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Abrams, Gayle. "Holy Moses! Here Comes the Jewish Hero Corps! (Temple Educator's
Message)" June/July 2003.
Abuli, E. Sanchez & Jordi Bernet ; translated by Elizabeth Bell. "100% Pure
Pork "Torpedo 1936 vol. 5 (New York, NY : Catalan Communications, c1988.)
A gangster's butler impersonates his boss (Torpedo) while he is out of town. A
Jewish shopkeeper named Jacob hires him to rough up Isaac, a rival shopkeeper.
Isaac and Jacob have a bidding war for the "mobster" until he gets fed up and
brings the 2 of them together. After a Yiddish conversation, they agree to throw
the mobster out the door. The Yiddish is poorly transferred (many upside down
captions) and I am told that the sentences are Yiddish insults --- and not even
typical Yiddish insults.
Al-Dhakiri, Muhammad Numan, et al. Jamal Abd Al Nasir (Paris : Manshurat al-Sihafa al-Ifriqiyya al-Mushtaraka, 1973).
Biography of Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser. Contains pages described as "The Loss of East Jerusalem", "Defeat in the Sinai" and "Israeli Invasion of 1956".
Allikas, David. "The Voice of the Enemy" G.I. Combat #234 (6th story) Oct. 1981 (NY : DC ).
A rabbi who has been promoting Jewish resistance in his synagogue sermons is confronted by 2 Nazis, one of whom inexplicably speaks fluent Hebrew. When ordered to kill the rabbi, Joerg instead kills the other Nazi and intends to kill himself as well. The rabbi urges his former student (aka Saul) not to do so and to instead join the resistance.
Angell, Jamie. "The Rise and Fall of Krustyland Part Three" Krusty Comics #3 (Los Angeles, CA : Bongo, 1995), reprinted in Simpsons Comics Royale
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Chaos ensues (on a Saturday) at the Krustyland theme park, where the attractions prove to be unsafe and where Krusty the Clown's life is threatened by angry mobsters. After sundown, Krusty's father (Rabbi Hyman Krustofsky) turns on his television set, only then realizing his son's dillemma. He goes to Krustyland to help Krusty out, knocking out the mobsters by throwing his furry hat at the mobsters a la Oddjob (from the James Bond stories).
Anthony, William. Bible Stories (Highlands, NC : Jargon Society,
1978).
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Satiric, condensed version of the Bible, written in modern prose with a
mixture of modern and ancient images. For example, pg. 30 has the caption
"About the only thing Moses couldn't do was to keep the people from
worshipping the golden calf!", illustrated by a calf costume worn by a
2-man team cheered on at a pep rally, complete with a band and high
school banners.
Appel, John J. "Abie the Agent, Gimpl the Matchmaker, Berl Schliemazel, et al." Nemo #28 Jan., 1988: 12-14.
[Aragones, Sergio]. Fanny Hillman : Memoirs of a Jewish Madam (NY : Kanrom, 1965).
Aronofsky, Darren. The Book of Ants (Milwaukie, OR : Dark Horse, 1998).
Mathematical genius Maximillian Cohen tries to use his skills to find a formula that will enable him to understand the chaos of the stock market. His work attracts the attention of a Hasidic Jew and of a predatory trading firm. Based on the film Pi, but different in several ways.
There are 2 excellent reviews of the graphic novel at http://www.comics2film.com/pirev.shtml.
Ashley, Carole (ed.). "The 23" _Lusitania Press_ #10 (NY : Lusitania,
2001).
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Atkinson, Kevin and Chris Reilly. "Eaters Invade El Vira" Rogue Sattelite Comics #1 Aug. 1996 (San Jose, CA : Slave Labor).
Augustyn, Brian. "Politics in the Blood" Crimson #4 Aug. 1998 (Fullerton, CA : Image).
Aushenker, Michael. "Spider-Mensch" The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles Apr. 26, 2002.
Azzarello, Brian. "Highwater Conclusion". Hellblazer #167 Dec. 2001 (NY :
DC).
The formerly dead gundealer known as "the Wolfman" metes out revenge on the neo-nazis that killed him (having been resurrected as a golem by John Constantine).
--------. "Highwater Part Three of Four" Hellblazer #166 Nov.
2001 (NY : DC).
--------. "Highwater Part Two of Four" Hellblazer #165 Oct.
2001 (NY : DC).
A Jewish gundealer called "the Wolfman" meets a group of neo-nazis to sell them galils. The neo-nazis are already angry with him, as earlier they had been told that he also sells guns to blacks and that he doesn't care what happens after the sale as long as he gets his money. After he taunts them, (by telling them that "the best fuckin' arms on the planet are made by kikes"), they beat him to death.
Baker, Kyle. King David (NY : DC, 2002).
Barela, Tim. Gay Comix Special #1 Spring 1992. (San Francisco: Bob Ross)
Collection of "Leonard and Larry" strips about a gay couple. Leonard Goldman is Jewish and among the contents are a Bar Mitzvah (pg. 16) and a visit from Leonard's mother (pg. 31).
Baron, Mike. "The Brattle Gun" The Punisher #47 Apr. 1991 (NY : Marvel).
--------. "The Brittle Sun". The Punisher #48 May 1991. (NY: Marvel).
The crimefighter called Punisher travels to the fictional Arab country Trafia to stop that country from using "the world's biggest gun" and runs into Israeli Mossad agent Rose Kugel again. Although they have different objectives, Punisher and Rose work together to save the Zukis from Trafia's weapon. "Trafia" may be a derivative of "traif" the Yiddish word for unkosher.
--------. The Punisher : Empty Quarter. Nov. 1994 (NY : Marvel).
A Mossad agent, who was on his way to a terrorist convention disguised as a
Serbian nationalist, dies in the desert. The killing is made to look as if
he was thrown from his camel. Fortunately, Mossad agent Rose Kugel has
already arrived at the camp (undercover), where she gets an assist from the
crimefighter called Punisher. In this tale, it is revealed that Rose is a
Palestinian who was born in a refugee camp and who is also an Israeli
citizen. One of the terrorists is a "Ms. Goldwomyn" who wears a necklace
with a Star of David on it.
--------. "Philanthropy" Punisher Annual #3 (3rd story) (NY :
Marvel, 1990)
Microchip (the Punisher's aide) goes against an organization that is posing
as a charity to defraud retirees after he learns about the scheme from one
of the victims (his neighbor, Mrs. Rosen).
--------. "Red Carnation" Hammer of God (miniseries) #1 Feb. 1990 (Chicago : First Publishing).
--------. "Smilax" Hammer of God (miniseries) #3 Apr. 1990 (Chicago : First Publishing).
Barr, Donna. "Headaches" Desert Peach (1997) #30 (WA? : A Fine Line).
Based on actual activities of the Rommel family, who did what they could behind
the Nazi regime’s back to spirit threatened individuals out of the country.
Pfirsich just takes it a little further than he should.
--------. "Miki" Desert Peach (1997) #26 (WA? : A Fine Line).
Hauptmann Kjars Winzig's unit is recruited to help round up escaped death camp
victims. When the unit stumbles upon a group of Jewish esacpees, they let the
Jews escape and try to desert.Winzig and Schmidt are captured by American
soldiers.
Barr, Mike W. "Hell on Earth!" Brave and the Bold #200 (2nd story) July 1983 (NY : DC).
--------. "Sympathy for the Führer!" Adventures of the Outsiders #35 July 1986 (NY : DC).
On page 17, the Hitler clone is watching movies about the
concentration camps to re-educate him about his identity and the role
expected of him. He looks disappointed as he realizes what the Nazis
had done to the Jews. A young, innocent-looking Jewish servant sparks
something in the Hitler clone and we are shown the servants screams
and the bang of a gun that the clone had picked up. On the last page,
the reader sees that the clone had committed suicide.
--------. " 'Tarry Till I Come Again' " Secret Origins #10 (2nd series) Jan. 1987 (1st story) (NY : DC).
This story is one possible origin of the mysterious hero known as The Phantom Stranger. In this story, which takes place in the time of Jesus, the Stranger is a Jew whose wife and child were killed by Romans who were trying to kill the child who it was said would be the Messiah. When he learns that Jesus has been captured by Roman soldiers, he bribes a guard to let him beat Jesus. The strangers' immortality is a punishment and a means to repent for his great sin. There is a similarity between this story and the story of the "Wandering Jew".
Barrero, Manuel. "De viñetas y tribunales. Anexo 3: El caso Hitler SS" Tebeosfera Jan. 31, 2004.
This seems to be a legal decision regarding the controversial Hitler=SS,
used in an annex of some bigger cyber-document.
Bass, Josh. "The Ninjews", c2002.
Bates, Cary and Elliot S! Maggin. " 'Where on Earth Am I?' " Justice League of America #123 Oct. 1975 (NY : DC).
--------. " 'Avenging Ghosts of the Justice Society!' " Justice League of America #124 Nov. 1975 (NY : DC).
Bechdel, Alison. "The Ex Factor"
Dykes to Watch
Out for #257 (c1997), reprinted in Hot, Throbbing Dykes to Watch
Out for (NY : Firebrand, 1997), p. 80-81.
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--------. "Handling It" Dykes to Watch Out for #275 (c1997), reprinted in Split-Level Dykes to Watch Out for.
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Becher, Mordechai. Chopped Liver, online at http://www.ohr.org.il/yhiy.php/explore_judaism/humour/chopped_liver/.
Benkemoun, Lise. "Les Juifs dans les <<comic books>>" L'arche #484 May 1998, reprinted (in Polish) in Midrasz May 2001 as "Postaci żydowskie w komiksach".
Bennett, Carol and Julie Hollings. "Daddy Dear" Outrageous Tales from the Old Testament (13th story) (London : Knockabout, 1987).
Bergson, Steven M. "Warten auf ,,SuperJew" " Allegemeine Jüdische Wochenzeitung Aug. 7, 1998. You can view the article in English by clicking here.
Bieri, Sean. The Book of Judith (Hamtramck, MI : Sean Bieri, 2002).
Bilal, Enki. The Hunting Party (NY : Catalan Communications, 1990).
One of the reminiscing guests is a Communist Jew who talks of life
before and after the Holocaust.
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--------. The Ranks of the Black Order. {translation of Phalanges
de l'ordre noir} (New York : Catalan Communications, 1989) {also titled The Black Order Brigade].
Retired fredom fighters / terrorists try to settle old grudges in a series of present-day attacks. Amon one of the members of the Black Order (Katz) is an member of the Israeli secret service. When the group needs to
leave town, later in the story, it is Katz who gets them passage on an
Egyptian cargo ship. He cautions his comrades not to mention that he
is Jewish, a Zionist and a spy.
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"B'nai B'rith Asks Comic Strip Writer to Correct Hanukkah Error" (press release, Jan. 13, 1997), reprinted at http://web.archive.org/web/20011228012100/http://bnaibrith.org/pr/buckles.html
Bogdanove, Jon & Louise Simonson. [Untitled]. Superman : The Man of Steel #80 May 1998 (NY : DC)
--------. [Untitled]. Superman : The Man of Steel #81 June 1998 (NY : DC)
--------. [Untitled]. Superman : The Man of Steel #82 Jul. 1998 (NY : DC)
Bohl, Al. Elijah. (Urichsville, Ohio: Barbour Christian Comics, 1994).
