Marvel will edit apparent anti-Semitic imagery from digital editions and reprints of Immortal Hulk #43
Marvel Comics has pledged to edit a panel of this week’s Immortal Hulk #43 – which appears to contain anti-Semitic content in the background of a scene – for future reprints, and in current digital versions of the issue, as announced in the publisher’s mailer to retailers.
In a message Thursday afternoon to Direct Market (comic book store) retailers, the publisher indicated it was accepting requests for exchanges of physical copies of the issue’s first printing with ‘corrected versions.’
“Marvel is correcting and reprinting the main and variant editions of Immortal Hulk #43, originally on sale 2/3,” reads Marvel’s statement from its mailer. “Requests to return for exchange on Immortal Hulk #43 with these corrected versions may be made starting today.”
The panel, seen here in its unedited form, features Hulk personality Joe Fixit haggling in a jewelry shop. In the background, the window of the shop reads “Cronemberg’s Jewery” (or more accurately “Cronemberg’s Jewer,” with the “Y” apparently blocked by one of the characters), alongside a the Star of David, a common symbol of the Jewish faith.
Taken as a whole, the seeming inclusion of the Anti-semitic term “Jewery” in relation to a jewelry store, alongside the prominent Star of David, and the haggling conversation the characters are engaged in appear to invoke anti-Semitic stereotypes historically used to harass and marginalize Jewish people.
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