Tales of the Green Hornet comic books issue 2

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Cover pencils by Mark Miraglia, inks by Dan Schaefer. Wolf Pack, script by James Van Hise, pencils by Kevin Tuma, inks by Barb Kaalberg; 2023: Paul Reid wants to know how Britt I dealt with having to kill a man early in his Green Hornet career (as detailed in the previous issue), but the man's journals hold no discussion of the aftermath. However, Ikano Kato's do. 1936: Britt's college roommate, Charles Binford, has written to the Daily Sentinel, asking for an investigation into strange happenings near his home in the Canadian hinterlands. Britt takes advantage of the opportunity to get away from the pressures of the paper, the city, and his double life, with Kato deciding to go along to keep an eye on his troubled friend. However, on the first morning, Nazi soldiers break into the cabin and capture the three men, marching them to a nearby location where they are to be slave labor, building a secret airstrip. Photographs of NOW's original Green Hornet artist Jeff Butler, Mr. T, NOW's frequent Green Hornet writer Ron Fortier and inker David Mowry, TV Green Hornet actor Van Williams, and fans Scott Heathcote and Michelle Latimer, costumed as Hornet II and Kato III, at various then-recent conventions. 36 pgs. $2.50. Cover price $2.50.

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Cover pencils by Dell Barras. Destiny: The Origin of the Green Hornet, Part Two, script by James Van Hise, pencils by Dell Barras, inks by John Stangeland; Despite the agreed upon compromise, Ikano works for Britt I as a manservant, much to the latter's displeasure. Daniel Reid "retires" and makes his son the Publisher of the Sentinel. One of his first decisions is to set up a sting operation against the protection racket, by having two reporters, under phony names, open a newsstand, and they are indeed soon approached. That very night, Britt and Ikano discuss the special car Kato has designed and built secretly in a warehouse near, but seemingly separate from, their townhouse (both, says Britt, were originally the property of a prohibition-era bootlegger, who had included a concealed passageway directly connecting the two). Going into the warehouse and looking at the car, which Britt says is a beauty, they discuss the possibility of disguising themselves and using the vehicle and its very unusual attributes to fight the gangs. When Britt hears the car's horn, it sounds to him just like a giant green hornet he encountered on a trip into the African jungle, inspiring his choice of disguise/cover name. 36 pgs. $1.95. Cover price $1.95.

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Cover art by Dell Barras. "The Burma Horse", Part 2: Supply & Demand, script by Van Williams (story premise) and Robert Ingersoll (full plot and script), painted art by Dell Barras; In 1977, The Green Hornet (II), out alone for perhaps the first time (but not the last; see Green Hornet Annual, #1, December 1992), pays a disturbing visit to Pinter Marcus about his incoming drug shipment, demanding his "cut" of the proceeds from the planned auction. Kato, pseudonymously starring in a martial arts movie shooting on location in Thailand, becomes more suspicious of the seeming wastefulness on the low-budget production. He also becomes romantically involved with his leading lady, the producer's daughter Aiasha. 36 pgs. $1.75. Cover price $1.75.