Green Hornet Comics #4

(May 1941)

A Buzz from the Green Hornet (Table of Contents: 1)

Green Hornet / public service announcement / 1 page (report information)

Script

Fran Striker ?

Pencils

Bert Whitman Associates

Inks

Bert Whitman Associates

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

superhero

Characters

Britt Reid; Hayashi Kato

Synopsis

A plea from Britt and Kato to all Green Hornet fans to help in the war on crime by obeying the law in everything they do and to always tell the truth: to parents, friends and to everyone.

Reprints

• in The Green Hornet: Golden Age Re-Mastered (Dynamite Entertainment, 2010 series) #5 ([December] 2010)

Indexer Notes

anti-crime promo

[Jake Saco and the Broken Bridge] (Table of Contents: 2)

Green Hornet / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Fran Striker

Pencils

Bert Whitman Associates (signed)

Inks

Bert Whitman Associates (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Green Hornet [Britt Reid]; Kato [Hayashi Kato]; Mike Axford (Sentinel reporter); Danny (Sentinel pressman); Jake Saco (villain, introduction)

Synopsis

When the Hornet discovers that Jake Saco left the supporting columns of a new bridge hollow in order to save money on construction, and that bridge collapses killing many innocent people, he decides to put Saco in jail where he belongs.

Reprints

• in The Green Hornet: Golden Age Re-Mastered (Dynamite Entertainment, 2010 series) #5 ([December] 2010)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Green Hornet / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Fran Striker (original radio script); ? (adaptation)

Pencils

Bert Whitman Associates

Inks

Bert Whitman Associates

Colors

?

Letters

Bert Whitman Associates

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Brit Reid, on a vacation in Oldville Center, is framed on a murder rap...

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Green Hornet [Britt Reid]; Kato [Hayashi Kato]; Mr. Case (Casey Case's uncle) (introduction); Lenore Case (Reid's secretary); un-named Oldville Chief of Police (villain?); Killer Doaks (villain); Jack Blandings (villain, lawyer); Mumps (villain); Mike Donahan (villain, politician)

Synopsis

Britt Reid finds himself framed for murder by racketeers angry at him for their exposure in the pages of the Daily Sentinel.

Reprints

• in The Green Hornet: Golden Age Re-Mastered (Dynamite Entertainment, 2010 series) #6 ([January] 2011)

[Theory of Crime] (Table of Contents: 4)

Mastermind M'Ginty / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Feature Logo

Mastermind McGinty

Genre

detective-mystery

Characters

Mastermind McGinty (introduction); un-named robber (villain, introduction)

[Tong War] (Table of Contents: 5)

Green Hornet / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Fran Striker (original radio scripts); ? (adaptation)

Pencils

Bert Whitman Associates

Inks

Bert Whitman Associates

Colors

?

Letters

Bert Whitman Associates

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Green Hornet [Britt Reid]; Kato [Haysahi Kato]; Mike Axford (Sentinel reporter); Sgt. Moran; Chin Chow (introduction); Pretty Willie Slone (villain, introduction)

Synopsis

Grim intrigue throws the oriental section of a city into a terrible Tong war and Britt Reid, as the Hornet, decides to investigate. He discovers that rival Tongs each have one half of a sacred tablet giving the location of a Chinese treasure to be used to rehabilitate China.

Reprints

• in The Green Hornet: Golden Age Re-Mastered (Dynamite Entertainment, 2010 series) #6 ([January] 2011)

[Mission To Fort Yukon] (Table of Contents: 6)

Flying Trio / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

adventure; aviation

Characters

The Flying Trio [Blarney, Dash, Baron]; Vidok (villain, introduction)

Indexer Notes

This is the final appearance of the "Flying Trio" feature.

Sir Walter Raleigh (Table of Contents: 7)

Here's How Things Began / filler / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

non-fiction

Characters

Sir Walter Raleigh

[Crime Syndicate] (Table of Contents: 8)

Green Hornet / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Fran Striker (original radio script); ? (adaptation)

Pencils

Bert Whitman Associates

Inks

Bert Whitman Associates

Colors

?

Letters

Bert Whitman Associates

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Green Hornet [Britt Reid]; Kato [Hayashi Kato]; Lenore Case (Reid's secretary); Lowry (Sentinel reporter); Sgt. Moran; Collins (villain, introduction); Mike (villain, introduction); Joe (villain, introduction); Matt Brooke (villain, introduction, politician); un-named gangsters (villains, introduction)

Synopsis

The Hornet hunts down a crooked politician who has literally bought access to the penitentiary in order to make possible prison escapes.

Reprints

• in The Green Hornet: Golden Age Re-Mastered (Dynamite Entertainment, 2010 series) #6 ([January] 2011)

[Little Marty] (Table of Contents: 9)

Green Hornet / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Fran Striker (original radio scripts); ? (adaptation)

Pencils

Bert Whitman Associates

Inks

Bert Whitman Associates

Colors

?

Letters

Bert Whitman Associates

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Green Hornet [Britt Reid]; Kato [Hayashi Kato]; Sgt. Moran; Lowry (Sentinel reporter); Mike Axford (Sentinel reporter); Little Marty (villain, introduction, death); Spud O'Hara (villain, introduction, death); un-named gangsters (villains, introduction)

Synopsis

The Hornet goes after a crime syndicate chief who has shot and kidnapped Mike Axford, who had been investigating the murder of a crook named Spud.

Reprints

• in The Green Hornet: Golden Age Re-Mastered (Dynamite Entertainment, 2010 series) #6 ([January] 2011)

[Phantom Truck] (Table of Contents: 10)

Green Hornet / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Fran Striker (original radio scripts); ? (adaptation)

Pencils

Bert Whitman Associates

Inks

Bert Whitman Associates

Colors

?

Letters

Bert Whitman Associates

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Green Hornet [Britt Reid]; Kato [Hayashi Kato]; Mike Axford (Sentinel reporter); Mr. Walsh (trucking firm owner); Tony Sigi (villain, introduction); un-named gang members (villains, introduction)

Synopsis

The Hornet and Kato are determined to put a mysterious "phantom truck" out of action that has been used to put a rival trucking company out of business.

Reprints

• in The Green Hornet: Golden Age Re-Mastered (Dynamite Entertainment, 2010 series) #6 ([January] 2011)

Big Casino (Table of Contents: 11)

Green Hornet / text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Dan Ullman (signed as Ull Mann)

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Green Hornet [Britt Reid]

Indexer Notes

Feature surmised from character reference by Ted Watson, August 2010.
Unknown if there is an illustration.

[The Capture of the Green Hornet: Part 2] (Table of Contents: 12)

Green Hornet / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Fran Striker

Pencils

Bert Whitman Associates

Inks

Bert Whitman Associates

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Green Hornet [Britt Reid]; Kato [Hayashi Kato]; Mike Axford (Sentinel reporter); Lowry (Sentinel reporter); Sgt. Moran; Brown (policeman)

Synopsis

Wounded and nearly unmasked by Axford, Lowry and Moran, the Hornet makes his escape, thanks to a phony package bomb thrown through a window by Kato.

Reprints

• in The Green Hornet: Golden Age Re-Mastered (Dynamite Entertainment, 2010 series) #7 ([January] 2011)

Indexer Notes

Continued from last issue. The Dynamite reprinting does not have the actual page 4 of this story, but instead has mistakingly printed a page from a Green Hornet story found in Green Hornet #5.