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"The Green Arrow Scrapbooks": Green Arrow and Black Canary look through GA's scrapbooks and discuss several of his adventures.

DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #23 is an issue of the series DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest (Volume 1) with a cover date of July, 1982.

Synopsis for "The Green Arrow Scrapbooks"

Green Arrow and Black Canary look through GA's scrapbooks and discuss several of his adventures.

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Synopsis for "The Unmasked Archers!"

This story is reprinted from World's Finest #98.

When Oliver Queen's membership into an exclusive club involves an initiation prank featuring a fake newspaper revealing (albeit unintentionally) that Oliver Queen and Roy Harper are really Green Arrow and Speedy, the two heroes believe it's a real newspaper. Revealing their identities to the chief of police is met with laughter, at the chief believes it's just Oliver playing a practical joke.

When robbers make a getaway, the chief calls Oliver and invites him to watch the real Green Arrow in person. Having to show up as Oliver in a Green Arrow costume, Oliver and Roy use a series of gimmicked arrows to make it appear as though Green Arrow is ambushing the crooks and leaves just as they are rounded up, protecting Oliver's secret identity by verifying to everyone that Oliver is just playing a joke.

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  • Speedy (Flashback and main story)

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  • thugs

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Synopsis for "The Case of the Camouflage King!"

This story is reprinted from World's Finest #102.

A series of bizarre crimes in which the criminals are invisible to the naked eye bring the attention of Green Arrow and Speedy who take the case. The crooks in question are using a special camouflage spray that makes them blend into the scenery. When Green Arrow and Speedy show up to try and stop the crooks, they spray them with the chemical as well hoping that Green Arrow and Speedy's inability to see each other will trip them up. However, the two heroes manage to turn the tables and use the crooks plan to their advantage. Spraying the area with ink arrows to reveal the crooks, the two heroes get the drop on them and round them up for the authorities.

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Synopsis for "The Amazing Miss Arrowette"

This story is reprinted from World's Finest #113.

After Bonnie King wins a woman's archery competition, she decides to be a costumed crime fighter and calls herself Miss Arrowette. Idolizing Green Arrow and Speedy, she ends up helping them catch crooks with her uniquely feminine trick arrows.

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Synopsis for "The Green Arrows of the World"

This story is reprinted from Adventure Comics #250.

When an international convention of crime fighting archers is to meet, Green Arrow and Speedy are in attendance. However, the Archer of Scotland Yard is sudued by the crook Limehouse Larkin who hopes to kill all the archers using a bomb disguise as a "Big Ben" arrow. However, Green Arrow and Speedy foil Larkin's plot and unmask the crook, and turn him over to the police.

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  • Counterfeit Carson (Single appearance)

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  • Green Arrows of the World (Single appearance)
    • Bowman of Britain (Single appearance)
    • Bowman of the Bush (Single appearance)
    • Ace Archer (Single appearance)
    • Phantom of France (Single appearance)
    • Verde Flecha (Single appearance)
    • Archer of Arabia (Single appearance)
    • Archer of the Alps (Single appearance)
    • Troubador (Single appearance)
    • Emerald Archer (Single appearance)
    • Green Bowman (Single appearance)

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Synopsis for "The Mystery of the Giant Arrows"

This story is reprinted from Adventure Comics #252.

When Star City is terrorized by giant gimmicked arrows landing in the city, Green Arrow and Speedy get on the case. After destroying a few of the arrows they visit with an astronomer who has viewed where the arrows are coming from. Looking through the high powered telescope, they see a giant boy shooting the arrows from another dimension. When another arrow lands, this time with a string tied to it, Green Arrow and Speedy hop on and allow themselves to be pulled into Dimension Zero.

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Synopsis for "Prisoners of Dimension Zero!"

This story is reprinted from Adventure Comics #253.

