1940 'The Green Hornet Strikes!' Vintage Better Little Book
A very rare Better Little Book, Fran Striker, based on the famous radio program and this special super hero!
Whitman Publishing Company, Racine, Wisconsin, 1940. Licensed by the Green Hornet Inc., Detroit, Michigan. Illustrated by Robert R. Weisman. Hard cover. Good condition. A Better Little book featuring the Green Hornet and Kato with pictorial boards and an illustration on every other page. 3.75 inches by 4.5 inches, 424+ pages. Better Little Book number 1453. Color board covers are bright with some edge wear and bumped corners. Additional cover text reads, 'Based on the Famous Radio Program'. The cover is torn and loose at the spine; there is one small piece of cellophane tape. The inside pages are perfect. The text is clean and unmarked; the pages have darkened slightly with age. The color litho on the front is very clean and crisp. If not for the cover condition, this would be a very fine copy.
Th Green Hornet is one of the most popular comic heroes of all time. This is a fantastic and hard to find vintage Better Little Book!
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