The first issue of Captain America – created by Jewish-Americans Joe Simon and Jack Kirby – made this explicit, with Cap punching Adolf Hitler right on the cover. Spiegelman told me he’s not a big superhero fan, but he buckled down to research the topic of these comics, and noted how they were rooted in the early Jewish immigrant experience, as well as a reaction against the rise of Fascism in Europe.
While Marvel has been licensing out a lot of their historical and younger content, Spiegelman was told that Marvel is a “co-publisher” of this edition. This Marvel volume is the first in a purported series. The Folio Society is located in England and is known for its deluxe editions of classic works. In a conversation with The Beat, Spiegelman confirmed that he had been asked to write an intro to The Folio Society’s Marvel: The Golden Age 1939–1949, a collection of old stories starring the Marvel characters. Over the weekend, a story in the Guardian revealed that Pulitzer Prize winning author Art Spiegelman had withdrawn his introduction for a collection of historical Marvel comics when the publishers demanded that a reference to “An Orange Skull” be removed. A new incident has made it clear that Marvel’s policies against political content are being more widely applied and brought renewed attention to the controversy. A few days back we mentioned actor Armie Hammer bringing attention to the political controversy surrounding Marvel chairman Isaac Ike Perlmutter.
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