The Shadow Hero
Paperback – Illustrated, July 15, 2014
First Second · Paperback · July 15, 2014
A New York Times bestseller In the comics boom of the 1940s, a legend was born: the Green Turtle.
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- Who it’s for
- A brisk, illustrated page-turner for anyone following Yang or the genre-crossing shelf.
- Genres
- YA Superhero Comics, YA Historical Comics, Asian American YA
- Published
- First Second, July 15, 2014
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A New York Times bestseller 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.
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The comic had a short run before lapsing into obscurity, but Gene Luen Yang, the acclaimed author of American Born Chinese, and Sonny Liew, the author of the New York Times-bestseller The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, have finally revived this character in Shadow Hero, a new graphic novel that creates an origin story for the Green Turtle. This gorgeous, funny comics adventure for teens is a new spin on the long, rich tradition of American comics lore.
Genre-Bending Pull
A brisk, illustrated page-turner for anyone following Yang or the genre-crossing shelf.
Come here for
- Gene Luen Yang’s clean, kinetic storytelling
- A superhero-comics read with historical texture
Expect
- Sustained narrative momentum
- Collector-friendly YA mashup
Where it sits
| YA Superhero Comics | 78% |
|---|---|
| Asian American YA | 44% |
| YA Historical Comics | 37% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- YA Superhero Comics
- Asian American YA
- Prejudice & Racism for Teens
- Authors
- Gene Luen Yang, Sonny Liew, Janice Chang
- Publisher
- First Second
- Published
- July 15, 2014
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading lane
- YA Superhero Comics