The head man was George W. Trendle, who by 1935 had The Lone Ranger well established and was looking for a Ranger derivative. This would not be a spinoff as such, except for the fact that the character who would appear as a very young boy on The Lone Ranger would be an old man on The Green Hornet. Thus did Dan Reid, nephew of John Reid, become father to Britt Reid: the Lone Ranger was the Green Hornet's great-uncle.