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My family called me Tarantula because of my hairy legs.

Tarantula was one of my favorites from the All-Star Squadron.

yeah, my family called me that because of the emaciated corpses I left ly...actually, maybe this isn't such a good idea for a bonding thread

Firebrand was my favorite. In fact, one of my favorite scenes from CoIE isn't cosmic or action-packed, it's the scene in the 1940s where she discreetly uses her powers to light a stove, and another woman says to her, "For a rich society gal, you're a good egg."

That scene made me a big fan of Firebrand!

Same here. It was so well-written and beautifully drawn, it was like a perfect little gem complimenting the big cosmic stuff. It was also one of the things that first got me interested in checking out back issues of All-Star Squadron.

The Squadron's large membership fascinated me. Like an earlier Legion.

I think at the time the All-Star Squadron title was published, it was very much thought of as the Earth-Two version of the Legion. It had a large membership and its adventures were set in a different era.

I also enjoyed how the All-Star Squadron was basically formed as a response to World War II.

It only happened a few times during the run of the series, but I loved it when the entire membership of the squadron would be present. It was great to see all those obscure characters together.

Group shots of superheroes are almost always a treat to see.

I especially liked the group photo in All-Star Squadron #60, which had all the Squadron members together with the Golden Age versions of Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, Robin, and (in his only appearance) Aquaman front and center. Later in the issue, when the effects of the Crisis "set in", the same photo appeared with the Freedom Fighters front and center. Interestingly, Green Arrow and Speedy were in both pictures. Their retcon out of existence hadn't been decided yet.

I'm pretty sure GA/Speedy not being wiped was a cock-up on the part of the editors (not quite sure if Mr Thomas saw it as a cock-up...)

In one letter column or another, Roy Thomas said that deletion of GA and Speedy from 1940s continuity came later. It was firmly in place by the time he started Young All-Stars.

In COIE, the Earth-2 Green Arrow was shown as not being remembered by the world at large. The headlines reporting his death had "Green Arrow" in quotation marks.

I always thought they should've just combined them into one character, with a career in both the Golden and Modern Age. After all, the Golden Age GA and Speedy had time traveled and emerged decades in the future anyway. It wouldn't take that much fudging to say that the rescue of the Seven Soldiers occurred much earlier in JLA history.

Maybe they wanted to have Green Arrow remain at close to the same age as the second Black Canary.

That's great thinking, Eryk! I guess they thought the two Green Arrows were just too different (no goatee or attitude on the Earth-Two GA). Still, I like it.

They had the same civilian name, though. Unlike with the Green Lanterns, Flashes or Atoms.

I find it interesting how Green Arrow has changed so much over the years since the Golden Age. What other DC character outside of the Trinity holds such a distinction?

Other than Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, only Aquaman and Green Arrow were published from the Golden Age till the Silver Age, so I guess they would be the only ones who would qualify.

Hawkman and Hawkgirl?

The Hawks were out of publication for over a decade. The Silver Age Hawks looked a lot like the Golden Age Hawks, but they had a completely different origin.

Ah, thanks for the dose of comics history.

I always did well in history.