Kato #2

Jan 2010 · Dynamite Entertainment · 3.99 USD

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Kato #2 is the second chapter of 'Not My Father's Daughter,' the first solo ongoing series in the Green Hornet franchise built around a female lead — Mulan Kato, daughter of the original Hayashi Kato and the new partner to Britt Reid Jr. as the second Green Hornet. The series broke ground by centering a woman of Asian descent as the primary action hero within a franchise whose Kato role had been male since its 1936 radio origins, representing a meaningful shift in how the legacy was imagined for modern comics. As a direct prequel to Kevin Smith's concurrent Green Hornet series, the title also deepened the Dynamite shared universe by fleshing out character backstory that Smith's original screenplay had left unwritten. Britt Reid Jr.'s indexing in this issue places the developing partnership between the two legacy characters squarely within this arc's narrative progression.

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writer Ande Parks · artist, inker Diego Bernard · colorist Rainer Petter · letterer Bill Tortolini · colorist PC Siqueira · cover Joe Benitez

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History

Mulan Kato was conceived by filmmaker Kevin Smith for a Green Hornet movie he was developing in the early 2000s that never reached production; when Dynamite Entertainment acquired the comics rights to the franchise, they adapted Smith's unproduced screenplay as the backbone of their 2010 Green Hornet launch, with Smith collaborating alongside writer Phil Hester and artist Jonathan Lau. The dedicated Kato spin-off series was handed to writer Ande Parks — known for his long Green Arrow run with Phil Hester at DC — and artist Alé Garza, with the assignment of dramatizing Mulan's origin and her pursuit of the Black Hornet as a prequel to the main title. Issue #2 was part of the five-issue 'Not My Father's Daughter' arc, later collected in a trade paperback of the same name; the ongoing series ultimately ran fourteen issues plus an annual before concluding in late 2011.

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Published June 2010 by Dynamite Entertainment; part of the five-issue 'Not My Father's Daughter' arc (issues #1–5), subsequently collected in a trade paperback.
Written by Ande Parks (known for his DC Green Arrow run with Phil Hester); pencils and inks by Alé Garza; main cover by Joe Benitez, with 1-in-10 (Alé Garza) and 1-in-25 (Johnny Desjardins) retailer incentive covers.
The series stars Mulan Kato — daughter of Hayashi Kato, the original Green Hornet's sidekick — a character created by Kevin Smith for his unproduced early-2000s Green Hornet film screenplay.
Mulan is depicted as trained in hundreds of forms of hand-to-hand combat, pursuing Hirohito Juuma (the Black Hornet) — the man responsible for her mother Sayomi's death — from Tokyo to Century City, USA.
Britt Reid Jr. (the second Green Hornet) appears in this issue; both he and Mulan are legacy characters operating in Dynamite's shared Earth-818793 continuity.
The Kato solo series functions as an explicit prequel to Kevin Smith's Green Hornet ongoing, with the arc's storyline designed to lead directly into events of that companion title.
The series ran fourteen issues plus a Kato Annual #1 (February 2011), making it one of Dynamite's more sustained Green Hornet-universe spin-offs of the 2010–2011 launch period.
Mulan Kato went on to appear across multiple Dynamite crossover titles including the all-female ensemble event Swords of Sorrow (2015) and briefly assumed the Green Hornet identity herself during the course of the broader franchise run.