| Villain | First appearance | Description |
| the Acrobat | World's Finest Comics #119 | Francis "Frankie" Doran, acquired the Magic Bow of Diana which fired arrows that moved and transformed according to wielder's desire, defeated when Green Arrow misdirected him to attack remote-controlled Arrowplane while they snared Bow, then threw it into the sea for being too dangerous. |
| Amon Sur | Green Arrow Vol. 3 #24 | The alleged son of deceased Green Lantern Abin Sur on the planet Ungara, he led the intergalactic Black Circle Syndicate crime network. When assassin Farak Fekk and others formed a splinter group to set up drug operations on Earth, a vengeful Sur, claiming to be a law enforcement officer, allied with Green Arrow, Kyle Rayner, and others against the renegades, which was waging a gang war with Star City's criminals. Ultimately Sur's duplicity was revealed, and the heroes drove both him and the Circle from Earth. |
| Angler | World's Finest Comics #23 | Gold smuggler, uses fishing-themed gimmicks. |
| Ankov | World's Finest Comics #114 | Extraterrestrial criminal, pursued by tiny lawman Van-Jon, captured with help from Green Arrow and Speedy. |
| Anton Allegro | Justice League of America #163 | After being permanently deafened by one of Green Arrow's sonic arrows, Russian musician the Amazing Allegro used a book of spells to make his synthesizer create demons when played to menace the Justice League of America. |
| Ape Archer | World's Finest Comics #116 | Name of two archers, one an ape and the other a man in an ape costume. Bonzo is an ape skilled in archery that would rob for a thief named Bart Rockland. Bonzo's new trainer after reforming Lance took up the bow in an ape costume in order to pin his crimes on Bonzo. |
| Archer From Mars | World's Finest Comics #90 | Supposedly an extraterrestrial archer with invisible arrows that fights crime, in reality a criminal in a costume trying to con Green Arrow. |
| Archie the Archer | Adventure Comics #242 | Aka Darby Van Heller; criminal archer who captured, then impersonated Green Arrow to assist fellow criminals, pretending to have gone insane and believing self to be Robin Hood. |
| Albert Davis | Green Arrow #35 | A Star City millionaire who desperately wanted to rid of crime after his wife and two children were killed by a car-jacker by summoning a demonic army of peace-keepers, but it went out of control. Davis begged Green Arrow to kill him in order to prevent the chaos in the town, but he was killed from the arrow shot by Mia Dearden, an act which rid the city of the demons but left Mia shell-shocked. |
| Auntie Gravity | World's Finest Comics #261 | An elderly woman who developed anti-gravity powers. Forming a gang with her three nephews, she menaced Star City before being defeated by Black Canary. |
| Bad Penny | Detective Comics #543 | Employing a pair of gloves that shock those she touches, Penelope turned to crime as Bad Penny and teamed once with Pinball Wizard and the second Printer's Devil. |
| Barricade | Detective Comics #566 | A monk named Lars that once fought Green Arrow for the Book of the Ages and in failure was reduced to a skeleton. When in contact with the book, he's returned to life in a skeletal state and seeks Onyx's Wisdom Key to regain his past form. |
| Beau Brummel | Adventure Comics #149 | Elegant archer/criminal. |
| Big Game | Green Arrow and Black Canary #23 | Name of two villains, the first a retroactive early opponent of Green Arrow that hunted the hero and was murdered by Cupid years later. His son Blake took up the torch. |
| Birdmen Gang | World's Finest Comics #127 | Jetpack-using criminals, at least six men, fought Green Arrow and Speedy at least twice. |
| Black Arrow | Adventure Comics #143 | Villainous archer and leader of the Arrow Raiders. |
| Black Duke | Adventure Comics #157 | Evil nobleman of 15th century France, fought Green Arrow and Speedy during one of their time travel adventures. |
| Black Magician | World's Finest Comics #62 | Prof. White, failed performer turned criminal; expert at disguise, misdirection, sleight of hand. |
| Blaze | World's Finest Comics #7 | Costumed arsonist, wore flaming costume. |
| Blazing Infernos | Green Lantern #100 | A Star City street gang, the Infernos set off bombs throughout the city and were secretly funded by insurance investors hoping to justify raised rates. Green Arrow, Black Canary, and Roy Harper caught the Infernos, who turned informant on the investors. |
| Blue Lancer | World's Finest Comics #43 | In the vein of many of Arrow's archaic weapon niche enemies, Lancer uses spears and javelins. |
