An End Game for America’s Iran Strategy
Take a page from the cold-war playbook.
April 7, 2020
Stan Lee and the Jews behind the Superheroes
Even in comparison with other contributions to American popular culture, comic books tell an especially Jewish story.
In the past decade, comic-book characters, and especially those created by Marvel, have come to dominate the movie business. “The person who has had the most impact on superhero comics” is Marvel’s Stan Lee, writes Michael Weingrad in his review of a recent biography of Lee by Liel Leibovitz. Born Stanley Lieber, the creator of Spiderman, Iron Man, and others, was the offspring of Jewish immigrants—and in this, he was not alone:
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Why Israel’s Perpetual Election Might Finally Be Coming to an End
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Stan Lee and the Jews behind the Superheroes
Even in comparison with other contributions to American popular culture, comic books tell an especially Jewish story.