse. Despite the heroes' best efforts they are ultimately defeated. At the end of Justice League #39, the defeated League are saved from destruction by the Quintessence, who grant them the power necessary to fight Perpetua. The team run into a portal for the final battle, but this conflict is not shown and from there Justice League follows the team on other adventures, written by new writers. In
17748-412: The end of DC's former multiverse. In 1987, DC Comics launched the character into a new ongoing title as part of their mature audience comic line. Written and illustrated by Mike Grell , the revamp was launched with Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters mini-series. In this three-issue prestige format limited series , a routine adventure against a group of drug runners led to tragedy as the Black Canary
17922-457: The entire Superman timeline. Where there had been two Superman, their realities have now been fused into one timeline with just one of them". It is revealed in Doomsday Clock that the New 52 was created by Doctor Manhattan as he experimented with reality, manipulating events to prevent many Golden Age heroes from gaining their powers and continually moving Superman to different points in
18096-419: The episode, the identity of the Green Arrow was nearly revealed by an old friend, Moreno. After tricking the Justice League into releasing him, Green Arrow tracks Prometheus to his hidden lair and kills him with a single arrow right between the eyes. This murder, committed in secret, is what Oliver considers justice for the bombings (which also cost the life of Lian Harper, Roy Harper's (Red Arrow) daughter, who
18270-500: The established New 52 Multiverse continuity, as well as to revisit other characters and concepts from DC's history as the conclusion of Convergence suggested that although the core 52 universe that now exists is the evolution of the multiverse, all the worlds still exist in some form. This was confirmed by Convergence writer Jeff King, as he stated that the reconstituted DC Multiverse is now infinite and there might be more than one Multiverse. The 2016 DC Rebirth initiative returned
18444-539: The events in Infinite Crisis . Oliver, having once again amassed a large personal fortune, is the newly elected mayor of Star City, continuing his fight for justice both on the streets and within the political system. He also has a new costume, which appears to be a combination of the classic Neal Adams costume and the Mike Grell Longbow Hunters costume. In flashbacks, it is revealed that Oliver survived
18618-568: The events of Crisis on Infinite Earths so that the collapse of the Multiverse could be averted. From July 2015 onwards, The New 52 marking ended with the continuation of several publications and new others that did not necessarily take place within The New 52 multiverse. Advertised as DC YOU (a pun of DCU or DC Universe and the phrase "it's about you, the fans" appearing in the advertisements), DC now has an "open doors" policy to continuity, granting writers greater freedom to explore stories set outside
18792-605: The fact that he is Green Arrow. Partly inspired by Robin Hood , Green Arrow is an archer who uses his skills to fight crime in his home cities of Star City and Seattle , as well as alongside his fellow superheroes as a member of the Justice League . The world's greatest archer, as well as a competent swordsman and martial artist , Green Arrow deploys a range of trick arrows (in contemporary times, they are referred as "specialty arrows" ) with various special functions, such as glue , explosive-tipped, grappling hook, flash grenade , tear gas , and even kryptonite arrows for use in
18966-436: The fact that many of these universes were mostly unchronicled or merely glimpsed and that Final Crisis also changed the Multiverse slightly, many stories featuring alternate worlds and their interactions were published, which led certain inconsistencies and retcons to appear, such as Earth-1 being originally a "mirror" of Earth-One and later being the reality of J. Michael Straczynski 's Superman: Earth One or Earth-16 being
19140-557: The fight: Batman, Arsenal, Emiko, Katana, Onyx, Cupid and even Lex Luthor , at that time a Justice League member. Following DC's Convergence storyline in April–May 2015, the title again received a new creative team in writer Ben Percy and artist Patrick Zircher , whose run was more influenced by the horror genre. Elements from Arrow were removed, and characters created by Lemire, such as Emiko and Henry Fyff, were restored to major roles. Percy's first arc depicts Green Arrow confronting
