Comic Title: Green Arrow Annual #1
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1988
On Sale Date: May 31, 1988 Shipping Date May 31, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #756, #758, #760

Copyright Date May 31, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Shipping Date June 2, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #140

Shipping Date May 24, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #4

Newsstand Date June 14, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #758, #760

Newsstand Date June 13, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #756

Cover Price: $2.00
Page Count: 48
Editor: Mike Gold

Title: "Lesson for a Crab"
Pages: 41

Feature(s):
Green Arrow (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Dennis J. O'Neil
Penciller: Tom Artis
Inker: Timothy Dzon
Letterer: Todd Klein
Colorist: Julia Lacquement

Reprinted In:
Question by Dennis O'Neil and Denys Cowan Omnibus Vol. 1 HC (2022)

Feature Character(s)

• Green Arrow (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #612; next appearance in Question Annual #1)

Guest Star(s)

• Lady Shiva (last appearance in Detective Comics Annual #1; next appearance in Question Annual #1)

Supporting Character(s)

• Black Canary (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #616; next appearance in Justice League International #19)

Villain(s)

• Kalesque (no further appearances)
• Two hold-up men (no further appearances)
• A gang of human trafficers (no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Detective Comics Annual #1; next appearance in Detective Comics #590)
• Alfred Pennyworth (last appearance in Detective Comics Annual #1; next appearance in Detective Comics #591)

Other Character(s)

• A sensei (last appearance in Detective Comics Annual #1; next appearance in Question Annual #1)
• Wittels (a servant; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• The father of Kalesque (no further appearances)
• A sailor (no further appearances)
• Rudy and his girlfriend (both die in this story; no further appearances)
• An unnamed cop (dies in this story; no further appearances)

Comments:
Fables Part II

This story continues in part from Detective Comics Annual #1 and continues in part in Question Annual #1.

Synopsis:
A European aristocrat named Kalesque is a champion archer who wishes to challenge Green Arrow to a competition. When Green Arrow repeatedly refuses to participate, Kalesque travels to Seattle and begins killing people. Ollie blames himself for the deaths, and his loss of confidence causes his skill with the bow to disappear.

Batman then contacts Ollie at the request of Shiva, a martial artist who has recently arrived in America. Shiva visits Ollie with the sensei who gives Ollie some advice in the form of a parable. Ollie takes the advice and engages Kalesque without his bow. The killer archer refuses to kill Green Arrow without first knowing who is better. Even without his arrow, Ollie then defeats Kalesque.