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The Human Target is the name of two fictional characters in American comic books published by DC Comics. The first is Fred Venable, while the second is private investigator and bodyguard Christopher Chance who assumes the identities of clients targeted by assassins and other dangerous criminals. The character has appeared in numerous books published throughout the decades and has appeared in television adaptations. Human Target made his first live appearance in the 1992 television series Human Target played by Rick Springfield and then in the 2010 television series Human Target played by Mark Valley. In the fifth and sixth seasons of the Arrowverse series Arrow, Human Target was played by Wil Traval.

The first character to use the "Human Target" title (Fred Venable) appeared in Detective Comics #201 (November 1953), and was created by Edmond Hamilton and Sheldon Moldoff. The second character to use the "Human Target" title (Christopher Chance) first appeared in Action Comics #419 (December 1972) and was created by Len Wein and Carmine Infantino. His early appearances came in back up stories in Action Comics, a title better known for featuring Superman tales published by DC Comics. He first appeared in "The Assassin Express Contract", a backup story written by Wein and illustrated by Infantino. Later, the feature appeared in Batman titles such as The Brave and the Bold and Detective Comics. He starred in a limited series, a one shot, and then an ongoing Human Target series written by Peter Milligan and published under DC's Vertigo imprint. In 2022, Tom King and Greg Smallwood began a 12 issue limited series for DC's Black Label imprint.

+ Comic book appearances Date Issue Title1953 NovemberDetective Comics #201 "The Human Target"1958 JanuaryGangbusters #61 "The Human Target"1972 DecemberAction Comics #419 "The Assassin Express Contract"1973 JanuaryAction Comics #420 "The King of the Jungle Contract"1973 MarchAction Comics #422 "The Shadows of Yesterday Contract"1973 AprilAction Comics #423 "The Deadly Dancer Contract"1973 JulyAction Comics #425 "The Short Walk to Disaster Contract Clause 1: I Have a Cousin in the Business"1973 AugustAction Comics #426 "The Short Walk to Disaster Contract Clause 2: The Shortest Distance Between Two Points"1973 NovemberAction Comics #429 "The Rodeo Riddle Contract"1974 FebruaryAction Comics #432 "The Million Dollar Methuselah Contract"1978 September–OctoberDC The Brave and the Bold #143 "The Cat and the Canary Contract"1978 October–NovemberDC The Brave and the Bold #144 "The Symphony For The Devil Contract"1979 April–MayDetective Comics #483 "The Lights! Camera! Murder! Contract"1979 June–JulyDetective Comics #484 "The Who Is Floyd Fenderman Anyway? Contract"1979 October–NovemberDetective Comics #486 "The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea Contract"1980 AugustDetective Comics #493 "The 18 Wheel War Contract"1981 MarchDetective Comics #500 "The 'Too Many Crooks ' Caper"1982 JuneDetective Comics #515 "College for Killers"1982 JulyBatman #349 "Blood Sport"1982 SeptemberBatman #351 "What Stalks the Gotham Night? "1982 SeptemberDetective Comics #518 "The Millionaire Contract"1982 OctoberBatman #352 "The Killer Sky"1982 NovemberDC The Best of Blue Ribbon Digest #30 "The Assassin Express Contract" (reprint)1989 MarchAction Comics #641 "The Pow! Wap! Zam! Contract"1991 November DC special (TV tie in) "The Human Target: The Mack Attack Contract"1999 April Vertigo Human Target (1999) #1 "Human Target, Part 1"1999 May Vertigo Human Target (1999) #2 "Human Target, Part 2"1999 June Vertigo Human Target (1999) #3 "Human Target, Part 3"1999 July Vertigo Human Target (1999) #4 "Human Target, Part 4"2002 May Vertigo Human Target (2002) OGN "Final Cut"2003 October Vertigo Human Target (2003) #1 '"To Be Frank"2003 November Vertigo Human Target (2003) #2 "The Unshredded Man, Part 1: Ground Zero"2003 December Vertigo Human Target (2003) #3 "The Unshredded Man, Part 2: Ready to Die"2004 January Vertigo Human Target (2003) #4 "Take Me Out To The Ballgame, Part One: The Set Up Man"2004 February Vertigo Human Target (2003) #5 "Take Me Out To The Ballgame, Part Two: The Strike Zone"2004 March Vertigo Human Target (2003) #6 "For I Have Sinned"2004 April Vertigo Human Target (2003) #7 "Which Way The Wind Blows, Part One: Living In Amerika"2004 May Vertigo Human Target (2003) #8 "Which Way The Wind Blows, Part Two: American Terrorists"2004 June Vertigo Human Target (2003) #9 "Which Way The Wind Blows, Part Three: Bringing It All Back Home"2004 July Vertigo Human Target (2003) #10 "Five Days Grace"2004 August Vertigo Human Target (2003) #11 "Games of Chance"2004 September Vertigo Human Target (2003) #12 "Suffer the Children"2004 October Vertigo Human Target (2003) #13 "Hey, Jude"2004 November Vertigo Human Target (2003) #14 "The Second Coming, Part One: In the Name of the Father"2004 December Vertigo Human Target (2003) #15 "The Second Coming, Part Two: The Temptation of Christopher Chance"2005 January Vertigo Human Target (2003) #16 "The Second Coming, Conclusion: Pieces of Lead"2005 February Vertigo Human Target (2003) #17 "You Made Me Love You"2005 March Vertigo Human Target (2003) #18 "Letters From the Front Line"2005 April Vertigo Human Target (2003) #19 "The Stealer, Part One"2005 May Vertigo Human Target (2003) #20 "The Stealer, Part Two"2005 June Vertigo Human Target (2003) #21 "The Stealer, Part Three"2010 June Vertigo Human Target Special Edition #1 "Human Target, Part 1" (1999/reprint)2010 April DC Human Target (2010) #1 (TV tie in) "Human Target #1"2010 May DC Human Target (2010) #2 (TV tie in) "Human Target #2"2010 June DC Human Target (2010) #3 (TV tie in) "Human Target #3"2010 July DC Human Target (2010) #4 (TV tie in) "Human Target #4"2010 August DC Human Target (2010) #5 (TV tie in) "Human Target #5"2010 September DC Human Target (2010) #6 (TV tie in) "Human Target #6"2022 January Black Label Human Target (2022) #1 "When We Are Born"2022 January Black Label Human Target (2022) #2 "We Cry"2022 February Black Label Human Target (2022) #3 "That We Are Come"2022 March Black Label Human Target (2022) #4 "To This Great Stage of Fools! "2022 April Black Label Human Target (2022) #5 "This is a Good Block"2022 May Black Label Human Target (2022) #6 "It Were a Delicate Stratagem"2022 October Tales of the Human Target #1 "Oh, Here He Is"2022 November Black Label Human Target (2022) #7 "To Shoe a Troop of Horse with Felt"2022 December Black Label Human Target (2022) #8 2023 January Black Label Human Target (2022) #9 "And When I Have Stol'n Upon These Sons In Law"2023 March Black Label Human Target (2022) #10 "Then Kill"