19314-463: The first modern intercompany crossovers within the established continuity of the Universes instead of being "imaginary" and showed that there could be other universes or even multiverses outside the new DC Universe. In a similar way to Worlds Collide , the crossover event DC vs. Marvel showed another in-continuity crossover with another reality completely separated from the DC Universe and that has
19488-432: The first shared "universe", as all these heroes now lived in the same world. Prior to this publication, characters from the different comic books seemingly existed in different worlds. Later, Wonder Woman #59 (May 1953) presented DC Comics' first story depicting a parallel "mirror" world. Wonder Woman is transported to a twin Earth where she meets Tara Terruna, who is exactly like her. Tara Terruna means "Wonder Woman" in
19662-422: The first time and feeling that the copy of him was restored at the best point in his life. For some years, this resurrected Oliver lives in Star City as a vigilante hero, completely under the radar of his other superhero friends, but eventually he is discovered and learns the truth of his resurrection, leaving the resurrected Oliver feeling uncertain about his state now that he knows he has no soul. His resurrection
19836-495: The first time since 2011. Percy also reestablished Green Arrow as a politically conscious figure, with the writer describing him as a " social justice warrior ". After it was revealed that Emiko was still on Oliver's side, she eventually adopted the codename of Red Arrow . This volume finished in March 2019, with issue No. 50 serving as an extra sized final issue. In November 2022, it was announced that Joshua Williamson would write
20010-448: The government left it unchecked. When Waller is confronted by Batman, she reveals simulations that show what would happen if the League went rogue; each time, the government was defeated. Project Cadmus , established to counter Superman if he went rogue (as shown in the Superman: The Animated Series two-part episode "Legacy"), then called "Project: Achilles", expanded its threat list to the entire Justice League. Mistrust increased within
20184-459: The higher beings within the Source who contained the aberrant Multiverse within the Source Wall, imprisoned Perpetua within the Wall and remade the original positive matter multiverse into a single positive matter Universe, which Krona , the rogue Maltusian, would eventually splinter into another infinite Multiverse. The beings within the Source decided to give the Multiverse a chance to achieve perfection,
20358-598: The history of DC Comics. The concept of a universe and a multiverse in which the fictional stories take place was loosely established during the Golden Age of Comic Books (1938–1956). With the publication of All-Star Comics #3 in 1940, the first crossover between characters occurred with the creation of the Justice Society of America (JSA), which presented the first superhero team with characters appearing in other publications (comic strips and anthology titles) to bring attention to less-known characters. This established
20532-467: The holding facility when the Flash accelerates his heartbeat to make Lord Batman think that he has flatlined . Lord Batman opens the Flash's cell door, and is quickly locked in the cell by the Flash and the League escapes. Most go to Arkham Asylum to retrieve Hawkgirl, although Batman goes to the Batcave to get the dimensional transporter. There Batman and Lord Batman fight, and Batman convinces Lord Batman that
20706-539: The home of an alternate Superman/ Christopher Kent , the home of the Super-Sons , and later the reality of the Young Justice TV series. Also, some universes appearing in the new continuity were never given a proper place within the 52 Universe, such as Prime-Earth. The new restored universe with only 52 worlds opened myriad possibilities for new stories and crossovers with different versions of heroes interacting with
20880-505: The logo THE NEW 52! would only appear in publications with stories occurring in the new continuity, while those taking place outside of this new continuity (such as Smallville Season Eleven or the Batman Beyond universe) would not bear this distinction. At first it seemed that there was not going to be a naming convention for the Earths as it happened with the 52. The mainstream continuity
21054-468: The main Universe, the whole Multiverse could be affected as well, thus a new Multiverse of 52 worlds was also recreated. This new Multiverse is called The New 52 . This time, not all universes were revealed right away, only a couple were revealed in the first two years of The New 52 . In addition, in a similar fashion as the Elseworlds logo would appear in comics that did not occur in the "real" continuity,
