[phabox]

Slightly further back then that -LOL

-Nigel

[paw broon]

phabox, put us out of our misery, please.  Robin Hood and other clips and info on old British tv shows can be found here:-

http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/

Captain, thanks for the link, an excellent site.  I can't find the female archer you're talking about but I'm really curious now. I've been raking through my card index and, again even though they're not G.A., we shouldn't forget Queen Arrow from Worlds Finest in the late 50's, who was a female counterpart of Green Arrow.  (See what they did with the name there, clever, eh?)  Her costume is a female version of G.A.
Also, in U.K we had Justine, Winged Messenger of Justice, who appeared in the girl's weekly, Sally, in 1969 - 1971, I think, and when Justine Jones is in the Justine persona, has a magic bow which fires sleep arrows _  boox, her cloak gives her flight powers.
Plus, The Archer.  Appeared in the serial, "The Secret Flyer" in weekly comic The Hotspur in 1965.  He was a mysterious cloaked bowman who led the resistance in France.
Off to watch a couple of episodes of THAT Robin Hood.

[phabox]

The Maid Marion that I once met was none other then Hollywood legend Olivia DeHavilland herself who starred along side the best ever IMO Robin Hood Errol Flynn in the 1938 classic.


-Nigel

[boox909]

The Maid Marion that I once met was none other then Hollywood legend Olivia DeHavilland herself who starred along side the best ever IMO Robin Hood Errol Flynn in the 1938 classic.


-Nigel

Lucky!!! 

[paw broon]

Lucky sod. 
Try this for a tiny bit more on the Black Archer. Probably trying to teach my granny how to suck eggs as you all probably know about this site. Should have remembered this as the listing includes some of my info. :-

http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/b/blacarch.htm

[boox909]

paw broon thanks for all of the perspective you are bringing us about non-US comics and fandom.   

B.

[paw broon]

Pleasure.  I love this stuff. Just tell me when it gets a bit much.  I can bore for Scotland on this.

[Captain Audio]

Ressurecting this discussion to tell you of a few real life types of arrows that our intrepid Golden Age Archers might have used.

One that probably was considered a myth, until in recent years an interested archer dug up the historical references and created working copies, was the Turkish boomarang arrows, not what they called them of course but it describes their function.
These arrows could be fired at a high angle of elevation into the air by an archer on a parapet the arrow reaching its maximum height would then do a flip and come back in the general direction of the firing point, but losing alitude quickly it would strike among enemy troops who were attempting to batter through the wall with a battering ram. These war machines usually had thick wood and hide coverings to protect against arrows and rocks thrown from overheard but by necessity would be open at the back end.

American Indians sometimes used a sort of shotgun effect arrow for hunting birds, shooting fast flying birds on the wing.
The arrows were split lengthwise and the splines steam bent to spread out as far as possible. The end of each spline had a tiny fish hook like barbed head. Sometimes more hooks were added along the length of the splines.
A thick ring of hardwood or stone was splipped over the arrow to hold the splines close together.
When fired the inertia of the heavy ring caused it to slide back freeing the splines which opened up like an umbrella's ribs.
This gave a rapidly spining barbed framework that gave a much better chance of snagging a rising bird on the wing at close range.

[boox909]

Ressurecting this discussion to tell you of a few real life types of arrows that our intrepid Golden Age Archers might have used.

One that probably was considered a myth, until in recent years an interested archer dug up the historical references and created working copies, was the Turkish boomarang arrows, not what they called them of course but it describes their function.
These arrows could be fired at a high angle of elevation into the air by an archer on a parapet the arrow reaching its maximum height would then do a flip and come back in the general direction of the firing point, but losing alitude quickly it would strike among enemy troops who were attempting to batter through the wall with a battering ram. These war machines usually had thick wood and hide coverings to protect against arrows and rocks thrown from overheard but by necessity would be open at the back end.

American Indians sometimes used a sort of shotgun effect arrow for hunting birds, shooting fast flying birds on the wing.
The arrows were split lengthwise and the splines steam bent to spread out as far as possible. The end of each spline had a tiny fish hook like barbed head. Sometimes more hooks were added along the length of the splines.
A thick ring of hardwood or stone was splipped over the arrow to hold the splines close together.
When fired the inertia of the heavy ring caused it to slide back freeing the splines which opened up like an umbrella's ribs.
This gave a rapidly spining barbed framework that gave a much better chance of snagging a rising bird on the wing at close range.

This is neat stuff, Cap!    

[Captain Audio]

Glad you liked it.

Another archery related device was the use of Crossbows in WW1 and WW2 to launch message cylinders from one trench or bunker to another when field phones weren't operating.
Don't know what form the WW1 Crossbows had, but images of the WW2 crossbows show the "Arrowspeed" crossbow used by australia with the normal prod while another photo of a crossbow used in the 20th century world wars had the rubber tubing used by spearguns rather than a bowlike prod.
These crossbows were also used to launch small bombs. The range was less than a rifle grenade but these were more accurate and made no noise to speak of.

They could also launch a fine wire or line that could be used to draw in a field phone line.