Comparison Pix--Man from U.N.C.L.E.

In a Reading Room post several weeks ago, I commented that the Silver Age Green Hornet had the unique situation that only one illustrator handled all his stories, as opposed to the artistic round-robin that tended to be the norm for Gold Key tv/movie titles.
Looking back over one Gold Key tv title, Man from U.N.C.L.E., we see a number of artists during it's almost two-dozen issue run, each with their own unique way of rendering Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum)...

Don Heck

George Tuska

George Tuska and???

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Werner Roth and ???

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Mike Sekowsky and Frank Giacoia

Sekowsky also did "Solo" and "Kuryakin" in the first issue of The Inferior Five...

Sekowsky and Mike Esposito

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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...

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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"

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