21228-407: The main versions of heroes as well as the stories resulting from the new integrated characters from Milestone and Wildstorm. However, it became chaotic in just five years. Many stories and situations of other Universes were not followed well. The number designations could be completely disregarded from story to story and some universes were recreated over and over. In addition, as most of the history of
21402-401: The mainstream version of the Justice League to combat Superman and his forces. Notable differences from the Justice Lords include Flash (who, in this continuity, is Barry Allen ) being alive and fighting on Superman's side (before he realises how far the "heroes" have fallen and defects), Martian Manhunter was killed during the prequel comics fighting for Batman and Green Lantern Hal Jordan now
21576-507: The memories of all their prior incarnations. Infinite Frontier reveals that awareness of prior incarnations is widespread but not ubiquitous. It also identifies Multiverse 2 as the "corpse" of the pre-Crisis Multiverse. Dark Crisis calls the Omniverse into question, and adds infinite Earths taken from Multiverse 2 into the Orrery of Worlds, expanding it to contain infinite Earths. Concurrently with Dark Crisis , Flashpoint Beyond reveals that
21750-488: The mini-series Green Lantern: Rebirth , which featured Oliver's attempts to use the ring against Sinestro - presumed dead for several years- before the ring is reclaimed by the reborn Hal Jordan. Meltzer went on to write the mini-series Identity Crisis , which heavily featured Green Arrow as one of the story's main characters, investigating the murder of Sue Dibny – the wife of the Elongated Man – and revealing that
21924-429: The most notable event being Armageddon 2001 in 1991. An Antimatter Universe existed as well, which had some "reversed" events in a similar way as the former Earth-Three. The Earth within this Universe was called "Earth 2". In addition, there was a Limbo, where some heroes and characters that could not be brought back to "existence" after the Crisis on Infinite Earths lived outside the Universe. An important rule in
22098-409: The native language of that world. Wonder Woman describes this world as being a twin world existing alongside Earth with duplicates of everyone but with a different development. The concept of different versions of the world and its heroes was revisited in the pages of Wonder Woman a few times later. Led by editor Julius Schwartz and writer Gardner Fox, DC Comics' superheroes were given a "reboot" with
22272-420: The new DC Universe was that there could only be one timeline, so any change caused by time travelers caused the destruction of their timelines of origin. Changes in the past were often "fixed" or have to comply with the present to prevent continuity errors. Nevertheless, continuity errors appeared. The retold origin of Hawkman presented errors regarding the existence of the Golden Age version ( Carter Hall ) and
22446-402: The new DC Universe, which were still separated just like Milestone and Marvel. In 2005, a new universal crisis story arc was published as a way to update once more the superheroes of DC Comics, bring together other "realities" (namely, Milestone and Wildstorm) and bring back the Multiverse, this time with a limited number of Earths instead of an infinite one. During the event Infinite Crisis ,
22620-427: The new Speedy, under Oliver's tutelage. After the resurrection storyline, Smith wrote a second and shorter arc involving a super-powered serial killer, calling himself Onomatopoeia , who sought to claim Connor as his latest victim. Smith then left the title and Brad Meltzer took over as writer. Meltzer's single storyline for Green Arrow featured Oliver and his former sidekick, Roy Harper , reuniting and going on
22794-541: The original Wally West to Earth from the Speed Force and reveals that time has been stolen from his friends' memories, and the Superman of the pre- Flashpoint world, stranded in the new timeline following Convergence , assumes the role of that Earth's Superman. In Action Comics #976, the pre- Flashpoint and New 52 Supermen's histories are merged. Peter J. Tomasi explained that "the events of Action #976 reset and reshape
22968-418: The pages of Justice League: Rise and Fall Special ; Oliver is tried, but found not guilty as most of the jury sympathise with his motives. He is exiled from Star City's remains as a result, choosing to live in the mysterious forest which has grown at its centre. Following the events of Blackest Night , Deadman was brought to the ruins of Star City by his white ring . Powered by the entity of life on Earth,
