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Issue Details

Issue #8
Published June 1990
Cover Price 1.75 USD; 2.25 CAD
Pages 36
Editing Katy Llewellyn (Editor); Tony Caputo (Editor in chief); Diane Piron (Assistant editor)

Cover Details

Characters Green Hornet IV
Genre Superhero; Crime
Pencils Lenin Delsol (painting) (signed)
Inks Lenin Delsol (painting) (signed)
Colors Lenin Delsol (painting) (signed)

22 page Green Hornet story "On The Pad"

Characters Green Hornet IV [Paul Reid]; Kato III [Mishi Kato]; "Bud" the bartender; Several thug/patrons; Four cops, including "Sarge" Wyerski, Detective Sandra Mahoney, and Cramer (all but Mahoney die in this story); Various drug dealers; D. A. Diana Reid; Various reporters; Coleen and Chuck, Diane's staff members; Police Lt. Mike (?); Jon Allan, auto mechanic shop owner/apartment landlord and his twin employees, Chance and Emery [Jones] (introduction); Police Captain Roger Thornston; One more thug
Synopsis The new Hornet and Kato roust a dockside bar to put word out on the street that the Green Hornet is back. Meanwhile, a police raid/bust of a narcotics operation goes bad, as the "suspects" are actually lying in wait to shoot the cops, killing three and leaving the other in critical condition. Diana Reid, on her first day back at work after the attack on the Reids' mansion, is certain they were tipped off, and calls in the Hornet. Aside from the victims, only two people knew about the plan, a division captain and a DEA agent on loan from Washington. As the Hornet and Kato prepare to move in and shake up the captain to see how he reacts, three motorcycle-riding thugs force his car off the road and level heavy weapons at him. Continued next issue....
Genre Crime; super-hero
Script Ron Fortier
Pencils Jeff Butler
Inks David Mowry
Colors Holly Sanfelippo; Suzanne Dechnik
Letters Patrick Williams
Notes Dialogue here strongly implies that Chance and Emery are Jon Allan's sons, but #10, specifying their last name as Jones, contradicts that.
Reprinted in "Green Hornet, The" (hardback book), NOW Comics & Bonus Books, 1990.

2 page The Buzz Word letters page

Characters Kato III; Green Hornet IV
Synopsis Letters from John B. Scott, Michael "Arachnid" Lambright, Danny Armstrong, David E. Gutter, Rick Pickens and Franklin Carr, with editorial responses.
Script Diane Piron
Pencils Jeff Butler
Inks David Mowry
Letters Typeset; Patrick Williams (reprinted panels)
Notes The entire feature, except for the reprinted panels, has a green background.
Reprinted page 3, panel 1 and page 4, panel 1, from this issue's Sequence 1, in b/w.

Half page NOW ON SALE promo (ad from the publisher)

Synopsis Listings for ten NOW Comics releases, with creative talent credits and synopses.
Letters Typeset
Notes The entire feature has a deep rose background and appeared on the next-to-last interior page of most NOW releases of this cover date; the bottom half of the page is a paid ad.

1 page NOW Newsflash promo (ad from the publisher)

Synopsis An essay announcing NOW's plans for the upcoming months. A boxed list of the company's staff is also included.
Script Katherine Llewellyn
Letters Typeset
Notes One of the announcements is that Green Hornet #9's cover will be by Matt Wagner, which wasn't seen until #10; the entire page has a deep rose background, and appeared on the last interior page of most NOW releases of this cover date.