Green Hornet Comics
#v2#7 (7)
(June 1942)
Harvey,
1942 Series
- Volume
- 2
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1942-04-01
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Family Comics Inc.
- Editing
- Alfred Harvey (credited) (president)
Issue Notes
Some info verified using a DCM scan (http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/)
This is the first Harvey issue. While Temerson/Helnit/Continental had been adapting stories from the Green Hornet radio show, Harvey will do all-new stories for Green Hornet. Also, at Temerson/Helnit/Continental the series was devoted to Green Hornet, with limited backups -- At Harvey, it will be more of an anthology series that stars Green Hornet.
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 2.
This is the first Harvey issue. While Temerson/Helnit/Continental had been adapting stories from the Green Hornet radio show, Harvey will do all-new stories for Green Hornet. Also, at Temerson/Helnit/Continental the series was devoted to Green Hornet, with limited backups -- At Harvey, it will be more of an anthology series that stars Green Hornet.
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 2.
Meet Our Heroes
Green Hornet / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Britt Reid [The Green Hornet]; Kato; Lenore Case; Michael Axford; Ed Lowry
The Case of the Murdering Clown
Green Hornet / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Green Hornet [Britt Reid]; Kato; Mike Axford; The Clown (villain, Intro); Sgt. Morgan [Moran]; a prison warden (Dies); Lenore Case; Ed Lowry
- Synopsis
- The Clown finds a way to cheat the electric chair and get his revenge.
Indexer Notes
Pencil credit from Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. 28-02-2009.
Sergeant Morgan is also identified as Sergeant Moran.
Case of Museum Mummy
Green Hornet / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Arturo Cazeneuve (Green Hornet's face); ?
- Inks
- Arturo Cazeneuve (Green Hornet's face); ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Green Hornet [Britt Reid]; Kato; Mike Axford; Victor Corbin (Introduction, Villain); Sneed (Introduction, Death); Barat (Introduction, Death)
- Synopsis
- At the opening of the Tutenkiem exhibit the discoverer of the mummy dies.
[no title indexed]
Daffy Drafty / comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- Art Helfant (signed)
- Pencils
- Art Helfant (signed)
- Inks
- Art Helfant (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Art Helfant
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- So long, yardbirds! I'm off on a ten day furlough! Kiss th' rest of th' boys good-bye for me!
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Daffy Drafty; Steve
- Synopsis
- Daffy gets a ten-day furlough and he doesn't want to see any soldiers in uniform.
- Reprints
-
from Army and Navy Fun Parade (Harvey, 1942 series) #v1#4 (March 1942)
-
Indexer Notes
"Daffy Drafty" is a feature that usually appears in the cartoon magazine Army and Navy Fun Parade (Harvey, 1942 Series), but will also appear in Harvey's comic books, seemingly at random.
[no title indexed]
Spirit of '76 / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Harry Fisk; Arturo Cazeneuve (corrections)
- Inks
- Harry Fisk; Arturo Cazeneuve (corrections)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Gary Blakely, great, great grandson of Captain Ralston, aid-de-camp to General Washington, returns from England to serve the United States!!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Spirit of '76 [Gary Blakely]; Major Ralston; Captain Blakely; Tubby; Hoch
- Synopsis
- Gary Blakely learns of a Nazi plot to blow up West Point, dressing up in his great, great grandfather's uniform he calls himself the Spirit of '76 and fights the Nazis.
- Reprints
- from Pocket Comics (Harvey, 1941 series) #1 (August 1941) [probably with some redrawing / rearranging of panels]
-
Introducing the Blonde Bomber
Blonde Bomber / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- detective-mystery; adventure
- Characters
- Honey Blake [the Blonde Bomber] (intro); Jimmy Slapso; Carmen; Nick Nighter (Intro, villain)
- Synopsis
- Honey saves Carmen from trying to kill herself.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Art credit via Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr, 28-02-2009.
Robin Hood Lives Again!
Robin Hood / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Robin Hood [Dr. Fairbanks]; Big John [John Sherwood]; Friar Tuck [Tuck]; Elaine Barton; The Ratsel Gang; Trigger Ratsel (villain)
- Synopsis
- Dr. Fairbanks has decided to fight crime dressing up as Robin Hood and assembling a band of Merry Men. With his new recruit they go after a gang running a protection racket on truck drivers.
Indexer Notes
Pencil credit via Jim Vadeboncouer Jr, 28-02-2009.
[no title indexed]
Green Hornet / text story / 3 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The Clown was an egotistical man with a malignant mind.
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Green Hornet [Britt Reid]; The Clown (1st chronological appearance, Villain); Lenore Case
- Synopsis
- How the Green Hornet first defeated the Clown.
[no title indexed]
Getting Maisie Married / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Who is it to-night, Maisie?
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Maisie; Felix
- Synopsis
- Maisie met a guy who does magic tricks.
