Crossover Covers: The Lone Ranger/Green Hornet: Champions of Justice

 

In June 1938, Britt Reid becomes the Green Hornet and fights a new incarnation of the Cavendish gang with the aid of his great-uncle John, who comes out of retirement to don the mask of the Lone Ranger once more. John gets a ride from a cab driver, who is meant to be one of the shadowy vigilante’s agents. In a flashback, a Sergeant of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police appears; this is meant to be Sergeant Frank Preston from the radio series Challenge of Yukon. John and the Sergeant discover they are related through their mutual ancestors, the Waynes. In other words, the Lone Ranger, the Green Hornet, and Sergeant Preston are all related to Batman. In another flashback to 1896, John Reid gives a nine-year-old Franklin Delano Roosevelt one of his trademark silver bullets, an event first mentioned in the miniseries The Shadow/Green Hornet: Dark Nights, also written by Michael Uslan. The Ranger gets some help from a police officer named Kip. Officer Kip Burland will later become the masked crimefighter known as the Black Hood, whose exploits will be published by MLJ, later known as Archie Comics. Mourners at John Reid’s funeral include the shadowy pulp hero, Daddy Warbucks, a certain golden-eyed doctor, the Spirit, Mandrake the Magician, Jungle Jim, Flash Gordon, Bruce Wayne, and Clark Kent. In this story, Dan Reid, Jr. dies before his son Britt becomes the Green Hornet, whereas he was still alive in the original radio series. The Hornet is based in Chicago, but in the CU he operated in Detroit. The Shadow/Green Hornet has already been designated an AU. The Lone Ranger's death conflicts with Jim Harmon’s “Tom Mix and the Mystery of the Bodiless Horseman.”  Therefore, this series must be an AU.

This crossover is one of over a thousand covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, coming this summer from Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: Decently and Quietly Dead

 

In this story by Matthew Baugh, Mysterious Dave Mather is forcibly recruited by Judge Parker to apprehend a cult leader called Jehoiakim. Mather was interrupted during a dalliance with a prostitute by two of Parker’s marshals, Dave Bliss and One-Eyed Cogburn. When Mather shows Sheriff Teague the silver bullets he intends to use on Jehoiakim, Teague says he has heard of a man who uses silver bullets, supposedly as a reminder of the cost of human life. Jehoiakim intends to summon Tawil-at-U’mr. Mysterious Dave Mather was a real lawman, gunfighter, and sometime criminal in the Old West. Baugh’s fiction portrays him as a fighter against supernatural evil, particularly the beings of the Cthulhu Mythos. Marshal Dave Bliss is from the movie Hang 'em High. One-Eyed Cogburn is Marshal Reuben J. “Rooster” Cogburn from Charles Portis’ True Grit. The man who uses silver bullets is the Lone Ranger. Tawil-at-U’mr is an avatar of Yog-Sothoth in H. P. Lovecraft and E. Hoffmann Price’s “Through the Gates of the Silver Key.”

This crossover is one of hundreds covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover of the Week

Spring 1876

SOUL OF THE EAST 

 The Lone Ranger and Tonto deliver some outlaws to Marshal Dave Bliss, who is grateful he listened to Marshal County and trusted them. One of the best witnesses against the outlaws was killed in a gunfight with Swifty Morgan. Bliss says Morgan is one of the fastest guns, along with Herod, Mortimer, Grimm, Hickok, Holliday, and the Ranger himself. The Ranger, Tonto, and an Asian man whose life they saved are confronted by Sheriff Amos Polk, who will soon be leaving his post to become a judge. The Japanese man, Sora Nagamasa, tells the Ranger his would-be killers’ client, Clive Cooper, is one of the junior partners of the Cooper-Tillman Company, an American trading firm based in China, who are treated as underlings by the most powerful company there, Struans. Nagamasa is really Sora Minamoto, spy and soldier for the Emperor of Japan, who usually works under the shortened version of his name, Moto. 

