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GREEN ARROW VOL. 3 #1
Cover Date: April 2001
Cover Price: $2.50
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Cover Credits:
Art: Matt Wagner (signed)
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Credits:
| Story | Kevin Smith |
| Pencils | Phil Hester |
| Inks | Ande Parks |
| Lettering | Sean Konot |
| Colors | Guy Major |
| Editing | Bob Schreck |
Feature Character(s):
Guest Star(s):
- Superman (in flashback to the events of Final Night)
- Batman (in flashback to the events of Final Night)
- Parallax II (in flashback to the events of Final Night)
- Arsenal IV
- Black Canary II
- Oracle (as voice only, in transmission to Black Canary)
Supporting Character(s):
- Connor Hawke (last in Robin Vol. 2 #79)
Villain(s):
- Stanley Dover (a seemingly harmless old man)
- Unnamed drug dealers (first appearance)
- Two street thugs (Alex named; first appearance)
Other Character(s):
- Mr and Mrs Chagiynnski (a nasty lowlife criminal type and his abused wife; first appearance of both)
Comment(s):
- The returned Green Arrow uses a fork arrow, bleach bottle arrow and a drinks can arrow.
Synopsis: - Some time ago, in the midst of the Final Night crisis, when the Earth's sun went out, Batman and Superman stand atop the Daily Planet building and talk of many things. The cold. Pain. Redemption. In the course of their conversation, Superman feels a sudden chill that is nothing to do with the temperature as something small leaves his body. Elsewhere, Hal Jordan stands by the grave of Green Arrow, Oliver Queen, who reappears and collapses beneath his own gravestone.
- Now, three of those closest to Oliver look back on what he means to them. Arsenal, formerly Ollie's sidekick Speedy, remembers how Green Arrow taught him many things, patience above all. Black Canary remembers the love she had for him, and the times that he frustrated her and ultimately betrayed her. She is a different woman now than she was when she was with Ollie. And Queen's son, Connor Hawke, who followed in his footsteps as Green Arrow for a time, wishes to be free of his father's memory. He has come to a monastery to find peace, but he has also found boredom and cannot rid himself of a longing to find out who his father really was, or is.
- In Star City, once the home of Green Arrow, an old man, Stanley Dover, regrets how the world is going to pieces around him. He is set upon by a couple of muggers, but rescued by a hail of unlikely projectiles, fired by a man dressed in rags who bears an uncanny resemblance to the deceased hero.