23142-419: The past. The main timeline or "Central Timeline" was like a river and all of the alternate stories were branches of it. Hypertime was similar to the former Multiverse as it allowed each and every reality ever published to co-exist and interact as most branches tend to return to the original stream (explaining some retcons as well as crossovers). However, all realities existed within only one Universe. Originally,
23316-501: The people not noticing that some of the characters in those comic books existed in "real life". In addition, many universes had multiple alternate timelines, such as Kamandi and the Legion of Super-Heroes both being from Earth-One. Writer Marv Wolfman took this crossover event as an opportunity to reform all the fictional universe of DC Comics to avoid further continuity errors and update the DC characters to modern times. The whole Multiverse
23490-421: The people's own good. Lord Superman has also imposed severe restrictions on his girlfriend Lois Lane 's way of life, forbidding her from making phone calls, having unauthorized guests, or leaving her home. The Justice Lords discover their counterparts when Lord Batman finds the League during an experiment which allowed him to view the alternate universe, as well as be transported there. Bored with their own world,
23664-436: The positive matter multiverse or destroyed; and an antimatter multiverse ruled over by the Anti-Monitor to shield the Multiverse from danger in the wider Omniverse. Perpetua was supposed to move on to create new Multiverses, leaving her creation in the hands of her children, but instead she remained, creating ever more aggressive forms of life to forge the Multiverse into a weapon to be used against her own kind. Her sons contacted
23838-490: The present, and disguised as one of Oliver's torturers on the island, he manipulated Oliver's time there, culminating in Oliver's transformation into the warrior he is today and the hero known as Green Arrow. Disgusted at this revelation, and taking the arrow relic with him, Oliver leaves Shado and his father behind, stranded on the island, before returning to America to take down the Outsiders. Shado and Robert followed Oliver to Prague, and Emiko turned against Komodo after learning
24012-465: The principal writer for the series, with a rotating art team consisting of Otto Schmidt, Juan Ferreyra and Stephen Byrne . During this run, Green Arrow is seemingly betrayed by Emiko as Percy reintroduces Shado , echoing elements from the Grell run, as well as John Diggle . In addition to restoring Green Arrow's trademark Van Dyke beard, the series revisited a romance between Green Arrow and Black Canary for
24186-567: The publication of Showcase #4 in 1956, where a new version of the Flash made his first appearance. This is considered the beginning period of the Silver Age of Comic Books . The success of this new Flash led to the creation of new incarnations of the Golden Age characters who only shared the names and powers but had different secret identities, origins and stories. Later, new versions of other heroes, Superman , Batman and Wonder Woman, were also restarted by retelling their origins but keeping their secret identities. Gardner Fox, who worked before in
24360-413: The result of the reboot. The New 52 series was originally written by J.T. Krul , who was later replaced by Keith Giffen and Dan Jurgens , who were in turn replaced by Ann Nocenti . None of these writers' runs were well received by critics or fans. Beginning with issue 17, the series received a new creative team in writer Jeff Lemire and artist Andrea Sorrentino, who brought more positive reception to
24534-405: The ring created a vast green forest, that instantly grew in the presence of the white light, in much of what remained of Star City. Unbeknownst to the populace of Star City, Green Arrow returns and lives within the new forest, trying his best to protect a city still reeling from the death and destruction of Prometheus's attacks. With the law breaking down and numerous public figures being murdered,
24708-466: The same episode. The Justice Lords were released in the Justice League Unlimited toy line in three 3-pack collector sets. The first set featured Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman. A reviewer wrote that although they do not stand up on their own, they "represent one of the most popular episodes of the entire Justice League series". The next pack contained Martian Manhunter, Green Lantern and
24882-505: The series was canceled. Queen is revived in 2000's, Green Arrow (vol. 3) as part of the " Quiver " story arc, written by Kevin Smith and illustrated by Phil Hester and Ande Parks . It is revealed that Hal's resurrection of Oliver (seen on the last page of Green Arrow (vol. 2) No. 137, the final issue of the Oliver/Connor ongoing series) was in reality a deliberately flawed one. In Hal's final hours before sacrificing his life to save
