Mike Grell; and 2011 painting of Green Arrow and Black Canary by Alex Ross. 1905 edition of The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Emmuska Orczy’s 1905 novel, The Scarlet Pimpernel (based on her 1903 play), has been adapted into several movies (Jerry Siegel would have seen the 1934 version , starring Leslie Howard and Merle