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Green Turtle (comics)

Green Turtle
Blazing Comics, July 1944, No. 2 featuring The Green Turtle, by Chu F. Hing
Publication information
PublisherRural Home Publications
First appearanceBlazing Comics #1 (1944)
Created byChu F. Hing[1]
In-story information
Full nameHank Chu
PartnershipsBurma Boy
AbilitiesNone

The Green Turtle is a superhero originally published by Rural Home Publications. He first appeared in Blazing Comics (1944), and was created by Chinese-American cartoonist Chu F. Hing.[2] While the original run of the character lasted only five issues, the Green Turtle is notable for three factors. First, during WWII, the stories represented the Chinese in U.S. popular media as heroic partners fighting the Axis. One issue begins with the banner 美國及中華民國 (the United States united with the Chinese Republic), and features a U.S. general joining Chinese guerrillas in battle.[3] During the war, U.S. depictions of the Pacific theatre were typically racialized; the "Yellow Peril" stereotypes applied to the Japanese were originally anti-Chinese[4] and portrayed Asians as racial enemies of Western civilization.[5][6] Second, the character is often identified as the first Asian-American comic book hero. These factors inspired a contemporary graphic novel on the Green Turtle, Shadow Hero, by Gene Luen Yang, whose American Born Chinese was the first work in a comics format to be nominated for the National Book Award.[3]

  1. ^ Chu is the family name: see Gene Luen Yang, A Mistake in The Shadow Hero, Diversity in YA (2015)
  2. ^ Mitchell, Kurt; Thomas, Roy (2019). American Comic Book Chronicles: 1940-1944. TwoMorrows Publishing. p. 245. ISBN 978-1605490892.
  3. ^ a b "Was The Green Turtle The First Asian-American Superhero?". NPR.org. Retrieved 2022-05-03.
  4. ^ "Asian Immigration: The "Yellow Peril" · Race in the United States, 1880-1940 · Student Digital Gallery · BGSU Libraries". digitalgallery.bgsu.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-03.
  5. ^ "Racism in the war in the Pacific > Professor Geoffrey Wawro > WW2History.com". ww2history.com. Retrieved 2022-05-03.
  6. ^ Shim, Doobo (October 1998). "From Yellow Peril through Model Minority to Renewed Yellow Peril". Journal of Communication Inquiry. 22 (4): 385–409. doi:10.1177/0196859998022004004. ISSN 0196-8599. S2CID 145395286.

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