Dan Reid Jr. is the son of Dan and Linda Reid. He is the nephew of the Lone Ranger and father of Britt Reid, the Green Hornet.
History
Dan Reid Jr. was a baby traveling with his mother, Linda, from Virginia to be with his father, Dan Sr., in Texas. During the time they were traveling, Dan Sr. was killed in an ambush at Bryant's Gap. As their wagon train neared Fort Laramie, it was attacked by renegade indians. Linda was killed, but first she hid little Dan in a trunk. An old lady traveling with the party, known as Grandma Frisby, managed to sneak away with Dan in the chaos.
Grandma Frisbie eventually settled near the Canadian border, and took Dan to be her own grandson. As Dan reached his early teens, the Lone Ranger was brought north in pursuit of an outlaw trying to cross the border to Canada. The excitement was too much for the old woman's weak heart. Before she passed on she revealed the story of Dan's past to the Lone Ranger. She gave the Ranger a locket she had found with Dan. In it were pictures of Dan Sr. and Linda, revealing the boy to be the Lone Ranger's long-lost nephew.
Dan rode with the Lone Ranger and Tonto after that. He rode a horse named Victor, who was the son of Silver. Eventually the Lone Ranger sent Dan to college in the East.
When Dan grew up he got married and had a son, Britt Reid, who became a masked crime-fighter known as the Green Hornet.
Radio
Several actors portrayed Dan on the radio show over its run.
Television
Dan appeared in 14 episodes of the television series, played by Chuck Courtney.
Chuck Courtney as Dan Reid Jr.
Dynamite Entertainment
Dynamite Entertainment's Dan Reid Jr.
The Dynamite Entertainment comic book series has significantly altered this part of the Lone Ranger legend. In this series, Linda and Dan Jr. were living in Wyoming at the time of the ambush. Dan is a very young boy, but not an infant. After Julius Bartholomew is defeated by the Lone Ranger, Linda and Dan go to live with the Ranger and Tonto on the land near the silver mine.