The Green Turtle

The Green Turtle
Publication information
Publisher Blazing Comics
First appearance Blazing Comics #1 (1944)
Created by Chu F. Hing[1]
In-story information
Full name Hank Chu
Team affiliations Burma Boy
Abilities None

The Green Turtle is a fictional character, a superhero published by Blazing Comics. He first appeared in Blazing Comics (1944), and was created by Chu F. Hing.[2]

Character history

The Green Turtle aided the Chinese in guerrilla warfare against the Japanese invaders in World War II. He wore a green cowl and a cloak with a turtle-shell design. Most origin stories around the comic say that Hing initially wanted to make him an overtly Chinese hero, but his publisher would not allow this, believing there would not be a sufficient market for an Asian superhero, so Hing never drew the character without his mask. He had a sidekick, Burma Boy, a young beggar whom the Green Turtle rescued from execution by the Japanese army.[3]

Powers and abilities

The Green Turtle had no special powers but was a skilled fighter and flew a "Turtle Plane". He wore a large, flowing cape with a green turtle emblem, and was occasionally depicted with a huge, shadowy, black turtle silhouette rearing behind him, however the significance of this was never established.

In other media

In 2014, Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew created a six-issue miniseries The Shadow Hero to revive The Green Turtle. A trade paperback collecting all six issues was published by First Second Books in 2014. [4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Chu is the family name: see Gene Luen Yang, A Mistake in The Shadow Hero, Diversity in YA (2015)
  2. ↑ "Green Turtle (Character) - Comic Vine". Retrieved 2014-03-14.
  3. ↑ The Shadow Hero
  4. ↑ Yu, Phil (2014-02-20). "The Heroic Return of the Green Turtle". Retrieved 2014-03-14.



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