As a promotion for the movie, on Tuesday, Syfy is showing all 26 episodes of the 1966 TV series with Van Williams and Bruce Lee from 10 AM to 11 PM. I never seen any of them, just the Batman guest appearances. I wonder if they're included? I'm going to tape some of it. Anyone else?
BTW, did you know that the original Green Hornet was the grand-nephew of the Lone Ranger and the inspiration for DC's Crimson Avenger and the Sandman?
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Darn, I don't have SyFy.
I did know about the Lone Ranger connection but not Crimson Avenger or the Sandman (Dodds, I presume).
Thanks for posting; I thought The Green Hornet couldn't be found on the air anywhere (although the American Life channel did carry it for a while last year).
Also, I too did know about the Lone Ranger connection but not Crimson Avenger or the Sandman. We discuss that a bit over here on the new old board ("Rich Folks in Comic Books"), where it is pointed out that The Green Hornet is a retooling of The Lone Ranger for modern times.
The Crimson Avenger was a masked hero with an Asian assistant, Wing, and used a gas gun. He was also thought to be a criminal. He later become a more Batman-like character with a costume, fitting since he too appeared in Detective and was one of the Seven Soldiers of Victory.
The Sandman weilded a gas gun and was hunted by the law, though he was a Justice Society charter member. And he was also reconceived by Simon and Kirby as a Batman-like hero, complete with sidekick, Sandy the Golden Boy.
Cavalier said:
Philip Portelli said:
Not quite. The Sandman's change from slouch hat and opera cape to the more standard super-hero skin-tights was not brought about by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby.
It was Mort Weisinger (writer) and Paul Norris (penciller) and Chad Grothkopf (inker) who instituted the change, in the story "The Case of the Giant Bees", from Adventure Comics # 69 (Dec., 1941). It was this tale that also introduced Sandy, the Golden Boy.
The Weisinger/Norris/Grothkopf team remained on the series for the next two issues. It wasn't until Adventure Comics # 72 (Mar., 1942) that Simon and Kirby took over the series and ran with it.
Hope this helps.
The minute I read your reply, Commander, I smacked myself in the head because I knew that! I just didn't remember it at the time! Simon & Kirby's names popped in my head and I ran with it....into a wall! ;-)
The "new" Sandman still had a cape but it came and went, sometimes in the same story until S&K's streamlined version.
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