Kato (The Green Hornet)

Fictional character from The Green Hornet

Comics character

Kato

Bruce Lee as Kato

Publication information
First appearance| The Green Hornet (1936)
Created by| Fran Striker
In-story information
Partnerships| Green Hornet
Supporting character of| Mulan Kato (daughter)
Abilities| Master martial artist
Automotive engineering expert
Kung-fu[1]
Jiujitsu[2]
Judo[3]

Kato[a] is a fictional character from The Green Hornet franchise. This character has appeared with the Green Hornet in radio, film, television, book and comic book versions. Kato is the Green Hornet's crime-fighting sidekick, and Britt Reid's manservant in civilian life, and has been played by a number of actors. On radio, Kato was initially played by Raymond Hayashi, then Roland Parker who had the role for most of the run, and in the later years Mickey Tolan and Paul Carnegie.[4] Keye Luke took the role in the movie serials, and in the television series, he was portrayed by Bruce Lee. Jay Chou played Kato in the 2011 Green Hornet film.

## Character history

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Kato is Britt Reid's valet, who doubles as The Green Hornet's masked driver and partner to help him in his vigilante adventures, disguised as the activities of a racketeer and his chauffeur/bodyguard/enforcer. According to the storyline, years before the events depicted in the series, Britt Reid saved Kato's life while traveling in the Far East. Depending on the version of the story, this prompts Kato to become Reid's assistant or friend. In the anthology book, The Green Hornet Chronicles from Moonstone Books, author Richard Dean Starr's story "Nothing Gold Can Stay: An Origin Story of Kato" explores the character's background and how he ends up living in America, suggesting that Kato met Britt Reid on a later trip back to his homeland while in search of his mother.

### Radio program

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Kato depicted as Filipino in Green Hornet Comics #7, June 1942 published by Harvey Comics

George W. Trendle, the owner of radio station WXYZ in Michigan first created and produced "The Green Hornet" show in 1936, with the scripts being written by Fran Striker. The show became so popular it ran for nearly two decades and spun off at least two films. This was Trendle and Striker's second big radio hit; their first was "The Lone Ranger".

### Nationality

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In the 1936 premiere of the radio program, Kato was presented as being Japanese. By 1939, the invasion of China by the Empire of Japan made this bad for public relations, and from that year until 1945 "Britt Reid's Japanese valet" in the show's opening was then simply identified by the announcer as his "faithful valet". [citation needed] The first of Universal's two movie serials, produced in 1939 but not released to theaters until early 1940, referred in passing to Kato being "a Korean". By 1941, Kato had begun to be referred to as Filipino.[5] In the comics published by Harvey Comics, Kato was also described as Filipino. A long-standing, but false, urban legend maintained that the switch from one to the other occurred immediately after the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor. In serials, Kato was played by Chinese-born American actor Keye Luke.[6] In the 2011 film, Kato (played by Taiwanese Jay Chou) tells Britt Reid that he was born in the Chinese city of Shanghai; Reid replies by saying that he "love[s] Japan".

## Abilities

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Kato applying judo techniques in Green Hornet Fights Crime #42 (November 1948) art by Al Avison

In several versions of the story, Kato is also a mechanic,[2] with the creations of both the special automobile, the Black Beauty, and the Hornet's trademark sleeping gas and the gun that delivers it attributed to him. In the TV series, Kato (portrayed by Bruce Lee) is not at all a mechanic but a professional servant, a highly skilled driver, and a master of the art of war. In the television series, he also becomes an expert in martial arts, which was implied in the first film serial with his use of a tranquilizing "chop" to the back of a thug's neck. In The Green Hornet Strikes! of the Big Little Book series, published in 1940, it is said that Kato was a practitioner of jiujitsu,[2]in the Helnit comics, Britt Reid said that she learned jiujitsu from Kato.[7] In the Harvey Comics, Kato shows knowledge of judo.[3] The comic book published by Gold Key Comics says that the Kato in the TV series practiced kung fu.[8]

## In other media

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### Television series

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Main article: The Green Hornet (TV series)

The televised series of "The Green Hornet" was created and produced by William Dozier, the owner of Greenway Productions, for ABC. It ran from September 1966 to March 1967 and was then canceled after that one season. Van Williams played the Green Hornet and Bruce Lee played Kato. Dozier was also the creator of the more popular "Batman" television series. Even though he had the Green Hornet and Kato appear on "Batman" three times, they never acquired a large audience.

