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Issue: Kato of the Green Hornet #1

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Publication Date: November 1991

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Indicia Publisher: NOW Comics

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Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $2.95 CAD
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Content Items: 5 (1 story, 1 cover)

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Notes: Main cover logo is simply "Kato," with "...of the Green Hornet" in type in other locations (for the entire series).

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Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S.

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: limited series

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Content Items (5 total)

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Subject Matter

Feature(s): Kato of the Green Hornet

Character(s): Hayashi Kato

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Journey of a Thousand Miles

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Subject Matter

Genres: espionage, martial arts

Feature(s): Kato of the Green Hornet

Character(s): Hayashi Kato; Britt Reid II (cameo); Ulysses Chow (introduction); Carter Lin (introduction); Redgrave Lin (introduction); Spitting Cobras (villains; introduction); Chinese Communists (villains; introduction)

Synopsis: Mid-November 1989: Receiving a message from his Uncle Ho that the Red Chinese government is moving against the Shaolin temple where he studied kung fu, Hayashi Kato leaves the City for Hong Kong. He is met at the airport by Ulysses Chow, a friend of his uncle, who takes him to two others, Carter Lin and his sister Redgrave. The siblings show the two the beginning of the surreptitious route into the People's Republic, but stay in Hong Kong "to continue the fight for democracy." As Kato and Ulysses come within sight of the temple, they are confronted by Communist troops.

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Pages: 24

Notes: 1: About the dating--in the letter column of #4, the editor states that the events of this miniseries take place while Hayashi's half-sister Mishi is the modern Green Hornet's partner, contemporaneous with NOW's Green Hornet (1989 series, aka V.1), #s 6-10 (though Hayashi is present in #s 6 & 7, in a secondary capacity); captions in #6 have that beginning November 5, 1989, and the second and third Family Trees features (Tales of the Green Hornet V.2, #2 and The Green Hornet V.2, #26, respectively) both indicate she did not wear the mask into 1990, and that Hayashi did not re-don his until that new year; his first story back in costume contains decidedly wintery weather.
2: At one point, Kato says that his mother was a Chinese who took the Japanese name Oshura upon her marriage, to justify the Chinese orientation of this story against all the previous NOW Comics continuity of the Kato family being Japanese.

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Subject Matter

Genres: martial arts

Feature(s): Kato of the Green Hornet

Character(s): Hayashi Kato [Kato II]

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Kato of the Green Hornet #2 published December 1991
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Feature(s): NOW Newsflash

Synopsis: An essay from EIC Caputo, promoting the "current" Kato miniseries and the relaunchings of Real Ghostbusters and Twilight Zone, and announcing an upcoming Tales of the Green Hornet series. Beneath this is a listing of five current NOW titles, with creative talents and brief synopsis, including two versions of the new Twilight Zone #1. There is also a boxed list of the company's staff.

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Notes: There is a solid yellow background, with brown used in the section logos; this feature appeared on the last interior page of most NOW releases of this cover date.

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Feature(s): NOW Better Than Ever!

Character(s): Green Hornet IV; Kato II; Kelly Bundy (photo of Christina Applegate); a Real Ghostbuster; Hayashi Kato

Synopsis: Promos for five "October 1991 releases" from NOW with cover repros, creative team listings and brief synopses.

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Notes: This was the back-cover feature on most NOW releases of this cover date. Highlights covers from Green Hornet V.2, #4; Married...With Children V.2, #4; Real Ghostbusters V.2, #2; Kato #2; Twilight Zone V.2, #2.