Elijya
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Now, I recall myself doing something very similar before where the topic was about Aquaman. As before, I am now getting eager enough to want to read Green Arrow's series and what not. So first I got a few questions.
The Adams and O'Neil series run ('69-'83)
I'm pretty sure this was an amazing run considering the team but I have a few questions:
- Because of COIE, are those stories still in continuity? I ask this because I know with Aquaman, certain things were kept like the death of his son by Black Manta's evil plans back in the 70's, for example.
- If it is in continuity still, will I be confused if I did not read this series? I like to know a lot of background information on characters and supporting characters and such that show up in more recent and current series of a character.
The policy on PreCrisis stories is basicly "Assume everything is out of continuity... unless we say it's in continuity"
the O'Neil/Adams run is in continuity. It didn't last til '83, though, dunno where you got that number.
There's absolutely no need to go back and read it unless you want to try something nostalgic and retro. Here, lemme sum it up for you: Green Arrow is liberal, Green Lantern is conservative, they drive around America and deal with social issues like pollution, politics, racism, Native American rights, drugs, etc. In fact, there was a very powerful drug story where GA's sidekick, Speedy, gets addicted to heroin. It was one of the most social relevent titles for it's time, but the stories are pretty tame by today's standards. It's an important period in both of the characters history, but you really don't need to know anymore than what I just explained.
The only background you need to know heading into Quiver (again, the IDEAL place to jump onto Green Arrow) is that Green Arrow died when a bomb exploded on a plane, his illegitimate son, Conner (raised as a monk and one of the best hand to hand fighters in the DCU), took over his mantle. Hal Jordan, Green Lantern, meanwhile went crazy and killed a bunch of other GLs, but eventually became The Spectre, the really really powerful spirit of vengence and God's (yes, GOD's, though they don't ever show the big guy or anything)) right hand man, pretty much.
That's it, all you gotta know. And I didn't even know most of that when I first read it, I picked it up as I went along and I loved it