Green Arrow: The Eighties

Although not as well-known as the “Hard Traveling Heroes” era of Green Arrow, the 1980s musings of writer Joey Cavalieri were just as relevant to their times. During the decade, Green Arrow was consigned to the back pages of Detective Comics, reduced to seven-page narratives following a main Batman storyline. Cavalieri used those pages prudently, portraying Oliver Queen as a newspaper columnist and offering insights into the Reagan Era not so much as plot points but small tidbits randomly inserted into the mix instead.