Although a Christian work, this comic is essentially the same Torah story that appeared in the Mulford book cited below.
Bolland, Brian. "Elisha's Miracle" Outrageous Tales from the Old Testament (14th story) (London : Knockabout, 1987).
Bolle, Frank. "The Case of Mendel Beilis" World Over.
Account of the trial of the Russian Jew, who was falsely accused of murdering a Christian child as part of a mystical religious rite and using his blood to bake Passover matzos. A prose account may be found at http://www.shemayisrael.co.il/orgs/baiskaila/html/mendel_beilis.html.
Boni, John. "Citizen Gaines" National Lampoon #19 (Oct. 1971).
Boothby, Ian. "Bart Simpson's Bible Stories" Simpsons Comics #62 (1st story) (LA : Bongo, c2001).
Bordell, Chuck. [untitled] War Babies #1 Summer 1997 (Missoula,
MT : High Anxiety).
Botkin, Daniel. "The Messianic Menace" Rev. Twistruth and His Disciples.
Boudjellal, Farid. Juif-Arabe (Toulon : Soleil, 1990).
Collection of French strips starring a Jew & an Arab who look, if not
stereotypical, then "typical". On pages 8-9, the characters are
fistfighting in the names of well-known Israeli-Arab confrontations
(Yom Kippur War, Sabra, Chatila, Gaza). They then notice the Jew's
daughter and the Arab's son walking by & talking amicably. They
follow, worried about their relationship and come to the conclusion
that they are just working on schoolwork together -- until they see
them kiss and then the Jew & Arab cry in each others' arms.
Brabner, Joyce. "Under the Peace Arch" 9-11 : Emergency Relief,
54th story p. 167-171 (Gainesville, FL : Alternative, 2002).
Joyce talks to an Israeli teen named Dana Eloya. Dana tells Joyce how
a friend of hers was attacked by three religious men when she was
wearing a peace shirt. However, she then credits the extremists for
being the ones who gather pieces of blown-up bodies for proper
religious burial, something she & Joyce never would want to see
themselves.
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Brammer, Doug. "Gotterdammerung" Hall of Heroes Presents Power of the Golem #3 (1997?)
Brandstein, Matt. "Blackout" Mendy and the Golem (2nd series) #2 Mar. 2003 (Brooklyn : Golem Factory).
--------. "Creation" Mendy and the Golem (2nd series) #3 June 2003 (Brooklyn : Golem Factory).
--------. "The Key" Mendy and the Golem (2nd series) #1 Jan. 2003 (Brooklyn : Golem Factory).
--------. "The Meltdown" Mendy and the Golem (2nd series) #4 Jan. 2004 (Brooklyn : Golem Factory).
Bresman, Jonathan. "What If Superman Were Raised by Jewish parents?" MAD Magazine #325 Feb. 1994, reprinted in MAD About Superheroes (NY : MAD Books, 2001).
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Bridwell, E. Nelson. "Puppets of the Overlord" Super Friends #25 Oct. 1979 (NY : DC).
--------. "The Seraph's Day of Atonemennt" Super Friends #38 Nov. 1980 (NY : DC).
When Israeli superhero Seraph uses his super-strength excessively to seek retribution against a group of criminals, G-d punishes him by temporarily taking away his supwer-powers. Only after praying for forgiveness, during the Yom Kippur service, does he get his powers back.
--------. "The Warning of the Wondertwins" Super Friends #7 Oct. 1977 (NY : DC)
--------."The Wizard Who Wouldn't Stay Dead!" DC Comics Presents #46 June 1982 (NY : DC).
Brindisi, Richard. Der Vandale #1 (NY : Innervision, 2000?).
Masked hero Der Vandale frees a trainful of Jews from deportation to a death
camp and helps them escape. The reader is shown how Nazi party member Wolfgang
Von Holten (Der Vandale's secret identity) was disgusted after he saw a Jew
gunned down in a Berlin street by Nazis.
Brod, Harry. "Did You Know Superman is Jewish?" Tattoo Jew http://web.archive.org/web/20010411074229/http://www.tattoojew.com/supermensch.html
Broen, Terry. Ancient Heroes Featuring Carman and the Old Testament (s.l. : Youth Life Creations, 19??)
The Brothers Grinn. "St. Nicholas's Chanukah Hoopla!", 2001.
Brower, James K. "The Hebrew Origins of Superman" Biblical Archaeology Review May/June 1979,
p. 23-26.
sequiBuhle. Paul. "Comics Grow Up (Again)". New York Press (2003) Volume 16, Issue 48.
Reviews of Johnny Jihad, The Metamorphosis and Portraits of Israelis & Palestinians (for My Parents).
--------. "Of Mice and Menschen" Tikkun Mar.-Apr. 1992 : 9-16.
Review of Maus (books 1 & 2) and The New American Splendor Anthology, with an overview of Jewish comics creators such as Harvey Kurtzman and Sharon Rudahl.
Burke, David G. and Lydia Lebrón-Rivera. "Transferring Biblical Narrative to Graphic Novel" Society of Biblical Literature, April 7, 2004.
Burstein, Chaya. The Kids' Cartoon Bible (Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society).
Byrne, John. "Death Watch" Wonder Woman (2nd series) #125 Sep. 1997 (NY : DC).
Calanitte. "Lost in Siberia" [comic strip] Hammodia Magazine.
Campiti, David & Karen May. "Siege part Two" Beauty and the Beast #5 Sep. 1993 (Wheeling, WV : Innovation).
[Canadian Jewish Congress]. Jewish War Heroes #1-3 (1944?)
Biographical sketches of Jews who served during WWII. Reprints available from CJC Archives Montreal for a minimal photocopying+shipping fee.
--------. Some Never Die : The Story of Sgt. Samuel Moses Hurwitz Jewish War Heroes #4? (1944?)
Carpenter, Brent Dorian. "Critical Mass" U. N. Force #5 (Plymouth, MI : Gauntlet, 1993?)
--------. "New World Order" U. N. Foorce #1 (Plymouth, MI : Gauntlet, 1993)
Cavalieri, Joey. "Hell on Earth". Justice League of America #226 May 1984.
(NY: DC).
In Fez (Morocco), undercover Israeli Secret Service agents attempt to stop
Lord Arsenic's plans for world conquest, but are themselves killed by his power.
Charkah, Shai. Parshat Bab'a (Tel Aviv : Modan, 2000).
Chaves, Marta and Jose Antonio Serrano. "Palestina de Joe Sacco" Guia del Comic May 2002.
Discussion of Joe Sacco's Palestine, with links to page scans (13
in English, 3 in Spanish ; the Castillian link doesn't work properly at present).
Chaykin, Howard V. Blackhawk : Book One : Blood & Iron (NY : DC, 1987).
--------. "State of the Union". American Flagg! #7 Apr. 1984 (Evanston, IL : First).
--------. "Time2" American Flagg! Special #1 Nov. 1986 (Chicago : First).
--------. [Untitled]. Power & Glory Holiday Special #1 Dec. 1994 (Calabasas, CA : Malibu).
-------- and John Francis Moore. Batman / Houdini : The Devil's Workshop (NY: DC).
Chichester, P. G. An American Tail : Feivel Goes West (NY : Marvel, 1991).
Comics adaptation of the film about the move of the Mousekewitz family and their fellow mice to Green River - a town where, supposedly, cats and mice live together in peace. However, Cat R. Waul and his gang plan to make mouseburgers out of them all. The only Jewish aspect of the story is the use of Jewish names (e.g. Feivel and Mousekewitz) and the cat-mouse allegory for Gentile-Jewish relations. For better use of the Jews-as-mice, Gentiles-as-cats metaphor, see art spiegelman's Maus.
Chick, Jack T. The Big Deal [tract] (Chino, CA : Chick Publications, 2001).
--------. Birds and the Bees [tract] (Chino, CA : Chick Publications, 2004).
--------. Burn Baby Burn [tract] (Chino, CA : Chick Publications, 1991).
--------. Cats [tract] (Chino, CA : Chick Publications, 1990).
--------. Caught! (Chino, CA : Chick, 2002).
Tells the story of David and Bathsheba. It is similar to the Chick
tract The Royal Affair, but is missing Fluffy the Sheep.
--------. "Chaos" The Crusaders vol. 5 (Chino, CA : Chick Publications, 1976).
--------. Creator or Liar? [tract] (Chino, CA : Chick Publications, 1976).
--------. Doom Town : The Story of Sodom [tract] (Chino, CA: Chick Publications, 1999).
--------. The Dreamer [tract] (Chino, CA : Chick Publications, 1991).
--------. Earthman [tract] (Chino, CA : Chick Publications, 1990).
--------. Fire Starter (Chino, CA : Chick Publications, 1986).
--------. The First Jaws (Chino, CA : Chick Publications, 1985).
--------. "Four Horsemen" The Crusaders vol. 16 (Chino, CA : Chick Publications, 1985).
--------. Framed [tract] (Chino, CA : Chick Publications, 2001).
--------. The Gay Blade (Chino, CA : Chick Publications, 1984).
--------. Going to the Dogs (Chino, CA : Chick Publications, 1992).
--------. Holocaust [tract] c1984. (Chino, CA: Chick Publications)
Anti-Catholic hate literature in the form of
an evangelistic tract aimed at Jews.
--------. In the Beginning [tract] c2000 (Chino, CA: Chick Publications)
--------. It's Coming [tract] (Chino, CA: Chick Publications, 2000).
--------. It's the Law [tract] (Chino, CA: Chick Publications, 2001).
--------. Killer Storm [tract] (Chino, CA: Chick Publications, 1991).
--------. The Last Judge [tract] (Chino, CA : Chick, 2002).
Briefly tells the stories of Eli the high priest, Samuel the prophet,
King Saul and King David.
--------. The Loser [tract] (Chino, CA: Chick Publications, 2002).
--------. Love the Jewish People [tract] c1992 (also published under the title Jeopardy and in Hebrew as Ohev et ha-`am ha-yehudi. (Chino, CA: Chick Publications)
Evangelistic tract intended to convince Jews that they are all destined for
hell unless they accept Jesus as their saviour. Previously published as
"Support Your Local Jew" and republished as "Love the Jewish People".
--------. Macho! [tract] (Chino,, CA: Chick Publications, 1982).
--------. Miss Universe [tract] (Chino, CA: Chick Publications, 1987).
--------. The Monster (Chino, CA : Chick, 2002).
Tells the story of how Nebuchadnezzar had his dreams interpreted by
Daniel.
--------. The Nervous Witch (Chino, CA : Chick, 2002). Tells the story of how King Saul went to a witch to get her to let him speak to the spirit of Samuel the prophet.
--------. The Outcast [tract] (Chino, CA: Chick Publications, 2001).
--------. The Outsider [tract] (Chino, CA: Chick Publications, 1991).
--------. The Passover Plot? [tract] (Chino, CA: Chick Publications, 1972).
--------. Payback (Chino, CA : Chick, 2002).
Tells the story of how Jezebel convinced King Naboth to use deceit to
seize the vineyard of Naboth.
--------. Plagues [tract] (Chino, CA: Chick Publications, 1991).
