Publisher Blazing Comics Full name Unknown Abilities None | Created by Chu F. Hing Team affiliations Burma Boy | |
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First appearance Blazing Comics #1 (1944) | ||
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.
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Origin
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.
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.