I hope that title refers to an arrow, not...anything else.

I'm having scanner issues today, so I'm not sure when we'll see this post, but OK! (Actually, this'll make Monday; all I needed was a new cord! How the scanner outlasted the cord, well, whatever.) From 1992, Arrow #1, "Shaft of Steel, Heart of Stone" Written by Roland Mann, pencils by Lee Moder, inks by Deodato Filmo.

This probably isn't the Arrow you're thinking of: this was Rick Palmer, a.k.a. Arrow of the Protectors. I mainly remember them for a gimmick "forcebeam hole" cover for a death-of-a-hero issue; but they were Malibu's revamp of Centaur Publications characters that had lapsed into public domain. It's tough to say why he got his own one-shot, though: Arrow seems like a jerk, and hits not one but two civilians with friendly fire here, killing a kid. Later, he also puts four arrows in his bad guy's arm, telling her he was "through playing." (I might be reading too deeply into it, but whenever Arrow might almost be on the verge of showing remorse or feeling guilt, his inferiority complex kicks in like 'you think you're better than me?' and keeps that at bay.)

Sadly, while they seemed to be doing well enough for several spin-offs, the Protectors books were apparently later phased out in favor of Malibu's Ultraverse. Somewhat surprisingly, Arrow #1 doesn't get a gimmick cover: it came up on BlueSky the other day; there had been an issue of the Ferret shaped like the character's head! I'm almost positive I grabbed one of those from the quarter bins, wonder where I put it...? Anyway, I don't have many of the Protectors titles, but I got this issue in a lot, when I bought most of the rest of the Mighty Magnor, which had also been from Malibu.