| Green Arrow | |
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.png){kind=icon} Artwork for a variant cover of Green Arrow 80th Anniversary Spectacular #1 (June, 2021) by Howard Porter, featuring Connor Hawke as the Green Arrow | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Green Arrow (vol. 2) #0 (October 1994) |
| Created by | Kelley Puckett (writer) Jim Aparo (artist) |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Connor Hawke |
| Species | Metahuman |
| Team affiliations | Justice League League of Lazarus |
| Partnerships | Oliver Queen / Green Arrow Green Lantern / Kyle Rayner Cassandra Cain Tim Drake |
| Abilities | Peak of human physical condition Healing Factor Master martial artist, kyūdō archer, and marksman |
Connor Hawke is a fictional DC Comics superhero who operated as the second Green Arrow, created by Kelley Puckett and Jim Aparo. In the post-Zero Hour continuity, Connor is the eldest son of Oliver Queen, the original Green Arrow, and his former college girlfriend Sandra "Moonday" Hawke, making him Oliver's heir of his estates and the Green Arrow legacy. Connor Hawke first appeared in Green Arrow (vol. 2) #0 (1994).[1]
The character's prominence in DC comics has gone up and down at many points following his short-lived tenure as a full-time replacement for Oliver Queen. For a decade, from 2011 to 2021, the character was largely absent after DC attempted to make Oliver Queen a younger man again and to reintroduce his supporting cast gradually as part of its The New 52 relaunch, although versions of the character continued to appear in comics set elsewhere in the DC Comics Multiverse. With the publisher's Infinite Frontier initiative in 2021, Connor is restored to prominence, reintroduced as the second Green Arrow and Oliver's illegitimate son. The publisher has also chosen to place greater emphasis on Connor's multi-racial background, as a superhero of mixed European-American, black American, and Korean-American ancestry, with his mother and Korean grandmother added to his supporting cast.[2] The DC Pride 2022 anthology confirmed that Connor is asexual.[3]
Outside of comics, multiple versions of Connor appear in The CW's Arrowverse, where Connor Hawke is the pseudonym of a son of supporting character John Diggle, played by Joseph David-Jones. Separately, another loose adaptation of Connor's comic book origin story involves Oliver discovering he has an illegitimate son named William Clayton, is also depicted on Arrow with the present day version played by Jack Moore and the future adult version played by Ben Lewis.
- ^ Greenberger, Robert (2008), "Green Arrow", in Dougall, Alastair (ed.), The DC Comics Encyclopedia, New York: Dorling Kindersley, pp. 142–143, ISBN 978-0-7566-4119-1, OCLC 213309017
- ^ Festival of Heroes: The Asian Superhero Celebration #1 (May 2021). DC Comics.
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