Crime & Punishment: 1980s

Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Secret Saga of THE GREEN HORNET "Green Hornet Stings Twice!"

Initially-believing the masked pseudo-criminal identity his uncle assumed during the 1940s was no longer needed...

...Britt Reid II is compelled, in the late 1960s, by the assassination of a close friend running for public office to don the mask to solve the murder...

And the Silver Age/TV Green Hornet takes flight against evil...

This never-reprinted section of NOW's Green Hornet V1N3 (1990) reveals the Golden Age/radio/movie serial Green Hornet's daughter Diana discovering her uncle has become a new (Silver Age/TV) Green Hornet.
After graduating law school and passing the bar exams, she would eventually replace District Attorney Frank Scanlon (who secretly-aided the Silver Age/TV Hornet) as DA, working with both her uncle and two nephews in their masked identities to bring criminals to justice.

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Monday, August 12, 2024

Secret Saga of THE GREEN HORNET "The Second Green Hornet and Kato Take Flight!"

We Showed You the Never-Reprinted Origin of the Golden Age/Radio/Movie Serial Green Hornet and Kato...

...Now See How Their Replacements Made Their Debut!
Writer Ron Fortier stated that the "Origin of the Silver Age/TV Green Hornet and Kato" flashback which follows was a fill-in by penciler Jim Wisniewski and inker Lenin Delsol as to finish issue NOW's Green Hornet #2 (1990) and get it to the printer when artist Jeff Butler became too ill to work.

This segment was excluded, at Fortier's request, from the Bonus Books Green Hornet reprint collection of issues #1 to #12, which continues with the story from the first half of #2 as shown HERE to the second half of #3 as shown HERE, so this chapter of the saga was, in fact, never-reprinted!
In addition, note that Britt Reid II should be black-haired...