Writers: Various, but includes Alan Moore, Denny O'Neil, Mike Grell, Chuck Dixon and Kevin Smith
Artists: Various, but includes Mike Grell and Dick Giordano
Inkers: Various, but includes Dick Giordano
Letterer: Various, but includes Todd Klein
Publisher: DC Comics
What's it about?
Green Arrow, Oliver Queen, and Black Canary, Dinah Lance, are one of DC's most enduring couples.
Green Arrow is a non powered superhero who's skills lie in archery. He was a millionaire playboy who got shipwrecked on a remote island and had to develop his archery and survival skills, along with his common sense, in order to survive. Eventually he was rescued but not until after he'd broken up a drug business operating from the island. Once back to civilisation he took up nighttime crime fighting, decking himself out in a Robin Hood style costume.
Black Canary is superpowered. She has a canary cry - basically a sonic scream which she can use to incapacitate evil doers. Now I've just written that I feel I should add that this ability is not remotely related to stereotypes of shrill nagging women and is never, ever, presented as such. As well as her canary cry, she is an expert in many types of martial arts, in recent years she has become one of the best practitioners of martial arts in the DC Universe. She was inspired to start crime fighting by her mother who was the first Black Canary.
