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    Green Hornet Comics (1940) #42 CGC 5.5
    Tags: Pulp Adventure
    Published Nov 1948 by Helnit Publishing Co..
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    $292.00
    • Paper: Off white
    • Label #4707747005

    Cover by Al Avison. Stories and art by Allen Saunders, Alfred Andriola, Buford Tune and Al Avison. The first comic to feature The Green Hornet, the radio-turned-movie superhero from the creator of the Lone Ranger. A $40,000 loaf of bread leads Green Hornet to a smuggling ring on the waterfront. A gambling racket uses orphans as runners, until one of them alerts the Hornet. The reader is invited to solve a two-page mystery before the Green Hornet can. Plus reprints of the classic detective comic strip Kerry Drake. Also featuring a Tootsie Roll ad, "Captain Tootsie and the Babe Ruth Story," with art by Shazam creator C.C. Beck and a cameo by actor William Bendix, promoting the film The Babe Ruth Story. Green Hornet: Treachery on the Waterfront; Green Hornet: The Orphanage Racket; Green Hornet's U-Solve-It Mystery; Winnie the Waitress; Kerry Drake: Crime Can't Win; Dotty Dripple; Green Hornet: Case of the Golden Eye; Green Hornet: Secret of the Tomb. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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