The TV show actually uses a similar origin story to the very first Green Arrow comics from the DC 'Golden Age'.
The only major difference is that in the comic, Oliver Queen was actually the boy's father, Green Arrow himself being Roy Harper.
Here is a quick rundown of the original comic book story from the DC database:
Roy Harper was a young boy whose parents had been killed in a plane
crash that stranded him on the isolated Lost Mesa; he had learned to
hunt to survive. (His father) Oliver Queen's museum was burned down by
criminals he had been fighting during an attempted robbery, and he
ventured to the Mesa as a means of finding a new lease on life.
Criminals followed him in search of rumored treasure and shot Harper's
only friend Quoag, forcing the man and boy to work together. They took
their code-names Green Arrow and Speedy from off-handed remarks the
thugs had made, and defeated them using bows and arrows. Discovery of
the treasure made them very wealthy, and they used that money to fund
their crime-fighting careers.
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