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.
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Mandrake, the Magician, 1939
Mandrake and his assistant Lothar are working the cruise lines and make the acquaintance of Professor Houston who has developed a radium energy machine, which is much coveted by a masked Crime Lord known as “The Wasp”. (IMDb)
Hull Signed for “Hornet”
From Showmen’s Trade Review, 1940
Thank You
This “Not You/Tú No” meme format has been floating around the web for a while now, so I decided to make one for the Green Hornet.
Left to Right: Al Hodge (1936), Gordon Jones (1940), Warren Hull (1940), Dell Comics (1953), Green Hornet Title by Dynamite Comics, Van Williams (1966), Seth Rogan (2011), Jim Steranko for Now Comics (1989), Alex Ross for Dynamite Comics (2010)
Night Key, 1937
The inventor of a new top-of-the-line burglar alarm system is kidnapped by a gang in order to get him to help them commit robberies. (IMDb.com)
Poster for the 1954 re-release byRealart
The Green Hornet Strikes Again, 1940
Green Hornet Strikes Again, 1940
Promotional stills for the movie serial the Green Hornet Strikes Again. Starring Warren Hull as Britt Reid / Green Hornet, Keye Luke as Kato, Wade Boteler as Michael Axford, Anne Nagel as Lenore Case and Eddie Acuff as Lowery.
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The Spider’s Web, 1938
From the extensive Murania Press photo archive: a rare publicity still taken for THE SPIDER’S WEB, a 1938 Columbia serial based on Popular Publications’ premier hero pulp. Warren Hull (right) as Richard Wentworth, Richard Fiske as his trusted aide Jackson. Likely this shot was staged as reference for poster artist Glenn Cravath. (muraniapress.com)
Green Hornet Theater Advances
Green Hornet 75th Anniversary DVD
This 4 disk collector’s edition brings both The Green Hornet (1939) and The Green Hornet Strikes Again (1940) together in one set. VCI Worked with Universal to remaster the original serials, and the results were wonderful. All the episodes were crisp and clean with the exception of the last half of episode 9 (I think), as the original had deteriorated to the point where they were unable to clean it, so the quality suffers a bit. If you are new to the Green Hornet Serials, they are black and white and each episode runs about 25 minutes.
In addition to the serials there are a few extras including 4 radio episodes (The Parking Lot Racket [10/31/39], The Highway that Graft Wrote [10/3/40], Paroles for Sale [8/16/41], The Corpse that wasn’t there[2/28/43]), “I AM… The Green Hornet” (a “bio” of the Green Hornet) , before and after restoration, and a photo gallery. The quality is a giant step up from the Super Hero Classics DVD from Pacific Entertainment I had previously, but then again I only paid a dollar for that one. (and don’t get me started about the abomination that was the 2011 remake, don’t they even bother to look at the source material before “basing” a movie off of something?)
To order go to www.vcient.com or amazon.com