Short story by Frank Schildiner in The Lone Ranger and Tonto: Frontier Justice, Matthew Baugh, ed., Moonstone Books, 2018. Marshal Dave Bliss is from the movie Hang 'Em High. Marshal County is the father of the title character of the television series The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. Swifty Morgan is from the movie Support Your Local Gunfighter. John Herod is from the movie The Quick and the Dead. Colonel Douglas Mortimer is from the film For a Few Dollars More. Judge Amos Polk is from the TV movies The Over-the-Hill Gang and The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again. The Cooper-Tillman Company and Struan and Sons are from James Clavell’s Tai-Pan. Sora Minamoto is an ancestor of John P. Marquand’s Japanese spy Mr. Moto, who appears under the name Minamoto in Schildiner’s chapbook Watch Your Back, Mr. Minamoto.

This crossover writeup is one of hundreds included in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Covers: Rawhide Kid: The Sensational Seven

 

Are you a fan of Marvel Comics' western heroes?

Then you'll love this miniseries, in which the Rawhide Kid teams up with not only three historical gunslingers, but also fellow Marvel cowboys Kid Colt, the Two-Gun Kid, and Red Wolf, with a couple references to the Lone Ranger and Tonto along the way!

For more details, check out my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, to be published by Meteor House! Much like its predecessors, this volume is an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

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Summer 1905

STAGECOACH MARY’S LAST RIDE-OUT 

Stagecoach Mary Fields teams up with a group of other famous individuals to clear the name of Jim Allen. Appearing or mentioned are: Durand; John Howdy; John Reid; Alfred Tabor; the Preacher; George Krumm; Black Jack Spade; Pete Reeves; Apache Gordon; Luke Oland; Jim Hoover; Duke Bagley; the White Wolf; the Ringo Kid; the Comanche Kid; the Tall Man; Hungry Hawkins; Long Sam Littlejohn; Tex Bulwer; Mazeppa; Shatterhand; Jim Kannah; Old Wawerly; Readestown; “that temple down in the Yucatan”; Don Muerte; the Coyote; Two-Gun Smith; Wah Lee; Tex Willer; Clementine Newton; Django Freeman; Chisolm; Tempest Cody; and Winoga. 

Story by Jess Nevins in Stagecoach Mary, 2016. Jim Allen (aka the White Wolf) appeared in stories by “Walker A. Tompkins” (Hal Dunning) in Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly. Durand appeared in three stories by Duane Hopkins in Short Stories in 1934. John Howdy is better known as Pa Howdy, whose tales were told by Laurence Donovan in Detective Fiction Weekly and G-Men Detective. John Reid is the former Lone Ranger. Alfred Tabor is Sonny Tabor, from “Ward M. Stevens’” (Paul S. Powers) tales in Wild West Weekly. Captain William McDowell is Captain “Roaring Bill” McDowell from “Jackson Cole’s” (A. Leslie Scott) Jim Hatfield stories in Texas Rangers. The Preacher is Preacher Devlin, from L. L. Foreman’s stories in Western Aces and Western Story Magazine. George Krumm is the sidekick of “Andrew A. Griffin’s” (Paul S. Powers) Johnny Forty-Five, another Wild West Weekly character. Black Jack Spade is an alias used by Duke Buckland, whose two-gun exploits were recounted by Frederick C. Davis in Western Trails. Pete Reeves is from “David Manning’s” (Frederick Faust) Bull Hunter stories in Western Story Magazine. Apache Gordon is from George C. Henderson’s Apache and Wagonwheel stories in Wild West Weekly. Luke Oland is a foe of Marvel Comics’ Western hero the Two-Gun Kid. Jim Hoover is the title character of “Big Ben” (Willi Richard Sachse) and “F. L. Barwin’s” (Lisa Barthel Winkler and Fritz Barthel) German pulp magazine Alaska-Jim, ein Held der kanadischen Polizei. Duke Bagley appeared in stories by William R. Cox in Star Western. The Ringo Kid is either John Wayne’s character from Stagecoach or the Marvel Comics cowboy of that name. The Comanche Kid’s tales were told by Cherry Wilson in Western Story Magazine and Far West Stories. The Tall Man is from the Phantasm films. Hungry Hawkins is from the Hungry and Rusty stories by Samuel H. Nickels in Wild West Weekly. Bud Jones was the subject of a series of tales by J. Allan Dunn in Wild West Weekly. Long Sam Littlejohn is from Lee Bond’s stories in Texas Rangers. Tex Bulwer is from the German pulp Tex Bulwer, Abenteuer im Wilden Westen. Mazeppa is from the German pulp Texas Jack der Berühmteste Indianerkämper. Old Shatterhand is from Karl May’s Western novels. Jim Kannah is from “Suton Caryl’s” (Max Hody) Belgian pulp magazines Les Mysteres du Far-West; Jim Kannah, le Roi du Far-West; Les Drames du Mexique; and Les Mysteres du Far West (not the same title as the above). Old Wawerly is better known as the New Leatherstocking from the German pulp Der Neue Lederstrumpf. Readestown is from the Frank Reade, Jr. stories by “Noname” (Luis P. Senarens). “That temple down in the Yucatan” is from Dr. Adrian Mohr’s German pulp Rolf Rodewalds Reise um den Erdball. Don Muerte is from Harry F. Olmsted’s stories in Star Western. The Coyote is from the series of stories by “Carter Mulford” (José Mallorqui). Tucson “Two-Gun” Smith is one of the Three Mesquiteers, from William Colt McDonald’s stories and novels. Wah Lee, the Shooting Gallery Kid, was the subject of two stories by W. Ryerson Johnson in Street & Smith's Western Story Magazine in 1943. Tex Willer is the title character of Gianluigi Bonelli’s comic strip. Clementine Newton is related to one of the aides of the avenging pulp hero with malleable skin. Django Freeman is from the movie Django Unchained. Sam Chisolm is from the 2016 remake of The Magnificent Seven. Tempest Cody was a cowgirl who appeared in nine films in 1919. Winoga is from the German pulp Winoga, der Letzte Mohikaner. Many of the characters in Wild West Weekly crossed over with each other, establishing them in the same universe, including Austin Gridley’s Pete Rice, Sonny Tabor, Cleve Endicott’s Billy West and the boys of the Circle J Ranch, Charles E. Barnes’ Bar U Twins, Lee Bond’s Oklahoma Kid, Allan R. Bosworth’s Blackstone Bangs and his fictionalized version of Judge Roy Bean, William A. Todd’s Risky McKee, J. Allan Dunn’s Whistlin’ Kid and Sleepy Sloane, Paul S. Powers’ Kid Wolf, Johnny Forty-Five, the White Wolf, and Walker A. Tompkins’ Tommy Rockford and the Border Eagle. 

