Chinese-American comic book artist Chu F. Hing's The Green Turtle in Blazing Comics may have been the first Asian-American superhero. GreenTurtle sponsored
\nThe featured star of the short-lived title Blazing Comics from Rural Home Publications in 1944-1945, the Green Turtle was the creation of Chinese-American artist Chu F. Hing. The five-issue run of the character in Blazing Comics featured the Green Turtle's adventures take place in China. It depicted the Chinese as heroes fighting against the Axis, a rarity in American comic books and the U.S. media in general during this period. Chu F.
\nRumor has it that the publisher thought a series about a superhero of Asian descent wouldn't sell. Fear of the so-called 'yellow peril' was alive and well as World War II raged on in the Pacific.\nSo the Green Turtle's skin was colored a pinkish hue, unlike the light orange-y skin tone of the Chinese and Japanese characters. Still, readers never got a full look at the Green Turtle's face in the original series, which always showed the superhero in a mask.
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