| Bonfire | Detective Comics #553 | Though more of a Black Canary foe, Green Arrow helped her take down this pyrokinetic villainess. |
| Booby-Trap Bandits | World's Finest Comics #122 | At least eight men, used pre-arranged traps to immobilize security guards and others before carrying out crimes. |
| Boomerang | More Fun Comics #79 | Martin Flint was a mercenary who used boomerangs in crime; he targeted judges in Star City until Green Arrow and Speedy defeated him. |
| Borch | Green Lantern #110 | An extradimensional vagabond whose careless travel into the "Silver Twist" cosmic rift discharged energy that almost detonated a nuclear-powered satellite in Earth's orbit. Green Arrow and Green Lantern entered the twist to find Borch had discovered/created "Coyote Gulch," a reality based on the American Old West, and was leading the Clancy Bunch to take over the Gulch. Green Arrow defeated the Clancy Bunch, while Green Lantern defeated Borch. |
| Boss | World's Finest Comics #96 | Minor gang leader, attempted to steal secret of manufacturing artificial diamonds, later led crime spree using flying escape bubbles. |
| Brain | Adventure Comics #107 | Brilliant racketeering leader. |
| Breaker | Green Arrow #73 | Able to create explosive force with his fists, Breaker became a metahuman enforcer for Brick alongside Mastman, Monk, and Pick and Roll, but Green Arrow and company soon broke up the alliance. |
| Brian Nudocerdo | Green Arrow #61 | Corrupt chief of police of Star City during Oliver Queen's tenure as mayor. |
| Bull's Eye | World's Finest Comics #24 | Leapo the Clown was in a fashion Green Arrow's version of the Joker; he clashed with Green Arrow and Speedy in over half a dozen stories. A crack shot with a firearm, he also figured out the science behind Arrow's weaponry and used this knowledge to help Signalman become the Blue Bowman. |
| Camorouge | Green Arrow #94 | International thief/assassin, can turn invisible via stolen military stealth suit. |
| Camouflage King | World's Finest Comics #102 | An artist who developed a camouflage spray that allowed his henchmen to steal without being seen. |
| Captain Kilgore | More Fun Comics #78 | Pirate on the high seas, led the Black Raiders. |
| Captain Lash/Cap'n Lash | Green Arrow#4 | Modern day pirate. |
| Cat | Adventure Comics #104 | Female costumed criminal, wore gender-disguising uniform and mask. |
| Champion | Detective Comics #560 | An armored mercenary that first appeared as a hero but crossed swords with Arrow on a later assignment. |
| Cheapjack | Detective Comics #535 | Electric whip wielding ally to the Werewolves of London. |
| Cherry Noller | Action Comics #445 | Female leader of the Four Horsemen drug cartel. |
| Colonel Krisp | Green Lantern #94 | A renegade military officer, Thaddeus Lucius Krisp abducted Black Canary in a failed attempt to extort Green Arrow into assassinating the President of the United States. |
| "Cougar" Cain | Adventure Comics #251 | Headed own gang, stole super-powered arrows sent to Green Arrow and Speedy from 3000 AD and used them for crimes. |
| Count Carl | More Fun Comics #102 | Villainous nobleman and would-be movie star, employed criminals to sabotage acting rivals, efforts prevented by Green Arrow and Speedy. |
| "Counterfeit" Carson | Adventure Comics #250 | Infiltrated the Green Arrows of the World convention as the Archer of Scotland Yard in order to plant a bomb to kill those in attendance. |
| Crime Platoon | Adventure Comics #181 | Criminal unit organized like US Army platoon, used military techniques and strategies to commit robberies. |
| Crimson Archer | Adventure Comics #259 | Crime boss Herb Vraney is put away by the Green Arrow. After his release, Vraney uses his resources to create a new identity in millionaire Hector Vance. Offering a million dollars to Arrow's favorite charity, the hero trains Vraney in archery who uses the skills to become the Crimson Archer. |
| Death Dealer | Detective Comics #541 | A mercenary that uses a playing card motif employing trick cards as weapons, later slain by Cupid. |
| Detonator | Detective Comics #533 | Jeffrey Coopersmith was a terrorist that used explosives to extort money from the wealthy. |
| Dictator Bracato | World's Finest Comics #115 | The ruling despot of South American nation Luania, he led an invasion of a neighboring nation whose soldiers were armed only with bows and arrows; Green Arrow and Speedy, in the area by happenstance, used their trick arrows and expertise to lead the archer army to victory. |
