{"id":38826,"date":"2012-12-01T12:45:17","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T11:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicbox.com\/?p=38826"},"modified":"2012-12-01T12:47:56","modified_gmt":"2012-12-01T11:47:56","slug":"cci-comic-character-investigation-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicbox.com\/index.php\/articles\/cci-comic-character-investigation-28\/","title":{"rendered":"CCI: Comic Character Investigation #28"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"[ENGLISH] This month: Green Hornet<\/strong>. Since the inception of The Golden Age of comics in 1938, many heroes, and many villains, have splashed their battles across artistic pages, have endured their struggles in those same pages and have intrigued a readership which has loved their adventures for 72 years. This column celebrates such characters by taking a look each month at one of them. Some you will know and some are more obscure, but all hold a significant place in comics, for the world of stories in any medium is about the characters who populate it. The spectacular citizens of the universe who inhabit the comic book nation might be brave or sinister, bold or fearful, but all are characters who we can never forget. So, The Golden Age becomes the Silver Age, The Silver becomes The Bronze and so on, until today and until tomorrow. . . in The Endless Age of comics, and the beings who live inside them.<\/p>\n

\"\"The Sudden Sting of The Green Hornet!<\/h2>\n

One of the most unique superheroes to the genre, The Green Hornet crept into the comic\u00a0world almost while we weren\u2019t looking (he does that with crooks too) and he made his way into\u00a0TV too in a big way. If one has had the chance to watch the green-clad hero jump into his dark\u00a0crime-fighting car, stylishly named Black Beauty, accompanied by his partner Kato (who true\u00a0fanboys of both comics and martial arts will know was played by the incomparable Bruce Lee),\u00a0then they have had good fortune come their way. The Green Hornet TV series which ran for only\u00a0one season and 26 episodes was far more serious than the paralleling Batman of the 1960\u2019s.\u00a0While Batman played to the kiddies, GH seemed to be looking for an older, more \u201creal-world\u201d\u00a0demographic. Van Williams, who played the lead very smoothly played the character seriously\u00a0both as the Hornet and his alter ego. Meanwhile Japanese viewers were so taken with Bruce\u00a0Lee\u2019s pro-active physical stunts they were calling it the Kato show (but I digress, back to the\u00a0Hornet\u2026)<\/p>\n

He was created by George W. Trendle. GH was first introduced into that \u201ctheatre of the\u00a0mind\u201d known as radio back in the 1930\u2019s with most of the episodes written by Fran Striker. His\u00a0alter ego was Britt Reed and while he wasn\u2019t fighting crime he was sitting at the head desk of\u00a0The Daily Sentinel putting out the latest news. An appropriate position for who better to know all the crime going on in town than the publisher of a major newspaper?<\/p>\n

\"\"The Hornet liked to infiltrate criminal organizations posing as a criminal himself and weed out the bad guys from the inside. Sporting a mostly green costume (a hat and overcoat), wearing a surgical mask carrying the emblem of a hornet and wearing a yellow scarf, his carried his weapon of choice, a gas gun. Kato was his driver but really was also his crime-fighting partner and usually wore black and goggles and was a kung fu master. Other supporting cast included his secretary named Lenore Case, his editor at the paper\u00a0Gunnigan and a former cop, Mike Axford.<\/p>\n

The Green Hornet\u2019s initial comic run was from 1940 until 1949 and ran 47 issues. These took place in the titles Green Hornet Comics and All New Comics. The publishers were\u00a0Helnit\/Holyoke and the better-known Harvey Comics. Fran Striker wrote all of these using some\u00a0of the radio shows as source material for the comic fans eager to see what kind of \u201csting\u201d\u00a0operation the Green Hornet was going to be running next.<\/p>\n

Some very familiar names worked on art for the hero including Irwin Hasen, Irv Novick, and\u00a0the late, great creator of the Joker, Jerry Robinson. Arturo Cazeneuve, Al Avison, Bert Whitman\u00a0and Lee Elias also produced art for the Hornet adventures. Al Avison was the primary artist for\u00a0the issues at Harvey Comics with Alex Schomburg also contributing covers to the series who\u00a0must also be noted. Perhaps the most noticeable artistic contribution was from Jack Kirby who\u00a0drew the cover of issue #9 at Harvey.<\/p>\n

–<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Later incarnations of the hero included a one-shot from Dell Comics in 1953 with art by\u00a0Frank Thorne and in the 80\u2019s the late Now Comics brought him back once again. He currently is\u00a0enjoying a presence at Dynamite Comics, a company which has resurrected a lot of lesser-known
\nsuperheroes.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s been a movie some years ago and doubtless another one will come out sooner or later for a mass audience that always craves more superheroes, and the more classic the better. Because for any generation to not have the chance to see Kato kicking ass? To not see the Green\u00a0Hornet in action in any form, whether it be in movies, on TV, or especially in comics?<\/p>\n

Now that would sting.<\/p>\n

[James Parducci<\/em>]\n

James Parducci (www.jparducci.blogspot.com<\/a>) is the creator of the comic series Nighthunter. He has been published in multiple periodicals and runs his own freelance writing business in San Diego.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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