{"id":1583,"date":"2019-09-11T08:36:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T15:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=1583"},"modified":"2020-02-15T09:46:07","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T17:46:07","slug":"217-when-ollie-met-roy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/217-when-ollie-met-roy\/","title":{"rendered":"217 &#8211; When Ollie Met Roy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"776\" height=\"942\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/oliver-meets-roy.png\" alt=\"A panel from the Green Arrow story in More Fun Comics #89, January 1943\" class=\"wp-image-1584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/oliver-meets-roy.png 776w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/oliver-meets-roy-247x300.png 247w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/oliver-meets-roy-768x932.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 776px) 100vw, 776px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from the Green Arrow story in More Fun Comics #89, January 1943<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if DC decided to give origin stories to some of their superhero partners or if this was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=1579\">coincidence<\/a>, but Green Arrow and Speedy are given an origin story in More Fun Comics #89 (January 1943):  Roy Harper is orphaned and marooned on a mesa while Oliver Queen chases after an archaeologic prize.  They meet up and are dubbed The Green Arrow and Speedy by criminals chasing them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s odd about this origin story is that Roy and Ollie are recounting the story to themselves in a flashback while taking a shower and cleaning up from an adventure.  Thank you for the well-placed steam and shower curtains?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/oliver-showers-with-roy.png\" alt=\"Another panel from More Fun Comics #89\" class=\"wp-image-1585\" width=\"413\" height=\"699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/oliver-showers-with-roy.png 550w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/oliver-showers-with-roy-177x300.png 177w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><figcaption>Another panel from More Fun Comics #89<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if DC decided to give origin stories to some of their superhero partners or if this was a coincidence, but Green Arrow and Speedy are given an origin story in More Fun Comics #89 (January 1943): Roy Harper is orphaned and marooned on a mesa while Oliver Queen chases after an archaeologic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[257,258,14,110,337,147,221],"class_list":["post-1583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-257","tag-awkward","tag-dc","tag-green-arrow","tag-origin","tag-sidekick","tag-speedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1583"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2283,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions\/2283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}