Secret identities're just masks, sometimes.

[thanekos]

Sometimes, they're very thin masks.

The Green Hornet '66 Meets The Spirit #4 illustrated this.

The scene was the Hornet, Kato, and the Spirit rushing to the Daily Sentinel's offices.





(It might've been a harder conclusion to draw if Britt hadn't worn a green suit that day.)



(The events mentioned in the fourth panel were previously partially shown in flashback.

That's not clunky exposition.)



Up in the Sentinel's offices, Kid Kraken- the tentacle-masked criminal master of the knocked out thugs, the self-proclaimed heir to the Octopus' legacy- found the Hornet's gathered data on the Spirit.



(1952 was the year the Spirit strip ended.

Pagecount's 3 and ~6/10ths of 20.

Writing's Fred van Lente, art's Bob Q, coloring's Dearbhla Kelly.)

Comments

[tripodeca113]

This looks good.

[locuatico]

Oh my god... Aloysius is Nightwing!

[zachbeacon]

Not too familiar with this version of the Spirit but the original Denny Colt Spirit didn't even try to have a secret ID. He just showed up right after Denny "died" and started dating his girlfriend and hanging out with his boss.

[berani00]

Just one question. Why is the Black Beauty green here?

[full_metal_ox]

...Green-on-black holographic flake car paint?

[thanekos]

The colors lit everything in green in that lair they're leaving in the first panel.

It's still green when they're out of it because I guess no one saw any problem with that.

[wizardru]

My reading of this went like this:

"Huh, this is actually pretty fun."

"Oh...Fred van Lente. That explains it."

[cygnia]

I like the idea of Aloysius taking over for Denny.