Green Arrow: The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 1

by Mort Weisinger

In 1941, during the peak of the Golden Age of Comics, the Green Arrow made his debut. Armed with only a bow and a quiver full of arrows, the Emerald Archer and his teen sidekick Speedy must battle corrupt gangsters, evil Nazis and deadly super-villains as a modern day Robin Hood. These adventures also included the debut of some of Oliver Queen and Roy Harper's greatest weapons in their war on crime, such as the Arrowplane and an assortment of trick arrows!

These groundbreaking classic stories--which started Green Arrow's decades-spanning fandom--are gathered for the first time in this singular, expansive hardcover collection.

GREEN ARROW: THE GOLDEN AGE OMNIBUS VOLUME ONE collects for the first time ever all of the Emerald Archer's adventures from MORE FUN COMICS #73-107, ADVENTURE COMICS #103-117 and WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #7-28 and includes a foreword by legendary comics writer Roy Thomas.

Genres: Comics, Dc Comics

792 pages, Hardcover

First published January 9, 2018

About the author

Mortimer Weisinger was an American magazine and comic book editor best known for editing DC Comics' Superman during the mid-1950s to 1960s, in the Silver Age of comic books. He also co-created such features as Aquaman, Green Arrow, and Johnny Quick, served as story editor for the Adventures of Superman television series, and compiled the often-revised paperback 1001 Valuable Things You Can Get Free.

Reviews

[Little Timmy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice collection of the rare Golden Age stories. Good fun reads. Recommended

[Bill Wallace · Rating 3 out of 5]

Beautiful, if heavy, presentation, but a challenge to my usual preference for completeness. If DC is going to compile this much similar material though, it's hard for me to imagine anyone reading it. I have a near fetish about finishing a book I start and I only made it about 250 pages into this one. The original stories are extremely representative of their era and a few of them are minor gems, with smart stories and nice art, but the mind-numbing repetition of themes, the utter lack of depth to the characters (usually), and -- did I mention the mind-numbing repetition -- it's really really repetitive -- compel me to move this big book off my coffee table and onto a shelf where it will likely never be taken from.

I generally love Golden Age comics but this book was just too big a bland bite. Also, the completest in me would much rather have seen a More Fun Omnibus, which would have less commercial appeal but at least the repetition would be broken up.

[Bob Fish · Rating 3 out of 5]

Thank god for Maurice del Bourgo.

[Matt Sautman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Green Arrow: The Golden Age Omnibus may do a great job demonstrating how strong Green Arrow's art direction was at the series debut, but, as a golden age series, these comics lack the same narrative continuity that makes similarly sized omnibuses worth devouring. Green Arrow is a fun series, but reading this book cover-to-cover can devalue some of that charm found when reading only a few issues at a time.

[Kris · Rating 3 out of 5]

TBC

[Ekenedilichukwu Ikegwuani · Rating 1 out of 5]

i love ollie, but his initial outing leaves so much to be desired

[Audie Ash · Rating 2 out of 5]

Clearly from what is identified as the “golden age” stories are repetitive with few over arching stories between comics.

It is neat to see the origins of the green arrow, although the green arrows origin story is not told in this omnibus