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* RealityEnsues: In the Year One comic series, Britt and Kato bust a shipment of a truck full of machine guns, a gangster pulls out one of them and fires at Reid, but nothing happens, he looks at the trucker, who shouts "We don't transport 'em loaded!". They all get taken down very quickly.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: In the Year One comic series, Britt and Kato bust a shipment of a truck full of machine guns, a gangster pulls out one of them and fires at Reid, but nothing happens, he looks at the trucker, who shouts "We don't transport 'em loaded!". They all get taken down very quickly.
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* {{Fundoshi}}: When conducting research for Kato's origin for ''Green Hornet: Year One'', writer MattWagner was surprised to discover that Japanese underwear of the period essentially consisted of - as he put it - 'banana hammocks'. A scene involving Japanese soldiers in fundoshi ended up in the comic.
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* {{Fundoshi}}: When conducting research for Kato's origin for ''Green Hornet: Year One'', writer MattWagner Matt Wagner was surprised to discover that Japanese underwear of the period essentially consisted of - as he put it - 'banana hammocks'. A scene involving Japanese soldiers in fundoshi ended up in the comic.
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* DeathByOriginStory: Alan Reid (Paul Reid's older brother) is this in the NOW Comics version.
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* DistaffCounterpart: The Crimson Wasp in the NOW Comics version.
* DrowningMySorrows: In the NOW comics, Kato does this when Alan is killed, and later struggles with it when Paul appears to have died.
* DrowningMySorrows: In the NOW comics, Kato does this when Alan is killed, and later struggles with it when Paul appears to have died.
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* LipstickLesbian: Kato in the Dynamite Entertainment comic book claims to be at one point, but later on it turns out that she was just messing with Britt.
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* OlderSidekick: Kato to Alan and Paul in the NOW comics.
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* RefusalOfTheCall: In the NOW comics, both Britt Reid II and Paul Reid went through this.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: NOW Comics series: Mishi Kato goes on one of these as the Crimson Wasp.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: NOW Comics series: Mishi Kato goes on one of these as the Crimson Wasp.
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* SuperheroOrigin: The whole point of ''Green Hornet Year One''.
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* TortureTechnician: The Green Hornet falls into the hands of one in Dynamite's ''Green Hornet: Year One''. And boy howdy is he NightmareFuel.
* TwoFaced: Mob boss Vin Caruso in ''Green Hornet: Year One''.
* TwoFaced: Mob boss Vin Caruso in ''Green Hornet: Year One''.
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The radio series spawned several comic books by several publishers between 1940 and 1949, and a one-shot Green Hornet comic was published several months after the radio series ceased production. During the one season run of the TV adaptation, US comic book publisher Gold Key Comics, which specialized in adaptations of film and television properties, produced a three issue comic book adaptation of the television program.
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The radio series ''Radio/TheGreenHornet'' spawned several comic books by several publishers between 1940 and 1949, and a one-shot Green Hornet comic was published several months after the radio series ceased production. During the one season run of the TV adaptation, US comic book publisher Gold Key Comics, which specialized in adaptations of film and television properties, produced a three issue comic book adaptation of the television program.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: NOW Comics' ''Green Hornet: Dark Tomorrow'' and Dynamite's ''The Green Hornet Strikes'' both feature future generations of the Reid and Kato families taking on the mantles.
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The radio series spawned several comic books by several publishers between 1940 and 1949, and a one-shot Green Hornet comic was published several months after the radio series ceased production. During the one season run of the TV adaptation, US comic book publisher Gold Key Comics, which specialized in adaptations of film and television properties, produced a three issue comic book adaptation of the television program.
