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I'm not sure... It may have been the appearance in El Diablo in the `80s.

There was a small continuity change with the Nebula Man story (JLA/JSA/SSV team up from the late `70s). Originally the Vigilante was popped back to the old west for, from his perspective, a few months. When he was rescued, he found that decades had elapsed.

In the retcon, while the differential still left him younger than if he hadn't been displaced, years had still passed for him. It may be, and it has been years since I read the issues, that a sly ref was made to him acting like the Lone Ranger.

There was also a section of, IIRC, late `40s early `50s stories that shifted the setting from modern day to the old west though no real explanation was given. I would assume that those stories would have been used for a more direct comparison/equation to the Lone Ranger.

The Green Hornet though... DC's analogue would have been the Crimson Avenger - newspaper publisher, gas gun, Asian chauffeur/sidekick, etc.