.... The Green Hornet

TV Show & Comic Books...

It's been 40 Television Seasons since the 1966-67 TV Show first ran! I can still remember when I first heard the 'Flight of the Bumblebee' that was the theme music of the show!

The show was inspired by the success of the Batman series. ABC brought The Green Hornet to television in the 1966-67 TV Season,  which introduced martial arts master Bruce Lee to American audiences and starred Van Williams as the Green Hornet.

Unlike the Batman show, the TV version of The Green Hornet was played straight, but it was cancelled after only one season.

However, the meteoric rise of Bruce Lee as a major cult movie star ensured continued interest in the television property. As a matter of fact, Bruce Lee's popularity in Hong Kong, where he was raised, was such that the show was marketed there as 'The Kato Show' !

The TV series displayed the Hornet's car, the 'Black Beauty', as a 1965 Chrysler Imperial customized by Dean Jeffries. I named my first bike 'The Black Beauty' as I was very enamored of the TV Show!  I later met Van Williams at a SDCC show where he was signing autographs for the NOW Green Hornet series!

It was also in 1967 that Gold Key Comics produced a  comic book series based on the TV show, which mirrored that program's short life with a brief three-issue print run, with the first issue pictured to the left!  I never met Bruce Lee, but saw a program at the LA Sci-Fi & Comic Con where his brother showed home movies of the Lee family...For those interested in Gold Key comic books, we have a few listed in our eBay Featured Store and eBay Pro Store.

Mother's Day is May 13th... Send Her A Little Love....

Like a Romance Comic!

Well... maybe NOT the too-hot-to-handle comic to the right, but how about a little tamer one! LOL !

For those interested in seeing what romance comics we have listed for sale... just check out the Romance comic books we have  listed in our eBay Featured Store and eBay Pro Store! 

Michael Selling HOT ROMANCE Comic Books at the  San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) in 1973!

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Edward Norton...

Edward Norton to play the Incredible Hulk !

The Twilight Zone...

...was a series of FOUR Comic Book Sets as well as a TV show!

There were two one-shot comics published by Dell Comics in their Four Color series, #1173 (May 1961) & #1288 (April 1962).

Then the Gold Key Comics comic books series was published from 1962 to circa 1982 ending with issue #92.

A now defunct company, 'Now Comics', (no pun intended), published the second volume from November 1991 to March 1993.

As a lot of comic book companies did in the 1990's, Now Comics stopped publishing the second volume, and with a new #1 issue, started volume three in May 1993 which ended with #4 in August 1993. Supposedly comic companies could sell a lot of #1 issues, so several long running comic titles were 'rebooted' this way!

Compare this with the TV show, which ran from 1959 to 1964 in its' first series with 156 different episodes.

After Rod Serling sold his shares of the Twilight Zone back to the network that originally ran them, the TV Show had its' first revival from 1985 - 1989.

Then the Twilight Zone had a 2 hour TV Movie in 1994, which did not go on to become a TV Show series.

It wasn't until 2002 that UPN had a revival of the show with Forest Whitaker as the narrator. Unfortunately that revival only ran until 2003!

For those interested in Twilight Zone Comics and other HoRRoR / MoNSTer comics, we have several hundred comic books in our eBay Featured Store and eBay Pro Store.

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Michael Selling at SDCC in 1973

I AM IRON MAN...

Dum dum da da dum....        the Black Sabbath song of the same name from 1970 runs thru my mind when looking at the photo to the right.

Yes, it's one of the first photos of the now in production 'Iron Man' movie with  Robert Downey Jr (as Iron Man), Gwyneth Paltrow (as Pepper Potts), and Terrence Howard (as War Machine),  in the Jon Favreau-directed film.

This is the first film in which Marvel Entertainment provides the financing through its arrangement with Merrill Lynch, so this needs to be a blockbuster film!  It looked like a good movie script at the SDCC, but the casting so far is a little strange in my opinion!  And now it looks 'back to its' roots' for inspiration!  That's the first thing of this movie that I personally like so far !!!

Gywneth starred in 'Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow', which I really enjoyed... so I am willing to give her a chance at this role in Iron Man. Just as I am more willing to give this movie a chance, with it going back to the original armor to start out with... (maybe in flashback??). 

 For those interested in the Invincible Iron Man comic books, we have a few listed in our eBay Featured Store and eBay Pro Store.

Iron Man above in his cast iron first suit, and below with it painted with gold color to stop scarring little kids!  Seriously !