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Issue Details

Issue #2
Published May 1967
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes 10202-705; TV series photo of Van Williams as the Green Hornet and another of Bruce Lee as Kato; Green Hornet TV emblem in inset.

Cover Details - "The Threat of the Red Dragons!"

Characters Green Hornet; Kato
Genre superhero; crime
Pencils photos
Inks photos
Notes 10202-705; TV series photo of Van Williams as the Green Hornet and another of Bruce Lee as Kato; Green Hornet TV emblem in inset.

1 page Green Hornet, The foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "The Threat of the Red Dragons!"

Characters Green Hornet [Britt Reid]; Kato
Synopsis Three TV series photos of Van Williams as the Green Hornet, two of which also have Bruce Lee as Kato, and a textual introduction to the issue's main story.
Genre superhero; crime
Pencils Photos
Inks Photos
Colors B/W
Letters Typeset
Notes On inside front cover; the photo without Lee is an action shot from the TV episode "The Frog is a Deadly Weapon."
Reprinted Photo from #1's back cover, cropped.

26 page Green Hornet, The story "The Threat of the Red Dragons"

Characters Green Hornet [Britt Reid]; Kato; Mike Axford; Lenore "Casey" Case; D.A. Frank Scanlon
Synopsis In "Chinatown" a gang of toughs is extorting money from people by threatening relatives still residing in Communist China, and the Green Hornet finds that identifying their leader is easier said than done.
Genre superhero; crime
Script Paul Newman
Pencils Dan Spiegle
Inks Dan Spiegle
Notes The plot contains elements from the GREEN HORNET TV episode "The Preying Mantis"; despite the title having an exclamation point in each of the two front-cover features, there is not one here; Casey's real first name, Lenore, is not used in this issue.

4 page insert or dust jacket

Notes Indexer's copy is missing a four-page center insert, between pages 14 & 15 of Sequence 2, that appeared in many Gold Key issues of this cover date (e.g., Magnus, Robot Fighter #18).

1 page filler "Chuckle Time"

Synopsis Three one-panel gag cartoons.
Genre Humor

1 page Picture Dictionary filler "B Bonefish"

Synopsis A discussion of the bonefish, with five illustrations.
Genre Fact
Letters Typeset

1 page filler

Characters Kato; Britt Reid [Green Hornet]; Lenore "Casey" Case
Synopsis TV series photo of Bruce Lee as Kato ("houseboy" uniform) & Van Williams as Britt Reid, and another of Wende Wagner as Casey Case, all so labelled.
Pencils Photos
Inks Photos
Colors B/W
Letters Typeset
Notes On inside back cover.

1 page Green Hornet, The (backcovers) *do not use* / *please fix* "The Green Hornet Pin-up"

Characters Kato; Green Hornet [Britt Reid]
Synopsis B/W TV series photos of Bruce Lee as Kato and Van Williams as the Green Hornet, with color borders.
Genre superhero; crime
Pencils Photos
Inks Photos