While they may have been scoundrels, they also cared for social causes, especially Jewish ones. Much has been said about how they acquired the rights to Superman along with the first story for just $130, bilked Siegel and Shuster of their due and ultimately fired them. The owners of DC Comics were Jewish immigrants from the Lower East Side, Harry Donenfeld and Jack Liebowitz (Yakov Lebovitz). In an overlooked comic from the early 1970s, the most Jewish superhero story ever told.Superman was Siegel and Shuster’s avatar, fighting Nazis on the front lines: an indestructible, indefatigable protector fashioned into existence through language and art, made of paper and ink instead of clay. Jeeps, tanks, boats and bombers were named after him and decorated with his image. joined the war his comics essentially became regulation equipment for the 8 million service members who read them. He was an advocate for the New Deal, open immigration, British rearmament and intervention in WWII, and once the U.S. Long before he was the Man of Steel, Superman was known as Champion of the Oppressed. It was co-written and directed by Henrik Galeen, who was Jewish and also wrote the first vampire film, “ Nosferatu.” This was an international hit that also inspired 1931’s “Frankenstein” and “I, Robot,” “Blade Runner” and “The Matrix”. He was referring to the 1920 German silent film. In his memoir, Siegel recalls how he’d been increasingly frustrated with rising antisemitism in Europe and the U.S., and was “very favorably impressed by a movie called the ‘The Golem,’ about an avenging being who used his awesome strength to crush a tyrant and save those who were being oppressed.” The Golem of Prague was a strong influence.Every Jewish thing you need to know about Batman (and there’s a lot of it).

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