Writer Peter Milligan and Edvin Biukovic revived Christopher Chance in 1999, moving the character to DC Comics' Vertigo imprint for a four issue limited series. The mini series was followed by the graphic novel Human Target: Final Cut, as well as a series lasting 21 issues until its cancellation in 2005.

The Human Target story "The Unshredded Man" was analyzed as an example of depictions of the September 11 attacks in American popular culture.

A television pilot, starring Rick Springfield, was produced in 1990. Springfield starred as Chance, who was now a Vietnam vet as well as a private investigator/bodyguard. In this version, for ten percent of a client's annual income ("whether you're a busboy or the king of England"), Chance would take the client's place and protect his or her life. Philo Marsden (Kirk Baltz) was an eccentric computer genius who helped Chance by designing high tech masks, and Jeff Carlyle (Sami Chester) was the chauffeur, cook and pilot for Chance's mobile base of operations, the Blackwing (designed by Mike Kaluta). Lilly Page (Signy Coleman) was an ex CIA agent who helped coordinate Chance's missions. The show was created by Warner Brothers and Pet Fly Productions (producers of The Flash, Viper and The Sentinel), and aired on ABC. Though produced in 1990, the show aired only briefly in 1992 (7 episodes aired in the summer of 1992 although the pilot itself was never aired). The version of the show which aired in 1992 had a slightly different cast from that of the unaired pilot episode. Guest stars included David Carradine in the episode entitled "Second Chance". In November 1991, prior to the show's debut, Chance appeared in his own book, a 48 page one shot titled The Human Target Special #1, an ostensible tie in to the television show (the cover advertised that it was "Coming soon to ABC TV! "), in which Chance and his cohorts protected a DEA agent from harm. It was written by Mark Verheiden, with pencils by Rick Burchett and inks by Dick Giordano. A FOX television series was in broadcast from 2010 to 2011 starring Mark Valley, Jackie Earle Haley, and Chi McBride. The series deviates from the comics version in that the character assumes nondescript cover identities that keep him close to the "target", rather than taking on the target's identity himself. The first season debuted on CTV and FOX in January 2010. The show was officially canceled on May 10, 2011, after two seasons. Portrayed as a former assassin who decided to turn his life around and become the opposite of what he was saving lives rather than taking them after failing to protect a woman he loved, he inherited his name from a guardian called Christopher Chance (Lee Majors), who obtained it the same way from the man before him, making the current one a fifth generation bodyguard with the given name. The current Christopher Chance initially employs the help of a former police officer, Winston (McBride), and an independent contractor known as Guerrero (Haley), later expanding his team with a financier who pokes an interest in his firm, Ilsa Pucci (Indira Varma), and a retired cat burglar called Ames (Janet Montgomery). DC published a six issue tie in mini series written by Len Wein with art by Bruno Redondo. Christopher Chance / Human Target appears in the live action television series Arrow, portrayed by Wil Traval. An old friend of John Diggle, Chance first appears in the fifth season episode "Human Target" as a body decoy disguised as Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell). In a flashback in the same episode, he is seen being hired by Anatoly Knyazev to protect Knyazev from Bratva member Viktor and the man's thugs. Chance reappears in the sixth season episode "Docket No. 11 19 41 73" masquerading as Tommy Merlyn (Colin Donnell) who appears dressed as Green Arrow during Oliver's trial. With help from Diggle and Wild Dog, Chance poses as Judge C. McGarvey when rendering the verdict. After the jury finds Oliver guilty, Chance as the Judge has Queen seek probation, and then Oliver is free to go. After the trial is over, Chance insists that Oliver's allies do not seek his help for another year.