| Director | World's Finest Comics #32 | Used trick cameras to commit crimes. |
| Discord | Green Arrow/Black Canary #17 | Sonic-powered criminal Sean Sonus temporarily rendered Star City's inhabitants deaf before being defeated. |
| Doctor Light | Justice League of America #12 | During the events of Identity Crisis, Light remembered what the League did to his mind. In his bid for revenge, he outlined Green Arrow as his first target. |
| Dr. Blades | World's Finest Comics #17 | Criminal archaeologist, sought Aztec treasures of Razamuma and potential mystic power. |
| Dr. Davis | World's Finest Comics #125 | Criminal inventor, extorted man into using "Cliff Climber" tank in crime, later worked with Amos Fortune and other super-villains against the Justice League of America, used miniature aircraft and lightning-generating baton. |
| Doom | More Fun Comics #90 | Garbed in swim trunks, shoes, a hat, gas mask, cape, and nothing else, millionaire Tom Wayne, hoping to sell estate properties to the US government, extorted wealthy men by threatening to destroy their mansions unless their property was signed over to him. |
| Doomsters | Justice League of America #78 | By the time the pollutant-ridden planet Monsan finally became uninhabitable, a handful of survivors had altered their body chemistries to enable them to thrive on pollutants, with the unanticipated effect of warping their minds so that they sought to render other planets equally polluted. These survivors, the Doomsters, led by Chokh, came to Earth intent on converting its atmosphere into a gas which they alone could breathe; they defeated Black Canary and other JLA members, but Green Arrow rescued the heroes, ultimately allowing the JLA sufficient recovery time to defeat the Doomsters. Green Arrow and Black Canary's romance first developed in the wake of this crisis, making it of particular relevance in the characters' histories. |
| Dregz | Green Arrow/Black Canary #15 | Machete-wielding street thug super-villain wannabe. |
| El Espectro | Green Lantern #120 | In 1513, Spaniard Jaime Sanchez discovered Florida's Fountain of Youth but was betrayed and buried alive by his fellow explorers; uprooted almost 500 years later, he fought Green Arrow and Black Canary before being defeated by Green Lantern. |
| the Executrix | Detective Comics #523 | Mercenary working under Machiavelli. |
| Electrocutioner | Detective Comics #644 | Initially working in the cause of justice just like the first Electrocutioner, Lester Buchinsky became a criminal and mercenary using electric-based weapons in his arsenal. After several encounters with Queen, he would later become a frequent Red Arrow villain |
| Flag | Adventure Comics #128 | Titus Flagman committed flag-based crimes while wielding a pirate sword; fought Green Arrow and Speedy at least twice. |
| Flying Aces | Adventure Comics #150 | Acrobatic criminals. |
| Frogmen Gang | World's Finest Comics #92 | A group of criminals who stage underwater escapes with the help of scuba gear. |
| Funny Arrow | World's Finest Comics #138 | The manager of circus attraction Funny Arrow, a comical parody of Green Arrow, Pat Halley took up his attraction's equipment and costume to commit crime. |
| Gagster | Adventure Comics #215 | Criminal with practical joker motif. |
| GAMA the Mechanical Archer | World's Finest Comics #76 | Robot archer deployed by criminals. |
| Gargoyle | Brave and the Bold #54 | Bromwell Stikk, a.k.a. Mister Twister, used a mystic staff to control the weather for crime but was defeated by the Teen Titans. Mutated into monstrous Gargoyle form, he was trapped in limbo, eventually escaping into 15th Century France, where he fought Green Arrow and Batman, who had time-traveled there on an unrelated mission. |
| General Strodoff | Adventure Comics #226 | Corrupt official in European nation of Belgravia; after he imprisoned Belgravia's native super-heroes, the Scarlet Bowmen, Green Arrow and Speedy took their place and defeated him. |
| Glorn Hive-Master | World's Finest Comics #253 | Leader of the extradimensional Glorn race, who abducted Black Canary to be their queen, pursued by Green Arrow, devolved into harmless state via radio waves. |
| Ghost | Adventure Comics #136 | Timothy Pebble, ghost writer who decided to become a "ghost criminal," planning crimes for others in return for a share of the loot. |
| Gnorl | World's Finest Comics #140 | Energy-absorbing monster who visited Star City via a space-time warp from a "Sargasso Sea" dimension. |
| Great Rhinehart | Brave and the Bold #168 | Criminal magician, framed Green Arrow's friend escape artist Samson Citadel for crimes, defeated by Green Arrow and Batman. |
