Green Arrow I (Ollie Queen)

Real name: Oliver Queen
First Appearance: More Fun Comics #73
Death: Green Arrow (2nd series) #101
Ressurection: Green Arrow (2nd) series) #137
Known relatives: Robert Henry Queen (father, deceased), Moira Queen (mother, deceased), Connor Hawke (son), Robert (son)
Group Afilliation: Formerly Justice League of America I and Justice League of America III
Known Allies: Black Canary II, Arsenal, Mia Dearden, Green Lantern II, Green Lantern III, Shado, Eddie Fyers, Batman I, Superman, Flash II, Hawkman I,
Major Enemies: Merlyn, Eden Corp, Onomatopoeia, Stanley, Dracon, Brick
Height: 5’11’
Weight:185 lbs.
Eyes: Green
Hair: Blonde

Ollie Queen was born into a wealthy family in Star City. His father was an industrialist and big game hunter. Ollie was taken on one of the hunting trips by his mother and father to learn how to shoot, but instead took up a bow and arrow. When a lion attacked the camp, killing his parents, Ollie used his bow to kill it. He was heartbroken, and did not pick up a bow again for years.

Ollie spent the next few years growing up. He spent his family’s money, and became a playboy. One day, while on a party yacht, Ollie got drunk and fell overboard. He washed up on an uncharted island, and had to make a bow and arrow out of things he could find to hunt and survive. Eventually, a group of drug runners arrived on the island, and Ollie used his bow to capture them, take their boat, and bring them to the authorities.

Ollie returned to civilization a changed man, and became interested in radical causes. He took extreme left political positions, standing against nuclear power and war in all its forms. He met a woman named Moonday Hawke, and the two had a passionate affair. Moonday became pregnant, and the two had a son, Connor, who Ollie would not see for years.

But this wasn’t enough for Ollie. He decided he needed to give back more. Using his fortune, he created crime fighting paraphernalia, and decided to use his bow as his main weapon. Taking the name Green Arrow, he became hero to Star City’s downtrodden. He also began bank rolling the fledgling Justice League of America, who he joined shortly thereafter. He met Dinah Lance, Black Canary, and the two began a tumultuous relationship that would last for years.

Ollie met a boy named Roy Harper who idolized Green Arrow. Ollie took him in and made him his sidekick, Speedy. Ollie, Dinah, and Roy shared many adventures together for years, but soon, all that would change, leading to Ollie’s hard-traveling days.

Ollie and his friend Hal Jordan, the Green Lantern of earth at the time, confronted corruption in Star City, and Ollie wouldn’t let Hal turn a blind eye. Ollie dragged Hal along on a cross-country road trip, showing him the seedier side of America, the dark corners heroes rarely see. Along the way they learned that Roy had become a heroin addict, and Ollie and Dinah had to help him recover. Ollie also lost much of his fortune, giving him a new perspective on the poor.

Ollie and Dinah were out patrolling one night, when they came across a group of criminals. Blinded by a flash of light, Ollie’s shot was off, and he accidentally killed a criminal. Wracked with guilt, Ollie went to an ashram where he spent some time trying to come to terms with what he had done.

Ollie left the ashram and returned to Dinah, and the two intensified their relationship. They spent some time in Star City, but eventually moved to Seattle and bought a flower shop called Sherwood Florist. There happiness was shattered, though, when Dinah was kidnapped and tortured by drug dealers, and Ollie, in his rage, killed the man who did it. He also encountered the mysterious assassin Shado, and the mercenary spy Eddie Fyers, who would continue to impact his life. Part of it was that Ollie and Shado had a brief tryst, and produced a son, Robert.

Ollie and Dinah continued trying to work through the problems cause by the torture incident. They protected Seattle until Eddie, hired to discredit Green Arrow, framed him for terrorism. With the aid of Shado and a repentant Fyers, Ollie cleared his name, and went on a world quest to try to find his place in it again. Ollie eventually returned, where he reconciled with Roy, but he and Dinah split up after all these years.

Ollie spent some more time wandering before he became involved in the Earth shaking events set into play by Parallax, his friend Hal Jordan, now gone mad. Ollie was forced to kill Jordan (or so he thought), and Ollie once more returned to the ashram to find his center. There he met a young monk named Connor Hawke, and the two set out from the monastery to find out who has been trying to kill Ollie for some time.

Ollie and Connor track down Eddie Fyers for help, but Ollie is shortly separated from the others. He is confronted by Hal Jordan, not dead after all, and he tells Ollie that Connor is his son, something that Ollie may or may not have already known. Ollie was then asked by the same government organization that had been hunting him to infiltrate a radical environmental group called Eden Corp. Ollie did, and did his best to stop them, but he was too late to stop a plane with a bio-weapon to take off towards Metropolis. Ollie held the detonator, and Superman, who had arrived to stop the plane, said the only way to save the city was to sever Ollie’s arm and explode the plane before it reached the city. Deciding that he’d rather die then live as a cripple, Ollie released the detonator, sacrificing himself to save the city.

And so Green Arrow died. Or at least he did for a while. As one of his last acts before he sacrificed his own life, Hal Jordan brought Ollie back from the dead. Returning to Star City, Ollie was partially amnesiac, only remembering early in his career. He found a young runaway, Mia, and the two took up residence with Stanley, a rich and apparently benevolent old man. Then Ollie found out the truth: while his body and mind had been resurrected, his soul had not. Stalked now by supernatural forced who wanted to take his soulless body, Ollie fled to Stanley’s house to find Stanley was a serial killer and black mage, who wanted to transfer his soul from his dying body into Ollie’s healthy one. Connor appeared to aid Ollie, and Ollie’s soul returned to his body in time to stop Stanley, who was consumed by his own evil.

