...Featuring the "other Dynamic Duo's" First Foray Against Felons...
...in a never-reprinted tale from 1992!
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on Monday to learn the never-revealed secret of how they became wanted men by law enforcement!
Hint: they're actually innocent!
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Sunday, July 28, 2024
The RetroBlogs' "Time-Lost" Summer Blogathon Rolls Along...
...with another never-reprinted tale from at least three decades ago...
...specifically, the origin story of the other "Dynamic Duo"...
The Green Hornet
and
Kato!
How did two total strangers meet, become close friends, and then, allies in a war against crime which would span several generations of both their families?
The never-reprinted truth can now be revealed, starting Monday at...
Feel the Buzz!
Friday, September 9, 2016
Want to See The Green Hornet Beat Up a Criminal Named Trump...Twice?
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Cover Preview MASKS #7
The BIG crossover of masked mystery-men continues...
...with this cover by Francisco Francavilla for #7, featuring The Shadow, The Green Hornet, and The Spider.
But who's holding the card?
Sunday, December 2, 2012
"My Son is The Green Hornet!"
Status quo-changing events are not a new phenomenon in fiction.
Even in the Golden Age of Comics, series and characters received revamps (or even total reboots) if sales weren't meeting expectations.
Sometimes, the revamp extended through a character's other media incarnations as well!
To celebrate the release of the new Dynamite comic series Masks, which teams up the greatest mystery-men of the Golden Age of Comics and Pulps (plus radio and movie serials), RetroBlogs™ will be running some never-reprinted tales of those amazing heroes through the month of December!
Even in the Golden Age of Comics, series and characters received revamps (or even total reboots) if sales weren't meeting expectations.
Sometimes, the revamp extended through a character's other media incarnations as well!
To celebrate the release of the new Dynamite comic series Masks, which teams up the greatest mystery-men of the Golden Age of Comics and Pulps (plus radio and movie serials), RetroBlogs™ will be running some never-reprinted tales of those amazing heroes through the month of December!
First-off is the story that changed the status quo of The Green Hornet!
Much has been written about the 1947 radio show episodes that tied The Hornet and The Lone Ranger together, using Dan Reid, who was both Britt Reid's father, and John (Lone Ranger) Reid's nephew!
The 1940s Harvey Green Hornet comic book series had been loosely-adapting the radio show's scripts into comic stories, but when this storyline (spread over four episodes) ran on the radio show, the comics' creatives had to do some serious juggling to fit two hours of dramatic radio into two eight-page chapters in a single issue!
(And, yes, a Lone Ranger reference is in the comic story, too!)
It's so historically-important that we couldn't confine this tale to a single blog!
You can see the results tomorrow at Secret Sanctum of Captain Video™, with the conclusion Tuesday at Hero Histories™.
Plus, we'll be running tales of other heroes presented in Masks including Zorro, The Shadow, Miss Fury, Black Terror, and Green Lama through the RetroBlogs™ line during December.
Sunday, August 19, 2012
MASKS: the Ultimate Mystery-Man Team-Up
We've shown you a team-up between The Shadow and The Avenger....
We'll be showing you a team-up between The Shadow and Doc Savage soon...
But there's a marathon team-up mini-series coming in November that'll make history for the sheer amount of pulp and media heroes from various companies combined in one story!
It's called, appropriately enough, MASKS, and features...
The Shadow!
Zorro!
The Spider!
Plus other heroes like Miss Fury, The Black Bat, and The Black Terror are mentioned as appearing later on in the series!
Watch for it!
Plus see a sneak preview of the latest (#8) cover for The Shadow's solo title!
Plus see a sneak preview of the latest (#8) cover for The Shadow's solo title!
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
The Final Tale of the Silver Age Green Hornet...
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
YouTube Wednesday: THE GREEN HORNET STRIKES AGAIN "Flaming Havoc!"
Continuing our weekly feature "YouTube Wednesday"...
After the events of the first serial, Britt Reid and Kato head to Hawaii for a well-deserved vacation.
Unfortunately, Crime never takes a holiday.
In Reid's absence, a racketeer has managed to place one of his men as Managing Editor, killing any attempt by The Daily Sentinel to publish racket-busting exposés!
Lenore Case sees what's going on, but is powerless to stop it, since she's "only a secretary".
She telegraphs Reid, but the gangsters discover the publisher's on the way back and intercept him...
