Unlike other superheroes of the time, however, readers never learned the Green Turtle's secret identity. If he was, like in this cover of Blazing Comics #3, the character's face was hidden from readers. The character was rarely depicted from the front. The Green Turtle's identity was obscured in Chu F. "He was an emblem fighting to preserve China against Japanese invaders," said Jeff Yang, a columnist for CNN, cultural critic and author of the upcoming book Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now. 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. "But the one thing that did catch my imagination was the fact that he might be the very first Asian-American superhero." Who was the Green Turtle?ĭebuting in the short-lived Blazing Comics publication in 1944 - less than a decade after the first appearances of Superman and Batman - the Green Turtle was created by Chinese-American artist Chu F. Yang is also working on a Shang-Chi series for Marvel Comics, alongside a team of Chinese diaspora artists. In 2014, he collaborated with Singaporean illustrator Sonny Liew to release a soft reboot of Chu F. American cartoonist Gene Luen Yang is the acclaimed author of American Born Chinese.
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