Captain's Library UNTOUCHABLES "Conspirators" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

Federal Agent Crandall has bugged the gangsters' meeting room, and is ready to learn their plans...

Though the writer is unknown, the artist for this never-reprinted story from Dell's Four Color Comics #1237 (1961) is Dan Spiegle, whose expertise in doing actors' likenesses, as well as gangsters and guys in fedoras and overcoats served him well several years later when he illustrated all three issues of Gold Key's Green Hornet tv series adaptation!
BTW, though the tv series emphasized Ness' and his crew's battle against Prohibition-era criminals, the comic scrupulously avoided showing anything involving bootleggers, speakeasy operators, illegal distillers, and their ilk!

(A situation I discovered when I reviewed all four issues, looking for the best tale to present!)

Ironic, since the actual Untouchables were disbanded shortly after Prohibition ended!
Note that foreign comics adaptations had no such limitations...

The Spanish comics were never reprinted in the US, and thus, aren't available in English.
If they were, I'd be happy to re-present them here!

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Captain's Library UNTOUCHABLES "Conspirators" Part 1

Here's the first comics appearance of The Untouchables...

...as seen in the TV series starring Robert Stack as Elliot Ness!

Will Crandall survive his first assignment as an Untouchable...or will he be touched, fatally?

Be Here Sunday for the answer!

BTW, though the tv series emphasized Ness' and his crew's battle against Prohibition-era criminals, the comic scrupulously avoided showing anything involving bootleggers, speakeasy operators, illegal distillers, and their ilk!

(A situation I discovered when I reviewed all four issues, looking for the best tale to present!)

Ironic, since the actual Untouchables were disbanded shortly after Prohibition ended!

Though the writer is unknown, the artist for this never-reprinted story from Dell's Four Color Comics #1237 (1961) is Dan Spiegle, whose expertise in doing actors' likenesses, as well as gangsters and guys in fedoras and overcoats served him well several years later when he illustrated all three issues of Gold Key's Green Hornet tv series adaptation! 

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1960s / Silver Age Green Hornet Links

Here's a list of links to my previous posts about The Green Hornet Silver Age comics based on the tv series.

"Masquerade"

The final Silver Age Green Hornet comic book tale...featuring multiple Hornets, and at least one more Kato...

"Counterplot Affair"

"Hi-Ho Hornet! Awayyy!"
The Green Hornet takes a page out of his grand-uncle's edition of the Hero Handbook!

"Threat of the Red Dragons"

The Hornet and Kato battle a tong.

Next, links to my Golden Age comic/radio show posts...including a tale showing how the radio show might have been made into a tv series in the 1940s!

Captain's Library GREEN HORNET "Ring of Terror" Conclusion

When Last We Left MeTV's other Dynamic Duo...

Newspaper publisher Britt Reid discovers an old friend and her scientist father are being forced by gangsters to manufacture a drug that renders people susceptible to orders to perform illegal acts, then forget they did them!

In his alter ego of The Green Hornet, the masked man and his partner, Kato, break into the home of the scientist and his daughter, now serving as the criminals' base of operations!

What The Hornet doesn't know is that Reid's friend has been drugged, armed, and ordered to kill Reid himself!

Written by Paul S Newman (not the actor) and illustrated by Dan Spiegle, this tale followed the format of the first few episodes (playing up the "masked detective" angle, and downplaying the fight sequences) perfectly.

When polls showed that the audience wanted more action, additional fights were written in, playing up Bruce Lee's martial arts skills.

This proved invaluable when, after Lee died in 1973, a pair of compilation films were released during the Kung Fu craze of the mid-1970s, as seen in these trailers for the films...

But, because the show only ran one season of 26 episodes, its rarely shown in syndicated reruns, where long-running shows could be aired Monday through Friday without repeating for months.

As a result, most fans under 40 only knew the tv version of The Green Hornet and Kato via their guest appearance on Batman!

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(You can read about that now-legendary meeting HERE)

Fans have long clamored for a sequel of some kind.

Almost 50 years later, the tv versions of the characters meet once more...in a new comic mini-series!

...which is currently in comic shops and available as a digital download on Comixology!

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Captain's Library GREEN HORNET "Ring of Terror" Part 2

When Last We Left Our MeTV Heroes...

An anonymous phone tipster alerts newspaper publisher Britt Reid to an upcoming armored car robbery.

As The Green Hornet, Reid and his partner, Kato interrupt the crime and capture the gang, but the leader gets away with the prize...drugs.

Oddly, the armored car guards aided the thieves, but can't remember doing so!

The next day, Reid sees Ellen Neill, an old friend, and recognizes her voice as that of the tipster!

But, before he can ask her, she's hustled home by a surly man she seems terrified of.

Considering...

1) the armored car robbery occured near Ellen's home.

2) the gang leader quickly disappeared...in that area.

3) Ellen's father is a noted chemist, who hasn't been seen in public for an extended period.

Reid decides further investigation is warranted...

What will happen when The Green Hornet and Kato break in and confront both the gang, and a friend "programmed" to kill Britt Reid...aka The Green Hornet?

Be here tomorrow for the astounding conclusion,

PLUS some kool videos, trivia...and news about the return of the 1960s TV Green Hornet to all-new comics!

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