The Green Hornet serial did so well that Universal rushed a sequel into production within six months.
(It usually took a little longer than that, even for popular chapterplays. There were two-year gaps between each of the Flash Gordon serials.)
Warren Hull, who had recently played both Mandrake the Magician and The Spider in other serials replaced Gordon Jones as Britt Reid / The Green Hornet. In addition, the use of the voice of radio Green Hornet Al Hodge, when Reid was masked, was dropped.
Most of the first serial's cast returned, including Keye Luke as Kato, Anne Nagel as Lenore Case, and Wade Boteler as Mike Axford. However, Managing Editor Gunnigan is said to be incapacitated by a broken leg.
Following the same format as the first serial, The Hornet and Kato chip away at various rackets run by Crogan, played by Pierre Watkin (Perry White in the Superman serials), until the climactic confrontation in the final episode.
Want to see what happens next?
YouTube provider MedigoCobra has posted the entire serial HERE.
Or you can download it in a variety of formats HERE.
Or you can download it in a variety of formats HERE.
Friday, April 1, 2011
Reading Room: THE MEAN HORNET!
And since we've been on a Green Hornet binge, why not run the only spoof done (until the 2011 movie) of The Green Hornet and Kato?
There's only this never-reprinted six-pager from Marvel's Not Brand Echh! #9, 1968.
Written by Roy Thomas, Illustrated by Tom Sutton.
Here's a bonus: the original art to page 1!
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Reading Room: THE GREEN HORNET in "Threat of the Red Dragons" Conclusion
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When last we left our heroes...
The Green Hornet had confronted the Red Dragons, suggesting they blackmail Kato, thereby enabling the duo to track the tong to their base of operations, and their leader...
Next week in the Reading Room: More interplanetary warfare with the Space Busters!
And don't forget to check out...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
YouTube Wednesday: THE GREEN HORNET "Tunnel of Terror"
Continuing our weekly feature "YouTube Wednesday"...
It's time to take a look at the ORIGINAL film Green Hornet in his origin episode from the 1940 Universal Studios serial starring Gordon Jones as Britt Reid/Green Hornet and Key Luke as Kato!
While his full-face disguise looked different from the radio and comic version's surgeon-style mask, the characterization and plots were based on the radio show.
And, when masked, the movie Hornet sounded like the hero of the airwaves...because radio Hornet Al Hodge's distinctive voice was dubbed whenever newspaper publisher Britt Reid was masked!
All the supporting characters from the radio show made it to the movie version.
(Serials usually "trimmed" existing characters to keep the plots fast-paced.)
In fact, Kato received more time on screen than he usually got on the radio, as his scientific genius and other talents (including karate) were emphasized.
Oddly, in this incarnation, Kato was now Korean, not Fillipino or Japanese!
Enjoy "Chapter One: Tunnel of Terror"
And, when masked, the movie Hornet sounded like the hero of the airwaves...because radio Hornet Al Hodge's distinctive voice was dubbed whenever newspaper publisher Britt Reid was masked!
All the supporting characters from the radio show made it to the movie version.
(Serials usually "trimmed" existing characters to keep the plots fast-paced.)
In fact, Kato received more time on screen than he usually got on the radio, as his scientific genius and other talents (including karate) were emphasized.
Oddly, in this incarnation, Kato was now Korean, not Fillipino or Japanese!
Enjoy "Chapter One: Tunnel of Terror"
Want to see what happens next?
YouTube provider LuridPlanet has posted the entire serial HERE.
Or you can download it in a variety of formats HERE.
Or you can download it in a variety of formats HERE.
And don't forget to check out...
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Reading Room: THE GREEN HORNET in "Threat of the Red Dragons" Part 2
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When last we left our heroes...
A new Chinatown tong, The Red Dragons, is threatening honest citizens, including friends of Kato (never a good idea).
Tracking a clue to the shop of Mao-Tse, who is involved with the tong, The Green Hornet and Kato discover...
We'll see who bites...and how hard, in Thursday's exciting conclusion!
(Tomorrow's YouTube Wednesday...with MORE Green Hornet action!)
And don't forget to check out...
Monday, March 21, 2011
Reading Room: THE GREEN HORNET in "Threat of the Red Dragons" Part 1
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It's the Silver-Age Green Hornet (and Kato) from #2 of the short-lived Gold Key book based on the tv series!
We'll find out where the light is coming from...tomorrow!
And don't forget to check out...
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