Sidekick Kicks Butt, Bucket

Celebrating a Deathday™: Bruce “Kato” Lee Kaelin, kung fu kickfighting associate of billionaire vigilante Britt Reid, died on this day July 20, 1973. He was just 32. Kato was born in Milwaukee and headed west after high school to have a go at acting, house sitting and perjurious courtroom duty, before securing a position as personal valet to Daily Sentinel® publisher Reid. His hand-to-hand, foot-to-nutsack combat skills quickly proved him capable of more than polishing the family jewels, and the black-masked Kato was soon assisting the green-masked Reid in his efforts to clean up the city’s soft white underbelly. Kato was the chauffeur of the mysterious Black Beauty motorcar and the administrator of many tranquilizing karate “chops,” disabling thugs before authorized police officials would swoop in to book 'em, Danno. Tragically, Lee was delivered a sudden deathly blow in his prime time, a cerebral edema brought on by a reaction to a green hornet sting. Bloody hell. Happy Anni-hearse-ary™, Citizen SideKicker.