Now Comics The Green Hornet 1993 Anniversary Unopened w/ 3-D Hologravure card

Item Specifics

Series Name

The Green Hornet 1993 Anniversary Special

Issue Number

1

Publisher

Now Comics

Main Character

Green Hornet

Genre

Superhero

Signed

No

Item Description

This issue is a variant of The Green Hornet (Now, 1991 series) #27 [Direct].

This issue was published in the four-color/newsprint format (see Sequence 3's Indexer's Note). Cover blurb: "Multi-dimensional Trading Card Included!" As the cover artists (those of both editions [see below] are listed) are identified with last names only, Dechnik's middle initial here is (finally) taken from her listing in the NOW Comics staff box, seen in the last-page feature in many issues. A newsstand distributed edition, with a different cover illustration and labeled "1993 Anniversary Special" (and carrying all markings mandated by the differences in the distribution systems, such as the Code seal) but otherwise identical, including the card and the indicia (giving both titles, etc.), was released simultaneously.

THE GREEN HORNET / COVER / 1 PAGE

* Pencils Patrick Zircher
* Inks David Mowry
* Colors Suzanne X. Dechnik

* Genre crime; superhero
* Characters Sister-Hood; Green Hornet IV

Limited edition promo card [#4h]

The green hornet / insert or dust jacket / 0 pages

Pencils
Jeff Butler
* Inks Jeff Butler
* Colors Jeff Butler
* Letters typeset

* Characters Kato I; Green Hornet I
* Synopsis A three-dimensional Hologravure card, polybagged with the comic.
Indexer Notes

The number 4H, not indicated on the card itself, was given by the editor in letter columns, those of previous issues in promotional announcements and in this one's while describing a related change of plans (see Sequence 3).
The Green Hornet / comic story / 20 pages

* Script Ron Fortier
* Pencils Patrick Zircher
* Inks Jim Brozman
* Colors Holly Sanfelippo
* Letters Andrea Albert

* Genre crime; superhero
* Characters D.A. Diana Reid; Lenore C. Reid; Britt Reid II; Hayashi Kato; Green Hornet IV; Mei Li (villain); Sister-Hood (formerly Sister-One; last appearance in #19); Crimson Wasp
* Synopsis Continued from last issue: Diana Reid, given a minimal report on events, has hurried home to learn more, and is met by Lenore. One Dr. Donald Thompson is doing what he can for the dart-poisoned Kato, but identifying the toxin, and thereby its antidote, is beyond him. However, he has determined that it will prove fatal in 24 hours. Britt tells Diana that Paul--or, more accurately, the Green Hornet--has gone out to try to find the people responsible and get an antidote from them. His first stop is the same tattoo parlor he and Kato had visited earlier that night (last issue), but he finds the proprietor dead, executed for his disclosures to the verdant vigilante. His killers, tong assassins, have waited for the Hornet's return, but he survives, thanks to the unexpected intervention of...Sister-Hood! She, formerly leader of the criminal gang so entitled and then called Sister-One but now a lone operative under the group's name, has her own reasons for not wanting all of The City's criminal interests unified under Black Dragon control. Accordingly, the costumed woman tells the Hornet where he can get the antidote, from an old herbalist who lives in "The Maze," forgotten tunnels beneath the "Little China" neighborhood (she presumably learned of the Black Dragons, their choice of poison, The Maze and its resident from one of the women's-prison inmates who made up her now defunct organization seen in issue #s 18 & 19). While Police Commissioner Hamilton's family are told that even if the cop survives his wounds he might not walk again, the Hornet enters The Maze, met by even more hiding tong killers. Again, a surprising figure emerges from the shadows to cover his back, but this one is...The Crimson Wasp! She tells her former partner that she was sent from home by her father "forty-eight hours ago," before Hayashi was poisoned! The Japanese patriarch, it seems, has a mystical bond with his descendants. While the Hornet and the Wasp move deeper into the tunnels, back home Diana panics as Hay's heart stops! To be continued....

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