Created by writer Bill Parker and artist Greg Duncan, he first appeared in Whiz Comics #2.

[1] Golden Arrow was Roger Parsons who, as a young boy, went on a cross-country balloon trip with his parents.

His father, Professor Paul Parsons, was testing out an invention that was supposed to revolutionize aviation, but he and his wife were both killed by their greedy rival Brand Braddock.

Roger was found and raised by "Nugget Ned" and became the superhero Golden Archer when he grew up.

[1][2] He would fight "angry natives, evil cowboys and outlaws, talking totem poles, the female shootist the Gun Ghost, the killer Desolation, and Butu, the Ancient Bow-Man.