The shadow hero

In the comics boom of the 1940s, a legend was born: the Green Turtle. He 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 su...

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Main Author: Yang, Gene Luen (Author)
Other Authors: Liew, Sonny, 1974- (Artist), Chiang, Janice (Letterer)
Format: Books Print Book Comic & Graphic Novel
Language:English
Published: New York : First Second Books, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
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520 |a In the comics boom of the 1940s, a legend was born: the Green Turtle. He 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 super hero. The comic had a short run before lapsing into obscurity, but Gene Luen Yang has revived this character in Shadow Hero, a new graphic novel that creates an origin story for the Green Turtle. 
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