Green Arrow and Speedy stare into the maw of the dimensional portal, only to find oversized arrows flying towards them from within. They tie themselves to a length of cable, and travel through the portal only to arrive in Dimension Zero. They discover that two giant-sized children are the ones repsonsible for slinging the arrows through the warp.

Green Arrow and Speedy leave the scene and explore more of this strange new world. They eventually encounter an alien who calls himself Xeen Arrow. Like Ollie, Xeen Arrow professes to be a heroic adventurer, and even maintains his own Arrowcave. The three bowmen team-up to stop a group of alien criminals. Afterwards, Xeen leads them back towards the dimensional rift and helps them to return home.

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Synopsis for "The Senator's Been Shot!"

This story is reprinted from The Brave and the Bold #85.

When the newly voted senator for Gotham City is shot before he can vote on a important anti-crime bill, Bruce Wayne is selected to finish the rest of the Senator's term during his recovery so that the crucial deciding vote for the bill be made. Meanwhile, as Batman, Bruce attempts to find out who was responsible for having the senator shot and along the way teams up with the Green Arrow to bring the shooter to justice, just in time for Bruce to vote in favor of the crime bill.

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  • Miklos Minotaur (Single appearance)

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  • Paul Cathcart (Single appearance)
  • Munson (Single appearance)

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Synopsis for "Origin of Green Arrow"

This story is reprinted from DC Super-Stars #17.

A gunman who was formerly employed by John Deleon, to whom Oliver Queen lost his fortune, holds a woman hostage at gunpoint aboard the deck of a ship. Green Arrow opposes him, seeking the briefcase full of evidence of Deleon's wrongdoings the gunman carries, but the terrorist insists on Green Arrow leaping overboard in return for his releasing the woman. Green Arrow remembers his origin story, how Oliver Queen once fell off another ship, swam to Starfish Island, learned the use of a makeshift bow, and used it to help defeat a band of pirates who landed on his isle. Green Arrow then manages to take out the gunman, though the briefcase is lost in the sea. He decides that the papers within it don't have much meaning to him anymore.

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Synopsis for "What Can One Man Do?"

This story is reprinted from Green Lantern (Volume 2) #87.

Star City Mayor Jack Major decides not to run for re-election, prompting his staff to search for a suitable replacement, and Oliver Queen's name comes up. Meanwhile, Oliver is struggling with feelings of uselessness, and wonders whether his alter-ego of Green Arrow is worth keeping up.

When the Mayor's representatives present their offer to Oliver, he calls up his Justice League friends for advice, but they are all discouraging. He resigns himself to being Green Arrow, and heads to Dinah Lance's place across town.

On his way, Oliver comes across an angry mob, and as he wades through it, he watches as a young black boy is shot in the back before his eyes. He carries the boy to one of the many ambulances waiting on the periphery, which rushes the boy to the hospital, but unfortunately the youngster dies in the operating room. A devastated Green Arrow walks away into the night.

Later, Oliver visits Dinah, where he reveals that his experiences dealing with the riot have inspired him to run for mayor.

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Synopsis for "The Plot to Kill Black Canary!"

This story is reprinted from Action Comics #428.

Green Arrow persuades Black Canary to do an endorsement of the Trump motorcycle as a favor to his publicity agency. Two crooks with a grudge against the Canary plot to have her killed while she rides the cycle at a stock car show. Green Arrow, getting wind of the plot, nabs the killer at the show, knocks Dinah off the cycle, and saves himself just before it explodes. Later, when Black Canary and Ollie are talking over the incident in his office, Dinah finally breaks down and admits that she thinks she loves him.

Appearing in "The Plot to Kill Black Canary!"

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  • Pete Larkin
  • Albert the Artist
  • Seldon
  • Henner

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  • Stanley
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  • Trump Motorcycle

Notes

  • "The Green Arrow Scrapbooks" is a framing story setting up and segueing between the reprinted stories.
  • One of the unnamed Dimension Zero thieves in this issue later served as the basis for the character Glorigold DeGrand.



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