Dynamite Entertainment has announced the acquisition of the license to publish comics based on The Green Hornet, the legendary character created by George W. Trendle for what became a very popular radio program in the 1930s.  The Green Hornet joins a growing list of licensed vintage multi-media properties at Dynamite that includes The Lone Ranger (also created by Trendle), Zorro, and Buck Rogers.  The Green Hornet property, which has enjoyed a long and colorful career in radio, comics, movies, and television, is about to get a major boost in visibility thanks to a new Green Hornet movie starring Seth Rogen that is slated to be released in the summer of 2010 (see “Rogen Sees Hornet Filming in June”).

Dynamite plans on announcing the creators for its Green Hornet comic book series soon as well as the date for the debut of this latest four-color incarnation of the masked crime-fighter, his faithful man-servant Kato, and their tricked-out crime-busting car (known as "Black Beauty").  The earliest Green Hornet comics were published in 1940 by Helnit, the first in a line-up of publishers that also included Harvey, Dell, Gold Key, and NOW, which actually published the most issues of any of The Green Hornet publishers to date, when it held the license from 1989 to1995.