Issue | #31 |
Published | March 1994 |
Cover Price | $2.50 |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Tony Caputo (Editor in chief); Joan Weis (Managing editor); Geoff [Geoffrey A.] White (Editor) |
Characters | Danny Reid; Green Hornet IV |
Genre | Superhero; Crime |
Pencils | Patrick Zircher (signed) |
Inks | Jim Brozman (signed) |
Colors | Andrea Albert |
Letters | None; typeset |
Characters | Green Hornet II; Kato II |
Synopsis | Comic card polybagged with the comic. |
Pencils | James Martin [painting] |
Inks | James Martin [painting] |
Colors | James Martin [painting] |
Letters | Typeset |
Notes | Painted over (tracings of?) montage of three publicity photos for 1960s Hornet TV show. The b/w reverse is from a generic house ad for NOW's general range of Green Hornet comics, with the background being the (insect) Hornet emblem, with the title logo, taglines "Feel the Sting" and "Every month exclusively from NOW Comics," and a trademark/copyright notice laid over. |
Reprinted | Cover art from Tales of the Green Hornet, 1991 series (aka Volume 2), #3, March 1992. |
Characters | Paul Reid [Green Hornet IV]; Hayashi Kato; Diana Reid; Mishi Kato; Britt Reid II; Lenore C. Reid; Danny Reid; Judge Mariotti (I; V) |
Synopsis | Two months after last issue: Hayashi and Diana discuss the problems Paul has getting past his ordeal with Johnny Dollar. They agree that Mishi, on the other hand, is handling the news that Dollar is still alive (again) quite well, as she is calmly upgrading systems of the car that has replaced "her" Black Beauty. Britt has been receiving threats due to an editorial exposing the corruption of one Judge Mariotti, and his wife and son are now being included. He asks Paul if the Green Hornet can do anything. His response is to go out...alone! The Hornet demands his cut from the judge, who curses the publisher for tipping him as well as the police to his secret activities, and tells the masked man that he has sent some men to finish him. The Hornet "stings" Mariotti into unconsciousness and hurries to the Reid mansion, but four men are already at work. Britt and Lenore are tied to chairs and Danny is being held by one thug. The Green Hornet crashes through a large window, punching, kicking and again punching out three of the hoods, but the fourth points a gun at young Danny's head. A quickly fired blast from the Sting eliminates that threat, but Paul shrugs away thanks from Britt for his son's life: "I nearly got him killed." |
Genre | Superhero; Crime |
Script | Joan Weis |
Pencils | Patrick Zircher |
Inks | Jim Brozman, Todd S. Tuttle, Barry Petersen |
Colors | Holly Sanfelippo |
Letters | Andrea Albert |
Notes | No Kato appears in mask and uniform in this story. |
Synopsis | Letters, with editorial responses, from Jose DeJesus, Miss Kris Wickens, and Glenn Gaba, plus a "next issue" blurb. |
Script | Joan Weis |
Letters | Typeset |
Notes | In direct response to Gaba, Weis admits that two previously editorially-announced and house-ad promoted spin-off projects, The Black Beauty Special (despite that name, a two-issue miniseries) and Green Hornet Legacy Special (initially announced as depicting, among other things "why Britt II became the second Hornet...the first time he met Hayashi Kato...as well as the [1960s team's] previously unseen first mission," all of which were in fact shown in Green Hornet 1989 series [aka Vol. 1], #s 2 & 3) "have been postponed until further notice." They were never released. |
Characters | Various |
Synopsis | Promotional announcement for twelve NOW issues of three months run, with copy-less cover repros for eleven (New Adventures of Speed Racer #0 bears its series logo) and basic creative team credits for all. |
Pencils | Various |
Inks | Various |
Letters | Typeset |
Reprinted | The exact same "What NOW" feature from the previous month's NOW publications. |
Characters | Hayashi Kato |
Synopsis | Textual promo for three special NOW Comics publishing events, followed by "a panel...that almost slipped by," that is, one which has been relettered for a gag and "stamped" with the word "Reject." Also included is the standard boxed list of NOW's staff. |
Pencils | Patrick Zircher |
Inks | Jim Brozman |
Letters | Typeset [main text], ? [relettered comic extract] |
Reprinted | Green Hornet, 1991 series [aka Vol. 2], #23, July 1993, page 4, panel 1, with caption box and dialogue balloon eliminated and replaced with two new balloons, plus the addition of a "stamp" reading "Reject." |