This crossover writeup is one of hundreds included in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover of the Week

Many thanks to author Michael Howard for sending me a list of the crossovers in his novel, and a promo code to purchase a copy!

Spring 1912 

JIMMIE DALE, ALIAS THE GRAY SEAL 

Jimmie Dale, the Gray Seal, battles a white slavery ring. Appearing or mentioned are Dick Van Loan; Frank Havens; Artie “Chimp” Jermyn; Daniel Reid; the Blakeney family; Gunnison; Lady Kate Maxwell; Wilson Hargreaves; the Faithful Fifty; Billy McGee; Mrs. Battle; a Hirondel roadster; Harrisonville, NJ; the Ruritanian embassy; Aubrey Maturin; McKenzie of the Oracle; Glencannon’s Dew; the Sea-Girl; Allan Montague; frog-headed natives near Ponape; Haddock of the Karaboudjan; Englehorn of the Venture; Officer Karl Lohmann; Latveria; Yat Soon; the Si-Fan; Ashton-Kirk; a Potawatomi Indian; Lupin; Meadowes; Sam; Detective Gryce; Middleton, CO; Parr; Kramer; Fernack; Rumsey; Summers; Arthur Dimmesdale; Townsend Harper; Waverly; Frances Baird; the Duchess of Denver; Joan Barkley North; Hamilton Cleek; Thurston Howell II; Philo Vance; Westrel Keen; Drusilla Lane; the Continental Detective Agency; the Black Ship; Rachel Barans; Stars Hollow; the Model Press Clipping Bureau; Miriam Possible; James Clarkston Savage; Anatole; the de la Vega family; Professor Kennedy; Rosalind Hollis; Victor Carden; Ida Jones; Nick Carter; Hesselius; Baul-tar; Carcosa; Professor Harold Hill; a blonde southern woman named Porter; Skarl the Drummer; the Black Lotus; the Teduki bush; Yajur-tahn; Lake Hali; Mana-Yood-Sushai; Prince Omar; Officer Humboldt; Q-6; Blair Hospital; Dr. Gillespie; Ephraim Tutt; Professor Van Dusen; the Moreau Men; and Hugo Danner. 

