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'''''The Green Giant''''' is a {{Superhero}} comic from UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks, published by Pelican in ''Green Giant Comics'' #1. It concerns a financial broker who via a special belt can grow to 15 stories tall and his battles against a counterfeit ring.

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'''''The Green Giant''''' is a {{Superhero}} comic from UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks, created by George Kapitan and published by Pelican in ''Green Giant Comics'' #1. It concerns a financial broker who via a special belt can grow to 15 stories tall and his battles against a counterfeit ring.
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* EmeraldPower: The Green Giant wears all green apart from his black trunks.
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The character was revived in ''ComicBook/ProjectSuperpowers'' and ''ComicBook/{{Femforce}}''. Tropes for those versions go on their respective pages.
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'''''The Green Giant''''' is a {{Superhero}} comic from UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks, published by Pelican in ''Green Giant Comics'' #1. It concerns a financial broker who via a special belt can grow to 15 stories tall and his battles against a counterfeit ring.

Not to be confused with the vegetable advertising character the Jolly Green Giant, or ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk, who's sometimes nicknamed the "Not-So-Jolly Green Giant."
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!!This comic contains examples of:

* BigBad: Samuel "Smiley" Gleason is the mastermind of the counterfeit ring.
* InexplicablyAwesome: It's never explained how the Green Giant got his size-changing belt.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: The Giant threatens to crush a few criminals in his hands to get information.
* MouthOfSauron: "Killer" Jackson acts as the mouthpiece between the {{Mooks}} and the BigBad to keep the latter's identity secret.
* OnlyOneName: The Green Giant's civilian identity is only referred to as "Brentwood."
* ProtagonistTitle
* RunForTheBorder: The last act of the story is the Green Giant pursuing the BigBad as he tries to flee the country on a boat.
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