Green Hornet
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 Green Hornet facts

• Trendle and Fran Striker, with input from radio director James Jewell, in 1936
• Since his radio debut in the 1930s, the Green Hornet has appeared in numerous serialized dramas in a wide variety of media
• The character appeared in film serials in the 1940s, a network television program in the 1960s, multiple comic book series from the 1940s on, and a feature film in January 2011
• The franchise is currently owned by Green Hornet, Inc
• , who license the property across a wide variety of media that includes comics, films, TV shows, radio and books
• The comic book rights are currently licensed out to DC Comics and Dynamite Entertainment
• Though various incarnations sometimes change details, in most versions the Green Hornet is the alter ego of Britt Reid, wealthy young publisher of the Daily Sentinel newspaper by day
• But by night Reid dons the long green overcoat, green fedora hat and green mask of the mysterious "Green Hornet" to fight crime as a vigilante
• Reid is accompanied by his loyal and similarly masked partner and confidant, Kato, who drives their technologically advanced car, the "Black Beauty"
• Though both the police and the general public believe the Hornet to be a criminal, Reid uses that perception to help him infiltrate the underworld, leaving behind for the police the criminals and any incriminating evidence he has found