--------. The Promise [tract] (Ontario, CA : Chick Publications, c2001)
--------. Real Heat (Chino, CA : Chick, 2002).
Tells the story of how Nebuchadnezzar tried to burn alive 3 Israelites
who had refused to vow down to a 100-foot idol he had built for the
people to worship. After they miraculously survived the fire,
Nebuchadnezzar panicked, repented and praied their G-d.
--------. The Royal Affair : The Story of David and Bathsheba [tract] (Chino, CA: Chick Publications, 1993).
--------. The Sacrifice [tract] (Chino, CA: Chick Publications, 1991).
--------. The Scam [tract] (Chino, CA: Chick Publications, 2002).
--------. The Scoundrel [tract] (Chino, CA: Chick Publications, 1991).
--------. Sin Busters [tract] (Chino, CA: Chick Publications, 1991).
--------. Sin City [tract] c2001. (Ontario, CA : Chick Publications)
--------. Superman? [tract] (Chino, CA: Chick Publications, 1990).
--------. Terminator? [tract] (Chino, CA: Chick Publications, 1988).
--------. "Where's Rabbi Waxman?" [tract] c1996 (published in Hebrew as Hekhan Ravi Vaksman?. (Chino, CA: Chick Publications)
Evangelistic tract intended to convince Jews that they are all
destined for hell unless they accept Jesus as their saviour. Click on the picture to go to the gallery, which has a link to the complete Waxman tract.
Choe, David. "Yoffee Toffee" Rosetta : A Comics Anthology, 3rd
story (Gainesville, FL : Alternative, 2002).
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Chuliá, J.V. "Llamando a las puertas del cielo".
As a prelude to talking about a lecture that took place in October of
2002, the author of this article talks about a Jewsweek article about
Jews & comics.
Ciancanelli, Steven. [untitled] Mitzvah 4 #1 (NY : Number Foundation, 2002).
Claremont, Chris. "Claiming the Crown" X-Men : True Friends #3 Nov. 1999 (NY : Marvel).
Ignoring Star Trek's "temporal prime directive", Shadowcat tries to get in touch with her Polish relatives to warn them about the death camps, but fails because she doesn't know enough about them. She explains to her friend Alasdhair the events of the Holocaust that are to come.
--------. "From the Ashes ..." Captain America (1st series) #237 Sep. 1979 (NY : Marvel)
Steve Rogers meets Anna Kapplebaum, a Holocaust survivor. Steve's face reminds her of superhero Captain America, who saved her and others from being massacred just prior to the liberation of Diebenwald. She recalls (in flashback) Kristallnacht, the rounding up of Jewish families, the cattle cars, how her parents were beaten to death and how the camp commandant unsuccessfully tried to kill the remaining survivors of the camp shortly before it was liberated.
--------. "Gold Rush!" The Uncanny X-Men #161 Sep. 1982 (NY : Marvel), reprinted in X-Men Classic #65 (NY : Marvel, November 1991), X-Men Archives #4 (NY : Marvel, Late January 1995) and The Essential X-Men #3 (NY : Marvel, July 1998).
--------. "Into the Abyss" New Mutants #27 May 1985 (NY : Marvel), reprinted in X-Men Archives #2 (NY : Marvel, January 1995) .
--------. "Night Screams" Uncanny X-Men #159 July 1982 (NY : Marvel).
--------. "The Price" Excalibur #11 Aug. 1989 (NY : Marvel).
--------. "The Spiral Path" Uncanny X-Men #199 Nov. 1985 (NY : Marvel)
--------. "The Two-edged Sword" Excalibur #9 June 1989 (NY : Marvel).
--------. "Widget" Excalibur #10 Jul. 1989 (NY : Marvel).
Clowes, Daniel. "The First Time" Eightball #14, 3rd story, Oct. 1994 (Seattle : Fantagraphics), reprinted in His Ghost World (Seattle : Fantagraphics, 1998).
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--------. "Ghost World" Eightball #11, 5th story, June 1993 (Seattle : Fantagraphics), reprinted in His Ghost World (Seattle : Fantagraphics, 1998).
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--------. "Hubba hubba" Eightball #15, 2nd story, Apr. 1995 (Seattle : Fantagraphics), reprinted in His Ghost World (Seattle : Fantagraphics, 1998).
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--------. "October" Eightball #18, 1st story, Mar. 1997 (Seattle : Fantagraphics), reprinted in His Ghost World (Seattle : Fantagraphics, 1998).
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Cobb, Ron. [untitled]. 196?.
Conway, Gerry. "And Death Be My Destiny". Wonder Woman (1st series) #234 Aug. 1977. (NY: DC).
In this second part, Nazi U-Boat Captain Wilhelm Strung tries to kill
superheroine Wonder Woman and to destroy a British fleet, having blackmailed a superpowered Jew into doing his bidding by threatening the lives of his young children. In the end, after Wonder Woman saves the children, he sacrifices his own life in an attempt to save the fleet and wreak vengeance on his captors. Some disturbing quotes: "...you would be worth less alive than dead! As a corpse we could at least use your body for soap!" (pg. 3); "[I kill] because I am weak-- and will not see my children die." (pg. 9); "Before Hitler's new order, I was little more than my fat employer's slave! He gave me nothing...and while he gorged, I starved! The Nazi Party changed all that! Now my employer screams in a concentration camp and Wilhelm Strung has command of life--and death!" (pg. 9).
--------. "The Biology Bomb". Wonder Woman (1st series) #235 Sep. 1977 (NY: DC).
In this third part, Horst and Frieda, Jewish refugee orphans under the protection of superheroine Wonder Woman are taken by her to two orphanages. The introduction recaps that their father, "persecuted because he was a Jew",
was killed before their eyes and their mother "died years before in a concentration camp". Mrs. Sandhurst refuses them admission to the Wilmont Orphanage because they don't speak English and "Wilmont is a Christian institution"; she reccommends a Jewish orphanage "where they will be happier among their own kind". There, Dr. Rabin tells her, "Freedom is a two-edged sword...the very laws which support our rights also support the rights of the prejudiced...for now America is still the world's hope for liberty."
--------. "Flesh and Blood" Web of Spider-Man #57 Mid-Nov. 1996 (NY : Marvel).
-------. "A God By Any Other Name" House of Secrets #150 Feb.-March 1978 (NY : DC).
--------. "The Miracle at 22,300 Miles!" Justice League of America #188 (2nd story) March 1981(NY: DC).
In this backup story, the superhero called the Atom (in his secret id as Ray Palmer) spends Hanukkah with friends. Later, after an energy-related miracle occurs on the JLA satelite, Atom draws a parallel between that miracle and the miracle that Hanukkah celebrates.
--------. "Opposing Forces" (2nd story) The Spectacular Spider-Man Annual #8 (NY : Marvel, 1988).
--------. "Return to Sender" (1st story) The Spectacular Spider-Man Annual #8 (NY : Marvel, 1988).
--------. "Seadeath" Wonder Woman (1st series) #233 July 1977 (NY : DC).
During World War II, U-boat commander Captain Strung seems to have gained control over powerful sea creatures, using them to attck the enemies of the Third Reich. After superheroine Wonder Woman is swallowed alive by one such creature, the reader is shown that the true master of the beast is a Jew named Friedrich. Friedrich is being blackmailed into obeying the Nazi to keep his children alive. When he says the Hebrew name for G-d, Strung throws him down and yells "Juden dog! ... Bad enough we are forced to breathe the same air as you do. I will not hear your blasphemy as well!" In the story, Friedrich says "yahweh", though most Jews would prefer to say "Hashem" (Jews are forbidden to say the name of G-d out loud, except in prayer).
Cooper, Chris. "'Liberty'" Star Trek : Starfleet Academy #2 Jan. 1997
(NY : Marvel).
-------- and John Dennis. "Night of the Comet" Queer Nation, chapter 1.
Corwin, Norman. The Story of Ruth {aka Four Color #1144} (NY : Dell, 1960).
Croci, Pascal. Auschwitz (NY : Harry N. Abrahams, 2003).
Originally published by EP Editions, Paris, 2002.
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Crumb, Robert. "When the Goddamn Jews Take Over America!" in His R. Crumb's America (Last Gasp, 1995).
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Crumb, Robert and Aline Kominsky. Dirty Laundry Comics. (Last Gasp Eco-Funnies, 1977).
D'ambrosio, Butch. "Disposable Camera Bar Mitzvah Photos that Didn't make the Album" MAD Magazine #433 Sept. 2003 (NY : EC).
Darnall, Steve. [untitled]. Uncle Sam #2 (NY : DC, 1997).
Davenport, Misha. "Jews are the true comic-book heroes" Chicago Sun-Times September 24, 2003.
David, Peter.
"Dinner Hour" Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man
#117 Aug. 1986 (NY : Marvel).
--------. "Double-edged Sword" Supergirl (2nd series) #23 (NY : DC, 1998).
--------. "Hiding Behind Mosques" The Incredible Hulk #387 Nov. 1991 (NY : Marvel).
Superheroes Hulk and Sabra continue their battle which takes them from the Israel Museum to the Western Wall to the golden dome. During the fight, Sabra compares herself to the Israeli state ("attack us and we endure ... and we give as good as we get"), which has the Hulk thinking "Terrific ... I'm fighting the Zionist Recruiting Board". After they call a truce, they try to stop Achilles from killing Max Meer. Achilles distracts them (by telling them about his family being killed during the Holocaust and how the Nazis failed to kill him in the gas chasmbers), while Max runs right into the mind-controlled mob he stirred up. Max becomes seriously hurt by them. The reader is shown that Max was just a medium being controlled and used by his friend Gretta.
--------. "Little Hitler". The Incredible Hulk #386 Oct. 1991. (NY: Marvel).
A clairvoyant named Delphi has a vision of mind-controlling dictator Max
Meer and of prisoners in a concentration camp marching in a desert in front of armed soldiers. Hulk (a superhero) is sent to Jerusalem to kill young Max so that the future
can be altered. However, he is delayed by Israeli superheroine Sabra, who is unaware of the vision.
--------. "Mending Fences" The Incredible Hulk #373 Sep. 1990 (NY : Marvel).
--------. "Revisionist History" Marvel Holiday Special Jan.
1993 (4th story) (NY : Marvel).
Leonard Samson (aka the superhero "Doc Samson") visits a Hebrew school
to talk to the kids about Hanukkah. When they find the story too dull,
he spices it up by inserting contemporary references and super-powered
characters (e.g. Hulk, Wolverine, Elvis). Not unlike the Tick's
version of the Hanukkah story.
--------. "Tribute the First" X-Factor Annual #5 (2nd story) (NY : Marvel, 1990).
Superheroine Marvel Girl questions her identity at the cemetery, while putting flowers on her tombstone. There, she meets Mrs. Scully, a Holocaust survivor,
and listens to her life story. Marvel Girl learns that even "normal" people can
go through traumatic life changes and need to deal with issues of identity.
--------. [untitled] _Blasters Special_ #1 (NY : DC).
Davis, Barry. "Think Young, Think Fink" Jerusalem Post Oct. 17, 2002.
Davis, Gary. "Psalm 51" Proverbs and Parables (New Creation Publications / Christian Comic Arts Society, 1998), p. 54-56.