25056-435: The series was part of DC Comics' mature audience line, it took on a more gritty, violent, as well as urban tone, with Green Arrow often using deadly force against his enemies. Grell wrote the series for the first 80 issues, downplaying the super-hero aspects of the characters: Oliver abandoned his mask and was never actually referred to as "Green Arrow" and Black Canary was never shown using her sonic scream power (sometimes, this
25230-559: The series, DC almost immediately began restoring Green Arrow to the mainstream DC Universe. His ongoing series (mostly written by Kelley Puckett and drawn by artist Jim Aparo ) was removed from the "Mature Audience" line (which had evolved into " Vertigo ") with No. 63, prior to Grell's departure and Green Arrow began appearing in various super-hero titles as a guest: most notably Green Lantern (vol. 3) #47, which had Oliver aiding Green Lantern in rescuing his longtime girlfriend Carol Ferris and her family from one of Hal's enemies, as well as
25404-566: The special event comic Year of the Villain: Hell Arisen , the Batman Who Laughs joins with Perpetua. The resolution to the Perpetua story arc was advertised in Justice League #39 as "The Encore", which would eventually be published as Dark Nights: Death Metal . Published roughly contemporaneously, a six-issue miniseries titled Flash Forward follows Wally West being enlisted by a cosmic being known as Tempus Fuginaut to stop an incursion of
25578-589: The stories appearing in WildStorm Productions ' comic books occurred in a universe that was part of the Image Universe along with other characters appearing in Image Comics publications. It was separated from it during the event called "Shattered Image" consolidating the separate WildStorm Universe which had its own multiversal structure. After the purchase of WildStorm by DC Comics, crossovers occurred with
25752-522: The stories appearing mainly in the pages of JLA that created new Earths, the acquisition of other comic book companies and characters by DC Comics incorporated these new properties as Earths in the Multiverse which would interact several times with the "main" Earths, One and Two; two of the most notable being Earth-S for the Fawcett Comics characters, and Earth-X for the Quality Comics characters. By
25926-506: The stories that were told in Milestone Comics publications now occurred in New Earth and the Dakotaverse ceased to exist as a separated Universe. A naming convention was established and followed this time in the format Earth, hyphen, numeral , from Earth-0 to Earth-51. Even with a new Multiverse, not every published or related work had an "Earth" within the 52 and there were no in-continuity intercompany crossovers. Taking advantage of
26100-417: The then-unique role of a streetwise crusader for the working class and the disadvantaged. In 1970, he was paired with a more law and order-oriented hero, Green Lantern , in a ground-breaking, socially conscious comic book series. Since then, he has been popular among comic book fans and most writers have taken an urban, gritty approach to the character. Oliver Queen was killed off in the 1990s and replaced by
26274-580: The three previous "crises" did not occur in this new continuity, but other events such as Zero Hour still happened, without ending in a crisis/reboot. However, writers continued to make references to the crises, and the full history of the structure of the DC Multiverse, detailing previous crisis events, was given in Grant Morrison 's The Multiversity (2014–2015) limited series. The Convergence (2015) crossover event later explored this concept within
26448-470: The timeline, resulting in superheroes emerging later in history. After a confrontation with Superman, Manhattan attempts to erase his tampering and restore the Pre-Flashpoint and Pre-Crisis multiverses, as well as elements he had previously removed from the history of Earth-0 such as the Justice Society of America and Legion of Superheroes . It is later revealed that he failed, only managing to destabilise
26622-540: The timestream further as it attempted to accommodate events from previous versions of reality. Meanwhile, Dark Nights: Metal , written by Scott Snyder , introduced the concept of the Dark Multiverse, a multiverse below the main DC Multiverse of nightmare worlds created from heroes' deepest fears. A being named Barbatos launches an attack from the Dark Multiverse on reality, spearheaded by a force of villainous versions of Batman led by The Batman Who Laughs . The invasion
