The reason I am saying that Green Arrow got a TV show because of this series is that it is true. Before this series, Green Arrow was a backup feature. He was actually killed in the last issue of the Justice League series that ended before ‘Crisis on Infinite Earths’.
In Frank Miller’s ‘Batman: the Dark Knight Returns’, Oliver Queen shows up to help Batman fight Superman. Oliver is noticeably angrier and missing an arm. That lost appendage is a reference to the final issue of Justice League, Vol. 1. A bomb is on a plane, and the only way to save the people was for someone to stick a hand into the bomb and hold a pin or something. Miller’s DKR suggested that Superman saved Ollie by using heat vision to cut his arm off. DKR was not in the main DC Continuity. In the main DCU, Ollie died.
After ‘Crisis on Infinite Earths’, Green Arrow was a backup series, and the best issue was an Alan Moore written story that Klaus Janson drew. It’s pretty good. Not great, but pretty good.
Towards the end of the ‘80s, Mike Grell pitched a reboot book where Oliver and Dinah Lance live in the Seattle area, and fought crime in between fighting and making up with each other. Dinah Lance (Black Canary) owned a flower shop called 'Sherwood Florist’, and on and on.
Long story short, Mike Grell established Green Arrow as a character that could support an ongoing. He did so by way of his 3 issue mini series, and it is worth every penny to track it down.
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