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Deitch, Kim. "The Story of Job" Outrageous Tales from the Old Testament (12th story) (London : Knockabout, 1987).
DeMatteis, J.M. "Bernie America, Sentinel of Liberty" Captain America #289 (2nd story) Jan. 1984 (NY : Marvel).
Captain America's Jewish girlfriend, Bernie Rosenthal fantasizes about what it woulkd be like to be a patriotic superheroine like her boyfriend Captain America.
--------. "Death Camp" Weird War Tales #72 (1st story) Feb. 1979 (NY : DC).
--------. "The Fuse" Iceman #1 Dec. 1984 (NY : Marvel).
--------. "Future Shock!" Captain America #287 (1st series) Nov. 1983 (NY : Marvel)
Bernie Rosenthal's parents complain to Bernie about her boyfriend Steve Rogers, who cancelled out on dinner at the last minute (especially since
her mother cooked and cleaned all week for the occasion). Meanwhile, Rogers
(as superhero ">Captain America) is fighting a villain called Deathlok.
--------. "Greenberg the Vampire" Marvel Graphic Novel #20 (NY : Marvel, 1986).
Oscar Greenberg, a Jewish vampire who is also a talented horror writer, is stalked by Lilith. Lilith wants him to use his talent to "seduce the millions" through his writing, drawing them to Lilith and her dark ways. Oscar's family, accompanied by Rabbi Zeydl ("wisest of the wise"), try to foil her plan and save Greenberg. In the end, it is Oscar's love for his mother that saves him and defeats Lilith.
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--------. "The Resurrection Stone" Avengers #209 July 1981 (NY : Marvel).
Following the trail of the resurrection stone through time, the Avengers superhero team arrive in Dachau during liberation. There, they find that Holocaust survivor Sol Rosenblatt using power of the half-stone to try to bring his murdered aughter and wife back to life. Paradoxically, he only raised the body "without its soul" and "revived the spirirt in a lifeless husk". The Beast convinces Sol to let their sould be free and to relinquish the stone.
--------. "Someone Who Cares" Captain America #270 June 1982 (NY : Marvel).
Arnie Roth seeks the help of superhero Captain America. In flashback, Arnie is shown protecting his best friend Steve Rogers (Captain America's alter ego) from bullies and Steve becomes close to the Roth family after his
father dies. Meanwhile, Bernie Rosenthal comes to the defense of a bag lady who is being harassed by street youths. While walking her home, she feels paranoid, thinking "[paranoia] is probably a normal reaction when a nice, middle-class Jewish girl comes face to face with this kind of poverty."
--------. "Songs of Happy Chear" Moonshadow #1 (NY: DC, 1985), reprinted in DeMatteis, J.M. The Compleat Moonshadow (NY : DC, 1998).
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--------. "Sturm und Drang: The Life annd Times of the Red Skull" Captain America (1st series) #298 Oct. 1984 (NY : Marvel).
--------. "Turning Point" Captain America #276 (1st series) Dec. 1982 (NY : Marvel)
Sammy Bernstein tells superhero Captain America that he realizes that he wrongly let hate consume him during the anti-Nazi rally.
--------. [untitled] Bizarre Adventures #29 (2nd story) Dec. 1981 (NY : Marvel).
--------. "A Very Uncomfortable Thing" Moonshadow #2 (NY: DC, 1985), reprinted in DeMatteis, J.M. The Compleat Moonshadow (NY : DC, 1998).
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--------. "Yesterday's Shadows" Captain America #275 (1st series) Nov. 1982 (NY : Marvel)
In his civilian guise as Steve Rogers, superhero Captain America returns home
from shopping with his Jewish girlfriend Bernie Rosenthal and his Jewish landlord Anna Kapplebaum. As they pass by Temple Beth-Or, they notice that it has been vandalized and that a Nazi swastika has been spray-painted on its doors. While cleaning up, Steve defends the rights of the neo-nazis : "A free society has to allow all ideas -- both noble and ignoble." Bernie invites Steve to a counter-rally to be held in a park where a Nazi rally will be taking place. Initially he declines, but changes his mind after an executive at a firm that hires him rudely dimisses Arthur Grossman (whom he calls "that old Jew"). The rally and counter-rally turn violent, with Captain America and riot police trying to calm the mob down. After Sammy Bernstein, leader of the Jewish Protection Agency (obviously meant to represent the Jewish Defense League) and the Nazi leader both fall off the stage trying to attack him, Captain America compares them to each other : "You two aren't interested in the truth ... you're [both] only interested in your own self-consuming hate."
De Bourbon, Vaucus. "Mind Over Matter : The Story of Sandy Koufax"
Baseball Legends Comics #7 Sep. 1992.
This comic bio barely acknowledges that Koufax is Jewish. A panel on page 3 shows him "tangling with Brighton Beach's best at the Jewish community house". A caption in a panel on page 24 reads in part, "Immedaitaely after the [Sep. 17th] game, he heads back to L.A. to spend Yom Kippur, the Jewish "High Holy Day," at home. The panel doesn't depict Sandy in shul. Sandy's decision to observe Yom Kippur during the baseball season was not as significant as that of Hank Greenberg.
Dervish, Mahmut. "Dawn of the Dead" (3rd story) Incubus #1 (London :
Plieades Cluster, 1999).
Starts off as a rant about bad horor flicks, specifically vampir
movies. At the end, a crowd of vampires including the narrator (Hank
Zimmerman) is shown, Hank turns into a bat and says "shalom" to the
reader.
Di Tullio, Saverio. 1943 : The Road to Ortona (NY : Legas, 1998)
Dickens, Charles. "Oliver Twist" [adapted by Georgina Campbell] Classics Illustrated #23 (NY : Gilberton, 1946), reprinted 1997 by Acclaim (NY).
Comic book adaptation on Charles Dickens' classic story of an English orphan who is taken in by thieves. In the notes at the end, it is acknowledged that the Faigin character (who is sometimes drawn in this version with a long nose) was written as Jewish. It also notes that the text would refer to Faigin as "the Jew". The Acclaim reprint includes 10 pages of notes by Deborah Condon, including the esssay "Anti-Semitism in 19th Century England".
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--------. "Oliver Twist" [adapted by Naunerle Farr?] Pocket Classics #C58 (West Haven, CT : Academic, 1984), reprinted as Pendulum's Illustrated Stories Series IV #19.
Dixon, Chuck. "A Christmas Carol" DCU Holiday Bash II (7th story) (NY : DC, 1998).
This Sgt. Rock tale is a silent, moving interpretation of the classic (yet unfortunately cliched) Charles Dickens tale. In this version, the first visitation (the ghost of wars past) comes from a dead WWI soldier who shows Rock the carnage of the Great War. The Ghost of Wars Present is an emaciated Holocaust victim who reveals to Rock the piles of massacred innocents, the chimneys spewing human ash, the Nazi flag waving in the wind, bringing tears to Rock's eyes. Finally the Ghost of Wars Future (a Gulf War soldier) takes him past rows of headstones in a military cemetery to Sgt. Rock's own grave. Then he points to the proudly waving American flag - symbol of the freedom the U.S. has fought for over the decades. The sparing use of the 3 colors of the American flag in the visitation scenes is an effective touch.
--------. "The House of Peace" DCU Holiday Bash II (2nd story) (NY : DC, 1998).
At a Gotham synagogue, shortly before a Friday night during the festival of Hannukah, an armed thief startles the rabbi, causing him to drop a container of oil that was to be used for the ceremonial menorah lighting. After the thief has left with the donations box (said to contain enough gifts to "keep the temple open all year"), the rabbi laments that the lamp cannot be lit after sundown. Miraculously, Batman retrieves the box after defeating the crook and a child named Danny apparently finds oil and brings it back to the synagogue in time to be lit. While the mention of the sabbath beginning at sundown and the depiction of separate seating for men and women gave the story Jewish authenticity, the focus on fundraising prior to a Hannukah service on a Friday and the lighting of a real oil lamp seemed peculiar to me. Jews tend to not carry money to the synagogue on Friday night, as they are forbidden to carry money during the Sabbath (and thus, would not be allowed to carry money home). Synagogues tend to raise most of its money from individual and family memberships, as well as the sale of tickets for High Holy Day services (worldwide, synagogue attendance is highest during the High Holy Days). Most Jews today light candles to represent the traditional oil lamp and I've seen many households in Brooklyn put electric menorahs in their windows. Actual oil lamp lighting is rare today.
Doran, Colleen. [Death at a Concentration Camp]. Death Gallery (NY : DC, 1994), reprinted in Vertigo Visions : Artwork from the Cutting Edge of Comics (NY: Watson-Guptill, 2000).
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Dorfman, Michael. "Our Jewish Supermensch". Jan.(?) 2004.
Dorkin, Evan. "The Soda Thief" Streetwise : Autobiographical Stories by Comic Book Professionals (Raleigh, NC : TwoMorrows, 2000).
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Drake, Arnold. "Gypsy Shade" House of Mystery #261 (3rd story) Oct. 1978 (NY: DC).
In this second story, Anna Klein, an alleged war criminal, is on trial
and is found innocent. The ghost of one of her victims (or G-d, depending
on how you interpret it) gets vengeance upon her. Reference is made to
answering to "the highest of judges".
Drooker, Eric. "JewBlackJewBlackJewBlackJewBlackJewBlack!" originally
published in an issue of World War 3 llustrated (?) ; republished
in World War 3 Illustrated : Confrontational Comics, ed. by Scott
Cunningham, Sabrina Jones, Peter Kuper and Seth Tobocman, p. 129.
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Duke, David. "How Odd of God to Choose the Rats" Crusader #28 (1977).
Hate comic that depicts Jews as rats, just as Art Spiegelman would later depict Jews as mice (with Nazis as the cats).
Edison, Mike. "Jewish Amphetamine Princess in 'High Profile' " Heeb : The New Jew Review #3 Spring 2003 (Brooklyn, NY : Heeb Magazine). br>
Edwing, Duck. "Duck Droppings : THe Bible" Mad Magazine #417 May 2002 (NY : EC).
Eichenbaum, Ken. Hoppel Poppel (s.l. : Litteratti Books, 2002).
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Eiserike, Josh. Liberal Crap [comic strip] in The Diamondback Dec. 2001 [4 consecutive strips].
The first strip shows 2 Jewish guys cheking out a Jewish online dating service (& they used a real URL). After realizing that the service is not free, one of them makes the observation that "profiting off of Jews who can't get any" is "ingenious".
The second strip shows a student watching a video - highlights from "Portnoy's
Complaint" - for his Jewish Lit class. Another student says "If that's Jewish Lit, I'd hate to see Jewish porn".
In the 3rd, Josh (the author perhaps?) is explaining to a Gentile friend
about the fun Jewish holidays. She wonders why more people don't convert
to Judaism. His answer : "snippety-snip".
Last is a supposed recollection of the author's trip to Israel which ends
with a cab driver telling him "On kibbutz, what's mine is yours, what's yours is mine. I bang your wife, you bang my goat!!! Everyone shares!!!"
Eisner, Will. The Building. (Princeton: Kitchen Sink, c1987).
