Fictional Representations
In Book One of DC Comics' Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters by Mike Grell, Howard Hill is mentioned by Oliver Queen as having been his childhood idol. It is this series that depicts Ollie's meeting with Hill during a cruise that led to Queen's becoming the Emerald Archer.
In fact, it is repeatedly mentioned throughout the regular Green Arrow series that Oliver Queen met Howard Hill on a cruise ship shortly before falling overboard. Hill is shown shooting a quarter out of the air with the bow he used on the film The Adventures of Robin Hood. He then gives this bow to Queen, who later finds himself on a tropical island using that very bow to survive. The bow makes a reappearance in the world of Oliver Queen when he begins to seek "spiritual guidance". It then becomes the bow he regularly uses in his crime fighting escapades. When Oliver dies in Green Arrow #101 his son Connor Hawke starts to use the Hill Bow to fight crime, and is still using it to this day.
In the first issue of Green Arrow: Year One, Oliver Queen (Green Arrow) buys the bow Hill used during the filming of The Adventures of Robin Hood.
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