In today's Stargirl comic, Oliver tells Emiko that he and Roy were the Golden Age Green Arrow and Speedy that were in the original Seven Soldiers of Victory.
Apparently, early in their careers, one of the Clock King's time traps blew up and Ollie and Roy were sent back to the past where they lived "for a bit" until they were returned to their own time after the battle with the Nebula-Man.
Is this new? It strikes me that this plays holy hell with continuity, not to mention leading me to wonder how two time-lost guys acquired an Arrowcar and Arrowplane.
I always thought they should just say that the Golden Age Ollie and Roy and the Silver Age Ollie and Roy were different guys who led similar lives. (As I recall, they even had different colored hair.)
It could be like those things you used to see in Ripley's:
"Uriah Flintstone of East Cowsills, Massachusetts and Uriah Flintstone of Nightmare Station, Oregon were both born on the same day, both grew up to be chicken inspectors, both married one-eyed professional gamblers named Magnolia, both had sons named Mildew who were born on the same day, and both were murdered on the same day by enraged optometrists named Czeslaw - and yet they never met!"
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"Is this new?"
This is the first I have ever heard of it.
"(As I recall, they even had different colored hair.)"
Yes, I can guaran-goddamn-tee you the Golden and Silver Age Green Arrows used to be two different people. (The Golden Age one is pictured below with everyone else who died in Crisis.) I imagine this is tied in with DC's new "everything happened" continuity policy.
That's very new!
As we know, the Golden Age Green Arrow and Speedy who were members of the Seven Soldiers of Victory lived on Earth-Two. Both were sent back through time during their battle with the Nebula Man, GA to Robin Hood's time and Speedy to Circe's. When they returned to the present in Justice League of America #102, they did very little until the Crisis where Green Arrow was killed and Speedy stopped existing!
After that, the Post-Crisis SSV lineup changed THREE times!
First Roy Thomas replaced the Amazing Archers with Wing and the Vigilante's running buddy, Billy Gunn.
Then Geoff Johns substituted Stuff the Chinatown Kid and Quality Comics' archer, the Spider (from "Alias the Spider") but now he was secretly a villain.
Later in DC Legacies, the roster now included TNT (back from the dead) and Dan the Dyna-Mite!
This sounds like the revamp of the Vigilante where he was active in the 1940s, sent back to the Wild West by the Nebula Man and stayed there for twenty years as a Western hero!
Roy Thomas used the different hair colors in All Star Squadron #29.
Another of many reasons they should have kept Earth-Two
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I just read the special... and honestly, I'm fine with the change. I'm not worried about what it'll do to continuity (what's that anymore, anyway), and I kind of like the notion of Ollie and Speedy being their own precursors.