43 Facts About Oliver Queen

Oliver Queen's real name is Oliver Jonas Queen, a wealthy businessman and owner of Queen Consolidated who is a well-known celebrity in Star City.

Oliver Queen uses this position to hide the fact that he is the Arrow.

Connor proved a less popular character, and the original Oliver Queen character was resurrected in the 2001 "Quiver" storyline, by writer Kevin Smith.

Oliver Queen retooled the concept into a superhero archer with obvious Batman influences.

Oliver Queen was one of the few DC characters to keep going after the Golden Age of Comic Books.

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Oliver Queen's longevity was due to the influence of creator Mort Weisinger, who kept him as a back-up feature to the headlining Superboy, first in More Fun Comics and then Adventure Comics; since Superman-related titles were all but guaranteed success during this period, Green Arrow endured the 1940s and 1950s relatively unchanged, outlasting most of his Golden Age contemporaries.

Oliver Queen convinces Jordan to see beyond his strict obedience to the Green Lantern Corps, to help those who were neglected or discriminated against.

Grell wrote the series for the first 80 issues, downplaying the super-hero aspects of the characters: Oliver Queen abandoned his mask and was never actually referred to as "Green Arrow" and Black Canary was never shown using her sonic scream power .

In Zero Hour, where Hal Jordan seeks to remake the universe after the trauma of Coast City's destruction drives him to destroy the Green Lantern Corps to gain the power to remake the universe, Oliver Queen is forced to shoot his old friend at a pivotal moment.

Superman attempted to intervene, but ultimately did not after Oliver Queen rebuked him for suggesting that Oliver Queen allow him to sever the arm attached to the bomb.

Oliver Queen's death allowed the writers to shake up the status quo by making Connor Hawke a replacement Green Arrow.

Oliver Queen's resurrection is eventually used by the grandfather of Stanley Dover in an attempt to gain power over the monster that Dover accidentally bound to his grandson, Dover intending to take Oliver's body- possible only due to his lack of a soul- and use his access to the JLA's resources to find the monster.

Oliver Queen finds himself independently wealthy again, as Dover had transferred all his financial assets to Oliver Queen in anticipation of taking over his body.

Oliver Queen picked up a new sidekick, Mia Dearden, who would become the new Speedy, under Oliver's tutelage.

The story revealed that Oliver Queen knew all along that Connor was his son and was even present at his birth, but that Oliver Queen ultimately abandoned Connor and his mother, because of his fear of the responsibilities of fatherhood.

Meltzer's storyline would continue into the mini-series Green Lantern: Rebirth, which featured Oliver Queen's attempts to use the ring against Sinestro- presumed dead for several years- before the ring is reclaimed by the reborn Hal Jordan.

Oliver Queen has a new costume, which appears to be a combination of the classic Neal Adams costume and the Mike Grell Longbow Hunters costume.

In flashbacks, it is revealed that Oliver Queen survived a near-fatal attack during the events of the Infinite Crisis, as well as used his recuperation time to retrain.

Oliver Queen is convinced to resign his position in exchange for his successor leaving the various social aid organisations and resources he had established alone, although Ollie was able to beat his opponent by resigning prior to the election and putting someone he trusted in charge of the city.

Oliver Queen is transformed into a Black Lantern Corps member and attacks his former allies, notably his son, wife and sidekick.

Oliver Queen is exiled from Star City's remains as a result, choosing to live in the mysterious forest which has grown at its centre.

Oliver Queen makes scarce allusion to his former partnership with Roy Harper, but Roy's memories in Red Hood and the Outlaws establish that the pair fell out badly, leading Oliver to expel him from Q-Core, as well as prompting Roy's own downward spiral.

Oliver Queen is based in Seattle and supported in his vigilante activities by a small team of close friends who are tech geniuses.

New antagonists include Komodo, who Oliver Queen learns was his father's archer apprentice and apparent murderer.

When Oliver meets Shado, he learns she had a daughter from Oliver's father named Emiko, whom Komodo has raised as his own daughter.

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Oliver Queen's supporting cast has changed wildly over the course of the series, but has tended to include his sidekick Speedy and his fellow superhero and main romantic interest, Black Canary.

The Kingdom Come and Dark Knight Returns stories and their variations of Oliver Queen were later amalgamated into the 52-Earth Multiverse.

Oliver Queen was later requested by Batman to help the Dark Knight fight against Superman.

Oliver Queen accepts, and implants Batman's synthetic kryptonite into the tip of one of his arrows causing Batman to emerge as the winner.

In JLA: The Nail and its sequel, Oliver Queen is a featured as a crippled ex-hero, having lost an arm, an eye, and the use of his legs in a fight with Amazo, which resulted in the death of Hawkman.

In Batman: Holy Terror, Oliver Queen is mentioned as having been executed, found guilty of supporting underground Jewish "pornographers".

Oliver Queen has a cameo as Bruce Wayne's society friend in Dean Motter's Batman: Nine Lives.

Oliver Queen appears in Mike Mignola's Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham, where he is portrayed as a latter-day Templar equipped with magic arrows dipped in the blood of Saint Sebastian.

Oliver appears in Superman: Red Son, where Oliver Queen is a reporter for the Daily Planet working underneath Perry White and eventually Lois Lane.

Oliver Queen married his longtime love Dinah Lance and they have a daughter, Olivia Queen aka Black Canary II.

Year Two reveals Canary to be pregnant with Oliver Queen's child, leaving her determined to take down Superman for his murder.

Years later, after getting off Starfish Island, Oliver Queen has matured more and encounters Clark again, who has begun his new career at the Daily Planet.

Oliver Queen forgives him before introducing him to Lex Luthor, partly to annoy the latter.

Oliver Queen is seen again in season seven for the episode "Siren", in which he continues his fight against LuthorCorp and meets another superhero, Black Canary, whom he recruits for his Justice League.

From season eight through season ten, Hartley is a series regular, and is woven into the backstory of Smallville through the Queens' business connections with the Luthor, Teague, and Swann families; Oliver was a childhood friend and schoolmate, and later a teenage bully, of Lex Luthor.

Oliver Queen later becomes romantically involved with Clark's best friend, Lois's cousin Chloe Sullivan, whom he ultimately marries.

Oliver Queen is tasked alongside other allies such as a reformed Harley Quinn to take down a group of supervillains formed by Gorilla Grodd known as "The Society".

In Batman: Arkham Knight, Oliver Queen Industries is shown owning various properties around Gotham.