The Shadow Hero

An action-packed origin story reimagining the Green Turtle -- one of comics' first Asian American superheroes from the 1940s -- as a young man defending his Chinatown community with the help of an ancient spirit.

In the Comics Boom of the 1940s, A Legend Was Born: The Green Turtle

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7/15/14

In the Comics Boom of the 1940s, A Legend Was Born: The Green Turtle

Authors: Gene Luen Yang

Illustrators: Sonny Liew

The Green Turtle solved crimes and fought injustice just like the other comics characters. But this mysterious masked crusader was hiding something more than your run-of-the-mill secret identity… The Green Turtle was the first Asian American superhero.

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