It was due in part to Bruce Lee's portrayal of this character that the Green Hornet became more well-known, and that martial arts became more popular in the United States in the 1960s.[9] Indeed, Lee refused to follow the American director's expectation of fisticuff fights and insisted that he be allowed to use his martial arts skills.[10] They became so popular with the audience that Van Williams, who played the Green Hornet, asked to be taught some moves. In a crossover episode of Batman from the same time and companies, Kato has a battle with Robin that ends in a draw (the same thing happens simultaneously with their senior partners). This was in part because Lee refused to participate in a fight that showed Asian-style martial arts being defeated; the original script had the Green Hornet and Kato being beaten by Batman and Robin. The popular impression Lee made at the time is demonstrated by one of the TV series tie-in coloring books produced by Watkins & Strathmore. It is titled Kato's Revenge Featuring the Green Hornet.[11] The Green Hornet's success in Hong Kong, where it was popularly known as The Kato Show, led to Lee starring in the feature films that would make him a pop culture icon. This show launched Bruce Lee's adult television and film career.

### Comic book adaptations

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All Green Hornet comic book adaptations have included Kato. These were produced by Helnit (later Holyoke), Harvey, Dell and, tied into the television version, Gold Key. Beginning in 1989 one, published by NOW Comics, established a continuity between the different versions of the story. In this comic, the TV/Bruce Lee version of Kato is the son of the Kato from the radio stories and has the given name Hayashi as an homage to the character's first radio actor.[12]

The comic also establishes a new Kato, a much younger half-sister of the television-based character, Mishi. This female Kato also insists on being treated as the Hornet's full partner rather than a sidekick. However, the Green Hornet, Inc., soon withdrew approval and this character was replaced with the 1960s version after Vol. 1, #10.[13] Her removal was explained by having the Kato family company, Nippon Today, needing her automotive designing services at its Zurich, Switzerland facility. Mishi returns in Volume 2, appearing sporadically in the new costumed identity of the Crimson Wasp, on a vendetta against the criminal, Johnny Dollar. She eventually reveals (in The Green Hornet Vol. 2, #s 12 & 13, August & September 1992) that he had been an embezzling executive at the Swiss plant, whose actions she unwittingly began to expose. Consequently, he had murdered her fiancé and his daughter in an attack that also caused the unknowingly pregnant Mishi, the main target, to miscarry.

In #34, July 1994 issue of that run, she appears in her "Hornet's partner" guise one additional time, as the masked Paul Reid attends a gangland meeting; the rules stated that each "boss" is allowed two "boys". During this period, Hayashi becomes romantically involved with District Attorney Diana Reid, daughter of the original Hornet, who even thinks for a while that she conceived his child. In the final issue, Diana discusses their wedding plans with Mishi. In the last two issues, yet another Kato, a nephew to both of these named Kono, is brought in to allow the aging Hayashi to retire from crime-fighting, but the publisher's ceasing of operations prevents much of him being seen. The Bruce Lee-based Kato is also featured in two of his own spin-off miniseries, written by Mike Baron. The first has him defending a Chinese temple, where he studied kung fu, from the Communist government, while in the second he takes the job of bodyguarding a heroin-addicted rock star. A third solo adventure, also by Baron, was announced and promoted first as another miniseries, then as a graphic novel (now subtitled "Dragons in Eden"), but was left unpublished when NOW folded. The line featured one other version of the character.

The three-issue mini-series The Green Hornet: Dark Tomorrow (June-August 1993) is set approximately one hundred years in the future, and has an Asian-American Green Hornet, real name Clayton Reid, who is corrupted by power and truly becomes the crime boss he is supposed to only pretend to be, fighting a Caucasian Kato. Beyond the reversal of ethnicities, the latter adds the claim that he and the future Hornet are cousins, and the art's depiction of this Hornet's unnamed paternal grandparents resembles Paul Reid and Mishi Kato. Although the future Kato is not further identified here, a later "Reid/Kato Family Trees" feature (in The Green Hornet, Vol. 2, #26, October 1993) gives him the first name Luke.

