Batman + Green Hornet: A Comic/History Review

A Story by Abishai100

Essay/diorama view-and-review of the partially-likened colorful masked vigilantes Green Hornet and Batman for Western/American media-and-movies.

In view of my next few days of investment in Green Hornet and Batman crossover media/fanfiction, I wanted to present this nonfiction diorama of the two separate comic book characters/areas of storytelling for a truly modern art phenomenon reflecting a social/pluralism 'psyche' interest in inventive social action-adventure heroics ornamental (vigilantism) theater. Thanks for reading,

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The Green Hornet is an inventive modern-times masked fictional super-vigilante man, a socialite with double-life as a smoke-gun wielding great auto-riding American invisible hero dealing with weird forms of evil and evil-doers like the maniac Gumm (ex-military older-gent with obsession with postage-stamps). The 'Hornet' was invented in 1936 by writer-artists George Trendle and Fran Striker and was developed as a street-wise erudite socialite-vigilante with sidekick karate-man and chauffeur Kato (once portrayed by martial-arts/film legend Bruce Lee). The 'Hornet' was given his own film-serials in the 1940s and then the 1960s TV-series featuring Lee as Kato and then developed into multiple comics-series and a full-length American film in 2011 starring Seth Rogen as the Green Hornet.

Batman is a very unusual masked vigilante who was invented in 1939 by writers-and-artists Bill Finger and Bob Kane. Batman is, like the Green Hornet, a socialite who doubles as a masked hero-vigilante, and in some ways is like the Hornet for offbeat stylistics and self-representation; but Batman, sometimes called 'the dark knight' by writers/fans, specifically deals with villains who're pronouncedly criminally-insane, like the clown-costumed hellraising toy-wielding urban mischief-terrorists Harley Quinn and Joker. Batman has been developed by many comic book artists/writers and has become one of the most popular comic book characters of all time, being given his own quite popular TV-serials (animated/live-action) and of course award-winning live-action American films of big-budget and high-grossing media attention. The world of Batman, Gotham City, is particularly gothic/noir, and the insanity-edge of his enemies pronounce/highlight the (overall) chaotic coloring mixed with detective-work heroics for (overall) graffiti-like neo-noir art/storyboards.

It is of note to consider why the Green Hornet and Batman are equally quite different and oddly/ironically contoured in potentially likened imagery for social/media evaluations for art and social-ethos or (general) 'psyche' intuitions of urbanization-storytelling and crime-fighting interest for modern-time (American) audiences. The 'Hornet' and the 'Dark Knight' both highlight a (general) mainstream Western audience interest/fascination with coloring of social action/ethics/justice with ornamental views of outlandish/stylish detective-work re-presentations of consciousness, emotion, and/or human ingenuity. Hornet and Batman seem to capture a modern-art/cinema/comics/cartoons/TV social IQ-interest in things of voyeurism and shock-value ethics-representations and (general) Earth pluralism characterizations of the psycho-sociological outcomes of (specified) traffic/population questions (for doubt).

One thing that I find quite interesting as a 'pronounced' contour for simile between Green Hornet and Batman media is the highlighting of customized/fancified vehicles (cars), which pronounce the zoom-factor and roadways-engagement intuitions and vigilante-intentionality of the heroes themselves. In fact, the cars Hornet and the Dark Knight drive/boast seem to vary/symbolize the nature of the heroes' consciousness of (simplified) things extra-human (ok).