Green Hornet Comics (1940) comic books 1947

Cover by Al Avison. Stories and art by Bob Powell, Art Helfant, A. W. Nugent and Al Avison. The first comic to feature The Green Hornet, the radio-turned-movie superhero from the creator of the Lone Ranger. Blonde Bomber catches a jewel thief by using x-rays. The Man in Black narrates the strange tale of a deep-sea diver who finds a sunken treasure with an experimental new diving suit. Tubby's cousin Hector learns Spirit of '76's secret identity and becomes his teen sidekick. Green Hornet: Death As a Service; Spirit Of 76; You Find 'Em!; Blonde Bomber: The X-Ray of a Jewel Thief; Mighty Midgets: The Sky's the Limit; All-Sports Puzzler; Dry Swamp; Ricky Roony; Detective You; Man In Black; Bimbo's Beanery. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Al Avison. Stories and art by Bob Powell, Art Helfant, and Al Avison. The first comic to feature The Green Hornet, the radio-turned-movie superhero from the creator of the Lone Ranger. Rotund river pirate Jolly Roger targets a ferryboat, until Green Hornet enters the picture. Blonde Bomber gets mixed up with a murdered symphony conductor and his identical twin. A daring pilot tries to break a coast-to-coast flight-speed record, but he didn't reckon on Googy the Gremlin. The Man in Black gives himself a name in this story: Mr. Twilight. Green Hornet: Ferryboat Fantasy; Spirit Of 76; Mighty Mountain; Blonde Bomber: Concerto for Death; Mighty Midgets; Man In Black. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Al Avison. Stories and art by Bob Powell, Art Helfant, and Al Avison. The first comic to feature The Green Hornet, the radio-turned-movie superhero from the creator of the Lone Ranger. Green Hornet investigates when men are killed after their obituaries appear in the newspaper. Blonde Bomber accidentally photographs a murderer while shooting society-page photos at an upscale party. Mad scientists use a female pilot and her fiance as fodder for their reanimation experiments, until the Man in Black steps in. Green Hornet: The Obituary Murders; Spirit Of 76; Slaughter Island; The 216; Roddie; Blonde Bomber: Portrait of a Murderer; Mighty Midgets Out West; Man In Black. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Al Avison. Stories and art by Bob Powell, Bill Draut, and Al Avison. The first comic to feature The Green Hornet, the radio-turned-movie superhero from the creator of the Lone Ranger. The Hornet tracks a gang that specializes in stealing evidence from police warehouses to sabotage prosecutions. The Society of the Black Skull frames Tommy for a bank robbery, and only his pal Spirit Of 76 can clear his name. Female private eye (and early action girl) Calamity Jane finds real danger after she's hired to protect a mischievous rich kid. Green Hornet: The Case of the Souvenir Hunter; Spirit Of 76; The Kingpin of Crime; Ricky Roony; Story Behind the Cover: High-Dive Death; Calamity Jane: The Fat Tuesday. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Al Avison. Stories and art by Bob Powell, Bill Draut, Buford Tune and Al Avison. The first comic to feature The Green Hornet, the radio-turned-movie superhero from the creator of the Lone Ranger. The Hornet investigates a grisly murder at a steel foundry, and almost gets cast as his own statue. Spirit Of 76 deals with an impostor and two beautiful women at a fancy society party, who each want to use him for their own purposes, in a particularly goofy story. Female private eye (and early action girl) Calamity Jane reveals how a man met his exact double, in a story featuring a cameo by Calamity Jane artist Bill Draut himself. Green Hornet: Molten Justice; Spirit Of 76; The Case of the Floating Body; Snoop and Droop; Dotty Dripple; Calamity Jane: The Man Who Met Himself. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.