| Greenface | World's Finest Comics #39 | When a vat of dye exploded in his face, the man who became Greenface turned to a life of crime. Considered Green Arrow's version of Two-Face. |
| Greg Osborne | #1 | A corrupt CIA operative involved in drug trafficking. He would be murdered by the Yakuza. |
| Hackett | Green Arrow: Year One #1 | An employee of China White, Hackett befriended Oliver Queen in order to persuade to invest in illegal offshore accounts for White's drug trafficking. When White ordered Hackett to shoot Queen, he instead threw him overboard White's ship, resulting in the island survival ordeal that began Queen's development into Green Arrow. |
| Harbor Thief | Adventure Comics #234 | Seagoing criminal, defeated in an incident that Green Arrow and Speedy later had to re-create to prove they had not demonstrated cowardice during the encounter. |
| Headmaster Mind | Justice League of America #133 | AKA "Cabeza Maestro," criminal professor who trained super-villains; instructed Matter Master, the Tattooed Man, the Top, others; framed Green Arrow for murder committed by Tattooed Man. |
| Hellgrammite | Brave and the Bold #80 | After mutating himself into insectlike form, Roderick Rose clashed with several super-heroes, including Green Arrow and Black Canary in World's Finest Comics #248-249; he eventually became more commonly associated with Superman. |
| Hi-Tek | Detective Comics #521 | A teenaged troublemaker with knowledge in computers and technology, Arrow befriended him. |
| High-Rise | Green Arrow #46 | Wore energy-blasting gauntlets and extendable cybernetic legs, affected attitude of major super-villain but was actually new to crime. |
| Hijack King | Adventure Comics #234 | AKA Whitey Dunn, led gang of highwaymen, defeated in an incident that Green Arrow and Speedy later had to re-create to prove they had not demonstrated cowardice during the encounter. |
| Howard Lampe | Adventure Comics #115 | Rejected scientist who turned to crime, used hypnosis machine and other variations of light-based technology. |
| Iron Archer | Adventure Comics #166 | An arrow-firing robot used by crooks for their schemes. A similar robot, Iron, later appeared in World's Finest Comics #129 |
| Iron Rex | World's Finest Comics #108 | Mechanical tyrannosaurus rex, used in South America by unidentified scientist and hirelings to frighten people into fleeing villages, which they then looted. |
| James Luckless | World's Finest Comics #8 | Committed crimes with motif based on good luck symbols . |
| Joe Cracker | More Fun Comics #92 | Led gang of crooks, inherited and used construction equipment to commit crimes. |
| John Centaur | Adventure Comics #120 | Criminal astrologist and archer, rode horse, committed astrology-based crimes.. |
| John Deleon | Justice League of America #75 | Criminal financier who framed Oliver Queen for misuse of public funds, resulting in Green Arrow's initial loss of his fortune. Later double-crossing the Hellgrammite in a business deal, Deleon tried to extort protection from Queen under the mistaken belief that Queen was the Batman. When the Hellgrammite confronted him, Deleon died of fright. |
| Joshua | Green Lantern #78 | Mind-controlling leader of cult preparing for race war, brainwashed Black Canary into almost killing Green Arrow; cult later taken over by Sister Joshua, who battled Black Canary but not Green Arrow. |
| Juarez | Question Annual #2 | Terrorist who used gas to either kill or remove people's "reasons to do evil", the latter often leaving them mindless shells; defeated by Green Arrow and Question. |
| Jungle Joe Meredith | World's Finest Comics #71 | Smuggler, counterfeiter, crime czar in Côte d'Ivoire, used blowgun and icicle-darts to commit virtually untraceable murders. |
| Junk-Man | Action Comics #455 | "The Recycled Superstar," a gigantic movie prop monster inadvertently brought to life, defeated by Green Arrow, Superman, and the Atom. |
| Lord Kalesque | Green Arrow Annual #1 | An archer from the UK seeking out Green Arrow for a duel. |
| Karpo | Adventure Comics #111 | Criminal of ancient Rome, stole Diana the Huntress's magic bow, defeated by Green Arrow and Speedy, who were pulled backward in time by Diana's mentor, the sorcerer Aeus. |
| Krystayl | Green Lantern #164 | AKA Diamond Man, a crystalline alien warrior who can absorb people to steal their strength. Green Arrow defeated him with help from John Stewart. |
| Machiavelli | Detective Comics #523 | Criminal mastermind who sought to control crime in Star City. |
