THE GREEN HORNET battles the "Dognappers" (1947)

The Lone Ranger's grand-nephew went to the dogs in All New Comics #14, back in Jan-Feb 1947. Thanks to movielover for slapping it up on comicbookplus.

GREEN HORNET U-Solve-It Crime Cases (1948)

These cases challenged readers in The Green Hornet #s 40 and 41 from 1948. So how about it, can U-Solve-Em without reading upside down?

THE GREEN HORNET and "The Case of the Murdering Clown" (1942)

Here's the Lone Ranger's Grand-Nephew in a swell adventure from Green Hornet #7, dated June 1942. Thanks to "narfstar" for scanning this for The Digital Comic Museum and Comic Book Plus.  

The Art of Frank Hamilton (Part 3)

Parts 1 and 2 are HERE.

VINTAGE HALLOWEEN MASKS (Part 1)

The Fox So Cunning and Free

Bridezilla

The Hornet

Mr. Nimoy

Smashed Hulk

P&O

Tricky Dick

Art Scott

The 6 Million Dollar Mask

Damn Dirty Ape

Beware! More masks approacheth.

The Green Hornet: Harvey Comics

Forgotten Books: The Green Hornet

The first Green Hornet Big Little Book, published in 1940, featured art by Robert Weisman. Fran Striker is believed by some to be the author. Values on these seem to fluctuate between $25 and $300, depending on where they are offered for sale and how bad somebody wants one.

Neither author nor artist has been positively identified for this second book, from 1941. All three BLBs featured the page-flipping gimmick described below, which was a primitive sort of animation.

The Green Hornet Cracks Down, 1942, features art by Henry Vallely. Once again, though clearly based on the work of Fran Striker, its uncertain whether he actually wrote it.

As I learned from Randy Johnson the other day, Richard Wormser was responsible for this 1966 TV-tie in paperback, writing as "Ed Friend." It was apparently penned before the series aired and based on early screen treatments, so many of the details differ from the actual show, and Kato is largely ignored. 

The Whitman hardback below, also from 1966, was a kid's book, but is by all accounts a better read than the paperback. Author Keith Brannan also did an I Spy book and couple about The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Patti Abbott has the usual round-up of Forgotten Books at pattinase. Next week, when she's away, I have the honor of being guest host.

Tomorrow: "Skyler Hobbs and the Magic Solution," my entry in John Kenyon's Fairy Tale Crime Fiction Challenge. Come on back, y'all.