The Green Hornet #7 [Direct]
(March 1992)

Now, 1991 Series
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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
Editing
Tony Caputo (editor in chief); Joan Weis (editor)

Issue Notes

The editor's name includes the middle initial "M" on both the letter column and the NOW Newsflash page, but not in the story's splash page credit box itself.
This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Green Hornet / cover / 1 page (report information)

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

Genre
crime; superhero
Characters
Green Hornet IV; Kato II

The Streetbeast (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script
Chuck Dixon
Pencils
Tod Smith
Inks
David Mowry
Colors
Ray Murtaugh
Letters
Susan Dorne

Genre
crime; superhero
Characters
Police Commissioner Carter "Ham" Hamilton; Green Hornet IV; Kato II; The Mayor; D.A. Diana Reid; Harry Block (I, V)
Synopsis
In his efforts to bring in the Green Hornet, Commissioner Hamilton cuts a deal with a manufacturer for his police department to borrow an experimental tank-like armored-and-armed vehicle, the Streetbeast (the maker hopes the publicity will raise interest from the military). However, two vehicularly oriented thugs, the Skid Brothers, are among the viewers of Ham's televised announcement of his new acquisition and decide it's "too cool to be wasted on the pigs." They have a surprisingly easy time stealing it, to the consternation of both its owners and city officials. The Skids make a deal with a crime boss who wants to fill in the just created power vacuum (see last issue): if they take out the Green Hornet, he puts them on his payroll. During all this, the Hornet is making a deal of his own with a chop-shop operator to build a new, less visually distinctive but equally "accessorized" Black Beauty. A homeless man spots the old Beauty leaving a meet with the auto expert and word quickly spreads that the Hornet is "deep in the jungle." Soon the Skid Brothers are after him. While Kato attempts evasive action, the Hornet tunes in the police bands, and the pair are surprised to hear the two vehicles described as "unidentified." The knowledge that cops aren't behind the other wheel does them little good, however, for the Streetbeast soon pushes the Black Beauty off a viaduct, turning it into a flaming wreck! To be continued....

Indexer Notes

Racketeer Harry Block is identified in this initial appearance only as Block, and accompanied by his henchman Tackle. The first name would not be used until issue #23.

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

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

Script
Joan Weis
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Includes in black and white, a cropped version of the last panel, page 17, of The Green Hornet, Vol. 2, #3, November 1991.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3) (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. The Streetbeast
    Green Hornet
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Buzz Word
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Now Newsflash!!
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Boris Ammerlaan
  • Peter Croome
  • Paolo Interdonato
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Per Sandell
  • Jim Van Dore
  • Ted Watson