| Maharajah | Adventure Comics #243 | Posed as Middle Eastern nobility, worked with gang to fake own abduction and manipulate Green Arrow and Speedy into using special jeweled arrows to "rescue" him. |
| Marcel Moreau | World's Finest Comics #247 | Canadian war profiteer and arms dealer, financed evolution of animals into humanoid forms, sought to use them in crime. |
| Mask | Adventure Comics #123 | Masked assassin, later recalled as one of Green Arrow and Speedy's greatest challenges. |
| Master | Adventure Comics #214 | Left clues to his crimes ala the Riddler, specifically using statues with hidden significance. |
| Mastermind | World's Finest Comics #124 | Organized criminals of varying specialties to combine forces and pull off elaborate and seemingly "impossible" crimes. |
| Mechanical Octopus Gang | World's Finest Comics #97 | Three criminals using large octopus-like vehicle equipped with tentacles to break through walls, ensnare opponents, etc. |
| Mighty Micro | World's Finest Comics #136 | Criminal stage magician; Green Arrow and Speedy pursued him to Peru, where he attempted to take over isolated Inca tribe. |
| Mighty Murdock | World's Finest Comics #26 | "Human fly" performer and criminal. |
| Miklos Minotaur | Brave and the Bold #85 | Gangster, used labyrinth as hideout, employed trained animals against enemies, defeated by Green Arrow and Batman. |
| Mr. Exit | World's Finest Comics #57 | Criminal who targeted Roy Harper. |
| Mr. Mephisto, a.k.a. Dogfoot | More Fun Comics #86 | Hobo posing as demonic mastermind to extort fellow hobos into committing crimes. |
| Mr. Miniature | World's Finest Comics #105 | Dwarf criminal, used fully functional "toy" weapons. |
| Mr. Sinistro | World's Finest Comics #89 | Criminal circus ringmaster, commanded Gongo the Gorilla. He is not to be confused with Sinestro. |
| Mr. Vention | World's Finest Comics #101 | Purchased supposedly "useless" inventions -- a "blackout saucer," a "moon craft," and a mechanical spider -- and used them to commit crimes. |
| Mr. Who | World's Finest Comics #31 | Criminal with owl motif. |
| Mocker | Green Lantern #96 | Nearly 12,000 years ago, a plague eradicated all but one member of an advanced civilization in the 61 Cygni system; the survivor, Ffa'rzz, went insane and, dubbed the Mocker, spread chaos across the universe to prove life's ultimate meaninglessness. Eventually he visited Earth and attacked Green Lantern and company; he took GL's alien sidekick Itty as a host body, but Green Arrow deduced his hiding place, and the heroes forced him to depart. He was imprisoned by the Guardians of the Universe. |
| Mole Men | World's Finest Comics #107 | Two human criminals posing as denizens of subterranean civilization who tunneled under buildings, supposedly out of unfamiliarity with surface culture, but were actually robbing them. |
| Monique LaTour | Brave and the Bold #100 | With Belknap, co-leader of international drug ring, efforts to operate in Gotham City prevented by Green Arrow and others. |
| Mrs. Hollinger | World's Finest Comics #282 | Harbored vendetta against Green Arrow for accidentally killed her hoodlum son with the latter's gang attacked the hero ; hired Slingshot and gang to abduct Black Canary, then replace Green Arrow's stunt arrows with lethal arrows so he would again inadvertently kill and presumably retire; outsmarted by Green Arrow, declared vengeance against him to be her only reason left to live. |
| Natas | Green Arrow #66 | Amoral international assassin who trained Green Arrow and Deathstroke the Terminator. |
| Nix | Green Arrow #4 | Assassin and master of disguise hired by the Queen to kill Green Arrow. |
| Octopus | World's Finest Comics #67 | Costumed gang leader. |
| Ozone | Detective Comics #527 | A graffiti artist and thief who uses aerosol cans in his crimes. Occasionally acting as an ally, he takes on a role akin to Pied Piper in the Arrow cast. |
| Pete Lomax | Detective Comics #549 | After getting his hands on a bow and arrow, Pete Lomax tracks down Green Arrow and Black Canary and puts the latter in the hospital. |
| Petie | Adventure Comics #241 | Led group of minor crooks, encountered briefly active heroine Queen Arrow as well as Green Arrow and Speedy; his gang later committed crimes using special lenses to create tremendous heat, giant images, etc. |
| Phantom Bandit | World's Finest Comics #103 | Bank robber Joey Sanders was rendered intangible by stolen chemicals. |
| Phantom-Thief | Adventure Comics #233 | Frank Bates. |