Basically, 4 stories of people and the building that affected their lives. The first story shows how guilt-ridden Monroe Mensch is unable to become the good samaritan that he wants to be and pay his debt to society. The second story involves married Goldie who meets the poet she loves, but could not marry, every week in front of the building.
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--------. "Collisions" in Eisner, Will. City People Notebook (NY : DC), 67-74.
--------. A Contract with G-d and Other Tenement Stories (Princeton: Kitchen Sink, c1995).
4 short stories dealing with life in a New York Jewish ghetto. The first story involves a religious immigrant who loses his faith after his adopted daughter dies in her youth. The final story looks at Jews escaping city life to enjoy a weekend in the Catskills.
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--------. The Dreamer (Princeton: Kitchen Sink, c1986).
Semi-autobiographical account of the comic book industry set during its
golden age (the 1940's). Features characters based on Jewish comics legends
(e.g. Jack King = Jack "The King" Kirby).
Annotations for this book are availble on the WWW.
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--------. Dropsie Avenue : The Neighborhood (Northampton, Mass. : Kitchen Sink, 1995).
Among the Jewish characters in this excellent graphic novel are : Izzy Cash, the ragman who becomes a successful landlord ; Abe Gold, the lawyer-turned-politician who marries Marie Leone (an Italian Catholic) ; Rosie (?) who befriends Ruby Brown (a local black girl) and who indirectly helps her unemployed father get a job at a local synagogue ; Mrs. Bernstein (Izzy's secratary), who keeps convincing him to be more charitable and progressive ; Yankel, a Hasidic boy who learns to respect G-d's laws ; and Yussel, who is beaten up by a gang of thugs.
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--------. Fagin the Jew : A Graphic Novel (Doubleday, 2003).
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--------. Invisible People. (Princeton: Kitchen Sink, 1992).
"Sanctum" (1st story), deals with Pincus Pleatnik - a man who works for a tailor named Al Schmotter: "Pincus was a hider! From childhood he sought a sanctum where he could be safe from the unpredictable danger of human contact. To him there was sanctuary in invisibility. Instinctively he understood that being unnoticed is a major skill in the art of urban survival." In "Mortal Combat" (3rd story), two Jewish librarians fall in love. Their happiness is short-lived due to the jealousy of the man's mother. I believe this is the only Jewish comic tale to date involving Jewish librarians (not that there's a lot of portrayal of Jewish librarians in other media either; only Roth comes to mind).
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--------. A Life Force. (Princeton: Kitchen Sink, c1988).
Depression-era tale of an out-of-work Jew who starts a successful business with an Italian immigrant friend (with a little help from the mob). There's a nice full-page explanation of the Jewish emigration to NY. Another page tells of when the Italians came over.
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--------. Minor Miracles : Long Ago and Once upon a Time Back When Uncles Were Heroic, Cousins Were Clever, and Miracles Happened on Every Block (NY : DC, 2000).
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--------. An Opmakh Mit Got : A Graphisher Novelle.
A transliterated version of the Yiddish translation of the title story of A Contract with G-d.
--------. "Privacy" in His Will Eisner's New York : The Big City (NY : DC, 2000).
Irving Kvetch piles boxes up along a dividing wall, so that he can see and talk to his next door neighbor (who is listening to music and sunbathing nude).
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--------. To the Heart of the Storm (Princeton: Kitchen Sink,
c1991).
If you buy only one comic book / graphic novel for your library, make it this one. The major messages of the book - the senselessness of violence and prejudice - are wonderfully delivered without being preachy. Even Jews are shown to be prejudiced against fellow Jews (in this case, German-Jewish immigrants). Other topics that are dealt with are poverty,
assimilation and intermarriage.
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Ennis, Garth. "Unknown Soldier : Book One" Unknown Soldier #1 {3rd series} (NY : Vertigo, 1997), reprinted in Unknown Soldier (trade paperback)
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Epstein, Morris. Picture Parade of Jewish History (NY: Shengold, 1963).
Consists of 1-tone, single-page, 12-panel biographical sketches with accompanying text on facing pages. A number of time periods and types of people (soldiers, philanthropists, scholars) are represented, although the book consists mostly of American biographies and mostly of Jewish men (the exceptions are Rebecca Gratz, Emma Lazarus, Henrietta Szold and Hannah Senesh). One of the profiles is of Solomon Da Costa, responsible for the 200 volumes that compised the Jewish book collection of the British Museum. Recommended for children. Unfortunately, while adults can read more detailed texts about these individuals, full-length comic book biographies have yet to be written about these famous Jews.
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Eskin, Blake. "Cartoon Caper" The Forward Oct. 16, 1998, p. 2.
Estrin, Leibel. "Avrohom to the Rescue" Mendy and the Golem #1 (2nd story) July 1981 (NY : Mendy Enterprises).
--------. "The Case of the Missing Glasses" The Adventures of Mendy and the
Golem #2 (3rd story) Nov. 1981 (NY : Mendy Enterprises).
--------. "Chassidic Career Counseling"" The Adventures of Mendy and the Golem #19 (3rd story) Apr. 1985 (NY : Mendy Enterprises).
--------. "'Double Trouble' or Dr. Hardheart's Revenge!" The Adventures of Mendy and the Golem #10 (1st story) May 1983 (NY : Mendy Enterprises).
--------. "Gideon's Great Victory" The Adventures of Mendy and the Golem #2 (2nd story) Nov. 1981 (NY : Mendy Enterprises).
--------. Grandma's Seder Plate is Missing (Mendy Comics, 1999).
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--------. "Home on the S-s-st-range"
--------. "I Spy a Crooked Spy" Mendy and the Golem #12 (1st story) Av / Elul 5743 Sept. 1983 (NY : Mendy Enterprises).
--------. "The Last Laugh's on You!"
--------. Mendy {syndicated comic strip}.
--------. "Mendy & the Golem" Farbrengen Winter 2001.
--------. "Mendy & the Golem" Farbrengen Spring 2002.
--------. "Mendy Meets the Golem" Mendy and the Golem #1 (1st story) July 1981 (NY : Mendy Enterprises).
--------. "The Mezuzah that Saved a Life" The Adventures of Mendy and the
Golem #5 (3rd story) May 1982 (NY : Mendy Enterprises).
--------. "The Mitzvah" Mendy and the Golem #1 (4th story) July 1981
(NY : Mendy Enterprises).
--------. "A One-page Story" The Adventures of Mendy and the Golem #10 (4th story) May 1983 (NY : Mendy Enterprises).
--------. "Portrait of a Torah Scholar : Rabbi Yisroel Meir Ha-Kohain" Mendy and the Golem #12 (3rd
story) Av / Elul 5743 Sept. 1983 (NY : Mendy Enterprises).
--------. "'Rabbi Akiva's Daughter' or 'Tsedokah in Hisss-story'" The Adventures of Mendy and the Golem #4 (2nd story) Mar. 1982 (NY : Mendy
Enterprises).
--------. "School Daze" The Adventures of Mendy and the Golem #4 (1st story) Mar. 1982 (NY : Mendy Enterprises).
--------. "Sholem's Wheel of Fortune Takes a Turn for the Worse!" The Adventures of Mendy and the Golem #2 (1st story) Nov. 1981 (NY :
Mendy Enterprises).
--------. "Stories of Our Sages" The Adventures of Mendy and the Golem #4 (3rd story) Mar. 1982 (NY : Mendy Enterprises).
--------. "Stories of Our Sages" The Adventures of Mendy and the Golem #5 (2nd story) May 1982 (NY : Mendy Enterprises).
--------. "Stories of Our Sages" The Adventures of Mendy and the Golem #9 (3rd story) Mar. 1983 (NY : Mendy Enterprises).
--------. "Stories of Our Sages" The Adventures of Mendy and the Golem #10 (2nd story) May 1983 (NY : Mendy Enterprises).
--------. "Stories of Our Sages" Mendy and the Golem #12 (4th story) Av / Elul 5743 Sept. 1983 (NY : Mendy Enterprises).
--------. "Stories of Our Sages" The Adventures of Mendy and the Golem #16 (3rd story) Sept. 1984 (NY : Mendy Enterprises).
--------. "Stories of Our Sages" The Adventures of Mendy and the Golem #19 (4th story) Apr. 1985 (NY : Mendy Enterprises).
--------. "Torah Tales" Mendy and the Golem #1 (3rd story) July 1981
(NY : Mendy Enterprises).
--------. "Torah Tales" The Adventures of Mendy and the Golem #4 (4th story) Mar. 1982 (NY : Mendy Enterprises).
--------. "Torah Tales" The Adventures of Mendy and the Golem #8 (2nd story) Jan. 1983 (NY : Mendy Enterprises).
--------."Torah Tales" The Adventures of Mendy and the Golem #9 (2nd story) Mar. 1983 (NY : Mendy Enterprises).
--------. "Torah Tales" The Adventures of Mendy and the Golem #10 (3rd story) May 1983 (NY : Mendy Enterprises).
--------. "Torah Tales" Mendy and the Golem #12 (2nd story) Av / Elul 5743 Sept. 1983 (NY : Mendy Enterprises).
--------. "Torah Tales" The Adventures of Mendy and the Golem #16 (1st story) Sept. 1984 (NY : Mendy Enterprises).
--------. "Torah Tales" The Adventures of Mendy and the Golem #19 (2nd story) Apr. 1985 (NY : Mendy Enterprises).
--------. "War and Peace" The Adventures of Mendy and the Golem #16 (1st story) Sept. 1984 (NY : Mendy Enterprises).
--------. "Write Makes Might" The Adventures of Mendy and the Golem #5
(1st story) May 1982 (NY : Mendy Enterprises).
--------. "Wrong Route to Your Roots" The Adventures of Mendy and the Golem #8 (1st story) Jan. 1983 (NY : Mendy Enterprises).
--------. "'You Get What You Give'" The Adventures of Mendy and the Golem #8 (3rd story) Jan. 1983 (NY : Mendy Enterprises).
--------. "'You Get What You Give' - Another Version" The Adventures of Mendy and the Golem #8 (4th story) Jan. 1983 (NY : Mendy Enterprises).
Evanier, Mark. "Stuntwork". Hollywood Superstars #1 Nov. 1990 (NY : Epic).
-------- and Dan Spiegle. "A Blackhawk Christmas Tale" (3rd story) Blackhawk #268 Mar. 1984 (NY : DC).
Fago, John Norwood. "Houdini" in Houdini / Walt Disney (West Haven : Pendulum, 1979).
Farr, Naunerle. "Albert Einstein" Marie Curie / Albert Einstein
(West Haven, CT : Pendulum, 1979), p. 34-59.
Fast, Howard My Glorious Brothers : The Story of the Maccabees, serialized in World Over : A Magazine for Jewish Boys and Girls Nov. 1949 - June 1950 (NY : Jewish Education Committee of New York).
Feiffer, Jules. "The Minsk Theory of Krypton" New York Times
Magazine Dec. 29, 1996, p. 14-15, reprinted in Siegel, Marvin (ed.)The Last Word : The New York Times Book Of Obituaries And Farewells: A Celebration Of Unusual Lives (NY? : Quill, 1999).
Fein, Lewis A. "Murder for Mature Readers: Palestine's Comic Book"
Jewish World Review Aug. 20, 2002.
