Editing Green Arrow (section)

===Post-Grell and character's temporary death===
[[File:Green Arrows (Oliver Queen and Connor Hawke).jpg|left|thumb|170px|[[Connor Hawke]] and Oliver Queen as Green Arrows on the cover to ''Green Arrow Secret Files & Origins'' No. 1 (December 2002). Art by [[Matt Wagner]].]]

Once Grell left the series, DC almost immediately began restoring Green Arrow to the mainstream DC Universe. His ongoing series (mostly written by [[Kelley Puckett]] and drawn by artist [[Jim Aparo]]) was removed from the "Mature Audience" line (which had evolved into "[[Vertigo (DC Comics)|Vertigo]]") with No. 63, prior to Grell's departure and Green Arrow began appearing in various super-hero titles as a guest: most notably ''Green Lantern'' (vol. 3) #47, which had Oliver aiding Green Lantern in rescuing his longtime girlfriend [[Carol Ferris]] and her family from one of Hal's enemies, as well as the 1994 DC Comics miniseries ''[[Zero Hour: Crisis in Time|Zero Hour]]''. In ''Zero Hour'', where Hal Jordan seeks to remake the universe after the trauma of [[Coast City]]'s destruction drives him to destroy the Green Lantern Corps to gain the power to remake the universe, Queen is forced to shoot his old friend at a pivotal moment. Now tightly integrated in the DC Universe, the character [[Connor Hawke]] was introduced and revealed as Oliver Queen's son from a previous relationship.

In ''Green Arrow'' (vol. 2) #100–101, Queen infiltrated a group of eco-terrorists known as the Eden Corps and sacrificed his life to prevent the group from detonating a bomb that would destroy the city of [[Metropolis (comics)|Metropolis]].<ref name="dc-ency"/> Superman attempted to intervene, but ultimately did not after Queen rebuked him for suggesting that Queen allow him to sever the arm attached to the bomb.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Green Arrow #101}}</ref>  The exchange between Queen and Superman pays tribute to Frank Miller's 1986 work ''[[The Dark Knight Returns]]''. Queen later admits in the ''Quiver'' storyline (where he is resurrected) that he refused due to both his own issues at this point in his life and the more practical issue that he would be useless as an archer with one arm. Queen's death allowed the writers to shake up the status quo by making [[Green Arrow (Connor Hawke)|Connor Hawke]] a replacement Green Arrow. The series, now written by [[Chuck Dixon]], would continue with Hawke as the main focus until issue No. 137, when the series was canceled.