[no title indexed]
Army & Navy Laughs / cartoon / 2 pages
- Script
- Charles Strauss (signed); Mischa Richter (signed as Richter); Al Weine (signed as Al); ? [as Cooper] (signed)
- Pencils
- Charles Strauss (signed); Mischa Richter (signed as Richter); Al Weine (signed as Al); ? [as Cooper] (signed)
- Inks
- Charles Strauss (signed); Mischa Richter (signed as Richter); Al Weine (signed as Al); ? [as Cooper] (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Why don't you run along home, mom? I'm getting plenty of vitamins.
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Cookie; Bill; Buck
- Reprints
- from Army and Navy Fun Parade (Harvey, 1942 series) #v1#1 (December 1941), #v1#1 (December 1941), #v1#1 (December 1941), #v1#1 (December 1941), #v1#1 (December 1941)
-
Indexer Notes
Six cartoons (two by Strauss, one by Cooper, one by Richter, one by Al Weine, and one unsigned), and two text only jokes.
[Forgotten Me]
Green Hornet Buzzers / activity / 2 pages
- Script
- A. W. Nugent (signed)
- Pencils
- A. W. Nugent (signed)
- Inks
- A. W. Nugent (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Characters
- Green Hornet [Britt Reid]
Indexer Notes
On page 1, rearrange a phrase to get a phrase meaning the opposite, solve a cryptogram, make a three-word sentence from the provided letters, connect the dots, create seven words from the supplied letters, rearrange and remove one latter to create a word that mnatches the definition, and rearrange the letters to spell eight foods.
On page 2, rearrange the letters to form sports, place three sevens together to make 8, number puzzle, letter dropping, and twelve tanks.
[no title indexed]
Mighty Midgets / comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'm Foxy!
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- The Mighty Midgets [Foxy; Goofy; Nosey; Smarty; Skinny; Fatty; Sour-puss] (introduction); Sgt. Goliath; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Two Axis spies (villain, introduction)
- Synopsis
- Goliath and the Mighty Midgets join the Army.
[John Doyle Convicted of Murder]
Zebra / comic story / 8.66 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Zebra [John Doyle] (origin); Mary Sewell (John's girlfriend); Happy Mike (villain, political boss); Spike (villain); Slug (villain)
- Synopsis
- Sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit by politicians who are protecting the real murderer, John Doyle escapes from prison and turns his convict uniform into a superhero costume as the Zebra. Fearing that Doyle's girl knows something about the murder, Happy Mike and his boys seek her out to shut her up for good. But the Zebra intervenes, saves Mary and learns that Happy Mike is the true killer.
- Reprints
- from Pocket Comics (Harvey, 1941 series) #1 (August 1941)
-
- Keywords
- Daily World
Indexer Notes
Ink credits via Jim Vadeboncoeur 28-02-2009.
[no title indexed]
Buglerettes / cartoon / 1 page
- Script
- Art Helfant (signed)
- Pencils
- Art Helfant (signed)
- Inks
- Art Helfant (signed)
- Letters
- Art Helfant
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- And to think I once paid ten good bucks for an auto horn that sounded like that!
- Genre
- humor; military
Indexer Notes
Six cartoons about Army buglers.
Only appearance of the "Buglerettes" feature.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Green Hornet -
1.
Join American Red Cross
-
2.
Meet Our Heroes
Green Hornet -
3.
The Case of the Murdering Clown
Green Hornet -
4.
Case of Museum Mummy
Green Hornet -
5.
["So long, yardbirds! I'm off on a ten day furlough! Kiss th' rest of th' boys good-bye for me!"]
Daffy Drafty -
6.
["Gary Blakely, great, great grandson of Captain Ralston, aid-de-camp to General Washington, returns from England to serve the United States!!"]
Spirit of '76 -
7.
Introducing the Blonde Bomber
Blonde Bomber -
8.
Robin Hood Lives Again!
Robin Hood -
9.
["The Clown was an egotistical man with a malignant mind."]
Green Hornet -
10.
["Who is it to-night, Maisie?"]
Getting Maisie Married -
11.
["Why don't you run along home, mom? I'm getting plenty of vitamins."]
Army & Navy Laughs -
12.
[Forgotten Me]
Green Hornet Buzzers -
13.
["I'm Foxy!"]
Mighty Midgets -
14.
["Watch for the next big issue on sale around June 5th."]
-
15.
[John Doyle Convicted of Murder]
Zebra -
16.
["Green Hornet on the air coast to coast"]
-
17.
["And to think I once paid ten good bucks for an auto horn that sounded like that!"]
Buglerettes -
18.
["3 comics that you should put on your must list"]
This issue was modified by, among others
- Peter Croome
- Craig Delich
- Del Gruber
- Michael Hoskin
- Bob Hughes
- Jean-Francois Masse
- Clint Maxwell
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Steven Rowe
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
- Len Wolinsky
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