When 1969 came about, however, his character would begin to evolve to meet the times.Īrtist Neil Adams would give Ollie a Van Dyke style beard in the team-up comic The Brave and the Bold, to change up the character’s appearance. Oliver would be one of the rare heroes to escape a then-modern reboot when DC’s heroes would start to re-emerge in 1954, entirely because he never left print.
Green Arrow would eventually land a spot in Adventure Comics as a regular backup story to Superboy, thanks to creator Mort Weisinger, also being the editor on the Superman books.
Ollie was another billionaire playboy who fought crime at night with themed gadgets and vehicles. Premiering in More Fun Comics #73 in 1941, his concept was not that revolutionary for the time. Green Arrow, aka Oliver Queen, began his life in comics as a Robin Hood crossed with Batman. Green Lantern’s sidekick of the era, an Inuit aerospace engineer, named Thomas Kalmaku… was nicknamed Pieface. Thanks to the politics of the day they were created, non-White characters were often given racist or unfortunate nicknames and awkward sidekick status. To make matters worse, the entire pantheon of DC characters tended to be white, unless they were a sidekick. DC focused entirely on the problems of the superheroic, with near-perfect personal lives. Most adventures involved heroes taking on goofy situations, or villains whose worst crimes were making a special kind of fish. In the 1960s, DC was solidly into the Silver Age of comics.
However, despite these progressive beginnings with their heroes, DC Comics was actually once accused of being out of touch. This seems to completely ignore the fact that Superman fought wife beaters and corrupt landlords in his earliest adventures, much less how heroes have always fought corruption and the wrong-headedness of any system. These days, many so-called fans of comics will decry that “SJWs” (Social Justice Warriors) are ruining comics and destroying the heroes they grew up with.
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