#jewish superheroes
Happy Hanukkah!
When we started the comic we were really keen on celebrating Billy’s Jewish roots—a Hanukkah comic was a MUST.
At first we thought about telling the story of Teddy’s first celebration with the Kaplans but the idea of Tommy as the outsider struck like lightning and we couldn’t let him go.
For context: this takes place in the pocket of time after Children’s Crusade when Billy [spoilers] gives up superhero life for awhile.
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Twin superheroes Wanda and Pietro Maximoff, known by the names Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver respectively, are comic book characters with a history going back over sixty years. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the twins have a number of interesting powers between them, including superspeed and reality-warping. Wanda and Pietro recently starred in Avengers: Age of Ultron. These twins, in addition to being amazing Avengers, are Jewish! Here’s how we know:
-Wanda and Pietro are the children of German Jewish Holocaust survivor Max Eisenhardt (Erik Lehnsherr), better known as Magneto, and Romani Holocaust survivor Magda Eisenhardt, who fell in love and escaped Auschwitz together. [x]
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