DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #23 [Newsstand]

(July 1982)

Green Arrow Contents (Table of Contents: 1)

table of contents / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

The Green Arrow Scrapbooks (Table of Contents: 2)

Green Arrow / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Mike W. Barr

Pencils

Dan Spiegle

Inks

Dan Spiegle

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

J-8107

Genre

superhero

Characters

Green Arrow; Black Canary

Synopsis

Green Arrow and Black Canary look through some scrapbooks of Green Arrow adventures.

Indexer Notes

Framing sequence. On pages 3, 4, 23, 30, 43, 67, and 98 of the digest.

The Unmasked Archers! (Table of Contents: 3)

Green Arrow / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Ed Herron; Jack Kirby (plot?)

Pencils

Jack Kirby

Inks

Jack Kirby; Rosalind Kirby (backgrounds)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Police Commissioner; Arrow-Cave; Arrow-Car; Arrow-Plane

Synopsis

GA and Speedy's secret IDs are almost revealed in a practical joke.

Reprints

• from World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) #98 (December 1958)

Indexer Notes

Inking credits from The Green Arrow by Jack Kirby. Possibly plotted by Jack Kirby. Reformatted to fill six full pages.

The Case of the Camouflage King! (Table of Contents: 4)

Green Arrow / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Ed Herron

Pencils

Lee Elias (credited)

Inks

Lee Elias (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Camouflage King (intro); Arrow-Cave; Harry (Museum Guard); Frank (Museum Guard); Arrow-Car

Synopsis

Green Arrow must stop the Camouflage King from robbing the circus.

Reprints

• from World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) #102 (June 1959)

The Amazing Miss Arrowette (Table of Contents: 5)

Green Arrow / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Dave Wood

Pencils

Lee Elias

Inks

Lee Elias

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Miss Arrowette [Bonnie King] (Intro); Arrowcar

Synopsis

Miss Arrowette makes her debut by rescuing Green Arrow and Speedy from a gang of thieves.

Reprints

• from World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) #113 (November 1960)

The Green Arrows of the World (Table of Contents: 6)

Green Arrow / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Dave Wood ?; Ed Herron ?; Bill Finger ?

Pencils

Jack Kirby

Inks

Jack Kirby; Rosalind Kirby

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Phantom of France; Green Arrow (Mexico); Green Arrow (Japan); Green Arrow (Switzerland); Bowman from Britain; Bowman of the Bush; Green Arrow (Polynesia); "Counterfeit" Carson

Synopsis

"Counterfeit" Carson attempts to crash a party by the Green Arrows of the world to get his revenge.

Reprints

• from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #250 (July 1958)

Indexer Notes

Inking credits from The Green Arrow by Jack Kirby.

DC credited the script to Bill Finger in The Green Arrow by Jack Kirby and The Jack Kirby Omnibus #1 reprints, but they credit Dave Wood in the Showcase Presents Green Arrow #1 reprint. The GCD writing-experts' consensus is that Wood is the most-likely candidate, but Herron is possible, and Finger is also possible, but the least-likely of the three.

The Mystery of the Giant Arrows (Table of Contents: 7)

Green Arrow / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Ed Herron

Pencils

Jack Kirby (credited)

Inks

Jack Kirby (credited); Rosalind Kirby

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Green Arrow [Oliver Queen] (Feature); Speedy [Roy Harper]; Professor Riggles (Guest); Aliens (Villains)

Synopsis

When Green Arrow and Speedy investigate giant arrows falling from the sky, they find themselves pulled into another dimension when an arrow they are examining is retrieved.

Reprints

• from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #252 (September 1958)

Indexer Notes

Inking credits from The Green Arrow by Jack Kirby. Writer credit from Martin O'Hearn.

Prisoners of Dimension Zero! (Table of Contents: 8)

Green Arrow / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Ed Herron

Pencils

Jack Kirby (credited)

Inks

Jack Kirby (credited); Rosalind Kirby

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Green Arrow [Oliver Queen] (Feature); Speedy [Roy Harper]; Xeen Arrow (Guest); Alien Crooks (Villains); Arrowcar

Synopsis

In another dimension, Green Arrow and Speedy meet GA's counterpart Xeen Arrow and discover that due to a passing comet, a gateway to their dimension has opened up, and the mysterious giant arrows they encountered on Earth are merely children's toys from this other dimension which have passed through the gateway. The mystery solved, Xeen Arrow shoots them back to Earth through the gateway before it closes.

Reprints

• from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #253 (October 1958)

Indexer Notes

Inking credits from The Green Arrow by Jack Kirby.

The Senator's Been Shot! (Table of Contents: 9)

Batman; Green Arrow / comic story / 23 pages (report information)

Script

Bob Haney

Pencils

Neal Adams

Inks

Neal Adams

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Paul Cathcart; Edmond Cathcart; Miklos Minotaur; Munson

Synopsis

Both Batman and Green Arrow are attacked by Miklos Minotaur in their alter egos and have to decide if they can do more good by stopping being superheroes.

Reprints

• from The Brave and the Bold (DC, 1955 series) #85 (August-September 1969)

Indexer Notes

"New look" Green Arrow is introduced.

Green Arrow (Table of Contents: 10)

Green Arrow / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Denny O'Neil

Pencils

Mike Grell

Inks

Bruce Patterson

Colors

?

Letters

Ben Oda

Genre

superhero

Characters

Green Arrow (Earth-1, origin retold)

Reprints

• from DC Super Stars (DC, 1976 series) #17 (November-December 1977)
• in Batman (Editora Abril, 1987 series) #16 (Dezembro 1988) [original title: Green Arrow]

What Can One Man Do? (Table of Contents: 11)

Green Arrow / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script

Elliot Maggin

Pencils

Neal Adams

Inks

Dick Giordano (page 1, pages 3 to 13)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Editing

Julius Schwartz

Genre

superhero

Characters

Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Jack Major; Kevin McManus; Dinah Drake Lance [Black Canary]; Bruce Wayne [Batman]; Hal Jordan [Green Lantern]; Clark Kent [Superman]

Synopsis

After Green Arrow witnesses the death of a young boy in a riot, he decides that he might be able to do more for his city as its mayor.

Reprints

• from Green Lantern (DC, 1960 series) #87 (December 1971-January 1972)

Indexer Notes

Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. This is Maggin's first professional script.

The splash page (page 2) is shot directly from Neal Adams's pencils as he handed it in too late for inking. (Source: Man of Two Worlds by Julius Schwartz and Brian M. Thomsen, page 128).

The Plot to Kill Black Canary! (Table of Contents: 12)

Green Arrow / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Elliot Maggin

Pencils

Dick Giordano

Inks

Dick Giordano

Colors

?

Letters

?

Editing

Julius Schwartz

Genre

superhero

Characters

Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Black Canary [Dinah Lance]; Pete Larkin; Albert the Artist; Linda; Stanley; Seldon (Smuggler); Nenner (Smuggler); Louie (Snitch)

Synopsis

Green Arrow commits Black Canary to be the spokesman for a motorcycle company. While doing a display of the motorcycle at a car show, two thugs try to kill Black Canary.

Reprints

• from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #428 (October 1973)

Indexer Notes

Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

Swamp Thing Is Back! (Table of Contents: 13) (Expand) /

Swamp Thing / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[Preview of Stories] (Table of Contents: 14)

Green Arrow / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

Dick Giordano ?

Colors

?

Letters

Todd Klein

Job Number

C-938

Genre

superhero

Characters

Green Arrow

Indexer Notes

Back cover. Previews of the stories in the issue. Letters credit from http://kleinletters.com/.