Rainbow Archer
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Rainbow Archer is a fictional supervillain in the DC Comics universe who was primarily an adversary of the Green Arrow. He first appeared in Adventure Comics in 1958.
[edit] Character history
Albrecht Raines was an artist who saw very little profit from his work. To make ends meet, he began counterfeiting money using his creative talents, only to have them be spotted as fakes because of his poor use of color. He was tracked down by Oliver Queen, the first Green Arrow, and was forced to escape, leaving his entire operation behind. In retaliation, he crafted himself a set of several arrows of different colors (except green, which he despised due to his adversary being covered in it) and began a crimespree with two gang members named Joe and Iggy. Although he was able to avoid capture for some time, eventually he was on the run from the police. Realizing all too late that he could create a diversion with a copy of Green Arrow's green signal arrows, despite never crafting one, he was apprehended.
After his release from jail, he would cross paths with Green Arrow several times, usually acting on his own but sometimes accompanying other members of his nemesis' rogues gallery. At one point he was hired by a crimeboss to take down the son of a magazine editor so he would print campaign articles for a crooked politician, but was captured by Green Arrow and Black Canary. He has since retired.
[edit] Powers
Rainbow Archer has no powers at all, but he seems to be nearly as proficient an archer as Green Arrow, and can even craft his own arrows which he paints a multitude of colors, except, of course, green.