This comic book incarnation gives a degree of official status to a long-standing error about the character, that in his masked identity he is known as Kato. The name is restricted to his private persona in the original radio series, the two movie serials, and most of the television version (there are two slips in this last medium, one on the Batman appearance, the other in the last filmed episode of the Hornet series itself, "Invasion from Outer Space, Part 2"; this story is well out of sync with the rest of the run, and the writer, director, and even the line producer are people with no other credits on the program). But the NOW comic version made a big point of having the masked assistants called Kato, with the woman at one early point telling the equally new Hornet during their first adventure, "While I'm in this funky get-up, call me Kato. It's part of the tradition".[14]

In the Kevin Smith's 2010 revamp of the continuity, Kato is depicted, in modern times, as the elderly but still physically fit valet of the late Britt Reid, killed by a yakuza mobster going by the Black Hornet sobriquet. The elder Kato, in this version a Japanese, forced to act Filipino to avoid the suspicions and the racist charges against his people during WWII, retires his identity along with Britt Reid, and both men decide to devote themselves to their families, respectively raising their offspring Britt Reid Jr. and Mulan Kato.

After Britt Reid's death, Kato returns in America with Mulan, now the second Kato, to act out the Secret Testament of Britt Reid Sr., who wished, in the event of his death, Kato to destroy every Green Hornet paraphernalia still in his possession and whisk Britt Reid Jr. to Japan, for his safety. However, both offspring refuse Reid's and Kato's will: Mulan Kato, now clad in a close variation of her father's original outfit, storms off to confront the Yakuza, and Britt Reid Jr. manages to steal a Green Hornet costume to help her, despite having little training on his own.[15]

As the new Kato, Mulan is a strong, physically fit, silent warrior woman, able to perform amazing feats with uncanny strength and precision.[16] Despite having been shown, in her late teens, as a peppy, lively, cheery social butterfly,[17] the adult Mulan Kato is a darker, brooding character who never speaks (despite physically able to do so, Mulan prefers speaking as little as she can to prevent the much talkative Britt Reid Jr., and seemingly everyone else, from talking back[18]) and shows little, if no interest at all, for any form of socialization, a thing that seems to distress the second Green Hornet, every bit the suave socialite his father was.

In addition, the limited series Green Hornet: Parallel Lives by writer Jai Nitz, served as a prequel to the 2011 Green Hornet film, exploring the backstory for the film's version of Kato.[19]

In 2013, an eight-issue miniseries called Masks brought together famous heroes from the pulp era. It stars The Shadow, the Green Hornet, Kato, The Spider and Zorro, and was written by Chris Roberson with art by Alex Ross and Dennis Calero.[20]

### Films

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### Serials

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Keye Luke plays Kato in both Universal Pictures serials

The Green Hornet was adapted into two movie serials, 1940's The Green Hornet and, in 1941, The Green Hornet Strikes Again![21] Disliking the treatment Republic gave The Lone Ranger in two serials, George W. Trendle took his property to Universal Pictures, and was much happier with the results. The first serial, titled simply The Green Hornet (1940), stars Gordon Jones in the title role, albeit dubbed by original radio Hornet Al Hodge whenever the hero's mask was in place, while The Green Hornet Strikes Again! (1941) stars Warren Hull. Keye Luke, who played the "Number One Son" in the Charlie Chan films, plays Kato in both. Also starring in both serials are Anne Nagel as Lenore Case, Britt Reid's secretary, and Wade Boteler as Mike Axford, a reporter for the Daily Sentinel, the newspaper that Reid owns and publishes. Ford Beebe directed both serials, partnered by Ray Taylor on The Green Hornet and John Rawlins on The Green Hornet Strikes Again!, with George H. Plympton and Basil Dickey contributing to the screenplays for both serials. The Green Hornet runs for 13 chapters while The Green Hornet Strikes Again! has 15 installments, with the Hornet and Kato smashing a different racket in each chapter. In each serial, they are all linked to a single major crime syndicate which is itself put out of business in the finale, while the radio program had the various rackets completely independent of each other.

