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Issue Details

Issue #31
Published March 1994
Cover Price $2.50
Pages 36
Editing Tony Caputo (Editor in chief); Joan Weis (Managing editor); Geoff [Geoffrey A.] White (Editor)

Cover Details - "Reids Under Siege!"

Characters Danny Reid; Green Hornet IV
Genre Superhero; Crime
Pencils Patrick Zircher (signed)
Inks Jim Brozman (signed)
Colors Andrea Albert
Letters None; typeset

The Green Hornet insert or dust jacket

Characters Green Hornet II; Kato II
Synopsis Comic card polybagged with the comic.
Pencils James Martin [painting]
Inks James Martin [painting]
Colors James Martin [painting]
Letters Typeset
Notes Painted over (tracings of?) montage of three publicity photos for 1960s Hornet TV show. The b/w reverse is from a generic house ad for NOW's general range of Green Hornet comics, with the background being the (insect) Hornet emblem, with the title logo, taglines "Feel the Sting" and "Every month exclusively from NOW Comics," and a trademark/copyright notice laid over.
Reprinted Cover art from Tales of the Green Hornet, 1991 series (aka Volume 2), #3, March 1992.

21 page The Green Hornet story "Transitions"

Characters Paul Reid [Green Hornet IV]; Hayashi Kato; Diana Reid; Mishi Kato; Britt Reid II; Lenore C. Reid; Danny Reid; Judge Mariotti (I; V)
Synopsis Two months after last issue: Hayashi and Diana discuss the problems Paul has getting past his ordeal with Johnny Dollar. They agree that Mishi, on the other hand, is handling the news that Dollar is still alive (again) quite well, as she is calmly upgrading systems of the car that has replaced "her" Black Beauty. Britt has been receiving threats due to an editorial exposing the corruption of one Judge Mariotti, and his wife and son are now being included. He asks Paul if the Green Hornet can do anything. His response is to go out...alone! The Hornet demands his cut from the judge, who curses the publisher for tipping him as well as the police to his secret activities, and tells the masked man that he has sent some men to finish him. The Hornet "stings" Mariotti into unconsciousness and hurries to the Reid mansion, but four men are already at work. Britt and Lenore are tied to chairs and Danny is being held by one thug. The Green Hornet crashes through a large window, punching, kicking and again punching out three of the hoods, but the fourth points a gun at young Danny's head. A quickly fired blast from the Sting eliminates that threat, but Paul shrugs away thanks from Britt for his son's life: "I nearly got him killed."
Genre Superhero; Crime
Script Joan Weis
Pencils Patrick Zircher
Inks Jim Brozman, Todd S. Tuttle, Barry Petersen
Colors Holly Sanfelippo
Letters Andrea Albert
Notes No Kato appears in mask and uniform in this story.

2 page Buzz Word letters page

Synopsis Letters, with editorial responses, from Jose DeJesus, Miss Kris Wickens, and Glenn Gaba, plus a "next issue" blurb.
Script Joan Weis
Letters Typeset
Notes In direct response to Gaba, Weis admits that two previously editorially-announced and house-ad promoted spin-off projects, The Black Beauty Special (despite that name, a two-issue miniseries) and Green Hornet Legacy Special (initially announced as depicting, among other things "why Britt II became the second Hornet...the first time he met Hayashi Kato...as well as the [1960s team's] previously unseen first mission," all of which were in fact shown in Green Hornet 1989 series [aka Vol. 1], #s 2 & 3) "have been postponed until further notice." They were never released.

2 page What NOW promo (ad from the publisher)

Characters Various
Synopsis Promotional announcement for twelve NOW issues of three months run, with copy-less cover repros for eleven (New Adventures of Speed Racer #0 bears its series logo) and basic creative team credits for all.
Pencils Various
Inks Various
Letters Typeset
Reprinted The exact same "What NOW" feature from the previous month's NOW publications.

1 page NOW Comics Update promo (ad from the publisher)

Characters Hayashi Kato
Synopsis Textual promo for three special NOW Comics publishing events, followed by "a panel...that almost slipped by," that is, one which has been relettered for a gag and "stamped" with the word "Reject." Also included is the standard boxed list of NOW's staff.
Pencils Patrick Zircher
Inks Jim Brozman
Letters Typeset [main text], ? [relettered comic extract]
Reprinted Green Hornet, 1991 series [aka Vol. 2], #23, July 1993, page 4, panel 1, with caption box and dialogue balloon eliminated and replaced with two new balloons, plus the addition of a "stamp" reading "Reject."