I've been reading some extremely early Green Arrow and Speedy appearances and I'm weirdly emotional about them? They're just having such a good time being huge dorks!

Our very first look at these astonishingly generic WASPs with their hair-colored hair and tennis whites. Bless.

This is why you two weren't asked to join the Justice Society.

Bruce: *trains his Robins in a dozen martial arts disciplines from around the world*
Ollie: Eh, kick 'em in the butt, that'll probably work.

Still on the Golden Age Green Arrow train. Oliver, why did you buy this child Hugh Hefner's pajamas? (The less said about why Roy is disrobing - or re-robing? - the better.)

1. Why is Roy dressed like a tiny waiter?
2. How many times has Ollie hit himself on the head with that chair while standing up? Like a hundred, right?

Help, Roy's reaction to meeting a bunch of movie stars is too cute, I'm dead from increasingly tiny "oh boys!"

Pictured: a man who has never worked a day in his life wildly overexcited about the concept of a lunch hour.

Hey look, there's a cameo of me in this comic published 40 years before I was born!

Roy has a date with every single student at a random high school. Checks out.

I'm in love with this splash page. Shockingly dynamic for a Golden Age comic!

I will not rest until "Ollie the Croaker" is as frequently used as Matches Malone. Do you hear me, DC?!

I was so surprised that this comic revolved around a snuff box making Roy sneeze (since I think of it as being very 1800s) that I looked up the history of snuff and there was a communal snuff box in Congress through the mid-1930s. Not relevant to this comic, but a fun fact!

I have never seen someone yell "EEEH!" in a comic book before and I think we should bring it back.

This is why it took 25 years for either of you to make any friends.

This is the greatest supervillain origin I have ever read.

I can't stop laughing at literally everything about this.

BRING BACK THE YAHOO ARROW

THEY LOVE EACH OTHER also that rescue method seems rough on the ol' armpits

help it's cute

(ollie, give barry his bow tie back)

No wonder Roy has Issues.

Everything about this panel is hilarious to me, including:

1. Somehow despite having an entire trophy room dedicated to his crimefighting career, a weird photo with the only person he ever talks to is Roy's proudest possession?

2. That Ollie even gave him that photo in the first place.
3. "CUT ME OUT OF THIS PICTURE AND THROW MY FACE AWAY."
4. Ollie's completely unconcerned that the orphan child he's the legal guardian of is just...gone. Will Roy starve to death? Who cares? HE LEFT THEIR PICTURE BEHIND.

There's context for this (...sort of), but it's so much better as sublime surrealistic nonsense.

Little known fact: 20 years before becoming a big time Marvel villain, Doctor Doom engaged in his usual time traveling shenanigans over at DC! (He later dropped the E.) Anyway that combover is why the mask these days.

He's just cute and I love him. Enjoy.

Every so often a character in a Silver Age comic has believable body language and it's always kind of startling. Anyway I'm in love with how Roy's sitting in that chair.

This is the summer I want to be having. Lounging in a hammock on an island, fanning myself with a palm frond, scratching a goat. And also the Crimson Avenger is there.

Ollie's been trying out lash extensions and I think they're really working for him!

Sometimes I love comics so, so much.

Too few Green Arrow comics include the phrase "young Roy Harper impersonates a boy hobo." (P.S. This story involves him getting amnesia and believing he really IS a boy hobo so if there had been Eisners in 1948 I'm sure this would have won.)

Everything about this conversation is incredible.

I don't think there are enough quotation marks in this panel. It needs more.

Somewhere Ollie is incredibly offended.

This is the greatest supervillain costume I've ever seen, and I demand that everyone I know cosplay it as soon as we can have in-person cons again.

Damn lion actors!

I just want everyone to know that Roy once played "Mr. Frog" in a school production of Alice in Wonderland and Ollie help him learn his lines and it was unbearably cute but also a little terrifying.

Here is my list of demands for when DC inevitably brings Roy back from the dead:

1. Lian comes back too.
2. Better tattoos.
3. He says "Great cats!" and "Jeeps!" again.

BRING BACK PEARLY QUEEN AND ZEB QUEEN

Roy's just really cute here, that's all.

Where in deuce did you come from, Cotton Eye Joe?