### The Green Hornet (2006)

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Main article: The Green Hornet (2006 film)

A 10-minute 2006 French short film titled Le frelon vert is based on the Green Hornet.[22]

Main article: The Green Hornet (2011 film)

Sony Pictures announced plans for a feature film of the superhero in 2008. Released on January 14, 2011,[23] the film starred Seth Rogen, who took on writing duties along with Superbad co-writer Evan Goldberg. Stephen Chow had originally signed to play Kato,[24] but then dropped out.[25] Taiwanese actor Jay Chou replaced Chow as Kato for the film.[26] In this version, Kato is Chinese and grew up as a poor runaway from his orphanage in Shanghai. He was originally employed by Britt Reid's father James as a car mechanic (also making his coffee with a specially-designed machine he had created for the purpose) before joining Britt on the steps that lead to him becoming the Green Hornet as Britt concluded that they had both been wasting their potential. Kato's martial art skills in this version of the series are so exceptional that he claims that time literally slows down for him when he gets an adrenaline rush in a dangerous situation, as well as his traditional role as mechanic and driver. Although he and Britt have a temporary falling-out when they argue over their respective importance to the "Green Hornet" concept - Kato acting as the actual action man of the Hornet while Britt is the public face as Kato is too fast for any cameras to see him - they patch up their differences in time to destroy the gang of crime lord Chudnofsky.

In 2016, Paramount Pictures and Chernin Entertainment acquired the rights to The Green Hornet and started preliminary work on developing a reboot with Gavin O'Connor attached to produce and direct the film and Sean O'Keefe as writer.[27] In 2020, Amasia Entertainment has gained the rights of the Green Hornet[28] and officially teamed with Universal Pictures for the reboot titled Green Hornet and Kato.[29]

### Video games

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Kato appears in The Green Hornet: Wheels of Justice (2010) for iPhone, based on the film.[30]

## In other popular culture

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### Art, entertainment, and media

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* Aretha Franklin's 1967 album "I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You" contains the song "Save Me" which includes the lyric "Calling the Caped Crusader, Green Hornet, Kato, too / I'm in so much trouble I don't know what to do".[31]
* The 1960s cartoon series Batfink is a parody of both Batman and the Green Hornet. Batfink rides in a pink vehicle called the Battilac, which is driven by his assistant Karate who is a martial artist.[32]
* Bill Cosby parodied The Green Hornet in his c. 1970 syndicated five-minute daily radio program, The Brown Hornet, which he revived in the late 1970s for his Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids cartoon show.[citation needed]
* Kato appears in Bruceploitation films: Bruce Li played Bruce Lee as Kato in Bruce Lee Against Supermen (1975)[33] and Bruce Leung plays Lee and Kato in The Dragon Lives Again (1977).[34]
* The 1993 American semi-fictionalized film biography Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, in which Jason Scott Lee (no relation) portrayed Bruce Lee, featured scenes involving the filming of the TV series The Green Hornet.[35] Van Williams, who starred in that TV series, appeared in the film as the show's director.[36]
* A 1994 Hong Kong film, The Green Hornet (Qing feng xia), starred Kar Lok Chin as a Kato-like masked hero called the Green Hornet.[37] In one scene, he is reminded of his predecessors, one of whom is represented by a mannequin of Bruce Lee in his TV Kato costume.[38] The film's director, Lam Ching Ying, was a friend of Bruce Lee.[39][38]