| Phoney Crook | Adventure Comics #144 | Wears long-nosed "Greek Comedy" mask, steals only counterfeit items with secret value. |
| Pinball Wizard | Detective Comics #543 | Super-villain with a pinball motif that joined together with Bad Penny and Printer's Devil II to menace Green Arrow. |
| Pneumatic Man | World's Finest Comics #106 | Criminal who used a dirigible motif in his crimes. |
| Polka Dot Bandit | Adventure Comics #183 | Clyde Larkin, usurping masked criminal identity used decades earlier by Gus Burns, who was briefly suspected of Larkin's crimes. |
| Printer's Devil | Detective Comics #539 | Columnist Tommy Doyle dons a devil costume and fire-belching pitchfork in an attempt to devalue the Daily Star in hopes of keeping it from being purchased in something not unlike a Scooby-Doo plot. A second criminal obtains the costume and weapon to become an out-and-out super-villain teaming with Pinball Wizard and Bad Penny. |
| Professor | Adventure Comics #132 | Criminal scientist, targeted Oliver Queen and Roy Harper after they testified against him. |
| Professor Angel | More Fun Comics #85 | Crooked hospital administrator, had men surgically altered to give them hideous faces, then extorted them to commit crimes in exchange for being returned to normal. |
| Professor Halpert | Adventure Comics #178 | Criminal anthropologist, deceived public into believing Chang the Gorilla had human-level intelligence in order to frame him for Halpert's crimes. |
| Professor Merlin | More Fun Comics #75 | Taught "crime college" instructing criminals in car theft, racketeering, etc.; possibly the same character as Prof. Merlin from the Seven Soldiers of Victory story in Leading Comics #1 ; no known connection to Merlyn the Archer. |
| Professor Million | More Fun Comics #88 | College professor, committed mathematically precise crimes to accumulate funds for academic purposes, preferred non-violence, encountered Green Arrow at least three times. |
| Professor Ojo | Richard Dragon, Kung Fu Fighter #16 | Born blind because of his father's exposure to radiation, Ojo became a brilliant scientist, eventually developing technology enabling him to see; despising atomic energy, he became a criminal to pursue a vendetta against radiation use. After clashing with G.O.O.D. agents Richard Dragon and Benjamin Turner, Ojo placed a hovering eye-like weapon over Green Arrow's home Star City, but Green Arrow and Guy Gardner destroyed it. Later, he used a second eye to free the Crumbler from Arkham Asylum, and Ojo sent the latter to destroy an atomic power plant, which would kill millions and, in Ojo's fanatical mind, turn humanity away from radiation use. However, Hal Jordan foiled Crumbler's attempt, and Green Arrow captured Ojo. |
| Professor Steelgraves | Action Comics #440 | Leader of smuggling ring, dealt in advanced technology like illusion projectors and aging rays. |
| Professor Wurm | More Fun Comics #82 | Criminal chemist, developed insanity-inducing pills and "time pills"; the latter enabled Green Arrow and Speedy to travel back in time to encounter Robin Hood. |
| Promoter | Brave and the Bold #71 | J. Jay Jaye, con man. When John Whitebird competed with Tom Tallwolf of a Kiowa tribe, the Promoter and his henchmen sabotaged Whitebird in hope Tallwolf would win and help him acquire the tribe's secret weapon, a gigantic mutant condor dubbed the Thunderbird. Green Arrow and Batman trained Whitebird to defeat Tallwolf, then ended the Promoter's scheme. |
| Queen | Green Arrow #1 | Isabel Rochev bought Queen Industries after Green Arrow's secret identity was revealed. |
| Rainbow Archer | Adventure Comics | An artist turned counterfeiter, Albrecht Raines turned to crime as a villainous archer that crossed paths with Green Arrow on several occasions. |
| Ravager | World's Finest Comics #250 | In the pre-Crisis era, Prof. Ronsom discovered time travel and became the energy-being Ravager to wreak havoc in the timestream. Green Arrow and other Justice League of America members intervened, and in the course of the conflict they and Ravager were transported back in time to 1942, where Ravager teamed up with Nazi operative Agent Axis to fight them. At the adventure's conclusion, the timestream damage was repaired and Green Arrow and company returned to their native era, with no memories of the events. The fates of the Ravager and Agent Axis were less clear, but neither have appeared in any post-Crisis version of the DC Universe. Not to be confused with Rose Wilson or any other character using the codename "Ravager." |
