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CREATOR - STORY

Name: Mortimer 'Mort' Weisinger.
Personal dates: Born 1915 in New York, USA. Died 1978 in New Jersey, USA.
Other creations: None.
Successors: Joe Samachson.
Comments: Widely known as editor of - and partly scripter to - DCs Superman magazines.

CREATOR - GRAPHICS

Name: George Papp.
Personal dates: Born 1916 in New York, USA. Died 1989 in New Jersey, USA.
Other creations: None.
Successors: Maurice del Bourgo, Steve Brodie, Jack Kirby, Cliff Young.
Comments: Papp drew the series until 1958 only interrupted by his joining the army at the beginning of WW2. After Green Arrow Papp drew Superboy for a number of years.

MAIN STORY

The series premiered in 1941. Despite having been terminated several times (officially in 1978) the series is still sporadically revived.

The series was one of more similar that emerged after Batman in 1939. Batman and his young helper Robin are masked crime-fighters without supernatural powers just as Green Arrow and Speedy in this series.
The two main characters are dedicated masked archers in Robin Hood-like costumes working under their secret identities, but when out of uniform they are known to the public as playboy millionaire Oliver Queen and his ward Roy Harper.
Their weaponry is quite inventive; they carry all sorts of special arrows for every imaginable contingency; net arrows, glue arrows, spy camera arrows, lasso arrows, boxing glove arrows, boomerang arrows...