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Issue Details

Issue #25
Published September 1993
Cover Price $1.95
Pages 36
Editing Tony Caputo (Editor in chief); Joan Weis (Editor)

Cover Details

Characters Kato II; Green Hornet IV
Genre Superhero; Crime
Pencils Hector Gomez (painting, signed)
Inks Hector Gomez (painting, signed)
Colors Hector Gomez (painting, signed)

20 page The Green Hornet story "Deadly Admirer"

Characters D.A. Diana Reid; Paul Reid [Green Hornet IV]; Hayashi Kato [Kato II]
Synopsis Martin Kirchoff, a man that Diana Reid prosecuted onto death row, and who vowed vengeance, escapes, but she doesn't hear about it. Upon receiving a note signed, "Your Secret Admirer," asking to meet her at what was in fact the scene of Kirchoff's crime, Diana suspects it to be from Hayashi. A call to Paul tells her that Hay is "gone for the evening. Said he had some business to take care of," and she tells Paul to inform him that she'll "keep our date at the park." Soon thereafter Kato walks in and, after Paul delivers Diana's message, replies that he has no idea what she was talking about. At this point a TV newscast announces Kirchoff's escape, the pair put two and two together, and hurriedly change into their disguises. The Green Hornet and his associate arrive at the scene just in time. However, Kirchoff has made good use of the prison gym and surprisingly throws Kato into the Hornet, taking them both out. Nevertheless, the fight has distracted Kirchoff enough to allow Diana to run, but not far enough. As he catches up to her, she pushes Kirchoff into a high voltage device, killing him.
Genre Superhero; Crime
Script Todd S. Tuttle
Pencils Joe Bennett
Inks Joe Bennett
Colors Todd S. Tuttle; Suzanne Dechnik; Holly Sanfelippo
Letters Andrea Albert
Notes The presentation of the story's title contains the word "Secret" in the same style as "Admirer," but it is crossed out and the word "Deadly" is scrawled in.

1 page letters page "Buzz Word"

Script Joan Weis
Letters Typeset

2 page promo (ad from the publisher) "What NOW"

Characters Various
Synopsis An across-the-line house ad for thirteen NOW Comics issues, plus a variant version of one, with basic creative team listings and cover repros for all. There is also a listing and cover repro for a Speed Racer video.
Pencils Various
Inks Various
Letters Typeset
Notes This feature, herein permanently losing the question mark from its name, continues to run two months behind, as #23 of this series is included.

1 page text article "Baron Returns For Foil-Embossed KATO III"

Characters Kato II; Green Hornet IV
Synopsis Across-the-line announcement of a third Kato mini-series, two issues, to be written by Mike Baron, scripter of the previous two, with embossed line-art covers by Patrick Zircher, and fully painted interiors by Bob Bilau. There is a repro of Zircher's cover for #1 that, due to the original's medium, is almost entirely lost, seeming to be only the red logo atop a solid black field (a better, larger, repro as a house ad illio on the inside rear cover, opposite, reveals the actual intent/content). Beneath is a reprint of the cover of NOW's first Green Hornet Annual, with the addition of gag dialogue balloons, a "stamp" indicating that this version was rejected, and the caption, "A cover for THE GREEN HORNET that almost slipped by..." This feature also includes a boxed list of NOW Comics' staff.
Script Joan Weis (the main text, etc.); ? (the Annual cover's gag dialogue)
Pencils Tod Smith (the Annual cover); Patrick Zircher (the Kato cover)
Inks David Mowry (the Annual cover); Patrick Zircher (the Kato cover)
Letters Typeset (the main text, etc.); ? (the Annual cover's gag dialogue)
Notes Kato III was subsequently re-announced and re-advertised as a graphic novel, but was never published in any format.
Reprinted Cover of The Green Hornet Annual #1, December 1992 (modified).