This 2017 novel by Michael Howard is a prequel to Frank L. Packard’s Gray Seal series. Dick Van Loan is better known as the Phantom Detective. Frank Havens is his ally, the publisher of the New York Clarion. Artie “Chimp” Jermyn is a member of the family seen in H. P. Lovecraft’s “Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family.” Daniel Reid is the nephew of John Reid, the Lone Ranger, and the father of Britt Reid, the Green Hornet. “Gunnison” is a reference to Bill Gunnigan, the city editor on Britt's newspaper, the Daily Sentinel. The Potawatomi Indian is the Lone Ranger’s companion Tonto. Joan Barkley is from The Lone Ranger radio series; her married name implies she is an ancestor of Hugh North, the protagonist of F. Van Wyck Mason’s novels. Jimmie Dale is revealed to be a descendant of Sir Percy Blakeney, the Scarlet Pimpernel, the hero of Baroness Orczy’s books. Lady Kate Maxwell is from the Night Wind stories by Varick Vanardy. Wilson Hargreaves (or Hargreave) is from Doyle and Watson’s “The Adventure of the Dancing Men.” The Faithful Fifty, Yat Soon, and the Black Ship are from the Shadow novels. Billy McGee is from Earl Derr Biggers’ novel Seven Keys to Baldpate. Mrs. Battle is the wife of G-8’s butler. The Hirondel roadster and Inspector John Fernack are from Leslie Charteris’ Saint novels. Harrisonville, NJ is from Seabury Quinn’s Jules de Grandin stories. Ruritania is from Anthony Hope’s The Prisoner of Zenda. Aubrey Maturin is a descendant of Dr. Stephen Maturin from Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin novels. Captain Leonard McKenzie of the Oracle is the father of the Marvel Comics hero Namor the Sub-Mariner. Glencannon’s Dew is a reference to Guy Gilpatric’s Mr. Glencannon stories. The Sea-Girl is from Robert E. Howard’s Sailor Steve Costigan tales. Allan Montague is from the works of Upton Sinclair. The frog-headed natives are from Abraham Merritt’s The Moon Pool. Captain Archibald Haddock and the Karaboudjan are from Hergé’s comic The Adventures of Tintin. Captain Englehorn and the Venture are from King Kong. Officer Karl Lohmann is from Fritz Lang’s M and The Testament of Dr. Mabuse. Apparently, he lived in New York for a time before the events of those films. Latveria is the country ruled by the Fantastic Four’s archenemy, Dr. Victor von Doom. The Si-Fan is from Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu novels. Ashton-Kirk is a detective created by John T. McIntyre. Lupin is Maurice Leblanc’s gentleman thief Arsène Lupin. Meadowes is a relative of Bertie Wooster’s valet before Reginald Jeeves in P. G. Wodehouse's novels. Anatole will go on to be the chef of Bertie’s aunt and uncle, Dahlia and Tom Travers. Sam is Johnston McCulley’s lisping pickpocket Thubway Tham. Ebenezer Gryce is Anna Katharine Green’s police detective, often working in tandem with Amelia Butterworth. Middleton, CO and Miriam Possible are from the animated television series Kim Possible. The cartoon is too outlandish to fit smoothly into the Crossover Universe, so presumably Kim has a CU counterpart. Deputy Parr was created by Frederick Irving Anderson. By extension, Anderson’s characters Oliver Armiston, the Infallible Godahl, Sophie Lang, and Jason Selfridge are also in the CU. Inspector Kramer (or Cramer) is from Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe novels. Inspector Rumsey is from Hulbert Footner’s Madame Rosika Storey series. Inspector Summers is from Herman Landon’s Picaroon tales. Arthur Dimmesdale is a descendant of the reverend of the same name seen in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. Townsend Harper is from Edgar Rice Burroughs’ The Monster Men. Alexander Waverly is from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Frances Baird is from Reginald Wright Kauffman’s Miss Frances Baird, Detective. The Duchess of Denver is the mother of Dorothy L. Sayers’ sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. Hamilton Cleek, “the man of the forty faces,” is Thomas W. Hanshew’s detective. Thurston Howell II is the father of Thurston Howell III from the TV series Gilligan’s Island. Philo Vance is S. S. Van Dine’s detective. Westrel Keen, Rosalind Hollis, and Victor Carden are from Robert W. Chambers’ The Tracer of Missing Persons. Drusilla Lane is the niece of Drury Lane, an actor and amateur sleuth created by “Barnaby Ross” (Ellery Queen). The Continental Detective Agency is from Dashiell Hammett’s Continental Op stories. Rachel Barans is related to Rabbi David Barans from the TV series Gilmore Girls, which takes place in Stars Hollow, Connecticut. The Model Press Clipping Bureau is from Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. James Clarkston Savage is meant to be Doc’s father. Savage says he and Jimmie are related; Philip José Farmer established the elder Savage’s real name was James Clarke Wildman, Sr., and revealed he was the great-grandson of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Officer Humboldt is from the Doc Savage novel The Annihilist. The de la Vega reference implies Jimmie is also descended from Johnston McCulley’s Zorro. Professor Craig Kennedy is Arthur B. Reeve’s detective. Ida Jones is one of the assistants of dime novel detective Nick Carter. Dr. Martin Hesselius is from J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s In a Glass Darkly. Baul-tar and Yajur-tahn are meant to be Baal-Pteor and Yajur from Robert E. Howard’s Conan story “Shadows in Zamboula.” The Black Lotus is also from the Conan tales. Carcosa and Lake Hali are from Robert W. Chambers’ The King in Yellow. Professor Harold Hill is from the musical The Music Man. The southern woman named Porter is related to the jungle lord’s wife. Skarl the Drummer and Mana-Yood-Sushai are from Lord Dunsany’s The Gods of Pegana. The Teduki (or Taduki) bush is from H. Rider Haggard’s Allan Quatermain series. Prince Abdul Omar is J. U. Giesy and Junius B. Smith’s detective Semi-Dual. John Christopher, aka Q-6, is the father of Jimmy Christopher, aka Operator #5. Blair Hospital and Dr. Gillespie are from Max Brand’s Dr. Kildare stories. Ephraim Tutt is Arthur Train’s lawyer. Professor Augustus Van Dusen is Jacques Futrelle’s detective, “the Thinking Machine.” The Moreau Men are a reference to H. G. Wells’ The Island of Doctor Moreau. Hugo Danner is from Philip Wylie’s Gladiator. 