26796-487: The truth of her parentage. Robert was killed by Komodo in an attempt to save his daughter, and Komodo was later killed himself by Emiko. From 2013, DC also chose to include Green Arrow as a headlining character in its Justice League of America (vol. 3) series, which runs alongside Justice League (vol. 2) and Justice League Dark . In this book, Queen is part of a crack state-sponsored team assembled by Amanda Waller and Steve Trevor of A.R.G.U.S. to bring in good PR for
26970-536: The underlying structure for the multiverse was revealed in a detailed map in the back of several comic books, for which an interactive online version was maintained and updated on the DC Comics website. In addition, the sixth issue of The Multiversity constituted a 'guidebook' to the worlds of the current DC multiverse and was published in January 2015. In October 2011, Dan DiDio posted on his Facebook page that in The New 52,
27144-460: The underprivileged and the political left wing . The story also turned teammate Black Canary into a love interest for Queen. In the early 1970s, Green Arrow became a co-feature with Green Lantern ( Hal Jordan ) in an acclaimed series of stories by O'Neil and Adams that dealt with various social and political issues. The two co-stars served to represent contrasting socio-political viewpoints: Green Arrow spoke for radical change while Green Lantern
27318-453: The various social aid organisations and resources he had established alone, although Ollie was able to beat his opponent by resigning prior to the election and putting someone he trusted in charge of the city. The series concluded with Oliver proposing to Dinah ( Black Canary ). In 2007, Andy Diggle and Jock 's Green Arrow: Year One presented the newest official version of his origin. Using concepts from previous iterations, Oliver Queen
27492-437: The world of a revived post-apocalypse Atomic Knights after a mid-80s World War III once more. Many important stories from the Elseworlds imprint were later also given their own alternate Earths within this new Multiverse. In the miniseries, Milestone Forever , in a similar fashion as Captain Atom: Armageddon , the events that led to the end of the Dakotaverse and its integration to the new DC continuity are revealed. Most of
27666-417: Was alive (the dead Green Arrow being an impostor ) and being held hostage by " Athena ". The Black Canary, Connor and Mia launch a rescue mission to save Green Arrow. As the team is united and on their way to safety, Connor is struck by a bullet meant for Oliver and is left in a vegetative state. While Connor rests, Oliver and Dinah go out and are officially married, since they had never actually been married in
27840-422: Was also "assisted" by the aspiring superhero Miss Arrowette , with whom he had a brief affair. The New 52 reboot of Green Arrow has also introduced a number of new supporting characters for Oliver, including ex-Queen Industries technology experts Naomi Singh and Henry Fyff, and his archer half-sister Emiko Queen who later takes up the code-name Red Arrow . The characters of Felicity Smoak and John Diggle from
28014-464: Was an establishment liberal figure, wanting to work within existing institutions of government and law. Queen convinces Jordan to see beyond his strict obedience to the Green Lantern Corps , to help those who were neglected or discriminated against. O'Neil explained: "He would be a hot-tempered anarchist to contrast with the cerebral, sedate model citizen who was Green Lantern." The duo embark on
28188-716: Was canceled with issue No. 89 (April/May 1972), and the climactic story arc of the Green Lantern/Green Arrow series was published as a back-up feature in The Flash No. 217 through No. 219. In sharp contrast to the socially-relevant tales which preceded it, this story centered on emotional themes, with Green Arrow struggling to deal with the guilt of having killed a man. Afterwards Green Arrow appeared in solo stories run as backups in Action Comics , starting with No. 421. Elliot S. Maggin , who had made his comics debut with
28362-472: Was captured and brutally tortured. In response, Oliver murdered his girlfriend's attackers. The mini-series also introduced the enigmatic female Japanese archer, Shado , whose family had suffered in a World War II internment camp . Shado later raped Oliver and became pregnant by him, producing a son named Robert after his father . Under Grell, Green Arrow abandoned the use of his trademark gadget arrows and relocated from Star City to Seattle , Washington. As
28536-407: Was explained as having lost it due to the events of The Longbow Hunters , though this was not consistent with her appearances in other titles published during this period). While crossover specials were conceived to allow other writers (most notably Denny O'Neil , who wrote Batman and the mature audience comic The Question ) to use Green Arrow, Grell wrote him as largely isolated from the rest of