| Red Dart | World's Finest Comics #95 | John "Midas" Mallory becomes Star City's latest costumed hero only to be revealed to be a criminal not unlike Deadshot. |
| Red Devils | More Fun Comics #77 | Acrobatic quartet of hired killers. |
| Reverend Billy Miggs | Green Arrow #13 | Head of terrorist organization / militant "church" called the Southern Order of Change; Order members known as "Metal Angels" wear flying battlesuits. |
| Reverend Marcus Hale | World's Finest Comics #279 | Leader of religious cult Harmony, discouraged independent thought, also secretly managed supposed "deprogramming" group Out of Harmony to prevent members' actual recovery. |
| Riddler | Detective Comics #140 | A villain who uses riddles in his crimes. While he is usually an enemy of Batman, he has often clashed with Green Arrow on different occasions. |
| Robot-Master | World's Finest Comics #34 | R.K. Mann, an inventor who built near-indestructible robots and used them for crime. |
| Rocket Raiders | World's Finest Comics #94 | Criminals who used rocket packs and weapons that shot rocket projectiles. |
| Rogues' Rembrandt | Adventure Comics #153 | Victor Pimm sought to paint crime's greatest triumphs and was willing to abet or commit them if necessary. |
| Roper | Adventure Comics #176 | Steve Bogardus uses his incredible skill at rope use to become a costumed criminal. |
| Ruby Ryder | Brave and the Bold #95 | World's wealthiest woman and major organized crime figure; assisted by century-old cyborg Jason Morgan, she seized control of Wayne Enterprises but was defeated by Green Arrow, Batman, and the Metal Men. |
| Sea Scourge | Adventure Comics #134 | Modern-day pirate, commanded submarine. |
| Searcher | World's Finest Comics #259 | Extraterrestrial energy-being; sought to punish fellow alien, the Fugitive, for hijacking a food ship to feed the latter's starving race; pursued the Fugitive for 5000 years; located him on Earth, where Green Arrow, Black Canary, and Hawkman sided with the Fugitive; ultimately both aliens were shunted into another dimension to continue their battle. |
| Shark Gang | World's Finest Comics #130 | At least nine men, used "shark-mobiles" to rapid escape from crimes along coast and to commit crimes at sea. |
| Sir Sagramor | Adventure Comics #268 | Arthurian knight, served Morgan le Fay, encountered Green Arrow and Speedy when they time-traveled back to Camelot. |
| Sky Raider | Adventure Comics #234 | Airborne criminal, defeated in an incident that Green Arrow and Speedy later had to re-create to prove they had not demonstrated cowardice during the encounter. |
| Skylark | Adventure Comics #114 | Exiled from the US for wartime sabotage, S.K. Lark returned as costumed criminal Skylark and used a dirigible to commit crimes; he fought Green Arrow at least twice. |
| Slingshot | World's Finest Comics #244 | David Drayson is one of Arrow's most dangerous opponents who is a cop-killer and psychotic employing a number of weapons he deploys via a sling, later slain by Cupid. |
| Snare | World's Finest Comics #41 | Jonathan Dwight, fanatical collector, sought to trap and "collect" humans. |
| Sniper One | Green Arrow/Black Canary #11 | Formerly employed by the mysterious Echo Initiative group, psychologically unstable assassin Palmer Cokes was hired by Shado to kill Green Arrow but ultimately failed. |
| Specialist | More Fun Comics #106 | Sold ingenious plans and advice to less accomplished criminals, outwitted when Green Arrow, disguised as supposed criminal "Ollie the Croaker," infiltrated his operation. |
| Spectrum Man | World's Finest Comics #110 | Villain who employs light-based technology in his crimes similar to Crazy Quilt or Firefly. |
| Spider | Starman #47 | The son of the original Alias the Spider who went on to impersonate Green Arrow and faced the actual hero and Hawkman. |
| Spider Slade | Adventure Comics #141 | Used giant insects to for criminal purposes. |
| Star City Slayer | Green Arrow #1 | Stanley Dover sought to summon the Beast With No Name to his service. To this end, he slaughtered youths and fed their blood to his grandson earning him the title Star City Slayer by the newspapers. Over the course of his efforts, he came across a reborn Oliver Queen and, noting his lack of a soul, decided to place his essence in to the hero's body. Inevitably, the elder Stanley was slain by the Beast for his treatment of his grandson. |
| Steelclaw | Detective Comics #560 | Mayor Thomas Bolt of Star City takes on the guise of the drug-handler Steelclaw in order to control crime ala Green Hornet style. He's inevitably murdered by gang members under drug dealer Marty Costa. |
