Category: Green Hornet

The Green Hornet is a masked crime-fighter created in 1936 by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker. The Green Hornet fights crime with the assistance of Kato and his rolling arsenal, the Black Beauty.

Black Beauty Through the Years

On: By: Romeyn

The first Black Beauty was a 1937 Lincoln Zephyr coupe that appeared in the two Green Hornet serials of 1940. Kato quipped that it could do “better than 200” with its “Chemical Energizer” and the “on demand surge” it provided . The car sounded like a hornet, but could also be switched to “silent running” mode.

1937 Lincoln Zephyr
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Green Hornet Daily Strip, 1941

On: By: Romeyn

Here are the first four weeks of the unpublished Green Hornet daily comic strips (Monday-Saturday). Fran Striker wrote the plot, Bert Whitman was responsible for the art. George W. Trendel, who wanted total oversight over ever detail of the proposal, disliked the final story and artwork, thus killing the strip before it even started.

(Copyright 1941 by Green Hornet Inc.)
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