This crossover write-up is one of hundreds included in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, to be published by Meteor House! As with the first two volumes, the book is an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Movie Poster: Tequila

Are you a Spaghetti Western fan?

Then you may like this comedic entry in the genre, which references the Lone Ranger as a real person!

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Crossover Cover: Fortunehead!

The 50th and final issue of the DC Comics series Secret Origins featured the origin stories of several DC heroes, including the Western hero Johnny Thunder (not to be confused with the Justice Society member of the same name.) In this story, Johnny rescues his father, Sheriff Bill Tane, from a criminal named Rand. A flashback shows Johnny preventing a bank robbery as Rand rides into town. Rand asks a witness who the hero is; the man begins telling a story of a group of Texas Rangers who were massacred. The only survivor swore a vow. Another bystander contradicts him, saying Thunder “wasn’t thet guy.” As this discussion takes place, an image of a masked cowboy clad in blue and wearing a badge is shown. The bystander has confused Johnny Thunder with his fellow lawman, the Lone Ranger. Presumably, he has heard rumors of the Ranger’s origins.

Crossover of the Week

Here's a belated Crossover of the Week post, since I forgot to do one yesterday.

1857–1868

KEMOSABE

Young John Reid rescues and befriends a Potawatomi boy named Tonto. Ben Reid, John’s father, is a member of the Texas Rangers alongside Al King, Bobby Stuart, and Jake Cutter. A man named Favor appears. Tonto honed his tracking skills under a Kickapoo scout who often worked for the Rangers. Over a decade later, a grown Tonto comes to the aid of John Reid, now a Ranger himself, who has been wounded and his comrades killed in an ambush at Bryant’s Gap.

