"Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. Maybe many of us won't be here to greet her, but on a quiet day, if I listen very carefully, I can hear her breathing."

Arundhati Roy

Superman is an immigrant Jew created by two Jewish men who were watching things get worse in Europe while quotas for Jews were being cut lower and lower by immigration laws because of the eugenics movement around the world from the turn of the century and into the 20s and 30s.

Captain America was Jewish creators making a superhero who looked like the Nazi Aryan ideal but had the heart of a real American: a sick, poor, Irish immigrant kid from Brooklyn. He didn't punch Hitler on the chin on the cover of the first issue by accident.

Fantastic Four? Created by a Jew, who gave three of the characters super neat superpowers, and the Jewish character the inability to hide his powers at all. And then showed people reacting in horrified ways to Ben's appearance like, perhaps, he'd seen happen to his family and friends and neighbors because they looked "too" Jewish.

The list goes on (Magneto being the next obvious point). If you are reading/watching/taking in superhero media from Marvel or DC (Jack Kirby especially), you are looking at a character created by Jews who put their own identities into those characters.

And this is why it's good.

It says something, I'm not sure what, that the comics didn't acknowledge Ben being Jewish on panel until 2002, nearly 40 years after his debut.

There were hints and subtext if you knew about the bit of New York he was from, and in the 70's Jack Kirby sent out a Hannukah card with Ben in prayer shawl and yarmulke, with menorah, but that was a personal thing, not featured in he comics.

But it was Fantastic Four 56 in 2002 which had him "reveal" his Jewish identity on panel, when he thinks and old man from his neighbourhood is dying and Ben can't do CPR on a normal human because... well, obvious reasons.

Turns out the guy isn't dead, and they talk a little about things.

This is probably the most culturally important thing I’ll ever seen in my lifetime if I’m being honest. I want this affixed over my mantle, embroidered into my denim, and emblazoned into my flesh so that generations to come may never forget this 1938 gem of an illustration. Put this on my gravestone and name my children after Alfo Di Gennaro. This is what it’s all about.

Artist was obviously a leg man, but I have never seen a female alien love interest designed as THIS alien before. She’s uniquely hairy, bugged-eyed, lines would indicate at least a partial exoskeleton, she has escaped being saddled with the mammories that a non-mammal being would not have, yet she’s got it bad for Space Force Leatherhead and he is so into her. I can practically hear his prose of her cabochon eyes of nebula violet, glowing with the passion to know and be known, in the starlight. The green of her body turning more vivid as discovery (and carnal knowledge) consume her conscious mind.

To suggest a red-blooded, human man could love Greedo’s cousin? Desire her??

This is fantastic, in every sense. How many lives did this change forever?

1977-2025

Goths, punks, metalheads, rockers and alternative people have been discriminated for almost 50 years, and hate crimes still happen nowadays.

If you really are part of the community, the scene and the subculture, YOU stand AGAINST prejudices, discrimination and hate crimes.