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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 372

Marvel Comics

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
Scarlett Johansson in 'Black Widow.' (Marvel Studios/All rights reserved)
June 29, 2021, 7:54 pm
Jewish troika breaks more than glass ceilings in Marvel’s epic ‘Black Widow’
Scarlett Johansson, Rachel Weisz and director Cate Shortland make up a trifecta of Women of the Tribe propelling this dazzling action film, out in the US July 9
By Jordan Hoffman
In this March 21, 2006 file photo, comic book creator Stan Lee stands beside some of his drawings in the Marvel Super Heroes Science Exhibition at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
February 16, 2021, 2:42 am
Stan Lee was not as marvelous as he and Marvel wanted us to think
Journalist Abraham Riesman digs deep into the life of Marvel Universe founder, questions presumptions about credit he took for creating major superheroes and their stories
By Renee Ghert-Zand
An Incredible Hulk model in the exhibit hall during the fourth day of the Comic-Con International 2011 convention held in San Diego, July 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)
February 13, 2021, 5:29 am
Marvel removes ‘troubling and offensive’ anti-Semitic trope from Hulk comic
Artist apologizes for depicting diamond store with a Star of David, Jewish name in its window
By ToI Staff
File: Oscar Isaac attends the 'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' European Premiere at Cineworld Leicester Square on December 18, 2019 in London (Mike Marsland/WireImage)
October 27, 2020, 4:15 am
Oscar Isaac in talks to play Marvel rabbi’s son-turned superhero
Protagonist of ‘Moon Knight’ leaves religion for a life of vigilante justice, including tracking down and punishing anti-Semites
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Stan Lee, creator of comic-book franchises such as 'Spider-Man,' 'The Incredible Hulk' and 'X-Men,' smiles during a photo session in his office in Santa Monica, California, April 16, 2002. (Reed Saxon/AP)
May 28, 2020, 8:31 pm
Silver Surfer as Rabbi Eliezer? Stan Lee book unmasks superheroes’ Jewish roots
Released April 21, Liel Leibovitz’s biography posits that not only are many superheroes Members of the Tribe, but their philosophies are bound up in tradition, too
By Jordan Hoffman
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