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Issue Details

Issue #21
Published May 1993
Cover Price $1.95
Pages 36
Editing Tony Caputo (Editor in chief); Joan Weis (Editor)

Cover Details - "The Return of Mr. Death"

Characters "Ghost" of Brick Arcade; Kato II; Green Hornet IV
Genre Superhero; Crime
Pencils Mike Okamoto (painted?)
Inks Mike Okamoto
Colors ? (Mike Okamoto?)

20 page The Green Hornet story "The Return of Mr. Death"

Characters Brick "Mr. Death" Arcade (flashback); P. Easton Binney; D.A. Diana Reid (flashback); Green Hornet IV [Paul Reid]; Kato II [Hayashi Kato]; The Undertaker (V)
Synopsis P. Easton Binney reports the execution of hitman Brick Arcade, nicknamed Mr. Death. However, shortly thereafter Arcade's "ghost" appears to and terrorizes several people involved in the execution, the judge, the arresting officer, and rival criminals, including the Green Hornet! Convincing Binney he is on the list, the masked men agree to take him along on a check of another Arcade rival he has identified for them, Fast Eddie Johns, who has gone to the cemetery to convince himself and his minions that Arcade is really dead. The body is indeed in its proper place, but the "ghost" appears at the grave, and as Johns tries to shoot it, his bullets pass through harmlesly and strike two of his own men! By this time, the Black Beauty has arrived and it doesn't take the Hornet and Kato long to find a loudspeaker, a hologram projector--it is a misty night--and five men, namely The Undertaker and his henchmen, one made up and dressed to resemble a dead Arcade, three others levelling firearms. Binney's camera flash provides all the distraction Kato and the Hornet need to eliminate the thugs and the threat of their weapons. Leaving Binney to call the police and take the credit, our heroes drive away.
Genre Superhero; Crime
Script Ron Fortier
Pencils Joe Bennett
Inks Joe Bennett
Colors "The M.F.A.s"
Letters Andrea Albert

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

Characters Various
Synopsis House ad for nineteen NOW Comics issues, with basic creative team credits for all, and cover repros for sixteen.
Pencils Various
Inks Various
Letters Typeset
Notes Centerspread between pages 12 and 13 of Sequence 1. The exact ad that has been running in every issue since #14, carrying a listing for #11.

1 page The Buzz Word letters page

Characters Sisterhood
Script Joan Weis; Ron Fortier
Pencils Bill Knapp
Inks Alfredo Alcala
Letters Typeset; Andrea Albert
Reprinted A detail, including a dialogue balloon, from the splash panel of the main story in #18, reduced and in b/w.

1 page text article "Submission Guidelines"

Synopsis Instructions for prospective writers, letterers, pencilers, inkers, painters, and colorists to apply for work from NOW Comics. Includes b/w drawings of an ink bottle, a wild-eyed hairy creature, and a stereotypical "French" artist, as well as a boxed list of NOW's staff.
Script Joan Weis
Letters Typeset