For the first time since the 1940s, the Green Turtle is returning to comic bookshelves. The long-forgotten character has been resurrected in The Shadow Hero, a new graphic novel about what many ...

And publisher First Second has just released "The Shadow Hero," a graphic novel by Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew about the Green Turtle, a Chinese-American superhero who battles gangsters in World ...

In the 1930s, a brand new kind of character began to appear in American comic books. They wore colorful masks and capes. Many of them had magic powers. All of them fought for justice. They were ...

Hing. Like many American superhero characters published during the Golden Age of Comic Books from 1938 to 1956, the Green Turtle fought against the Axis powers during the Second World War.

The Green Turtle's costume is typical of American superheroes of the time, yet it incorporates Chinese elements. Blazing Comics #4 begins with a phrase in Chinese: 美國及中華民國 (the ...

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Still, readers never got a full look at the Green Turtle's face in the original series, which always showed the superhero in a mask. Yang elaborates on the matter in the afterword of The Shadow ...

In terms of his fellow superheroes, Yang says the Green Turtle is more Bruce Wayne than Clark Kent. "He doesn't have any explicit superpowers in the original books. But he's very agile," Yang ...