Abstract:
The article begins, "Marvel Comics founder Stan Lee died Monday. As a memorial to him, here’s an excerpt from an article I wrote in 2003 about the first X-Men movie." What follows is an excerpt from Lawrence Baron's “X-Men as J-Men: The Jewish Subtext of a Comic Book Movie,” originally published in Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Vol.22, no.1 (Fall 2003), pp.45-48. Click on the link above to access the excerpt.