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Real Name

Current Alias

Aliases

Identity

Relatives

Millie King (mother, deceased); Bernell "Bowstring" Jones (husband, deceased); Cissy King-Jones (daughter)

Universe

New Earth

Base Of Operations

Star City, California

Characteristics

Gender

Female

Eyes

Blue

Hair

Blond

Status

Citizenship

American

Marital Status

Widowed

Occupation

Former crimefighter; former secretary

Origin

Creators

Lee Elias

First appearance

World's Finest #113
(November, 1960)

History

The first Arrowette (properly known as Miss Arrowette) was Bonnie King, a would-be sidekick and general nuisance to Green Arrow. She first appears in World's Finest Comics #113 (November 1960).

When Bonnie was a child, her mother Millie put her to archery training, controlling her progress all the time. She turns out to be very good and even goes to the Olympic Games, where she wins a Bronze Medal. Millie, though, had expected a Gold, argued with her daughter over her alleged failure. After that, Bonnie abandoned both home and archery. She never talked to her mother again.

Alone in Star City, she eventually becomes inspired by Green Arrow and Speedy (Roy Harper) and decides to use her skills in a way that counted. She makes a costume for herself and officially becomes Miss Arrowette. She carries trick arrows such as the Powder Puff Arrow. After that, she helps both archers a few times, even when they did not want her to. Bonnie turns out to be too clumsy to become a hero and too vain to wear a mask. Bonnie briefly dates Green Arrow in his civilian identity of Oliver Queen, as shown in Justice League of America #7 (October-November 1961).

At some point, she meets journalist Bernell "Bowstring" Jones, who remembers her from the Olympic Games and is probably the only human being to consider her a star. She nicknames him Bowstring because he is as thin as one and takes him briefly as her sidekick so he will give her publicity in his journal. Finally, Green Arrow asks her not to help them anymore.

She has to permanently leave archery because of carpal tunnel syndrome in her wrists, and also due to her job as a secretary. She talks Bowstring into marrying her and, one year later, she has a daughter named Cissie King-Jones. When Bowstring dies five years later from fish poisoning, Hal Jordan (working as an agent for the company that holds Bowstring's life insurance policy) gives Bonnie and Cissie the policy's beneficiary check; the money enables Bonnie to turn Cissie into a superhero. Cissie hardly has time to breathe between lessons of archery, judo, kick-boxing, gymnastics, ballet, and many other fields, and comes to resent her mother deeply.

Cissie King-Jones

Forced by her mother to adopt a version of her old costume, Cissie King-Jones becomes the second Arrowette. Arrowette first appears in the pages of Impulse wearing a frilly costume and a bejeweled mask that apes her mother's old costume. Despite Arrowette's success as a heroine, Impulse's mentor, Max Mercury, is concerned by what he sees as Bonnie's exploitation of her daughter. Child Welfare Services gets involved, and Bonnie loses custody of her daughter, who is sent to the Elias School for Girls, a boarding school.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

None

Abilities

Professional Archer

Strength level

Bonnie King has the strength of a woman her age who engages in moderate exercise.

Weaknesses

She honestly isn't very good. She is clumsy and vain.

Paraphernalia

Equipment: Bow and trick arrows.
Weapons:
Trick Arrows

Notes

No special notes.

Trivia

Bonnie's name is a parody or play off of Green Arrow's civilian name, Oliver Queen. Ironically so that Oliver, a man, has a last name of Queen, and Bonnie, a girl, has the last name of King.

Links and References

Arrowette at Wikipedia.org

Footnotes

Bonnie King-Jones (New Earth)