* Black Mask is a 1996 Hong Kong action film starring Jet Li. The film is an adaptation of the 1992 manhua Black Mask by Li Chi-Tak.[40] In the film, in homage to The Green Hornet, Black Mask wears a domino mask and chauffeur's cap in the same style as Kato from the series.[41] The Black Mask is even compared to Kato in one scene. In 2002, it was followed by a sequel, Black Mask 2: City of Masks starring Andy On.[42][43]
* The 2003 film Kill Bill: Volume 1 uses Billy May's theme from the 1960s television series in a sequence where the Bride goes to Tokyo in search of O-Ren Ishii. The Crazy 88 wear masks resembling Bruce Lee's Kato mask.
* Lee also appears as Kato in the biographical series The Legend of Bruce Lee (2008), starring Danny Chan.
* In 2009, in the comic book anthology Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology, Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew published the story Blue Scorpion and Chung. In it, Chung, a character inspired by Kato, uses her martial arts skills to get her boss, Blue Scorpion, out of trouble when he is drunk.[44]
* In the film Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen, released late September 2010 in Asia and early 2011 in the United States, there is a large feature of the Green Hornet. The subplot consist of the main character Chen Zhen (played by Donnie Yen) dressing up as a mask vigilante (based on Kato) to stop Japanese assassinations and to protect the people.[45] The director has mentioned that since Bruce Lee played both Chen Zhen (in the 1972 film Fist of Fury) and Kato (in the 1960s television series The Green Hornet) before, the film was a tribute and dedication to Lee.[46]
* In 2016, Season 6 of The Venture Bros. introduces parody characters of Green Hornet and Kato from 1960s television series in the form of the masked crime-fighter Blue Morpho and his assistant Kano in a flashback, the latter having later become a member of the original Team Venture. It is also revealed that Blue Morpho was the adoptive father of the orphaned villain The Monarch, and he and Henchman 21 later take on the roles of the Blue Morpho and Kano respectively.[47]
* The 2019 film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood has a flashback scene in which stuntman Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) has a confrontation with Bruce Lee (played by Mike Moh in full Kato gear) on the set of The Green Hornet. In the scene, an impromptu two-out-of-three martial arts match between Booth and Lee takes place, with both men winning one match, but the fight is broken up before the deciding match can finish.

## Notes

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1. ^ /ˈkeɪtoʊ/, KAY-toe; Chinese: 加藤, Japanese: カトー

## References

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## External links

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* Kato of the Green Hornet at the Grand Comics Database
* "Turning Japanese." Snopes. February 1, 2011.
* William Dozier papers at the American Heritage Center

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Fox Comics|

* Black Fury
* Blue Beetle
* Dan Garret
* The Bouncer
* Bronze Man
* Dynamo
* The Flame
* Green Mask
* The Moth
* Samson
* Stardust the Super Wizard
* U.S. Jones
* Wonder Man

Harvey Comics|

* Black Cat
* Captain 3-D
* Captain Freedom
* Green Hornet
* Invisible Scarlet O'Neil
* Kato
* Shock Gibson
* Spirit of '76

Lev Gleason
Publications|

* Captain Battle
* Claw
* Crimebuster
* Daredevil
* Little Wise Guys
* Silver Streak

MLJ Comics|

* The Black Hood
* Bob Phantom
* Captain Flag
* The Comet
* The Firefly
* The Fox
* The Hangman
* Rang-a-Tang the Wonder Dog
* The Shield
* Super Duck
* The Web
* The Wizard

National Allied
Publications|

* Ace the Bat-Hound
* Air Wave
* Aquaman
* Batman
* Batwoman
* Black Pirate
* Boy Commandos
* Captain Comet
* Chris KL-99
* Congo Bill
* Crimson Avenger
* Lee Travis
* Dan the Dyna-Mite
* Dark Ranger
* Detective Chimp
* Doctor Fate
* Kent Nelson
* Doctor Occult
* Genius Jones
* Gimmick Girl
* Green Arrow
* Guardian
* Hourman
* Rex Tyler
* Johnny Chambers
* King Faraday
* The Knight
* Krypto
* Liberty Belle
* Manhunter
* Paul Kirk
* Martian Manhunter
* Miss X
* Mr. America
* Newsboy Legion
* Phantom Stranger
* Rex the Wonder Dog
* Robin
* Dick Grayson
* Robotman
* Rose Psychic
* Sandman
* Wesley Dodds
* Sandy the Golden Boy
* Seven Soldiers of Victory
* Shining Knight
* Sir Justin
* Slam Bradley
* The Spectre
* Jim Corrigan
* Speedy
* Roy Harper
* Squire
* Star-Spangled Kid
* Sylvester Pemberton
* Starman
* Ted Knight
* Stripesy
* Stuff the Chinatown Kid
* Superboy
* Kal-El
* Superman
* Superwoman
* Lois Lane
* Tarantula
* TNT
* Tommy Tomorrow
* Vigilante
* Greg Saunders
* Wonder Woman
* Zatara

