| Characters |
Mei Li (Daughter of the Black Dragon) (I; V); Harry Block (dies); Glory; Kato II; Green Hornet IV; D.A. Diana Reid; Police Commissioner "Linc" Hamilton |
| Synopsis |
A tong declares war in The City, killing several crime bosses within two hours. The assassin of one, Harry Block, is killed by Glory with the racketeer's own gun, while another, targeting a fellow called Fast Eddie Washington, is foiled by the Green Hornet and his associate. The lucky hood tells the masked men that he "recognized their colors" as Black Dragons, giving our heroes a lead. The proprietor of a tattoo parlor in the "Little China" district is "convinced" to talk about the tong, revealing that not only is the Hornet correct in surmising that he himself is on the list, but so are most top police officials. They quickly inform Diana, who spreads the word. However, she cannot reach Commissioner Hamilton, and dispatches a SWAT team, the base of which is not close to his home. The Black Beauty is coincidentally in the immediate vicinity, so the masked men head there themselves. They arrive to find a tong assassin has already shot Ham, and is turning on his family. The wife and two youngsters are saved and told to call an ambulance for the commissioner, but a tong dart has poisoned Kato! To be continued.... |
| Genre |
Superhero; Crime |
| Script |
Ron Fortier |
| Pencils |
Patrick Zircher |
| Inks |
David Mowry |
| Colors |
Holly Sanfelippo [as D.U.H. Inc. (the NOW staff)] |
| Letters |
Andrea Albert |
| Notes |
The colorist credit, "D.U.H. Inc.," intended to indicate "The NOW Comics staff," was so clarified and then corrected--as well as apologized for--by the editor in the letter column of #29. Commissioner Hamilton's first name is stated for the third and final time, the second instance as "Linc," consistent with #16, while the first issue of this series gave it as "Carter." |
| Characters |
All 6 Green Hornets and all 4 Katos. |
| Synopsis |
NOW's third, last, and most extensive set of family trees for the Reid and Kato clans, including several people not posted on the previous versions: the "original" Reid brothers, Daniel Reid, Sr.'s wife, and Hatami Kato's wife and children, as well as the future characters created for the Dark Tomorrow mini-series (no connections are drawn to the future generations, nor are years given for their major life events). Birth, wedding, and death years are given for all where applicable (or known; a question mark is given for the death year of John [The Lone Ranger] Reid). Linda Hawthorne is established as the wife of Dan Sr., and he is given a death year of 1880, thereby dating the "birth" of The Lone Ranger. Head-shots lifted from various issues are displayed for each Hornet and "Associate," with years of the respective careers listed alongside. |
| Pencils |
Jeff Butler (Green Hornets I, II, III; Katos I, II, III); Patrick Zircher (Green Hornet IV); Dave Simons (2 future Green Hornets & future Kato) |
| Inks |
Jeff Butler (Green Hornet & Kato I); David Mowry (all others) |
| Letters |
Typeset |
| Notes |
This feature is the issue's centerspread, between pages 12 and 13 of Sequence 1. The son of Britt II is again incorrectly identified as "Daniel John Reid III," even though this tree explicitly shows that he carries a combination of the names of BOTH "original" Reid brothers, not just his great-great-grandfather's (and great-grandfather's) name, and consequently should carry no suffix at all. Dan Reid, Sr. is given a birth year of 1854, contradicting NOW's very first Green Hornet issue (November 1989)'s flat statement that he served in the Civil War (Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederacy on April 9, 1865; if born on January 1, 1854, Dan Sr. would have been barely three months past his eleventh birthday). Dan Jr.'s birth year is changed from the second tree's 1874 to 1878 (his parents now being said to have married in 1876). His wife's death year is again given as 1944, even though the aforementioned first issue flatly stated she was alive and well--for her advanced years--in 1955, a widow. The second Hornet & Kato team's career is herein said to have begun in 1966, contradicting Green Hornet (NOW, 1989 series) #s 2 & 3's tying its origin to a presidential election campaign (the previously given date was 1968). |
| Reprinted |
from Sting of the Green Hornet (NOW, 1992 series) #1's painted cover (cropped to separate head-shots of Green Hornet & Kato I); Green Hornet (NOW, 1989 series) #2, pg. 7, panel 4 (cropped to separate head-shots of Green Hornet & Kato II, with the Hornet's flopped); Green Hornet (NOW, 1989 series) #4, pg. 22, panel 2 (cropped to head-shot of Green Hornet III); Green Hornet (NOW, 1989 series) #7, pg. 7, panel 2 (cropped to head-shot of Kato III, and flopped); Green Hornet (NOW, 1991 series) #19, pg. 3, panel 4 (cropped to head-shot of Green Hornet IV, and flopped); Green Hornet: Dark Tomorrow (NOW, 1993 series) #1, the pg. 1 splash (cropped to head-shot of Future Green Hornet II); Green Hornet: Dark Tomorrow (NOW, 1993 series) #1, pg. 20, panel 6 (cropped to head-shot of Future Green Hornet I); Green Hornet: Dark Tomorrow (NOW, 1993 series) #2, pg. 3, panel 4 (cropped to head-shot of Future Kato). |