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 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. Green Turtle Chronicles -- Dawn Of A Golden Age -- Fathers And Sons -- Fights You Cannot Win -- True Colors -- Enter The Green Turtle Story By Gene Luen Yang ; Art By Sonny Liew ; Lettering By Janice Chiang. Includes A [9] Page Excerpt From Blazing Comics No. 1 At The End Of The Text. Chiefly Illustrations.