Nedor Comics|

* American Crusader
* American Eagle
* Black Terror
* Captain Future
* Doc Strange
* Fighting Yank
* The Ghost
* Grim Reaper
* Judy of the Jungle
* Kara the Jungle Princess
* Lance Lewis, Space Detective
* Liberator
* The Magnet
* Miss Masque
* Princess Pantha
* Pyroman
* The Scarab
* The Woman in Red

Novelty Press|

* Blue Bolt
* Dick Cole
* The Target
* The Targeteers
* The Twister

Prize
Publications|

* Atomic-Man
* Black Owl
* Fighting American
* Green Lama
* Yank & Doodle

Quality Comics|

* #711
* The Black Condor
* Blackhawk
* Blue Tracer
* Bozo the Iron Man
* Captain Triumph
* Doll Girl
* Doll Man
* Firebrand
* The Human Bomb
* Invisible Hood
* The Jester
* Kid Eternity
* Lady Luck
* Madame Fatal
* Magno
* Manhunter
* Merlin the Magician
* Midnight
* Miss America
* Miss Fear
* Mouthpiece
* Neon the Unknown
* Phantom Lady
* Plastic Man
* Quicksilver
* The Ray
* Red Bee
* Red Torpedo
* The Spider
* Spider Widow
* Uncle Sam
* Wildfire
* Wonder Boy
* Woozy Winks

Timely Comics|

* All-Winners Squad
* American Ace
* The Angel
* Black Marvel
* Black Widow
* Claire Voyant
* Blazing Skull
* Blonde Phantom
* Blue Blade
* Blue Diamond
* Breeze Barton
* Bucky
* Bucky Barnes
* Captain America
* Captain Wonder
* The Challenger
* Citizen V
* The Destroyer
* Dynamic Man
* Father Time
* Ferret
* Fiery Mask
* The Fin
* Golden Girl
* Human Torch
* Jack Frost
* Laughing Mask
* Marvel Boy
* Mercury
* Miss America
* Miss Fury
* Mister E
* Namor
* Namora
* The Patriot
* Phantom Reporter
* Red Raven
* Rockman
* Silver Scorpion
* Sun Girl
* Super Rabbit
* Thin Man
* Thunderer
* Tim Mulrooney
* Toro
* Venus
* Vision
* Whizzer
* Robert Frank
* Witness
* Young Allies

Misc.|

* American Comics Group
* Superkatt
* Anglo-American Publishing
* Commander Steel
* Atlas Publications
* Captain Atom
* Bell Features
* The Brain
* Johnny Canuck
* Nelvana of the Northern Lights
* Cardal Publishing
* Streamline
* Columbia Comics
* The Face
* Skyman
* David McKay Publications
* Mandrake the Magician
* The Phantom
* DC Thomson
* The Amazing Mr X
* Jack Flash
* Dynamic Publications
* Dynamic Man
* Yankee Girl
* Eastern Color Printing
* Buck Rogers
* Hydroman
* Phantom Magician
* EC Comics
* Moon Girl
* Superduperman
* Elliot Publishing Company
* Kismet, Man of Fate
* Fiction House
* Fantomah
* Hillman Periodicals
* Airboy
* The Heap
* Holyoke Publishing
* Cat-Man
* Kitten
* Miss Victory
* L. Miller & Son, Ltd.
* Kid Marvelman
* Marvelman
* Young Marvelman
* Magazine Enterprises
* Funnyman
* Maple Leaf Publishing
* Brok Windsor
* Iron Man
* Rural Home Publications
* Green Turtle
* Street & Smith
* The Avenger
* Doc Savage
* The Shadow
* Supersnipe