| Stinger | World's Finest Comics #251 | Malachi Yandro was a Star City gang leader who, following what seemed the popular underworld trend, became a costumed villain, teaming up with Count Vertigo. |
| Storm King | Adventure Comics #118 | Roger Tiller is a meteorologist who became the Storm King and based his crimes around weather. |
| Survivalist | Detective Comics #530 | Right-wing paramilitary extremist, led troops in attempt to provoke nuclear war with Russia. |
| Switchman | World's Finest Comics #45 | Committed train-themed crimes. |
| Thaddeus Cable | World's Finest Comics #255 | Star City gangster, provided secret backing to Mayor Jack Major, ties to city hall exposed when Oliver Queen ran for mayor. |
| Thief in Dimension Zero | Adventure Comics #253 | Masked criminal native to dimension of giant humanoids, accompanied by hireling, defeated by extradimensional archer hero Xeen Arrow and visiting Green Arrow and Speedy. |
| Thurston Keane | Action Comics #450 | Member of the Organization, a subversive group equipped with nuclear weapons and intent on "neutralizing" the world's governments; posed as vacation resort manager; his attempt to pin murder charges on vacationing Green Arrow and Black Canary led to investigation of and presumed destruction of the Organization. |
| Timer | More Fun Comics #96 | AKA the Weather Prophet, headed own gang, used meteorological data to synchronize crimes to inclement weather to gain advantage over police. |
| Dr. Titus Selinger | DC Comics Presents #54 | Scientist whose attempt to harness outer space rays created deadly smog across the US, as well as a giant smog-creature; Green Arrow and Black Canary worked with Superman to restore things to normal. |
| Tony Roller | World's Finest Comics #264 | Former gang boss, took female identity of "Lola Fontana" to open Star City casino; Green Arrow exposed the casino as crooked and "Lola" as Roller. Rare example of a transvestite villain. |
| Trickster | Adventure Comics #239 | Prankster criminal, not to be confused with the Flash's enemies of the same name. |
| Turtle | Adventure Comics #122 | Channel pirate, used submarine and gang to commit crimes, operated out of undersea glass structure. |
| Vengeance | Detective Comics #545 | A variation of Vigilante who faced off with the Emerald Archer, later slain by Cupid. |
| Voice | More Fun Comics #74 | Blackmailer, used "sound destroyer" belt to blank out all sound in Green Arrow's home city. |
| Vulcan Gang | World's Finest Comics #133 | Three criminals who stole Prof. Franklin's subterranean drilling vehicle, used it to burrow into jewelry store and rob it. |
| Vulkor | Brave and the Bold #50 | A criminal from Martian Manhunter's civilization, he employed four underlings who hid super-weapon components in Star City, then disguised themselves as criminals and were sentenced to prison. Upon Vulkor's arrival, the foursome escaped, drawing Green Arrow and Speedy into the scenario. With help from Martian Manhunter, they defeated Vulkor, who was imprisoned with his men within a volcano. |
| Vulture Man | World's Finest Comics #93 | Air-bound criminal similar to Human Flying Fish. |
| Waxface | World's Finest Comics #15 | Malleable-faced villain who commits crimes while impersonating reputable men. |
| Werewolf | World's Finest Comics #286 | Minion of mysterious entity known as the Adored One. |
| Werewolves of London | Detective Comics #533 | A biker gang based out of a junkyard. |
| Wind | World's Finest Comics #38 | Costumed criminal who used a truck rigged with giant fans to imitate wind powers. |
| Witch Queen | Green Lantern #82 | Alleged sister of Sinestro, commanded Harpies and Amazon warriors in a war against all men; fought Green Arrow, Black Canary, and Green Lantern. |
| Wizard | Adventure Comics #267 | Already an old enemy of Green Arrow and Speedy, Horace Kates, a.k.a. the Wizard, escaped prison with Aquaman foe "Shark" Norton, and the two resolved to switch m.o.s to avoid their respective enemies. However, Aquaman captured Norton even on land, while Green Arrow and Speedy, using pneumatic-air crossbows and oxygen tanks, defeated the Wizard and his hirelings in an underwater battle. |
| Yellow Peril | Green Lantern #107 | Quintet of skyjackers who planned to take over Coast City's airport and, anticipating trouble from Green Lantern, dressed themselves in yellow costumes which rendered them immune to Green Lantern's power ring. However, they did not anticipate the presence of Green Arrow and Black Canary, who easily defeated them sans power rings. |