Feldstein, Al (?). "The Lonely One" Impact #4 (1st story) Sep.-Oct.
1955 (NY : EC) , reprinted July 1999 (West Plains, MO : Gemstone).
--------. "Master Race" Impact #1 (5th story) Mar.-Apr. 1955, reprinted in Kurtzman, Harvey. From Aargh! to Zap! : Harvey Kurtzman's Visual History of the Comics (Toronto : Prentice Hall Press, 1991), pg. 34 and reprinted in Impact #1 Apr. 1999 (West Plains, MO : Gemstone).
Fern, Jim. "Harry Houdini" in Gahan Wilson (ed.) The Big Book of Weirdos, p. 104-107.
Fingerman, Bob. "Any Port in a Storm" White Like She #1 May 1994 (Milwaukie, Oregon : Dark Horse), reprinted in White Like She (trade paperback).
--------. [untitled] White Like She #3 (Fantagraphics, 1995).
--------. "Diamond Dog" Scooby Doo #45 (1st story) Apr. 2001 (NY : DC).
Fink, Uri. The Fundametalists (I)" Fink! #1 July 2002 (1st story) (El Sobrante, CA : Hippy Comix).
--------. "The Fundametalists (II)" Fink! #1 July 2002 (4th story) (El Sobrante, CA : Hippy Comix).
--------. "The Fundametalists (III)" Fink! #1 July 2002 (7th story) (El
Sobrante, CA : Hippy Comix).
--------. "The Fundamentalists (IV)" Fink! #1 July 2002 (10th story) (El
Sobrante, CA : Hippy Comix).
--------. "The Fundamentalists (V)" Fink! #1 July 2002 (12th story) (El
Sobrante, CA : Hippy Comix).
--------. Ha-hagadah shel Zbeng. (Tel Aviv : Modan, 2000).
--------. "Humaus" Fink! #1 July 2002 (3rd story) (El Sobrante, CA : Hippy Comix).
--------. "The Insult that Made a Shahid out of Ahmed" Fink! #1 July 2002 (13th story) (El Sobrante, CA : Hippy Comix).
--------. "Lonesome Dove" Fink! #1 July 2002 (8th story) (El Sobrante, CA : Hippy Comix).
--------. "The Perfect Present" Fink! #1 July 2002 (2nd story) (El Sobrante, CA : Hippy Comix).
--------. [Rabbi Ben Death vs. Hamas!] Fink! #1 July 2002 (9th story) (El
Sobrante, CA : Hippy Comix).
------. "The Starship Yentaprise" Fink! #1 July 2002 (13th story) (El
Sobrante, CA : Hippy Comix).
------. "The System : A Story of Guts and Balls" Fink! #1 July 2002 (5th story) (El Sobrante, CA : Hippy Comix).
--------. [untitled] Sabraman #1 (Israel), reprinted in Fink, Uri. Sabaraman Versus Dr. Mengele (Israel : Good Times Publishing).
--------. [untitled] Sabraman #2, reprinted in Fink, Uri. Sabaraman Versus Dr. Mengele (Israel : Good Times Publishing).
--------. [untitled] Sabraman #3, reprinted in Fink, Uri. Sabaraman Versus Dr. Mengele (Israel : Good Times Publishing).
--------. [untitled] Sabraman #4, reprinted in Fink, Uri. Sabaraman Versus Dr. Mengele (Israel : Good Times Publishing).
--------. "The Urgin' Virgin" Fink! #1 July 2002 (11th story) (El Sobrante, CA : Hippy Comix).
--------. Uri Fink : The Author of Sabraman (Jerusalem : Sabraman Comics, 1976).
Fisher, David. "A Life of Chessed" Olomeinu / Our World
Fisher, Ed. [untitled]. New Yorker Oct. 4, 1993.
Fitzgerald, Paul E. "Every Picture Tells a Story" The washington Post, June 3, 2004, p. C01.
Fleeting, Kathleen Webb. [The Virtuous Women] Proverbs and Parables (New Creation Publications / Christian Comic Arts Society, 1998), p. 31-32.
Fleming, Robert Loren. "Above the Fray" Ragman (miniseries) #4 Jan. 1992 (NY: DC).
--------. "Bones of the Defenseless". Ragman (miniseries) #1 Oct. 1991
(NY: DC).
--------. "Feet of Clay" Ragman (miniseries) #5 Feb. 1992 (NY: DC).
--------. "A Folk Tale." Ragman (miniseries) #3 Dec. 1991 (NY: DC).
--------. "A Ragged Revenge" Ragman (miniseries) #2 Nov. 1991 (NY: DC).
--------. "Shreds" Ragman (miniseries) #6 Mar. 1992 (NY: DC).
--------. "Snitch" Batman : Legends of the Dark Knight #51 Sep. 1993 (NY: DC).
--------. "The Summit" Ragman (miniseries) #7 Apr. 1992 (NY: DC).
--------. "The Winds of Change" Ragman (miniseries) #8 May 1992 (NY: DC).
Flenniken, Shary. "Trots and Bonnie" National Lampoon #57 Dec. 1974.
Fo, Dario. Poer Nano (Milano : Edizioni Ottaviano, 1976).
Fogel, Sheva. "Drawing on Politics and Chutzpah : A Look at Israel's Comics" Comics Journal #141 Apr. 1991, p. 31-34.
Foster, Dorothy Fay (ed.) Life of Esther Visualized (Cincinatti : Standard Publishing, 1947).
Frahm, Ole. "Das weisse M : Zur Genealogie von MAUS(CHWITZ)" in Uberlebt und Unterwegs : Judische Displaced Persons im Nachkriegdeutschland,
(Frankfurt / NY : Campus Verlag, 1997).
Freeman, Tzvi. "Kabbala Komix" Farbrengen (2000), pg. 20
Friedman, Michael Jan. "The Vessel" DCU Holiday Bash #1 (5th story) (NY : DC, 1997)
Friedrich, Gary. "Lonely Are the Brave" Combat Kelly and the Deadly Dozen #2 Aug. 1972 (NY : Marvel).
Friedrich, Mike. "Black Crossing" Strange Tales #176 Oct. 1974 (NY : Marvel).
--------. "There Comes Now Raging Fire" Strange Tales #177 Dec. 1974 (NY : Marvel), reprinted in Forces in Combat #25 (UK, 1980).
Gable, Brian. "Item : Consensus Growing that Quebec Truly is a Distinct Society" [editorial cartoon] Globe and Mail 1996, reprinted in Badeaux, Guy (ed.) Portfoolio 12 : The Year's Best Canadian Editorial Cartoons (Toronto, Macmillan, 1996), p. 130.
Gaiman, Neil. "Imperfect Hosts" Sandman (2nd series) #2 Feb. 1989 (NY : DC), reprinted in Gaiman, Neil. Sandman : Preludes and Nocturnes (NY : DC, 1991), p. 52-76.
--------. "Parliament of Rooks" Sandman (2nd series) #40 Aug. 1992 (NY : DC), reprinted in Gaiman, Neil. Sandman : Preludes and Nocturnes (NY : DC, 1991), p. 200-224.
------. "Ramadan" Sandman (2nd series) #50 June 1993 (NY : DC), reprinted in Gaiman, Neil. Sandman : Fables and Reflections (NY : DC, 1993).
--------. "Season of Mists Chapter 1" Sandman #22 (NY : DC), reprinted in Gaiman, Neil. Sandman : Season of Mists.
--------. "The Sound of Her Wings" Sandman (2nd series) #8 1989 (NY : DC), reprinted in His Sandman : Preludes and Nocturnes (NY : DC), His Sandman : More than Rubies (NY : DC) , His Sandman : The Doll's House (NY : DC) and His Essential Vertigo: The Sandman #8 (NY : DC). There are annotations to this issue at http://www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de/~hildeb/sandman/annotations/sandman.08.shtml
------. "Three Septembers and a January" Sandman (2nd series) #31 Oct. 1991 (NY : DC), reprinted in Gaiman, Neil. Sandman : Fables and Reflections (NY : DC, 1993), p. 20-44.
--------. "The Tribe of Benjamin" Outrageous Tales from the Old Testament (10th story) (London : Knockabout, 1987).
-------- and Dave McKean. "The Prophet Who Came to Dinner" Outrageous Tales from the Old Testament (11th story) (London : Knockabout, 1987).
-------- and Julie Hollings. "Jael and Sisera" Outrageous Tales from the Old Testament (6th story) (London : Knockabout, 1987).
-------- and Mike Matthews. "The Book of Judges" Outrageous Tales from the Old Testament (5th story) (London : Knockabout, 1987).
-------- and Peter Rigg. "Jephthah and His Daughter" Outrageous Tales from the Old Testament (7th story) (London : Knockabout, 1987).
-------- and Steve Gibson. "Journey to Bethlehem" Outrageous Tales from the Old Testament (9th story) (London : Knockabout, 1987).
Gantz, David. Jews in America : A Cartoon History (Philadelphia :
Jewish Publication Society, 2001).
Gelbwasser, Michael. "Cool Characters Entice Kids : Jewish Superheroes Work Wonders in American Comics" Boston Jewish Advocate Jan. 7, 1997.
--------. "Holy Blintzes! Practising Judaism OK for Super-heroes."
Jewish Advocate Oct. 19, 1995, pg. PG.
--------. "Look! Up in the Sky! Jewish Superheroes." Jewish Advocate Oct.
19, 1995, pg. PG.
Gerber, Steve. "A Monster Reborn" Monsters Unleashed #4 (6th story) Feb. 1974 (NY : Marvel).
--------. [untitled] Supernatural Thrillers #5 Aug. 1973 (NY : Marvel).
Gerberg, Mort. The All-Jewish Cartoon Collection.
Giardino, Vittorio. A Jew in Communist Prague : Adolescence (NY : NBM, 1997).
--------. A Jew in Communist Prague : Loss of Innocence (NY : NBM, 1997).
--------. A Jew in Communist Prague : Rebellion (NY : NBM, 1998).
Gibbons, Dave. "Sodom and Gomorrah" Outrageous Tales from the Old Testament (3rd story) (London : Knockabout, 1987).
Giffen, Keith and Robert Loren Fleming. "All Men Make Faults'" Eclipso : The Darkness Within #1 Jul. 1992 (NY : DC).
Gill, Joe. "The Liberation" Fightin' Army #119 (3rd story) June 1975 (Derby, CT : Charlton).
Gillis, Peter. "Apogee" Strange Tales (2nd series) #14 (2nd story)
May 1988 (NY : Marvel).
--------. "Shall I Call Thee Master?" Super-Villain Team Up #16
May 1979 (NY : Marvel).
Gillon, Paul and Patrick Cothias. Der Schrei Nach Leben (Hamburg : Comicplus, 1988).
Glick. "Schmoozin" {comic strip}.
Gloeckner, Phoebe. "The Girl From a Different World" In Hirsch, Karen D. (ed.) Mind Riot : Coming of Age in Comix (Aladdin, 1997), reprinted in A Child's Life (Berkeley : Frog, 1998).
Glut, Donld F. "A Thousand Pounds of Clay" Chilling Adventures in Sorcery #4 (4th story) Dec. 1973 (NY : Archie Music Corp.).
