Green Lama is a fictional pulp magazine hero of the 1940s, created by American author Kendell Foster Crossen.
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14 Facts About Green Lama
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Green Lama is commonly portrayed as a powerful Buddhist Lama, dressing in green robes with a red scarf and using his powerful skill set to fight crime.
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Unlike many contemporary characters from smaller publishers, the Green Lama character is not in the public domain, as the author "wisely retained all rights to his creation".
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Green Lama first appeared in a short novel entitled The Green Lama in the April 1940 issue of Double Detective magazine.
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The Green Lama proved to be successful, and Crossen continued to produce Green Lama stories for Double Detective regularly up until March 1943, for a total of 14 stories.
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Green Lama inherited his father's fortune, estimated at ten million dollars, when his parents were both killed in an accident while he was still at Harvard; he then spent ten years in Tibet studying to be a lama, acquiring many mystical powers in the process.
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Green Lama returned to America intending to spread the doctrines of Tibetan Buddhism, but realized that he could accomplish more by fighting crime, since Americans were not ready to receive spiritual teachings.
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Green Lama never carried a gun, believing that "this would make me no better than those I fight".
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The Green Lama was frequently assisted by a mysterious woman known as "Magga", whose true identity was never revealed.
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When it was established that the Green Lama was not in the public domain, Garcia moved his books to Moonstone.
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Green Lama then moved to his own title, The Green Lama, published by Kendell Foster Crossen, which lasted for eight issues from December 1944 to March 1946.
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Green Lama is currently one of several Golden Age characters appearing in the Dynamite Entertainment comic book series Project Superpowers, by writer Jim Krueger and artist Alex Ross.
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Green Lama is one of several Golden Age comic characters to make an appearance in Tales of the Living Legends, a webcomic featuring Golden Age art and rewritten stories.
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Green Lama plays a key role as a supporting character in the fiction blog, Flyover City.
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