Stanley had already transferred all his wealth to Oliver Queen in preparation for his plan, and so Ollie was rich again. He kept the house, and Ollie, Connor, and Mia took up residence there. Ollie again began patrolling Star City, making it his home. He reconciled with Dinah, and the two began seeing each other again, and took a tour across the country with Roy, the two reclaiming all of Ollie’s possessions.

Ollie became embroiled in a corporate scandal in Star City, aiding young lawyer Joanna Pierce in trying to help some of Star City’s underclass. He also had a one night stand with her. The corporation sent a hitman named Dracon after anyone who knew its secret, and he killed Joanna and attacked Connor and Mia. Ollie felt immense guilt, for the affair and for the injury done to his friends and family.

One of Star City’s wealthy class recently decided to protect the city by invoking demons to protect the city from all crime, creating a dome of energy over it and stopping all modern technology. The demons did their job too well, killing for the slightest infraction. Ollie found that only weapons like his bow would work, and could harm the demons, so he and Connor gathered together Star City’s best cops and worst gangsters, and together they stormed the mansion of the spell caster. Coming along was Mia, who had become a good hand with a bow. While Connor and the mini-army held off the demons, Ollie and Mia found that the man who had cast the spell had been duped: the demons would continue to expand their power, and conquer the world. The only way to stop it was to kill him, and Mia fired the killing shot. The guilt that Ollie feels over turning her into a killer has caused him to become reckless, and has caused enough friction to cause another break between him and Dinah.

Green Arrow is the best archer in the world, able to hit targets at amazing distances. He is a serviceable hand to hand combatant, who has trained with the Justice League as well as at the ashram. He is quick tempered, and is known to fly off the handle. This coupled with his extreme political views lead to him often getting into trouble.


APPEARANCES:
Action Comics #314, 350, 365, 421, 424, 426, 428, 431, 434, 436-437, 440-441, 443-446, 450-452, 455-458, 480-481, 483, 546
Action Comics Weekly #609, 612
Adventure Comics #246-296, 439
Arsenal #1-4
Batman and the Outsiders #1
Batman Chronicles #7
Batman: Gotham Knights #53
Batman/Green Arrow: Poison Tomorrow
Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #127-131
Birds of Prey #87-88
Bloodbath #1-2
Blue Beetle (2nd series) #21
Brave and the Bold #50, 71, 85, 100, 106, 129-130, 136, 144, 168, 185
Butcher #4-5
Crisis on Infinite Earths #5
DC Comics Presents #20
DC Comics Presents Annual #2
DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #23, 54
DC Super-Stars #10, 17
Deathstroke the Terminator #39
Detective Comics #468, 521-525, 527-567
Eclipso #16-18
Flash (1st series) #175, 204, 217-219, 327-329
Flash (2nd series) #208-209, 214
Green Arrow (1st series) #1-4
Green Arrow (2nd series) #1-90, 0, 91-101, 137
Green Arrow (3rd series) 1-
Green Arrow Annual #1-7
Green Arrow: Longbow Hunters #1-3
Green Arrow Secret Files #1
Green Arrow: The Wonder Year #1-4
Green Lantern (2nd series) #76-87, 89-123, 165, 188, 190, 194
Green Lantern (3rd series) #47, 162-164
Green Lantern and Flash: The Brave and the Bold #4
Green Lantern Corps #220
Green Lantern: Rebirth #1-6
Hawkman (4th series) #5-6
Identity Crisis #1-7
JLA #69, 71, 73, 75-76
JLA 80-Page Giant #1
JLA: Incarnations #1-3
JLA/ JSA: Virtue & Vice GN
JLA Showcase 80-Page Giant #1
JLA: Year One #12
Joker #4
JSA #54
Justice League America #70
Justice League Elite #1-
Justice League International (1st series) #10
Justice League of America #4-24, 26-28, 31, 33, 36, 39, 40, 44-45, 50, 52-53, 55-61, 63, 65-69, 71-72, 74-80, 82-83, 85, 88-89, 93-95, 97-98, 100-105, 107-110, 112, 114-117, 119, 121-124, 127-130, 132-133, 135, 137, 139-148, 150-151, 153-155, 157, 159-163, 165-168, 170, 173-174, 177-181, 195, 200-202, 204-205, 209, 213-216, 218, 224-230
Justice League of America Annual #1-3
Justice League Task Force #4-5
Legends of the DC Universe #7-9, 12-13
Millennium #1, 3-8
Outsiders (3rd series) #6
Power Company #6
Question #18
Red Tornado #3
Saga of the Swamp Thing #24
Secret Origins (2nd series) #23
Supergirl (2nd series) #20
Superman (1st series) #199
Superman Family #207
Superman: The Man of Steel #20
Superman’s Girlfriend Lois Lane #29
Teen Titans (1st series) #25, 53
World’s Finest Comics #95-134, 136, 138, 140-141, 143, 145, 159, 178, 210, 244-248 251-259, 261-270, 272-283, 300
Wonder Woman (1st series) #300
Zero Hour: Crisis in Time! #4-3, 1-0