Short story by Matthew Baugh in The Lone Ranger Chronicles, Matthew Baugh and Tim Lasiuta, eds., Moonstone Books, 2012. This story recounts the first meeting between John Reid, the future Lone Ranger, and his faithful companion Tonto. Al King is a reference to Allen King, the Ranger’s alter ego in the 1938 film serial The Lone Ranger; obviously, the CU version of King is a distinct individual from the Ranger. Bobby (or Bob) Stuart is also from The Lone Ranger serial. Texas Ranger Jake Cutter is from Paul Wellman’s Western novel The Comancheros, and was played by John Wayne in the 1961 film version. Favor is Gil Favor, the trail boss from the television series Rawhide. The Kickapoo scout is Famous Shoes from Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove novels.

Crossover Cover: The Lone Ranger: Vendetta

The Lone Ranger battles Butch Cavendish’s vengeful widow Laura Cavendish. Laura says that she and Butch had a couple children. One of those children will grow up to have a son named John Cavendish. John’s daughter, named Laura Cavendish after her great-grandmother, will continue the family feud by battling the Ranger’s (John Reid) great-grandnephew, the Green Hornet (Britt Reid), as the Yellowjacket, as seen in Hopkins’ stories “Flight of the Yellowjacket” (The Green Hornet Chronicles, Joe Gentile and Win Scott Eckert, eds., Moonstone Books, 2010), “Sting of the Yellowjacket” (The Green Hornet Casefiles, Joe Gentile and Win Scott Eckert, eds., Moonstone Books, 2011), and “Revenge of the Yellowjacket” (The Green Hornet: Still at Large, Joe Gentile, Win Scott Eckert, and Matthew Baugh, eds., Moonstone Books, 2012), as well as Matthew Baugh’s story “Auld Acquaintance” (The Green Hornet Casefiles.)

Crossover of the Week

Winter 1967

A THING OF BEAUTY

            Sanford Biggs accepts a contract to kill the Green Hornet and Kato, and steals the Black Beauty for his museum, housed aboard his cargo carrier, the Bigg Dipper. The items in Biggs’ museum include a glowing green meteorite; the remains of a crashed experimental airplane that had been shot down over Switzerland in 1939; the mask, hat, and pistols of a famous lawman in the old west; and a bat-shaped metal throwing weapon. The Hornet recognizes the lawman’s equipment. In the aftermath of the Hornet’s battle with Biggs, everything in the museum is tagged, labeled, and accounted for, except for one empty case. The Hornet (aka Britt Reid) tells his ally, D.A. Frank Scanlon, that the case contained an heirloom stolen from his family many years ago, which belonged to his grandfather.

            Short story by Bobby Nash in The Green Hornet Casefiles, Joe Gentile and Win Scott Eckert, eds., Moonstone Books, 2011. The glowing green meteorite is a piece of kryptonite, one of the few substances that can kill Superman. The experimental airplane belonged to the Canadian pulp hero Lance Star; its destruction at the hands of Star’s foe Baron Otto Von Blood is depicted in Nash’s upcoming novel Lance Star: Sky Ranger – Cold Snap. The lawman of the old west is John Reid, aka the Lone Ranger. The Green Hornet radio series revealed that Britt Reid was the Lone Ranger’s great-nephew. NOW Comics’ Green Hornet comic established in turn that the Green Hornet from the 1960s television series was Britt Reid II, the original Hornet’s nephew. Therefore, Britt Reid II is actually John Reid’s great-grandnephew, not his grandson. The bat-shaped metal throwing weapon is one of Batman’s batarangs.

Crossover Movie Poster: Alias Jesse James

A posse tracking down Jesse James includes Marshal Matt Dillon, Major Seth Adams, Annie Oakley, Wyatt Earp, Davy Crockett, Roy Rogers, and Tonto. Matt Dillon and Tonto are already in the CU. Wyatt Earp is played by Hugh O’Brian, who played the historical lawman on the television series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, which is also in the CU. Major Seth Adams is from the television series Wagon Train. Annie Oakley was a real person, of course, but she is portrayed in this film by Gail Davis, who played Annie in the television series Annie Oakley. Therefore, that series must depict the life of Annie’s CU counterpart. The historical Davy Crockett lived from 1786-1836; his appearance in this film should be viewed as a distortion. The Roy Rogers seen in this film may be the same Roy who appeared as the main character in several period Westerns, and an ancestor of the version of Roy seen in several set in the modern day. It is worth noting that Bret Maverick appears in a deleted scene.