Hayashi Kato

Hayashi Kato is the skilled martial-arts partner and chauffeur to the Green Hornet, Britt Reid, continuing the legacy of the original Kato in Now Comics' 1989 revival series.

Hayashi Kato stepped onto the page in 1989 with Ron Fortier and Jeff Butler's The Green Hornet #1 — a Copper Age debut that launched a character who would prove remarkably durable, accumulating 115 catalog appearances and five collector-recognized key issues across nearly three decades of Green Hornet publishing. Appearing throughout The Green Hornet, Green Hornet, and Kato series from Now Comics and beyond, this character shares their world with a rich constellation of figures including Britt Reid, Kato, Kato II, and Mulan Kato — a lineage that speaks to the layered, legacy-driven storytelling these titles embraced. For fans drawn to the Green Hornet mythology and the deep bench of characters that mythology supports, Hayashi Kato is exactly the kind of find that rewards a closer look at the long run.