The Green Hornet was one of radio’s best-known and most distinctive adventure programs. 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, the fictional character has made the transition to motion pictures, comics and television. Very little has been written about the masked vigilante and what has been recorded in magazine articles and encyclopedias prior to this publication has never explored the character as deeply… or accurately… than the book co-written by radio historians Martin Grams and Terry Salomonson.

From there two decades of research, digging through archives and tracking down family relatives of the actors and writers involved with the radio program, this slide show presentation will include archival scans and photographs never seen in decades.