When We First Met – The Cast of Arrow

Eventually, in a really confusing storyline. we learn that the Justice League Black Canary is actually the DAUGHTER of Dinah Lance.

After Crisis on Infinite Earths, the whole daughter thing is made a lot less confusing as it is simply that the first Dinah Lance was the Black Canary in the Justice Society and then later her daughter was the Dinah Lance in the Justice League. In Secret Origins #50, we also learn the difference in their names, as the daughter is Dinah LAUREL Lance…

On the next page, we learn the origins of Oliver’s crime-fighting allies, including the surprising comic book origins of Felicity Smoak!

Oliver’s former bodyguard and now top partner in crimefighting, John Diggle, was invented for the Arrow TV series (his name is a reference to Green Arrow: Year One writer Andy Diggle).

Diggle eventually made his comic book debut at the end of Green Arrow #24, late last year, by Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino…