Green Arrow: Every Trick Arrow Explained

10. The Aqua-Lung Arrow

In case of being required to take an emergency deep water dive, what better thing to have at your disposal than the aqua-lung arrow?

To give some context to this, this most bizarre of arrows was put front 'n' centre in 1958's World's Finest #97. In a story titled The Menace of the Mechanical Octopus, Green Arrow and Speedy find themselves fighting a giant robotic octopus.

Deciding there's only one way to safely enter the water for just such a battle, Ollie pulls out his patented aqua-lung arrow.

It looked stupid, it made absolutely zero sense, and it was clearly the sort of story that belonged in the Silver Age.

Thankfully, the end of the Silver Age would see the Green Arrow embark on one of his very best runs, with Dennis O'Neil and Neal Adams coming together to give the character a much-needed revamp. To no one's surprise, the aqua-lung Arrow was not in Oliver Queen's arsenal.

Plus, with the aqua-lung arrow, wouldn't it be just as useful - and, for sure, more practical - to not stick an arrow shaft on a scuba mask, and just have the mask itself kept in the quiver?