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    Jewish Artist Jack Kirby Co-Created X-Men and Captain America. But What He Did Next Was Even Better.

    The celebrated cartoonist hid his greatest Jewish reference in plain sight

    byGabriela Geselowitz
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    The New Nazi Captain America Is the Hero That Bigoted Comic Book Fans Deserve

    A superhero hails Hydra—why?

    byMaNishtana
  • The cover of Captain America Comics #1 (March 1941), illustrated by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. (Wikimedia)
    The cover of Captain America Comics #1 (March 1941), illustrated by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. (Wikimedia)
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    Say It Ain’t So: Captain America Is a… Hydra Agent?!

    The comic books world is up in arms after Marvel released Captain America: Steve Rogers #1, in which the superhero is revealed to be an operative of Hydra, a Nazi-like organization

    byEsther Bergdahl
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    Gotham’s Caped Crusaders

    A new exhibit at the New-York Historical Society offers Jewish-inflected insight into superhero history—but misses some opportunities to broaden the discussion

    byMarjorie Ingall
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    Superbad

    Recent superhero movies—Green Lantern, Thor, Superman—are terrible. The solution? Hollywood should make these heroes more Jewish.

    byJacob Silverman
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    Our Heroes

    What if movie superheroes—Thor, Wolverine, The Fantastic Four, and Captain America—got in touch with their Jewish roots?

    byUnknown Author
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    Just Plain Super

    Two books scratch too hard at superheroes’ identities

    byDouglas Wolk
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