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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 644

Marvel Comics

Comic books are displayed in Gene Yang's home on April 1, 2025, in San Jose, California (AP Photo/Tony Avelar)
April 18, 2025, 7:59 pm
As Superman turns 87, scholars reflect on hero’s religious undertones
The Man of Steel, dreamed up by Jewish teens in the 1930s, still inspires a unique reverence around the world that seems to border on the transcendent
By DEEPA BHARATH and BOB SMIETANA
An undated photo shows three editions of the 'Superman' comic book. (AP Photo/ Ed Bailey)
March 15, 2025, 8:34 am
Truth, justice and Yiddishisms: How superhero comics tell the tale of American Jews
Marvel and DC were both started by 2nd-generation Jewish immigrants eager to break comic industry’s glass ceiling, share their families’ stories and punch Hitler right in the kisser
By Miriam Eve Mora
Shira Haas attends the 'Captain America: Brave New World World' premiere at TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California, on February 11, 2025. (Jesse Grant / Getty Images via AFP)
February 13, 2025, 1:26 pm
Shira Haas as Sabra can’t shield us from disappointment in new ‘Captain America’ flick
Now in US theaters, Marvel’s 35th movie may just be its worst, while featuring — after no small amount of controversy — the franchise’s first Israeli hero
By Jordan Hoffman
Shira Haas as Sabra in 'Brave New World,' in a split-screen with Harrison Ford (right), coming to theaters in February 2025 (YouTube screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 12, 2025, 1:52 pm
‘Captain America’ premiere starring Israeli Shira Haas draws protest
Anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian demonstrators call for boycott of ‘Captain America: Brave New World,’ in which an Israeli superhero works for the US government
By Jessica Steinberg
Kaplan poses under the JewCE logo at JewCE: The Jewish Comics Experience at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan, November 10, 2024. (Jay Deitcher)
December 4, 2024, 5:03 pm
He wrote the history of Jews in comics. Now he’s making Jewish comics history
At the annual JewCE con in Manhattan, Arie Kaplan, who exposed the industry’s Jewish roots, discusses the rise of overtly Jewish characters and what an Oct. 7 comic might look like
By Jay Deitcher
Screenshot of Shira Haas as Ruth Bat-Seraph in the trailer for Captain America: Brave New World. (MCU, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
July 14, 2024, 9:46 am
Marvel rewrites Shira Haas’s Israeli character, dropping Mossad link
Superhero agent known in the comics as Sabra rewritten as former Black Widow and US government official
By ToI Staff
Kevin 'Kasper' Cole temporarily succeeded T'Challa, the original Black Panther. (Marvel Comics via JTA)
June 11, 2023, 2:42 am
How Marvel’s short-lived but overtly Jewish Black Panther flew under the radar
Decades after the character’s 1966 debut, writer Christopher Priest created a twist in the storyline that some may find surprising
By Eric Schulmiller
Comic book artist Uri Fink drew and posted his Sabraman retort on Twitter to Marvel's Sabra character in an upcoming 2024 film. (courtesy, Uri Fink/Twitter)
October 12, 2022, 1:10 pm
Daily Briefing Oct. 12: Comics fans marvel at choice of Sabra; IDF builds fake Gaza
Military correspondent Emanuel Fabian reports on continued manhunt for soldiers’ killers; culture editor Jessica Steinberg explains Eretz Nehederet’s 20-year staying power
By ToI Staff
Comic book artist Uri Fink drew and posted his Sabraman retort on Twitter to Marvel's Sabra character in an upcoming 2024 film. (courtesy, Uri Fink/Twitter)
October 6, 2022, 9:58 am
Sabra may get Marvel role, but she’s a superficial character, say comic book artists
Uri Fink, whose Sabraman superhero may have inspired Marvel’s own, says patriots are problematic protagonists
By Jessica Steinberg
Marvel's Sabra (via Twitter)
September 18, 2022, 12:34 pm
Marvel vows ‘new approach’ to Sabra character amid torrent of anti-Israel criticism
Casting of Israeli Shira Haas as ex-Mossad agent in upcoming ‘Captain America’ film has prompted accusations entertainment giant is stereotyping Palestinians and ‘glorifying’ IDF
By Ash Obel
The Marvel character Sabra first appeared in a comic strip in 1980. (Wikimedia Commons/Design by Mollie Suss via JTA)
September 13, 2022, 3:48 am
Excitement, and backlash, quickly follow news of Marvel’s Sabra superhero arrival
Set for release in 2024, new flic to feature Israeli actress Shira Haas as Sabra, an Israeli hero who debuted with a cameo in a 1980 ‘Incredible Hulk’ comic
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Israeli comic book artist and writer Uri Fink holds a book at the annual Animix festival for animation, comics and caricature in the Tel Aviv Cinemateque on August 2, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
September 11, 2022, 11:45 pm
Israeli cartoonist says Marvel copied superhero Sabra, he’d sue if he had the means
As Shira Haas is cast as Israeli heroine in next Captain America film, Uri Fink recounts creating Sabraman two years before Sabra emerged, and warns portrayal might be anti-Israeli
By Michael Bachner
In this June 9, 2021 photo, Shira Haas poses for a portrait in New York. (Matt Licari/Invision/AP)
September 10, 2022, 11:55 pm
Shira Haas to join next ‘Captain America’ film as Israeli superhero Sabra
Actress known for ‘Unorthodox’ tapped to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe as little-known character in 2024 movie
By ToI Staff
Neal Adams poses in his office in New York, April 14, 2008. (Nicholas Roberts/AFP via Getty Images/ via JTA)
May 12, 2022, 3:48 am
Remembering Neal Adams, a comic book legend who championed Holocaust awareness
The man who revolutionized how comics are drawn is remembered for his activism – particularly on behalf of artists in an industry that has historically had many Jewish influencers
By Rafael Medoff
Isaac Perlmutter, an Israeli-American billionaire, and then CEO of Marvel, walks down the steps of Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, February 6, 2017. (Susan Walsh/AP)
September 29, 2021, 11:05 am
US-Israeli former head of Marvel cleared of hate mail campaign against neighbor
Florida court rejects libel claim against billionaire Isaac Perlmutter in feud with Canadian millionaire over tennis court at their condo complex
By Stuart Winer
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