Gonick, Larry. "One Way or Three?" Cartoon History of the Universe #13, reprinted in The Cartoon History of the Universe II (Volumes 8-13) : From the Springtime of China to the Fall of Rome (NY : Doubleday, 1994), pg. 251-300.
--------. "Part of the Old Testament" Cartoon History of the Universe #4, reprinted in The Cartoon History of the Universe Volumes 1-7 : From the Big Bang to Alexander the Great (NY : Doubleday, 1990), pg. 151-200
--------. "' Render Unto Caesar' " Cartoon History of the Universe #12, reprinted in The Cartoon History of the Universe Volumes 8-13 : From the Springtime of China to the Fall of Rome (NY : Doubleday, 1994), pg. 201-250.
--------. "Who Are These Athenians?" Cartoon History of the Universe #6, reprinted in The Cartoon History of the Universe Volumes 1-7 : From the Big Bang to Alexander the Great (NY : Doubleday, 1990), pg. 251-300
Gorfinkel, Jordan B. The Promised Land : The Continuing Story of Jewish Life in the Diaspora [syndicated comic strip]
Graham, Lorenz. "The Ten Commandments" Classics Illustrated #135A (NY : Gilberton, 1956)
Gravett, Paul. "After Maus : The Jewish Experience in American Graphic Novels" May, 2002 [formerly online essay].
Grayson, Devin K. "Fate and Other Accidents" Relative Heroes #1 Mar. 2000 (NY : DC)
Green, Justin. "Binky Brown Meets the Virgin Mary". Justin Green's Binky Brown Sampler.(San Francisco : Last Gasp, c1995).
Greenberg, Eric J.. "The Comic Book as Resistance" The Jewish Week, Nov. 28, 2003.
--------. "Superhero for the Ages" Jewish Week Mar. 2002, p. 3.
--------. "Superman : A Jewish Hero" The Jerusalem Post, May 1, 1996, pg. 7.
Greenwald, Ze'ev. Let's Learn about Berachos. (NY : Feldheim).
--------.Let's Learn about Kosher Food. (NY : Feldheim).
Grell, Mike. " '...And Not a Drop to Drink' " Green Arrow #57 Feb. 1992 (NY : DC).
--------. "The Contract" Jon Sable Freelance #22 Mar. 1985 (Evanston, IL : First Comics).
--------. "The Contract - Part Three" Jon Sable Freelance #24 May 1985 (Evanston, IL : First Comics).
--------. "The Crucified Man" Jon Sable Freelance #23 Apr. 1985 (Evanston, IL : First Comics).
Grimwulf. "Israeli Gun Control" Wendy Webb #137 {illustrated by Stephen Huff} Aug. 14, 1999, online at http://rivendell.fortunecity.com/perilith/919/wendy/aug14-99.jpg.
Grzybowski, Adam. Cá entre nós. (Rio de Janeiro, RJ : Relume Dumará,
c1992).
Gulacy, Paul. "Mickey Cohen : The Luckiest Mobster" in Hagenfauer, George, Carl Sefakis et al. The Big Book of Little Criminals (NY : Paradox, 1996), pg. 91-93.
Gulst, Mishik. Israel2 (Emblem Comics, 2004).
Hall, Bob. "Ivar the Traveller" Timewalker #1 (NY : Valiant, 1994)
Hall, Justin. A Sacred Text (San Francisco, CA : All Thumbs Press, 2002).
Hama, Larry. "Crusade" Wolfpack #1 Aug. 1988 (NY : Marvel).
--------. "Words of Honor" G.I. Joe : Special Missions #2 (NY : Marvel).
Handelsman, J.B. [untitled] New Yorker Oct. 25, 1993 [comic strip].
Haney, Bob. "Season in Hell" The Unknown Soldier #247 (1st story) Jan. 1981 (NY : DC).
--------. "Totentantz". Star Spangled War Stories #158 Sept. 1971. (NY : DC).
Harper, Steve & Neal Adams. "'Thou Shalt Not Kill'" Weird War Tales #8 (3rd story) Nov. 1972 (NY : DC)
Hart, Johnny. B.C. Apr. 27, 1998.
--------. B.C. Apr. 15, 2001.
Hartley, Al. Adam & Eve (Old Tappan, NJ : Spire, 1975).
--------. My Brothers' Keeper (Old Tappan, NJ : Spire, 1974).
--------. Noah's Ark (Old Tappan, NJ : Spire, 1975).
Hayes, Ren. The Elitists.
Hendra, Tony and Sean Kelly. "The Ventures of Zimmerman" National
Lampoon #31 Oct. 1972.
Herzog, Kenny. "It's Supermensch! : Comic Book Art Exhibit Highlights Jewish Contributions" Long Island Press, Jan. 29, 2004.
Higgins, Graham. "Samson" Outrageous Tales from the Old Testament (8th story) (London : Knockabout, 1987).
Hoffman, Michael A. Tales of the Holohoax. (Temecula, CA : Wiswell
Ruffin House, 1989).
Hogan, Peter. "Love Street" The Sandman Presents : Love Street #1 July 1999 (NY : DC)
--------. "Love Street Part Three" The Sandman Presents : Love Street #3 Sept. 1999 (NY : DC).
--------. [Untitled] The Sandman Presents : Love Street #2 Aug. 1999 (NY : DC).
Holland, John. [Untitled] War Criminals #1 Nov. 1992 (Berlin, NJ : Comic Zone).
Hollander, Ricki. "New York Times Turns to Comic-Book Journalist on
Arab-Israeli Conflict" Committee for Accuarcy in Middle East Reporting in
America, Jul. 7, 2003.
Holtrop, Bernhard (Willem). "Jerusalem", reprinted in Callahan, Bob (ed.) The New Comics Anthology (NY : Maxwell Macmillan, 1991), pp. 162-167.
Horrocks, Dylan. "There Are No Words in My Mouth" in Comix 2000
(France : L'Association, 2000), reprinted in Atlas #1 Sept.
2001 (Montreal : Drawn and Quarterly).
Hoth, Iva. The Chosen People (Elgin, IL : David C. Cook, 1978), reprinted in Hoth, Iva The Picture Bible (Chariot Victor, 1998).
--------. In the Beginning (Elgin, IL : David C. Cook, 1978), reprinted in Hoth, Iva The Picture Bible (Chariot Victor, 1998).
Jackson, Sherard. Semantic Lace: Ghost Story (Fullerton, CA : Image, 2003).
Jacobs, Frank. "Antenna on the Roof" MAD Magazine #156 Jan. 1973, reprinted in Novak, William & Moshe Walldoks (eds.) Big Book of Jewish Humor (HarperCollins)
Jacobs, Rivka. Magneto and the Holocaust Q & A
---------. Magneto is Jewish
--------. The Mischling Laws, the Law of Return, and the Sonderkommando.
--------. More About Magneto Being A Jew
Jacobs, Will and Gerard Jones. "Glamour Girls" The Trouble with
Girls #1 Feb. 1989. (Norristown, PA : Comico).
Jemas, Bill and Chuck Austen. "Blow Up" 411 #1 (1st story) June 2003 (NY : Marvel).
Jenkins, Jerry. Gil Thorp, Aug. 27, 2001 - Nov. 23, 2001.
Jimenez, Phil. "Why?" Wonder Woman : Donna Troy #1 (NY : DC, 1998)
Jolley, Dan. "The Empty Locket" Obergeist : The Empty Locket #1
Mar. 2002 (Orange, CA : Image).
--------. "Playing Pinochle with Dead Folks" Obergeist : Ragnarok Highway #1 May 2001 (Orange, CA : Image).
Jones, Gerard. "Hulk 2099" 2099 Unlimited #1 (2nd story) (NY : Marvel, 1993).
--------. "Where the Wild Things Are". Justice League America #95 Jan. 1995. (NY: DC).
Jukovsky, Martin. "'Master Race' and the Holocaust" 1987.
Kamentsky, Gina. Born to Be Mild [comic strip], c2004.
--------. Boy or Goy? [comic strip], c2002.
Kanigher, Robert. "Circus of Madness" Weird War Tales #114 Aug. 1982 (NY : DC).
This is another in the series of Mendy strips that has been syndicated in Jewish
papers (such as the Canadian Jewish News) for some time now. This strip,
however, is in color. It also shows Sholem the Golem who I haven't seen
illustrated post-series. Sholem shrunk in size and changed color throughout the
series. As currently drawn by Stan Goldberg (of Archie fame), Sholem is not much bigger than Mendy (whose head comes up to Sholem's waist), has a Caucasian skin tone and looks like a normal working man in suspenders.
Brief biographical sketch of the famous American-Jewish escape artist, written in a format "suitable for practically everyone regardless of age or reading prowess".
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Brief biographical sketch of the famous physicist, written in a format "suitable for practically everyone regardless of age or reading prowess".
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"Miller", an American military soldier, is discriminated against because of his
background. Benson says to Miller "your kind bleeds yellow". Reference
is made to Miller not being born in America, Miller not praying on
Sunday and to Miller's kind "contaminating the world". When a
frustrated Benson tries to prove that Miller is a coward, he
ironically shows his men how brave Miller is.
In this short story, a Holocaust survivor confronts a Nazi who has come to America. Kriegstein shows the events leading up to the final solution through the eyes of the Nazi.
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"Louella" reveals to her father that Louella's body contains the
brain of Luther Joyce - a black man he'd bought a soada for in 1964 at a civil
rights march they had both attended. Later, a friend of Louella's tells her
that some of the biggest anti-semites she'd ever met were Jewish. As an example,
she says that if you ask the average Jew their opinion of Hasidim, they'll tell
you that they're scum.
When "the Christian" (unnamed) is made fun of by "the Muslim" and "the Jew"
(also unnmaed) because he doesn't have a hat, he decides to make one that will
be "the biggest at of them all". His hat makes him look like a Klansman.
The superhero group known as "The Fundamentalists" punish a kidnapped boy for
what he does "while he's all alone in the dark" instead of savong him from his tormentor.
The Fundamentalists super-team divert a monster, causing it to kill the soldiers
rather than defeating the creature. As they fly away, they tell that they are more concerned about the threat of gays in the military.
In the style of art speigelman's maus, this story has Israeli soldiers (as anthropomorphic bulls) sucked through a time warp and treating a family in the Jewish ghetto as if they were Arab suspects.
Autobiographical piece that gives the reader a sense of Fink's internal struggle.
Battya and Sharonica (Israeli versions of Betty and Veronica) disagree over what
to get their boyfriend Arik (Archie). Battya takes earth from the grave of Rabbi Ben Meshuganna (which is located near a refugee camp, while Sharonica gets an enormous flag (so big she has to hang it on a mosque ; "all of Hebron will be able to see it!". Later, to cheer himself up, Arik goes to visit the grave of Baruch Goldstien, where his friends are waiting to throw him a surprise party. the Jughead-like character announces the news that regional
war has broken out as a result of the hanging of an Israeli flag in a refugee
camp.
Gastrointenstinal goings-on depcitefd as a metaphorical clash of monsters.
"The first-ever Israeli Super-hero Comic" - from the cover.
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The rabbi sends the superhero Ragman out to confront evildoers without fighting them. At the end, the reader learns that Ragman passed a test his father had not passed. Meanwhile, the golem comes to Gotham.
