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Issue Details

Issue #14
Published October 1992
Cover Price $1.95
Pages 36
Editing Tony Caputo (Editor in chief); Joan Weis (Editor)
Notes The indicia parenthetically gives this issue the alternate name of Anniversary Special.

Cover Details - "The Odyssey of the Crimson Wasp Part 3 of 3"

Characters Green Hornet IV; Crimson Wasp; Johnny Dollar; Kato II
Genre Superhero; Crime
Pencils Sal Velluto (signed)
Inks Tony DeZuniga (signed)
Colors Suzanne Dechnik
Letters (?)
Notes The indicia parenthetically gives this issue the alternate name of Anniversary Special.
Reprinted The portion with the Crimson Wasp was previously lifted out of the original art and published in b/w on #13's letters page.

24 page The Green Hornet story "The Odyssey of the Crimson Wasp / Part Three: Dying for Dollar$"

Characters Johnny Dollar [Jonathan Dunhill]; Crimson Wasp [Mishi Kato]: Green Hornet IV [Paul Reid]; D.A. Diana Reid; Hayashi Kato [Kato II]
Synopsis Despite their past history, money-launderer Johnny Dollar and "racketeer" Green Hornet agree to do business together and arrange a late-night meet, but each man is planning a double cross. Unknown to either, so is Dollar's current mistress, Penny Lane, who is dealing with a real racketeer named Max Block. Also plotting is Mishi/Wasp, who had planted a bug on the Black Beauty when she made her disparaging comment about it (last issue). At the appointed time and place, the proceedings begin calmly enough, but Dollar hears the Hornet address his associate by the vaguely familiar name "Kato." Soon enough, violence predictably erupts. A head kick from Kato eliminates Block, Penny and most secondary thugs are killed, and things climax with the Wasp's sword at Dollar's throat. To make her vengeance complete, she unmasks. As she desires, he remembers her, but he also recognizes her real surname as that by which the Hornet had addressed his man. Kato tries to stop Mishi from murdering Dollar, who takes advantage of her distraction to deflect her sword arm and pull a handgun, firing a shot which digs a gouge along the side of her neck. She lunges at Dollar, causing them to plunge into the harbor, where the Wasp pulls a short sword from a leg scabbard and runs the criminal through. He sinks, and Kato pulls her onto dry land. They get into their vehicles and leave.
Genre Superhero; Crime
Script Ron Fortier
Pencils Sal Valluto
Inks Barb Kaalberg
Colors Suzanne Dechnik; Holly Sanfelippo; Andrea Albert
Letters Andrea Albert

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

Characters Various
Synopsis Titles, numbers, and principal creative credits for 19 NOW comics.
Script (?)
Pencils Various
Inks Various
Colors (?)
Letters Various
Notes Centerspread between pages 13 and 14 of Sequence 1. This feature is three months out of date here--#11 of the series at hand is included--yet will continue to run through virtually all NOW's standard format comics until cover date May 1993 (eight months; it WILL be replaced by a more conventional ad on isolated occasions).
Reprinted Sixteen comic covers are reproduced in miniature.

1 page The Buzz Word letters page

Script Joan Weis
Letters Typeset

1 page filler "Show Stoppers"

Synopsis Color photographs of NOW Comics creative talent, related celebrities, and costumed fans at various conventions.
Script (?)
Colors (?)
Letters Typeset
Notes This feature would run in virtually all NOW's standard format comics through cover date March 1993 (six months).