Secret Saga of THE GREEN HORNET "My Last Case" Part 1

You're about to read a 30 year-old tale forgotten to pop culture and comics history...

...which takes a concept never specifically-stated (only implied), and expands it to cover over a century of a family's history!

Sadly, it won't be dull for long...as we shall see

NEXT WEEK!

Written by Ron Fortier, penciled by Jeff Butler, and inked by David Mowry, NOW Comics' Green Hornet #1 (1989) tells the history of the Reid crimefighting clan, from their Old West ancestor to his grand-nephew in the 1930s-40s, and how the Kato family became involved in the derring-do.

Trivia:
1) A link, established in the Lone Ranger and Green Hornet radio shows, is Dan Reid.

Besides being The Lone Ranger's nephew, Dan Reid is also The Green Hornet's father and appeared on both characters' radio shows and comic books, making Dan one of pop culture's first "crossover" characters!

Dan was featured in a four-episode Green Hornet arc (adapted into comics form as shown HERE and HERE) where he learned his son was the notorious Hornet.

(Remember, The Green Hornet radio show was set in the "present" of the 1930s-40s, making the adult Dan Reid (in his late 60s-early 70s) a teenager in the late 1880s, the time period of The Lone Ranger!)
2) Though the masked cowboy in the painting in Britt Reid Senior's study is The Lone Ranger, he couldn't be named in this book due to licensing restrictions separating the two characters whose non-radio projects including movies/tv shows, comic books, even prose novels, always had different studios and publishers!
(Dynamite Comics licensed both the Ranger and the Hornet, allowing them to finally join the two characters in a single story without restriction!)

And, since the creatives at NOW couldn't be too obvious about the connection, they decided to give both the Hornet and Ranger their 1940s movie serial masks, which looked suprisingly-similar, even though two different studios (Universal for Green Hornet and Republic for Lone Ranger) did the serials...

...instead of their 1940s novel and comic book masks!

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