The Shadow Hero

The Shadow Hero

<p>Gene Luen Yang is the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and is a MacArthur Fellow, a recipient of what's popularly known as the MacArthur "Genius" Grant.</p><p>A <i>New York Times</i> bestseller</p><p>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.</p><p>The comic had a short run before lapsing into obscurity, but Gene Luen Yang, the acclaimed author of <i>American Born Chinese</i>, and Sonny Liew, the author of the <i>New York Times</i>-bestseller <i>The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye</i>, have finally revived this character in <i>Shadow Hero</i>, a new graphic novel that creates an origin story for the Green Turtle.</p><p>This gorgeous, funny comics adventure for teens is a new spin on the long, rich tradition of American comics lore.</p>