Reading Room THE GREEN HORNET "Ring of Terror" Part 1

Fifty years ago this week, The Green Hornet debuted on ABC.

From late 1966/early 1967, here's The Green Hornet's first comic book appearance in 13 years (since a 1953 one-shot comic based on the radio show)!

Can The Green Hornet figure out how the gangsters are pulling off these robberies with the aid of the victims?

And, what's the connection between his old friend and the criminals?

Only writer Paul S Newman and artist Dan Spiegle know the answer!
Perhaps they'll share it with us...

...Tomorrow!

Same Hornet Time!

Same Hornet Channel!

(Oops, wrong show!)
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The Green Hornet in the Infernal Light
by Ed Friend (Richard Wormser)
Never reprinted, and extremely hard to find in good condition!

Reading Room G-8 AND HIS BATTLE ACES "Secret Weapon" Part 3

When Last We Left America's Flying Spy...

...he was hot on the trail to find the base from which a new, potent secret weapon had been used by the Germans to devastating effect!

Disguised as a German soldier, G-8 is about to infiltrate the enemy lines...

Written by Leo Dorfman, penciled by George Evans, and inked by Mike Peppe, this section leads us into the villains' underground lair for a James Bond-esque finale...

To Be Concluded, Tomorrow at

War: Past, Present and Future

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G-8 and His Battle Aces #3

Ace of the White Death

Reading Room G-8 AND HIS BATTLE ACES "Secret Weapon" Part 1

Now that we've given you some background info...

..let's parachute into the story!

Written by Leo Dorfman, penciled by George Evans, and inked by Mike Peppe, the opening chapter sets up G-8's cred as a master spy and tantalizes us with hints of the German plot!

But he's far more than that, as we shall see!

To Be Continued, Tomorrow at

War: Past, Present and Future

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G-8 and His Battle Aces #1

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G-8 and His Battle Aces are coming...

One of the major pulp heroes of the 1930s-40s...

...Popular Publications' G-8 and His Battle Aces was a bit of an anachronism since the series was set during World War I!

While such titles about aviators from "The Great War" were not uncommon during the pre-World War II period, they were mostly typical wartime adventures.

But only G-8 featured a near-superhuman hero with a team of diversely-talented pilots and aides battling fantastic foes over the skies of Europe.

Running 110 issues from 1933 to 1944, all written by creator Robert J Hogan, the series had both sci-fi and horror-fantasy tales, mixing genres as the author saw fit!

In 1970, due to the success of Bantam Books' Doc Savage reprints, Berkley Books reprinted the first eight G-8 tales, with the first three reprints using new Jim Steranko art, which we're presenting here.

Unfortunately, G-8 met the fate so many other pulp reprint series (except for Doc and The Avenger) experienced during this period...cancellation!

The story we'll be running starting tomorrow was published before the paperback reprints hit the stands.
In the mid-1960s, Gold Key did a number of one-shots to "test the waters" for reviving classic properties.
Besides a Doc Savage comic adapting the pulp/paperback novel a proposed movie was based on, GK also did Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers...and G-8!

Written by Leo Dorfman, penciled by George Evans, and inked by Mike Peppe, with a kool painted cover by George Wilson featuring actor/model Steve (Doc Savage) Holland as G-8, the tale is AFAIK, an original story based on the characters...

Be Here Tomorrow as the Saga Begins!

Reading Room: THE SHADOW "Game of Death" Part 3

We Have Already Seen...

...lured into a trap when he tries to break up a staged "mugging", The Shadow is forced to run a gauntlet of fantastic foes while protecting the man who is actually the mastermind behind the situation!

He Who Knows What Evil Lurks in the Hearts of Men defeats all who oppose him, until he faces the final foe...

Written by Jerry (Superman) Siegel and illustrated by Paul Reinman, this never-reprinted tale from Radio Comics' The Shadow #8 (1965) was part of an attempt to revive the Shadow in print after reruns of the radio show became a hit on local radio stations due to the early-60s pop-art and Marvel Comics crazes.

You can read some of those tales HERE!
Trivia: this final issue of the Radio Comics version of The Shadow is the only one to not feature the character's arch-foe, Shiwan Khan!

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Shadow: Beware!