Shado–one of the best supporting DC Comics characters in the 75-year history of Green Arrow–is again front-and-center in this week’s re-release of the classic 1990s storyline, in trade paperback for the first time. Green Arrow: The Hunt for the Red Dragon, reprints Green Arrow Issues #63-72, featuring long-time story writer Mike Grell with artwork by Rick Hoberg and inks by John Nyberg.
When a man appears with a gift for Oliver Queen, he leaves Dinah back in Seattle and takes off for Japan in search of a woman with a red dragon tattoo, his ex-lover and foe, Shado. The gift? The very same film prop bow used by Errol Flynn in the 1938 film classic, The Adventures of Robin Hood, a film with special meaning for Queen. But what is behind the gift, and why this mission to give Shado a large sum of money? After Queen finds Shado they both discover a darker plot, and a villain ripped from the pages of the national crime news in the early 1990s.
Shado was created by Mike Grell and first appeared in Grell’s landmark series Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters. A modified version of the character appeared in CW’s Arrow.
