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Issue Details

Issue #17
Published January 1993
Cover Price $1.95
Pages 36
Editing Tony Caputo (Editor in chief); Joan Weis (Editor)

Cover Details - "Showdown At Midnight"

Characters Green Hornet IV
Genre Superhero; Crime
Pencils Patrick Zircher
Inks David Mowry

20 page The Green Hornet story "Showdown At Midnight"

Characters Green Hornet IV [Paul Reid]; Kato II [Hayashi Kato]; D.A. Diana Reid; Sister-hood (cameo; villain; intro)
Synopsis The Green Hornet and Kato interrupt thieves raiding an electronics store, but are themselves interrupted by a man dressed as a cowboy and expertly wielding two Western-style six-guns, and they are forced to flee. They heard an associate call him Watkins, however, which allows them to identify him as Pistol Jim Watkins, a man with a fantasy of being a "gunslinger" which the Hornet plays to. Word is put out on the street that the Hornet will meet him in a man-to-man showdown, place and time included. Watkins is faced and defeated, but the masked men are surprised that he hadn't "staked out some...added insurance." In fact, he had, but that sniper was taken out by a strangely costumed woman, Sister 5 of...Sister-hood!
Genre Superhero; Crime
Script Ron Fortier
Pencils Patrick Zircher
Inks David Mowry
Colors Suzanne Dechnik; Holly Sanfelippo
Letters Andrea Albert

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

Characters Various
Synopsis Across the line house ad for nineteen NOW comics issues, including basic creative team listings for all, and cover repros for sixteen.
Pencils Various
Inks Various
Notes This exact same ad has been seen in every issue from #14 on. Centerspread between pages 12 and 13 of Sequence 1.

2 page The Buzz Word letters page

Script Joan Weis
Letters Typeset
Reprinted Includes a smaller repro of the final panel of this issue's main story.

1 page photo story "Show Stoppers"

Synopsis Photos of NOW Comics creative talent, NOW related celebrities, and fans in NOW related costumes taken at recent conventions. Includes a boxed list of NOW Comics staff members.
Letters Typeset
Notes Exact piece has been running since issue #14.