![]() ![]() Once on board, the courtly pirate offered the millionaire's release for the simple task of signing over his fortune. When Jasper grabbed the bag, he was hooked and hauled up to The Flying Dutchman like a fish. Playing to the miser's well-known love of money, the Sky Pirate dropped a large back of money into the penthouse rose garden. The miserly millionaire lived in a penthouse in downtown Gotham and made a tempting target for the airborne criminal. While the heroes resolved their plight, the Sky Pirate had made a target of renowned miser, J. As the clock hands moved closer together, the heroes were in danger of being crushed against each other until Green Lantern used his ring to jam the mechanism driving the clock and then free himself. Rather than kill the hero and his sidekick out right, the Sky Pirate lashed them to the hands of a Gotham clock tower just before noon. In the meantime, the Pirate's henchman had subdued Doiby and the ship was off with its booty. Expecting a ball of lead, Green Lantern was caught off guard by the knockout gas coming out of the barrel. After some initial skirmish, the Pirate lured Green Lantern onto his netting and shot him with a flintlock pistol. Quickly intervening, Doiby engaged the Pirate's thugs while the Green Lantern pursued the Sky Pirate himself. Meanwhile, Alan Scott and Doiby Dickles observed the odd ship and quickly investigated. With accomplices is pirate attire, the Sky Pirate robbed the wealthy guest at the penthouse party of cash and jewelry. Casting a nearly invisible net lined with grappling hooks to the side of the building, the Sky Pirate manufactured the illusion of running across the air itself. His first public crime was recorded when his airship, The Flying Dutchman, anchored alongside the penthouse apartment of a Gotham aristocrat. Nothing is known of his origins or how he had amassed the financing for the expensive equipment he used in his early crimes. ![]() The Sky Pirate first appeared in the skies over Gotham City in the summer of 1947. He was succeeded as the Gambler by his grandson, Steven Sharpe V. Sharpe committed suicide after losing all his money to a corrupt casino. He was a founding member of the Injustice Society of the World and captured Atom. Steven Sharpe III, a gentleman thief, master of disguise, and expert knife-thrower who battled the Golden Age Green Lantern after feeling his life was against him, and his girlfriend left him. His main opponent was another caveman exposed to it, the Immortal Man, until his destruction. Vandal Savage has manipulated human history behind the scenes for centuries, being a Pharaoh, helping to murder Caesar (though Pre-Crisis he was Caesar), committing murders as Jack the Ripper, and has been an enemy of Alan Scott, the Justice Society, the Justice League, the Secret Six, and many others. Vandar Adg, an immortal Cro-Magnon altered by the rays of a fallen meteor, possibly in 50,000 B.C. This is a list of fictional characters from DC Comics who are or have been enemies of Green Lantern. ![]()
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