The Green Hornet was one of radio's
best-known and most distinctive adventure shows. Britt Reid, publisher
of The Daily Sentinel, was in the position to learn facts about
criminals that only the police had access. Armed with this knowledge, a
gas gun that rendered foes momentarily unconscious, and a black
speedster known as The Black Beauty, he donned the guise of The Green
Hornet. Feared by the underworld and sought after by the police, the
masked vigilante fought racketeers, gangsters and saboteurs. When the
police were faced with red tape, The Green Hornet, with his sidekick
Kato, his faithful valet, circumvented protocol and legal procedure in
their determined battle to put away crooks.
Since The Green Hornet
first appeared on radio in 1936, he has made the transition to motion
pictures, comics and television. Very little has been written about the
masked marvel and what has been recorded in magazine articles and
encyclopedias prior to this publication has never explored the character
as deeply... or accurately. For the first time, the complete story of
this crime fighter is unmasked, as prolific TV and radio historians
Martin Grams and Terry Salomonson usher you into the Black Beauty.
A
complete history of the radio series from the creation to conception
sketches, reprints from production files to the untold adventures,
biographic details of the cast and the characters they played (including
Mike Axford, Kato, Gunnigan, Lenore Case, Linda Travis, Ed Lowry,
Clicker Binney, Commissioner Higgins, etc.
