| Issue | #27 [Direct] |
| Published | November 1993 |
| Cover Price | $2.95 |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Tony Caputo (Editor in chief); Joan Weis (Editor) |
| Notes | This issue was published in the four-color/newsprint format (see Sequence 3's Indexer's Note). Cover blurb: "Multi-dimensional Trading Card Included!" As the cover artists (those of both editions [see below] are listed) are identified with last names only, Dechnik's middle initial here is (finally) taken from her listing in the NOW Comics staff box, seen in the last-page feature in many issues. A newsstand distributed edition, with a different cover illustration and labeled "1993 Anniversary Special" (and carrying all markings mandated by the differences in the distribution systems, such as the Code seal) but otherwise identical, including the card and the indicia (giving both titles, etc.), was released simultaneously. |
| Characters | Sister-Hood; Green Hornet IV |
| Genre | Superhero; Crime |
| Pencils | Patrick Zircher |
| Inks | David Mowry |
| Colors | Suzanne X. Dechnik |
| Notes | This issue was published in the four-color/newsprint format (see Sequence 3's Indexer's Note). Cover blurb: "Multi-dimensional Trading Card Included!" As the cover artists (those of both editions [see below] are listed) are identified with last names only, Dechnik's middle initial here is (finally) taken from her listing in the NOW Comics staff box, seen in the last-page feature in many issues. A newsstand distributed edition, with a different cover illustration and labeled "1993 Anniversary Special" (and carrying all markings mandated by the differences in the distribution systems, such as the Code seal) but otherwise identical, including the card and the indicia (giving both titles, etc.), was released simultaneously. |
| Characters | Kato I; Green Hornet I |
| Synopsis | A three-dimensional Hologravure card, polybagged with the comic. |
| Pencils | Jeff Butler (painted) |
| Inks | Jeff Butler (painted) |
| Colors | Jeff Butler (painted) |
| Letters | Typeset |
| Notes | The number 4H, not indicated on the card itself, was given by the editor in letter columns, those of previous issues in promotional announcements and in this one's while describing a related change of plans (see Sequence 3). |
| Reprinted | Cover painting for Sting of the Green Hornet, #1, June 1992 |
| Characters | D.A. Diana Reid; Lenore C. Reid; Britt Reid II; Hayashi Kato; Green Hornet IV; Mei Li (V); Sister-Hood (formerly Sister-One; last appearance in #19); Crimson Wasp |
| Synopsis | Continued from last issue: Diana Reid, given a minimal report on events, has hurried home to learn more, and is met by Lenore. One Dr. Donald Thompson is doing what he can for the dart-poisoned Kato, but identifying the toxin, and thereby its antidote, is beyond him. However, he has determined that it will prove fatal in 24 hours. Britt tells Diana that Paul--or, more accurately, the Green Hornet--has gone out to try to find the people responsible and get an antidote from them. His first stop is the same tattoo parlor he and Kato had visited earlier that night (last issue), but he finds the proprietor dead, executed for his disclosures to the verdant vigilante. His killers, tong assassins, have waited for the Hornet's return, but he survives, thanks to the unexpected intervention of...Sister-Hood! She, formerly leader of the criminal gang so entitled and then called Sister-One but now a lone operative under the group's name, has her own reasons for not wanting all of The City's criminal interests unified under Black Dragon control. Accordingly, the costumed woman tells the Hornet where he can get the antidote, from an old herbalist who lives in "The Maze," forgotten tunnels beneath the "Little China" neighborhood (she presumably learned of the Black Dragons, their choice of poison, The Maze and its resident from one of the women's-prison inmates who made up her now defunct organization seen in issue #s 18 & 19). While Police Commissioner Hamilton's family are told that even if the cop survives his wounds he might not walk again, the Hornet enters The Maze, met by even more hiding tong killers. Again, a surprising figure emerges from the shadows to cover his back, but this one is...The Crimson Wasp! She tells her former partner that she was sent from home by her father "forty-eight hours ago," before Hayashi was poisoned! The Japanese patriarch, it seems, has a mystical bond with his descendants. While the Hornet and the Wasp move deeper into the tunnels, back home Diana panics as Hay's heart stops! To be continued.... |
| Genre | Superhero; Crime |
| Script | Ron Fortier |
| Pencils | Patrick Zircher |
| Inks | Jim Brozman |
| Colors | Holly Sanfelippo |
| Letters | Andrea Albert |
| Synopsis | Along with two letters and editorial responses thereto, there is a statement from the editor that the previously announced plan to similarly release #28 in two simultaneous and "bagged-with-card" editions has been scrapped. |
| Script | Joan Weis |
| Letters | Typeset |
| Notes | Ironically, one correspondent praises the "quality" paper NOW Comics used for this series (see cover sequence's Indexer's Notes). |
| Characters | Various |
| Synopsis | Promos for eleven NOW Comics issues, including a variant version of one, with basic creative team credits and cover repros for all. |
| Pencils | Various |
| Inks | Various |
| Letters | Typeset |
| Notes | This feature, covering #26 of this series, is now only one month behind. Included is an entry for Kato III #1 of a never published two-issue mini-series, later re-announced as an also never released graphic novel. The word "Postponed" is "stamped" across this entry. As in the untitled last-page feature in #25, Patrick Zircher's line-art work is lost in the reproduction process, leaving the appearance of a solid black--except for the title logo--field. |
| Reprinted | The covers of twelve NOW Comics issues. |
| Synopsis | A description of procedures for those seeking work at NOW Comics as writers, letterers, pencilers, inkers, painters, or colorists. Includes a boxed list of NOW's staff. |
| Script | Joan Weis |
| Letters | ? (title); Typeset (main text) |
| Notes | This is not a reprint of the earlier feature addressing the same topic, but a new and updated presentation of those policies. |