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Bruce Lee

* Filmography
* Awards and honors
* Media about

Films|

| As film director|

* Way of the Dragon (1972, also writer and produced)
* Game of Death (1978, also writer)

|

As writer|

* Circle of Iron (1978)

Books written|

* Chinese Gung Fu: The Philosophical Art of Self-Defense
* Tao of Jeet Kune Do
* Bruce Lee's Fighting Method
* Bruce Lee Library

Techniques|

* Jeet Kune Do
* One-inch punch
* Straight blast

Works about|

| Films|

| Hong Kong|

* Bruce Lee: The Man and the Legend (1973)
* A Dragon Story (1974)
* Bruce Lee and I (1976)
* The Dragon Lives (1976)
* The Man, The Myth (1976)
* The Real Bruce Lee (1977)
* A Warrior's Journey (2000)
* Bruce Lee, My Brother (2010)

|

United States|

* Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993)
* The Curse of the Dragon (1993)
* A Warrior's Journey (2000)
* The Legend of Bruce Lee (video; 2008)
* I Am Bruce Lee (2012)
* Birth of the Dragon (2016)
* Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
* Be Water (2020)

Television|

* Spirit of the Dragon (1992)
* The Lost Interview (1994)
* The Legend of Bruce Lee (2008)

Books|

* The Man Only I Knew (1975)
* Bruce Lee: A Life (2019)

Comics|

* The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu (1976)

Video games|

* Bruce Lee
* Kung-Fu Master
* China Warrior
* Bruce Lee Lives
* Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
* Quest of the Dragon
* Return of the Legend

Family|

* Lee Hoi-chuen (father)
* Grace Ho (mother)
* Peter Lee (brother)
* Robert Lee (brother)
* Linda Emery Lee (wife)
* Brandon Lee (son)
* Shannon Lee (daughter)

Related|

* 41 Cumberland Road
* Bruceploitation
* Bruce Li
* Bruce Le
* Bruce Lai
* Bruce Liang
* Dragon Lee
* Kato
* Graves of Bruce and Brandon Lee
* Long Beach International Karate Championships
* Statues
* Hong Kong
* Los Angeles
* Mostar
* Betty Ting
* Chen Zhen
* Ip Man
* Warrior
* Wong Shun Leung
* Wong Jack Man

* Category

* v
* t
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Dynamite Entertainment

Publications|

| Original series|

* Chastity
* Evil Ernie
* Purgatori
* Vampirella
* Bad Kitty

| The Boys|

| Main series|

* The Name of the Game
* Get Some
* Good for the Soul
* We Gotta Go Now
* The Self-Preservation Society
* The Innocents
* The Big Ride
* Over the Hill with the Swords of a Thousand Men
* The Bloody Doors Off

|

Spin-offs|

* Herogasm
* Highland Laddie
* Butcher, Baker, Candlestickmaker
* Dear Becky

Licensed series|

* Army of Darkness
* Atari Force
* Betty Boop
* Bob's Burgers
* Captain Victory
* Dark Shadows
* Gargoyles
* The Green Hornet
* Kato
* Grimm
* Highlander
* James Bond
* Felix Leiter
* Just a Pilgrim
* Killer Instinct
* Metamorphosis Odyssey
* Painkiller Jane
* Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt
* Red Sonja
* Re-Animator
* The Six Million Dollar Man / The Bionic Woman
* The Bionic Man
* John Wick
* Zorro

Crossover series|

* Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash
* The Nightmare Warriors
* Gold Key: Alliance
* Kings Watch
* Kirby: Genesis
* Project Superpowers
* Chapter Two
* The Sovereigns

Adaptations|

* Vampirella (1996)
* The Boys franchise
* The Boys (2019–present)
* Death Battle! (2020–present)
* Seven on 7 (2021–2022)
* The Boys Presents: Diabolical (2022)
* Gen V (2023–present)
* Red Sonja (2025)

See also|

* Chaos! Comics
* Charlton Comics
* Crestwood Publications
* Fox Feature Syndicate
* Gold Key Comics
* King Features Syndicate
* Standard Comics
* Topps Comics

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