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Stanley & His Monster info page

written by Phil Foglio art by Phil Foglio, Keith WIlson, & Tom McCraw

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(Green Arrow 2001 #2 & #3)

Stanley Dover is officially my new favourite character guys oh my gosh

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they would NOT publish this in the year 2024

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Oliver Queen about child (super)heroes - "We were all stupid"

Batman is still stupid, then hdjskaozpxp.

He's against training Mia as his partner for Green Arrow stuff. Mia argues, mentions Arsenal, Roy Harper.

Green Arrow vol. 3 (2001) #11

[fantajoseph]

Reading list for Stanley and His Monster: so Stanley and His Monster have had three canon versions.

First up is the original 60s run. This one is the longest, but it's a lot of mindless antics, and a decent portion of it is just "what if someone talked funny", so while I'm a completionist at heart, here's six issues to show what I think is important to understand about this version.

The Fox and the Crow #95: the first appearance of the pair! Already a lot of fun things going on, especially that the parents are already pretty fleshed out.

The Fox and the Crow #97: Napoleon's Ghost is added to the cast. I love the use of line weight in how they draw him, and how they tie him into the central lying dynamic. They constantly go back and forth on writing him as the real Napoleon, a knowing liar, or a deluded man, btw.

The Fox and the Crow #99: Schnitzel and Schaugnessy are also added to the cast. They'll be the last edition until Stanley's babysitter, but they never do much with her, whereas they complete the dynamic of Stanley having a bunch of magical creatures, all hiding from the outside world for one reason or another, barely keeping the peace with each other and learning to help Stanley. They constantly change the terminology they use to refer to these two, by the way, from gnome to gremlin to dwarf to leprechaun (though they're pretty much never the same kind of thing, despite acting close to identically).

The Fox and the Crow #103: partially I'm putting this here for the poem at the start, I love "But he liked being found", it's a great summation, but also like this one weaves between Stanley's childhood, his parents trying to make sure they're raising him right, and the complications of secretly having a monster in your house pretending to be an imaginary dog.

The Fox and the Crow #107: I'll admit it, this one is just here because I like that the immigration police are just straight up the antagonists and fooling them is considered a just ending.

Stanley and His Monster (1968) #112: the series briefly moved into a self titled, containing multiple stories per issue and dropping Napoleon. If it was possible for a series like this to jump the shark it did, as the introduction of Spot's beatnik son in this final issue attests. Still, the final story delivers on a lot of the fundamental concepts of the series, even if it does cop out a little, (but read the right way, is pretty sweet).

The 90s version is a very tight five issues, almost entirely one miniseries. It introduced the idea Spot is a demon, which all adaptations have leaned on in one way or another since. Start with Secret Origins Vol 2 and then the four issues of the 1993. This is probably the best execution of the concept so far, even if there's things I'd tweak.

Finally, the most well known, it's all very spoilery, so just read the Green Arrow Quiver arc. This is the only version to have shown up outside of their own series in any canon compliant way, but probably the least recognizable, maybe even moreso then their Elseworlds appearances.

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Green Arrow #2 (2001)

Writer: Kevin Smith

Artist: Phil Hester

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