28710-604: Was killed in the bombing of Star City) and this immediately leads into the Rise and Fall storyline, in which Oliver obsessively hunts other super-villains allied with Prometheus during the recent events, including Prometheus's former allies who were involved in the bombing. When his JLA comrades learn of this plot, they confront Green Arrow and he realizes he has crossed a line and turns himself in: Black Canary returns her wedding ring and declares their marriage over. The Green Arrow/Black Canary series ends during this story arc, as well as in
28884-510: Was known as Prime Earth, although it was not a similar world to the real world as Earth-Prime was. J. Michael Straczynski 's re-envisioning of Superman and Geoff Johns ' reimagining of Batman were released as part of a series called Earth One . In Grant Morrison's The Multiversity (2014–2015), the Earths are named in the same format as in the former 52 Multiverse (Earth-6, Earth-7, Earth-8 etc.). Morrison intended for The Multiversity to reveal remaining universes of The New 52 multiverse, and
29058-536: Was one of 52 titles included in this. In the post- Flashpoint continuity, Oliver Queen is Green Arrow and he balances his own breaking of laws with his efforts to bring outlaws to justice across the globe. In the new continuity, Queen runs Q-Core, a communications technology company that is part of Queen Industries, through which he funds and armors himself as Green Arrow. He makes scarce allusion to his former partnership with Roy Harper , but Roy's memories in Red Hood and
29232-469: Was one of the few DC characters to keep going after the Golden Age of Comic Books . His longevity was due to the influence of creator Mort Weisinger, who kept him as a backup feature to the headlining Superboy , first in More Fun Comics and then Adventure Comics ; since Superman -related titles were all but guaranteed success during this period, Green Arrow endured the 1940s and 1950s relatively unchanged, outlasting most of his Golden Age contemporaries. As
29406-485: Was originally created by Perpetua, a member of a race of cosmic beings known as "Hands", referencing the common imagery in DC of a giant Hand creating the Universe. She also created the Monitor, Anti-Monitor and World Forger. The original Multiverse consisted of an infinite positive matter multiverse to be overseen by the Monitor; a dark matter Multiverse where the World Forger would create new universes to be either added to
29580-441: Was revealed that Green Arrow's ward, Speedy , was addicted to heroin. Speedy overcame his addiction with the help of the Black Canary. This story prompted a massive public reaction, including a congratulatory letter from the mayor of New York, John Lindsay . However, Green Lantern sales had been in a major decline at the time Green Arrow was brought on as co-star, and the O'Neil/Adams stories failed to revive them. Green Lantern
29754-510: Was revealed to have been created to preserve the Legion of Super Heroes' 30th century in New Earth. This world was used to allow crossovers with certain characters of the Legion of Super-Heroes and recreate characters that otherwise could not exist in the new continuity (such as Kryptonians , as in the New Earth Superman was the only survivor of Krypton). Alternate timelines were also used,
29928-423: Was the "Multiple Earths", which also showed a chaotic nature that brought even more continuity problems that were not easily explained or were simply left unexplained. Examples of this included: 1) the Black Canary of Earth-One being the daughter of the original Black Canary of World War II even though the original Black Canary was a resident of Earth-Two, and 2) the existence of Golden Age comic books on Earth-One and
30102-600: Was the character's primary scripter 1947–1963. In 1969, artist Neal Adams updated the character's visual appearance by giving him a Van Dyke beard and costume of his own design in The Brave and the Bold No. 85 (August–September 1969). Writer Dennis O'Neil followed up on Green Arrow's new appearance by completely remaking the character's attitude in Justice League of America #75 ( cover-dated November 1969), having Oliver Queen lose his fortune and become an outspoken advocate of
30276-488: Was the executive producer of Arrow , and Sokolowski served as a writer for the show. Kreisberg and Sokolowski's first issue featured The New 52 debuts of Felicity Smoak and Mia Dearden. Kreisberg's run saw him face off against the influential magnate John King, who is Mia's father, and his hired gun, Merlyn . At a moment of desperation given King's infinite resources and litany of loyal subjects, Felicity and Diggle recruit some of Green Arrow's allies and old enemies to help in
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