By far the most extensive and ambitious Green Hornet comic book adaptation was the 1989-93 series of several Green Hornet "unlimited" and limited-run series published by NOW Comics. NOW's project was especially ambitious in that it attempted to reconcile the various radio, film serial, and TV series versions of the Green Hornet character, creating what is in effect a multi-generational epic which spins the Green Hornet as being effectively the Reid family business. NOW's "Hornetverse" posited that the Green Hornet of the radio series was the original Britt Reid, grand-nephew of John "The Lone Ranger" Reid (however, legal considerations prevented NOW from making that relationship explicit), in partnership with "his" Kato, who was given the full name of "Ikano Kato". According to the series this Kato was Japanese, however during the war the Reid family publicly held Kato out as being Filipino in order to prevent his being sent to an internment camp.
The Green Hornet of the TV series was posited to be the namesake ''nephew'' of the original Hornet (usually referred to as "Britt Reid II" whenever the genealogical question was raised), who took up the mantle of the Green Hornet in partnership with "his" Kato, Hayashi Kato, who was the son of Ikano. This Britt Reid retired after suffering a heart attack, but he encouraged his nephews Alan (killed by a bomb on his first "mission" as the new Green Hornet) and Paul (a concert pianist by training) to take up the family business.
Alan Reid was killed in his first mission as the Green Hornet (causing Hayashi Kato to go into a tailspin of guilt and to begin [[DrowningMySorrows hitting the bottle]] hard); shortly thereafter his brother Paul took up the role, joined by Hayashi Kato's half-sister Mishi, an automobile designer by profession and a martial artist (''of course!'') by avocation. Unfortunately, the company controlling the rights to the Green Hornet property did not approve of this, and [[ExecutiveMeddling demanded that Mishi Kato be removed]] and that the Paul Reid Hornet be paired with Hayashi Kato. Fearing the loss of their license to use the characters, NOW Comics acceded to that demand. Apparently, the rightsholders relented in their objection to the Mishi Kato character, as she made an appearance in a later series of comics, and served as a LoveInterest to Paul Reid in later comics. Rounding out the Reid family saga is Diana Reid, daughter of the original Britt Reid and cousin to Britt II and Paul. Diana, a lawyer, ran for and won election to the office of District Attorney upon the retirement of Frank Scanlon, and maintains the Hornet's covert connection with the law enforcement community. She developed a romantic relationship with Hayashi Kato, and they had become engaged by the comic's end.
2010 saw the start of a number of Green Hornet comics under the aegis of [[Creator/DynamiteComics Dynamite Entertainment]]. A couple series are noteworthy: ''Green Hornet: Year One'' by Matt Wagner (writer) and Aaron Campbell (art), and several series by Creator/KevinSmith (especially ''Kevin Smith's Green Hornet'', reputed to be based on Smith's aborted script for [[TheMovie the Green Hornet film]] eventually produced by Creator/SethRogen, and separate series on Kato and Kato's origins).
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!!These comics provide examples of:
* AwesomeButImpractical: Reid Jr. in the Dynamite series is shown the lair; where the mechanic shows off the floor panel that flips the Black Beauty and replaces it with a normal car, Britt asks what the point of it is because no one is supposed to be down there aside from the Katos, the Reids, and the mechanic.
* DeathByOriginStory: Alan Reid (Paul Reid's older brother) is this in the NOW Comics version.
* DefectorFromDecadence: Kato in the "Year One" series left the Japanese army after witnessing his squad leader allow a number of his troops to rape a young woman in Nanjing. Ultimately he executes him and departs.
* DependingOnTheWriter: So where is Kato from? In the Kevin Smith comic book and the "Kato" series (focusing on the second Kato, his daughter Mulan), his origins hail from China and he was a child during The Great Famine. To the contrary, the "Kato Origins" and "Green Hornet Year One" series posit that he is Japanese and even served in the Japanese army during WWII.
* DistaffCounterpart: The Crimson Wasp in the NOW Comics version.
* DrowningMySorrows: In the NOW comics, Kato does this when Alan is killed, and later struggles with it when Paul appears to have died.
* EvilCounterpart: The Dynamite Series has introduced The Black Hornet who is all for crime and [[spoiler: killed Reid Sr.]]
