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The Green Hornet is a masked crime-fighter created in 1936 by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker. The Green Hornet fights crime with the assistance of Kato and his rolling arsenal, the Black Beauty.
DELL Comics #496 was the first and only time the Green Hornet appeared in its publication. The issue is a part of their long running Four Color Comics series and contains two stories: The Freightyard Robberies (06-20-1949) and Proof of Treason (10-17-1952), which are adaptations of radio shows with the same names.
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Green Hornet Comics, #33, Harvey Publications, March/April, 1947. Cover art by Al Avison.
By night, a racket-buster, bringing justice to a crime-ridden metropolis.
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Illustrated sleeve featuring Superman, Flash Gordon, Green Hornet’s Black Beauty, Mandrake the Magician, The Shadow and The Lone Ranger. Original transcription disks were 16″ and were pressed at 16-2/3 RPM records, a speed used almost exclusively for spoken word content, particularly the “talking books” used by the visually impaired. For this reason, the inclusion of this speed was required on phonographs in some countries for many years.
The Maccabees Building – A $2,500,000 building in the Art Center of Detroit Michigan, dedicated July 23, 1927, was the first important office building in this section. Continue reading “WXYZ: Home of the Green Hornet”
Below are several photos of the models used in the the Making of the Green Hornet TV show
Here, for the first time, listeners may see Al Hodge (l.) who portrayed the famed mystery hero on the air. He’s meeting Warren Hull, who will portray the Hornet in films.
