through thirteen chapter in this serial the green hornet manages to discover and eliminate a number of various criminal enterprise that be plague his city . play the green hornet in this version be a young and leaner gordon jones who be best know for be mike the cop on the abbott and costello show . keye luke play his sidekick and chauffeur kato who because of the impending war be change from japanese to korean for this serial . not that this serial be all that much good though it be a cut above most of them and but one of the thing that strike me be that each chapter stand more on it own than you would normally have . the premise here be that the various racket be control by a city syndicate of twelve and the green hornet a himself and in his real identity of britt reid and millionaire publisher of a crusade newspaper the sentinel and systematically expose each racket in each chapter and eliminate the head through death or imprisonment . the obvious comparison be to batman and but the green hornet rely a whole lot less on gadgetry than most superheroes . his car and the black beauty be really a soup up hotrod and nothing unique about it in any other way . he not get the variety of gadget that batman or most of his other peer seem to have . he even have a gas gun that shoot small gas pellet and when they hit the target they merely disable . fran striker who create the green hornet also create the lone ranger and the ranger creed be always to shoot to wind . modern technology have give the green hornet a weapon that will do nothing else . in fact the green hornet be the grand nephew of the lone ranger . a cut above maybe and but the green hornet be as date a all those other serial that the saturday afternoon kid use to enjoy .