The Green Hornet #8 [Newsstand]
(April 1992)

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Volume
2
Price
1.95 USD; 2.50 CAD
Pages
36
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
NOW Comics
Brand
Now Comics
Barcode
070989331389 04
Editing
Tony Caputo (editor in chief); Joan Weis (editor)

Issue Notes

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Green Hornet / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Jason Palmer (signed) (painting)
Inks
Jason Palmer (signed) (painting)
Colors
Jason Palmer (signed) (painting)

Genre
crime; superhero
Characters
Green Hornet IV; Kato II

Street Lethal (Table of Contents: 1)

Green Hornet / comic story / 24 pages (report information)

Script
Chuck Dixon
Pencils
Tod Smith
Inks
David Mowry
Colors
Patrick Williams
Letters
Susan Dorne

Genre
crime; superhero
Characters
Kato II [Hayashi Kato]; Green Hornet IV [Paul Reid]; Police Commissioner Carter Hamilton; D.A. Diana Reid; The Mayor; Harry Block (villain)
Synopsis
The Skid Brothers are prevented from confirming the deaths of the Green Hornet and his man by approaching police sirens. Kato manages to pull the unconscious Hornet out of the wreck that had been the Black Beauty and carry him into hiding within the city's sewers despite his own injuries. Both the police and the Skids' potential employer, Mr. Block, are roaring mad at these events--when Hamilton is told the only thing found in the remains of the car was the Hornet's hat, he throws it away in disgust--and Diana isn't too happy that her "nephew" (her and his word) and Hayashi--who've managed to get home--aren't going to a hospital, but the two men know that they'd be arrested immediately. Heavily bandaged up, the two remask, hop into a van, and head to the chop shop to pick up their new car, which isn't quite ready, and they and the "dealer" work twenty hours straight to finish it. The Hornet insists on going after the Skid brothers and the Street Beast immediately--so they give the van to the chop shop operator?--which is accomplished for them by a cop 'copter and their police radio band monitor. The brothers discourage the chopper with automatic weapons fire, but then the new Beauty arrives. The Skids are led into a railroad yard where a paintball shot--one of Beauty IV's new weapons--causes them to lose control and careen into a pile of old train cars, which collapses on and disables their stolen "ride." Several police are on the scene by this time and do not report the Hornet's presence, taking the credit for stopping the Skids themselves. Subsequently, the representative of the Street Beast's owners threatens a lawsuit against the city over significant damage suffered by their prototype, but Hamilton points out that a press conference announcing how a city police force took it out would severely reduce the military's interest in the vehicle. Hamilton's not entirely off the hook, as the Mayor then gives him a warning to back off on his obsession with the Hornet.

Indexer Notes

Story continued in issue #16 of this series.

Credits are given as follows: Script=Designer; Pencils=Assembly; Inks=Styling; Colors=Pinstriping; Letters=Transmission; Editor=Mechanic; Editor in chief=Foreman; Cover art=Fuzzy dice

The new Black Beauty has a Hornet emblem in the center of the front grill, in direct contradiction to the "less conspicious" mandate that was the entire reason for getting a new car in the first place.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Buzz Word / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Joan Weis (credited as J. M. Weis)
Pencils
Tod Smith
Inks
David Mowry
Letters
typeset

Characters
Crimson Wasp

Indexer Notes

Includes in black and white from the third issue of this series, page 14, the final panel, slightly cropped, causing the Wasp's left hand, ponytail, and sword blade to extend beyond the new upper border.

Joan Weis signed her name as indicated because the writers of all three letters published herein reduced their first names to an initial.

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

On Sale NOW! / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

Now Newsflash!! / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Green Hornet
  2. 1. Street Lethal
    Green Hornet
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Buzz Word
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    On Sale NOW!
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
    Now Newsflash!!
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