User blog comment:Thailog/Ep. 125 "Usual Suspects" discussion/@comment-4981324-20120415035333/@comment-3465526-20120415175739

90's revisionism -- stick around since the 1940's and stupid writers will build up dumb story elements like barnacles around your character. Jim Harper/Guardian was the mentor for a 40's Kirby kid gang and Roy Harper was a poor Dick Grayson knockoff: Green Arrow's Robin -- Jim Harper was cloned by Kirby in his 4th World Jimmy Olsen storyline that introduced the DNA Project (that John Byrne later renamed Cadmus) and nobody cared ANYTHING about Speedy which made him a good target for radical storylines like being a Heroin addict or descended from Vandal Savage.