On 1998's Green Lantern/Green Arrow/Flash team-up story "Three of a Kind"

"Three of a Kind" is a team-up story arc staring three characters with a lot in common: Each was a very young man, each was a legacy hero who had replaced a Silver Ager and each was then a member of the Justice League (although one of them was only on the team for eight issues). They were, of course, The Flash Wally West, who replaced Barry Allen after he gave his life during 1985-1996's Crisis on Infinite Earths; Green Lantern Kyle Rayner, who Ganthet gave the last Green Lantern ring to after Hal Jordan's heel turn in 1994's "Emerald Twilight'; and Green Arrow Connor Hawke, who took the mantle of his late father Oliver Queen when he died in 1995.The story ran through an issue apiece of each character's ongoing series—Green Lantern #96, Green Arrow #130 and The Flash #135—with each book's creative team handling a chapter. The results, unsurprisingly, are about as disjointed and occasionally incongruous as a one might expect from a story by three different writing teams and three…

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