| Storyline |
Green
Arrow found himself aiming at a man who vowed to
kill an innocent. While weighing his options, he
thought back on how he was created...
Oliver Queen, drunk and on a ship back to America,
fell overboard. He washed up on the shore of an
unknown island. Meal after meal of bananas and crabs
left him hungry for meat. Dazed, he chased a dear
and was knocked unconscious by a tree limb. While
out, he remembered receiving a toy bow and arrow
set as a child. Once he awakened, he fashioned one
of his own and hunted. After a bit of practice,
he realized he was a natural archer. Oliver hunted
down the man who'd been stealing his meals while
he slept. The man's name was Steven Clothier. He'd
been on the island around a year after he and some
friends had a sailing accident.
The two decided to build some sort of boat and get
to civilization. There was a wrecked ship on the
island full of dead bodies. Looking inside for something
to use as a sail, Oliver found out who "Steven"
really was - a stowaway who'd killed the crew and
crashed. He recognized the man's name as being that
of a famed serial killer. Queen tied the man up
and got away on their raft.
He later washed up on another island, this one inhabited.
Queen, calling himself Green Arrow, attacked some
drug traffickers and stole their boat. Six months
after vanishing, he was home.
He reclaimed his family fortune and decided to become
a costumed vigilante. One night, while taking a
young lady home with him, he was attacked and tied
up by Nicholas Kotero - the serial killer he'd left
on the island. Kotero killed his girlfriend, and
like Oliver had done him, he left the man tied up.
They met again - Kotero held a hostage on a boat.
Green Arrow was able to take him down without killing
him, and save the girl.
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