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”The Shadow Hero” is a six-issue miniseries reimagining of the [[Green Turtle (comics)|Green Turtle]] character in a [[Retroactive continuity|retconned]] timeline, written by [[Gene Luen Yang]] and [[Sonny Liew]]. It was first published on February 18, 2014<ref>{{Cite book |last=Yang |first=Gene Luen |url=https://books.google.com/books/about/Shadow_Hero.html?id=eL70sgEACAAJ&source=kp_book_description |title=Shadow Hero |date=2014-07-15 |publisher=Perfection Learning |isbn=978-1-62765-777-8 |language=en}}</ref>. Aiming to offer more representation for Asian Americans in superhero media, they rewrote the Green Turtle character to dig further into the lived experiences of Asian Americans in ways the Green Turtle could not at the time of its inception. <ref>{{Cite journal |last=Cheang |first=Kai Hang |date=2018 |title=Restaging the Superhero Spectacle: Green Turtle’s Shame, The Shadow Hero’s Reparative Aesthetics, and the Chinese Diaspora’s Speculative Historiography of Golden Age Comics |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26566178 |journal=MELUS |volume=43 |issue=4 |pages=80–103 |issn=0163-755X}}</ref> |
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Latest revision as of 17:51, 28 October 2025
The Shadow Hero is a six-issue miniseries reimagining of the Green Turtle character in a retconned timeline, written by Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew. It was first published on February 18, 2014[1]. Aiming to offer more representation for Asian Americans in superhero media, they rewrote the Green Turtle character to dig further into the lived experiences of Asian Americans in ways the Green Turtle could not at the time of its inception. [2]
