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dr_hermes ([info]dr_hermes) wrote in [info]scans_daily,
@ 2009-09-16 22:47:00

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Entry tags:char: aquaman/orin/arthur curry, char: green arrow/oliver queen, char: green lantern/hal jordan, era: silver age, publisher: dc comics, title: justice league of america

Just how strong IS Green Arrow anyway?
Just a few panels from JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA# 5, with the usual Gardner Fox appproach of giving kids exciting, colorful epics that regard the laws of physics as mere suggestions.





Okay then. Green Arrow climbs out of his jet in mid-air (leaving it on auto-pilot, I suppose). Standing on the wing and not getting blown off by the 600 mph winds, he whips three fishing-hook arrows out of his quiver and fires them in close succession. Not only does he manage to snap his teammates who are falling from another plane (and look how far away they are in that first panel), he then grabs the fishing lines and lowers all three of them to the ground. He's reeling down roughly six hundred pounds of dead weight from a jet to the ground. Damn. If he can do things like that, he doesn't need a bow and arrows to fight crime.I loved Fox's stories for their imagination and outlandishness, but honestly, the guy went overboard as soon as he put paper in his typewriter...

char: green arrow, era: silver age, creator: gardner fox


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[info]sd_mouser
2009-09-17 04:43 am UTC (link)
I tend to ask myself what the pull is from that bow. The non-compound bow. The one he uses constantly.

His arm strength is probably JUST shy of being listed as "meta"

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[info]jcbaggee
2009-09-17 06:36 am UTC (link)
I seem to recall him saying during "The Archer's Quest" that his bow and a 100 pound pull on it.

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[info]kamino_neko
2009-09-17 02:01 pm UTC (link)
200, I believe.

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