* {{Fundoshi}}: When conducting research for Kato's origin for ''Green Hornet: Year One'', writer MattWagner was surprised to discover that Japanese underwear of the period essentially consisted of - as he put it - 'banana hammocks'. A scene involving Japanese soldiers in fundoshi ended up in the comic.
* ImprovisedWeapon: In Year One Britt is on the run from some soldiers in Africa who just killed his friend and he stumbles across a nest of Hornets, they are green , and throws a rock through their nest. The hornets attack in a frenzy and kill the soldiers.
* InterchangeableAsianCultures: In the Dark Horse comics, the Japanese Kato infiltrates a mobsters stronghold by posing as a courier from a Chinatown gangboss, complete with Chinese cap and exaggerated Engrish accent. When Britt asks "They really thought you were Chinese?", he replies "All the same to Americans".
* IntercontinuityCrossover: DC and Dynamite published a comic book sequel to "A Piece of the Action"/"Batman's Satisfaction" as ''ComicBook/Batman66 Meets the Green Hornet''.
* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: In the Dynamite comics, Mulan Kato makes her first appearance kicking nine kinds of ass in a long red party dress with matching heels.
* KneelPushTrip: In ''The Lone Ranger/Green Hornet'' #5, the Lone Ranger and Elliot Ness do this to defeat Black Bart (Ness does the kneeling, the Ranger does the pushing).
* LegacyCharacter: In the original radio series, The Green Hornet was the nephew of Franchise/TheLoneRanger. The 1990s NOW comic, which did not have the rights to the Ranger, could only allude to this, but established that the Hornet identity was itself a legacy, having been adopted by two nephews of the TV Hornet, who in turn was himself the nephew of the original radio character.
* LipstickLesbian: Kato in the Dynamite Entertainment comic book claims to be at one point, but later on it turns out that she was just messing with Britt.
* MythologyGag:
** The late 80s-early 90s NOW Comics adaptation had a number of {{Mythology Gag}}s referencing various actors who played The Lone Ranger, The Green Hornet, and Kato in the radio series and 1940s film serials.
** In ''Green Hornet Year One'', Daniel Reid's letter opener is [[Franchise/TheLoneRanger silver with a horse head.]]
* OlderSidekick: Kato to Alan and Paul in the NOW comics.
* RealityEnsues: In the Year One comic series, Britt and Kato bust a shipment of a truck full of machine guns, a gangster pulls out one of them and fires at Reid, but nothing happens, he looks at the trucker, who shouts "We don't transport 'em loaded!". They all get taken down very quickly.
* RefusalOfTheCall: In the NOW comics, both Britt Reid II and Paul Reid went through this.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: NOW Comics series: Mishi Kato goes on one of these as the Crimson Wasp.
* TheStoic: Mulan, Kato's daughter in the Dynamite series, doesn't say a word until some four issues after her intro.
* StunGuns: Paul Reid uses one instead of a gas gun in the NOW series. Also the Hornet's weapon of choice in the Year One series.
* SuperheroOrigin: The whole point of ''Green Hornet Year One''.
* SureLetsGoWithThat: In the first issue of the ''Year One'' series, Kato and the Green Hornet are mistaken for a new gang rival and his muscle and decide to play into it.
* TakeUpMySword: Averted in the Dynamite Entertainment series; Britt Jr. becomes the Green Hornet after being discouraged by the elder Kato and his daughter Mulan. This may also be the case with the Katos.
* TortureTechnician: The Green Hornet falls into the hands of one in Dynamite's ''Green Hornet: Year One''. And boy howdy is he NightmareFuel.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: NOW Comics' ''Green Hornet: Dark Tomorrow'' and Dynamite's ''The Green Hornet Strikes'' both feature future generations of the Reid and Kato families taking on the mantles.
* TwoFaced: Mob boss Vin Caruso in ''Green Hornet: Year One''.
* WalkingTheEarth: Britt in the Year One series wants to see the world before he works for his dad.
* ZorroMark: The Green Hornet's calling card in the Year One series is a hornet etched into a green lens.
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