He's Superman. He wished only the best for all of us. Close your eyes. He wished for a happy ending. — Final Crisis #7
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THE COMPLETE GREEN ARROW BY DENNIS O'NEIL - READING GUIDE
On The Order:
Reading this chronologically woudn't really work. He retconned his own work(for the better). However, there are notes here that would allow you to easily organize things chronologically.
There are some stories here that don't really have Green Arrow that much. You will know which ones as there will be notes on them pointing that out.
The Retconned Story and The Retcon Story:
- To read chronologically without facing contradictions, just skip JLA #75 and DC Super-Stars #17, And instead read Peacemakers and The Arrow and the Bat before JLA #66.
PRE-CRISIS
DENNIS O'NEIL'S RUN ON JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
This is the run in which everything starts. Anarchist Green Arrow, Black Canary in the League, GA and BC relationship...
He doesn't show up in 3 issues of the run(70, 73-74).
This run is also very important for Black Canary. And their relationship. This is where everything starts. Black Canary on the JLA, anarchist Green Arrow. BC and GA's relationship...
- Justice League of America #66, 68-75, 77-83
- GA doesn't show up in 3 issues: #70, 73-74
- The latter part of this run was released during the beginning of GL/GA
PRE-CRISIS ORDER:
The order here is the DCUGuide order.
JLA #66, 68-75, 77-80
Green Lantern #76-77
JLA #81
Green Lantern #78-79
JLA #82-83
Green Lantern #80-83
Superman #236(b)
- Here my bias showing. It's a short story about Krypton. GA and BC are listening to Superman telling this story. I really like this one. It's worth checking out. You get cool moments for GA and BC in the first and last page of this.
Green Lantern #84-86, 89
The Flash #217-219(b stories)
Green Lantern #90-99
DC Super-Stars #17(a)
- Origin story in a flashback. The non-flashback part is following up on JLA #75
Green Lantern #102-106, 108-115
World's Finest Comics #256(b)
- Team-up with Black Lighting, part of O'Neil's run on BL
Green Lantern #116-122
DC Comics Presents #20
POST-CRISIS
FROM THE QUESTION BY DENNIS O'NEIL
These stories are from O'Neil's Question run.
The Question #17-18
FABLES
- Detective Comics Annual #1
- Green Arrow Annual #1
- The Question Annual #1
LOSING/SAVING FACE
- The Question Annual #2
- Green Arrow Annual #2
Green Arrow Annual #3
- Epilogue of The Question's 1986 series.
THE RING, THE ARROW AND THE BAT
All stories from now on are team-ups with either Batman or Green Lantern.
Batman/Green Arrow: The Poison Tomorrow
Justice League Task Force #5-6
- Part of Knightquest: The Search
- Not that much Green Arrow
PEACEMAKERS
Legends of the DC Universe #7-9
- This is a tale of how GA came to be the character O'Neil made him be. It retcons JLA #75
- O'Neil characterize this as a Year One-type story
- It works with the post-zero hour continuity. Just doesn't match certain elements of O'Neil's JLA run
- It leads to GL/GA
- It matches fine with GL/GA
- Due to Ollie's characterization, this would have happened before JLA #66
THE ARROW AND THE BAT
Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #127-131
- Sequel of Peacemakers
- It's set before the last scene of Peacemakers.
DC Retroactive: Green Lantern - The '70s
- This one ties Peacemakers and The Longbow Hunters.
- It would fit right after the next story.
TIME ALONE
Green Lantern 80th Anniversary Super Spectacular(d)
- Last published O'Neil work.
- I don't know where this would fit. I would guess before Green Lantern #172. For Green Arrow, that would be after DC Comics Presents #20