Funny, They Don't Look Jewish!

Episode 24 - Seraph - Part 1

Episode Summary

Welcome to Funny; They Don’t Look Jewish, “Where Judaism appears in the panels.” Our purpose is to find characters, stories and issues of comics that explore explicitly Jewish content. This time we're covering DC's Global Guardian, the Israeli SERAPH! Brandon and Henry take a look at several issues of DC's Super Friends, including arguably the most Jewish moment in all of super hero comics!

Episode Notes

Welcome to Funny; They Don’t Look Jewish, “Where Judaism appears in the panels.” Our purpose is to find characters, stories and issues of comics that explore explicitly Jewish content.

This time we're covering DC's Global Guardian, the Israeli SERAPH! Brandon and Henry take a look at several issues of DC's Super Friends, including arguably the most Jewish moment in all of super hero comics!

Comics covered in Episode 24

Super Friends #7, July 1977

"The Warning of the Wonder Twins!”
- Written by E. Nelson Bridwell
- Penciled by Ramona Fradon
- Inked by Bob Smith
- Edited by Dennis O’Neil

Super Friends #25, July 1979

"Puppets of the Overlord”
- Written by E. Nelson Bridwell
- Penciled by Ramona Fradon
- Inked by Bob Smith
- Colored by Gene D’Angelo
- Edited by Julius Schwartz

Super Friends #38, August 1980

"The Seraph’s Day of Atonement”
- Written by E. Nelson Bridwell
- Penciled by Bob Oksner
- Inked by Kim Demulder
- Colored by Jerry Serpe
- Lettered by Milt Snapinn
- Edited by Julius Schwartz

Special shout out and thank you to Rob Kelly, The Fire and Water Network's For All Mankind podcast for alerting Henry to Seraph's Judaism. You can check out Henry on For All Mankind here: http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/fam38/