The Green Hornet #14 [Direct]

(December 1990)

Ground Zero (Table of Contents: 1)

Green Hornet / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script

Dave Darrigo (story, script); Diane M. Piron (script)

Pencils

Tod Smith

Inks

David Mowry

Colors

The Hornettes

Letters

Patrick Williams; Joseph Allen

Genre

crime; superhero

Characters

Green Army assault team; Green Hornet IV [Paul Reid]; Nancy McKenna; Kato II [Hayashi Kato]; Various Green Army personnel, including "Commander Riot"; Corey White; D.A. Diana Reid; Jerry Taylor (killed in this story); Police and U.S. Army helicopter crews; Britt Reid II; Lenore C. Reid; A TV news reporter

Synopsis

Continued from last issue: Pretending to intend to sell the information back to the authorities, the Hornet gets McKenna's story. He and Kato take the Black Beauty on the road while Jerry lifts off in the Black Stinger, to save the World Business Conference from the Green Army. However, U.S. Army helicopter crews assume the Stinger is one of the attackers and open fire upon it. With his firing control consequently disabled, the only way Jerry can stop Commander Riot's escape is by ramming him, at the cost of both the Stinger and his own life.

Indexer Notes

Next chronological appearance: The Green Hornet: Solitary Sentinel (NOW Comics, 1992 series), #1, December 1992.

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The Buzz Word / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Diane Piron; Dave Darrigo; Diane Piron (reprinted panel)

Pencils

Tod Smith

Inks

David Mowry

Colors

?

Letters

Typeset; Williams & Allen (reprinted panel)

Characters

Jerry Taylor ("voice")

Synopsis

Letters from J.R. Hodges, Tom Davison, Kim L. Neidigh, Eric Delano, Terri Holzbach and Eric Brooks, with editorial responses.

Reprints

• from this issue's sequence 1--page 20, panel 2, in b/w.

Indexer Notes

In her reply to Davison, Piron says, "As of next ish, I'll be taking over sole writing chores," but instead NOW ceased operations for approximately nine months, and neither she nor editor Katherine Llewellyn were present (at least on the revived version of this property) when the company resumed publishing; the entire feature has a faint yellow background, except for the reprinted panel which has a dark green one.

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NOW ON SALE / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

Dedicated to Nanette..... (Table of Contents: 4)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script

Tony Caputo

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Synopsis

The personal reminiscences of NOW's founder, and how he came to do so.

Indexer Notes

The title refers to Caputo's wife; the entire feature has a blue background and appears on the last interior page of most NOW releases of this cover date; the standard staff list failed to appear this month.