Rory Regan has recurring nightmares of carrying a body "through the bones
of past lives" and a voice telling him to defend his neighborhood from the invisible enemy. In a clearer dream, he realizes that he's in the Warsaw Ghetto
and encounters a creature with the word "EMET" written across his face. When
Rory's helmet falls, he sees that the word "EMET" has been burned into his
helmet and yells that it is not him, not his name ("emet" is Hebrew for
"truth"). Before he leaves his father's grave, he follows the Jewish tradition
of leaving a rock on the tombstone (though he claims in the 3rd issue not to
know that he's Jewish). In an article at the back of the story, Kevin Dooley
tells how Leo Keil had written that "Despite his non-Jewish name, Rory, seems,
to me at least, to be the comics' first Jewish super-hero".
The rabbi boasts to the Ragman's costume that Rory (the civilian identity of Ragman) is succeeding at taming it. Meanwhile, the golem realizes that he must kill Ragman to save his own "life".
A rabbi explains the origin of the Ragman to Rory. He starts by briefly
retelling the golem folktale. Then he explains how a real golem had been created
using rags to be worn by a human agent, the last of whom had been Rory's
father, whose true name was Jerzy Reganiewicz. Jerzy had tried to fight the
Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto: "it was like nothing I had ever seen...men, women
and children fighting for their very lives!" However, fire was the Ragman's
weakness. Defeated, he took flight to where he could better fight the menace:
"It is a Ragman's duty to protect his people and to inspire hope...but there
was no hope left in that place." In retaliation for the uprising, the Nazis
blew up the synagogue: "Did they imagine they could kill G-d? He wasn't in the
synagogue! He came with us on the trains! He was there in Treblinka! He was
everywhere that we suffered!"
The day after his night of vengeance, superhero Ragman looks at his costume and sees the word "emet" (Hebrew for truth) on it. Then, a rabbi appears telling Rory (Ragman's civilian guise) that he is to be the rabbi's apprentice.
Ragman battles a clay Golem that was created by a rabbi when it was thought
that the original Ragman was killed. The clay Golem is destroyed when the word
"emet" is erased from his forehead. This differs from the Batman battle with a golem (Batman tried to only erase the letter "e" to form the word "met" - Hebrew for death).
The neighborhood comes to the defense of their superhero, Ragman, during his battle with Batman (the superhero who is that city's primary crimefighter). Ragman decides to leave Gotham and moves to New Orleans. Meanwhile, the rabbi takes a plane to Tel Aviv and dies peacefully en route.
Contains "Caino e Abele" and "Sansone e Dalila".
Much of the script is online at http://www.chabadonline.com/scripts/tgij/paper/Article.asp?ArticleID=3145, though only 1 page of the comic has been published to date.
Although Kyle's not Jewish, he asks to tag along with his friends for a Hanukkah servive because "it sounded like fun." Rabbi Beccah (a woman) explains why Hanukkah is celebrated. When Kyle and his friends arrive at the Temple, they find the synagogue vadalized and learn that the vessel for the eternal flame (made of solid gold) was stolen as well. After transforming into his superhero identity (Green Lantern), Kyle tracks down the racists. However, his power ring runs out of energy because he forgot to recharge it. Miraculously, the ring gets its power back for long enough for Green Lantern to defeat the crooks, just as the oil in thr ancient Temple burned long enough (8 days) for more oil to be delivered to Jerusalem. Rabbi Beccah delivers a great sermon that ends with the phrase "hope can keep a flame going when its fuel should long ago have run out."
This political cartoon shows a squad of police cars chasing a truck labelled "Unilingual Matzoh Distribution Inc.". At the time, the "language police" wanted to stop the sale of kosher-for-passover products which did not have French-language labels on them.
Cain realizes that "something has gone wrong", in that he hasn't been trying to
kill Abel so much. For a present, Cain gives Abel an egg, from which a baby
gargoyle hatches. When Abel tries to name it "Irving", Cain becomes infuriated
(gargoyles names must begin with "G") and attacks him. Later, Abel comes back to
life, with a blackened eye. Still later, he tells his baby gargoyle (now named
"Goldie") a "secret story" about two brothers who love each other and were
always nice to each other.
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In the dreamscape, baby Danie Halll's dream-self is told several stories. One of
the stories is about the 3 wives of Adam : Lilith, who was powerful, intelligent
and inisited on being treated as Adam's equal (or perhaps, his superior) ; the
unnamed second wife, whom the midrash states "was full of secretions and blood",
whom Adam wouldn't even touch ; and Eve, who was blamed for misery, sin and the
fall. Abel then tells a "sanitized" version of how Cain killed him, after G-d
preferred his sheep sacrifice, and how Dream and Death comissioned them to live
in the House of Secrets and House of Mystery, telling
stories there.After Cain gives away the mystery of Abel's "Parliament of Rooks"
story, Abel hits him with a hot poker and then throws his body into the
fireplace.
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The second panel of page 2, which describes the sages and wise men of Al
Raschid's court, says "In his court were the greatest teachers of the Hebrews,
who were the first of the three people of the book..." This text accompanies an
illustration of a bearded man in a skullcap in front of a candleabra reading
from a Torah scroll.
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Sandman sends Cain as his emissary to deliver a message to Lucifer in Hell. After he delivers it, Lucifer's demons want to kill him. Lucifer forbids them, quoting scripture from Genesis and showing them the mark on Cain's forehead. There are annotations for this issue at http://www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de/~hildeb/sandman/annotations/sandman.22.shtml.
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In 1859, a Jewish man named Joshua Abraham Norton is given the chance by
Morpheus to live out his dream - which in his case is to be emperor. Joshua
writes a letter to a local newspaper - a declaration and proclamation that he is
the Emperor of the United States. As a result he becomes, a self-delusional, yet
contented eccentric, whose "role" is humored by those around him (e.g. Mark
Twain). Upon dying, Death tells him of the Jewish legend of the 36 tzaddikim -
the "secret kings and queens of the world". She then tells him that, of all the
kings and emperors she has met, she like him the best.
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Discusses the Jewish super-heroes Ramban the magician, Judith, Dybbuk,
Golem, Nuklon, Colossal Boy, Ragman and Sabra.
Discusses the Jewish super-heroes Seraph, the Blasters, Colossal Boy,
Ragman, Captain Marvel and the Marvel Family, Mindboggler, Ramban, Golem, Judith, Nuklon, Phantom Stranger and Sabra.
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Mystic Dr. Strange tries to save earth from the power of Shuma-Gorath.
When Shuma-Gorath attacks Earth with his sorcery, the effects are particularly
felt by those who practice the magic arts. The bottom panel of pg. 27
shows that "an old Talmudic scholar's heart stops".
A captured Shin Bet commando named Yousuf Tov is treated well by Red Skull and Hatemonger, while his comrades are starving and ill-treated. He is considered a collaborator by his fellow Israeli agents.
German adaptation of
Published in the Canadian Jewish News.
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On p. 29, Binky is transferred to a Jewish public school, where he
feels inadequate physically and mentally to his classmates, who are
"highly competitive".
Review of Kyle Baker's King David (DC).
Each set of pages contains a collection of conversations
simultaneously going on about the Hebrew blessings. The dialogue uses word
balloons, but there are no panels and therefore no sequence. Each
double-page has a theme, but the page sets are not related to each
other (except, in that they are all about blessings).
Each set of pages contains a collection of conversations
simultaneously going on about the kashrut laws on Jewish food. The dialogue uses word balloons, but there are no panels and therefore no sequence. Each
double-page has a theme, but the page sets are not related to each
other (except, in that they are all about keeping kosher).
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Collection of comic strips centering around a Jewish family (and their
parrot) - in Spanish.
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The story incolves an escaped slave and the Qumari tribe that he stumbles upon
and spends time living with. In his interview for Sequential Tart, Justin said
"The Qumari (members of the religious community that Nkota stumbles upon in A
Sacred Text) are based on an amalgam of all three "religions of the book," which
are much more similar than not. The Dead Sea Scroll cult was around at a time in
history when none of these three religions really existed .... The cult slightly
pre-dated the Nazarene cult, that of Jesus (some people believe that the cult's
leader was actually Jesus, but there were many, many Jewish religious sects at
the time), so the Christian religion hadn't formed yet. The same is true of
Judaism ... certainly the Hebraic religious traditions had already had a long
history in the region, but what we think of as normative (Rabbinic) Judaism
wouldn't be developed for a while. And Mohammed wasn't even a twinkle in his
mother's eye yet."
A woman asks the hat shop salesperson for a yarmulke "of the type worn by Rudy Giuliani".
The Unknown Soldier disguises himself as the husband of a political prisoner so that he can be sent to a death camp to save her. While there, he encounters and witnesses Nazi brutality.
Computer-generated comic about a superhero team. One of the members of the team is Fire Islander (aka Hiram Stein, a gay Jew).
A fictionalized story of the rise to fame of Bob Dylan aka Robert
Zimmerman. In this version, it is Zimmerman who is the powerful star,
while Bob Dylan is the ordinary singer.
Hate comic showing Jews as lying, money-hungry and violent. The book
tries to dismiss facts as myths and discounts any account of miracles
as being false.
A visual introduction to the terror and politics of Israel.
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A 15-page wordless story that takes place during the Holocaust.
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A distraught Donna Troy goes to a church seeking solace, having lost both her husband and her son. She reads aloud the text of a newspaper article that described one of her adventures. The article tells of how, in a display of racial and ethnic unity, several groups of people, "most prominently African Americans and a small but visible contingent of gays and lesbians, joined the march and were openly accepted by the primarily Jewish participants" prior to a riot provoked by neo-Nazi fanatics during a midnight candlelit vigil remembering those lost to the Holocaust. Another article shown later tells how TTroy's non-Jewish husband Terry was beaten, along with a friend, in what was reported as an anti-semitic attack.
In Sweden, in 1944, Adam Weiss senses that he is soon to be rounded up by Nazis
who want to experiment on him because of his special mental abilities. He tries
to save his family, but they end up being captured.
Outspoken singer Naomi Soon-Li-Torrijos-Washington has become a target for the Secret Dreams security force after revealing that the music industry was slipping subliminals into songs. She describes herself as "part Japanese, part Jewish, part Chinese, part Mexican, part Afro-American" and wished it was the 1990's again (when "... they had all those great conflicts! Like ethnic conflicts!"). Yet, she also says she doesn't "want to be some kind of purie".
Half of the comic shows superhero Nuklon (aka Albert Rothstein)'s date with superheroine "Fire" (aka Beatriz DaCosta). Towards the end of the date, Fire tells Nuklon that she asked him out because she wants to settle down with someone. Nuklon, though flattered, tells her that he couldn't marry her unless she converted to Judaism: "I'm like a link in a chain. I can't be the one to break
that chain."
When the Nazis unknowingly send nuclear physicist Prof. Leclair (a colleague of
Albert Einstein) to a concentration camp, along with other Jews, the Creature
Commandos go undercover as a travelling circus freak show. The show travels from
one concentration camp to another, until they notice Leclair among prisoners
being marched to work. When the Commandos overhear that those in the work detail
will be gunned down in order for the camp to meet its liquidation quota, they
attack the Nazis a
