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My father... Growing up, it was a rough life
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Marvel's Behind the Mask

My father...Growing up, it was a rough life. Street gangs back then were...You had a...

My father...
Growing up, it was a rough life. Street gangs back then were...
You had a Jewish street gang, an Irish street gang,
an Italian street gang, and it just depended
which block you lived on, and comic books in the late '30s
were just coming out, and he saw that as an avenue
to escape the Lower East Side

Full Transcript

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My father... Growing up, it was a rough life.
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Street gangs back then were... You had a Jewish street gang,
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an Irish street gang, an Italian street gang,
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and it just depended which block you lived on,
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and comic books in the late '30s were just coming out,
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and he saw that as an avenue to escape the Lower East Side.
Duration
25 seconds
Views
49
Timestamp in Movie
00:07:41
Uploaded
May 25, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Marvel New Media,Strike Anywhere,Tarmac Creative

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Movie Summary

Meet the writers and artists behind characters like Black Panther, Miles Morales, Ms. Marvel, Luke Cage, the X-Men, Captain Marvel, and many other characters in the Marvel Universe, highlighting their impact on pop culture and media.
The late 1930s were a particularly anti-Semitic period. - Marvel's Behind the Mask 00:05
The late 1930s were a particularly anti-Semitic period.
Jews were barred from many Ivy League schools, - Marvel's Behind the Mask 00:17
Jews were barred from many Ivy League schools,
For those groups that had been excluded from the political mainstream, - Marvel's Behind the Mask 00:19
For those groups that had been excluded from the political m...
It's no coincidence - Marvel's Behind the Mask 00:10
It's no coincidence
I think that's one of the most important images of American pop culture history. - Marvel's Behind the Mask 00:20
I think that's one of the most important images of Amer...
But if there's one thing my father did not like, it was bullies. - Marvel's Behind the Mask 00:14
But if there's one thing my father did not like, it was...
One nation, indivisible, - Marvel's Behind the Mask 00:07
One nation, indivisible,
I think, you know, the superhero - Marvel's Behind the Mask 00:08
I think, you know, the superhero
I mean, you know, like, look at Captain America. - Marvel's Behind the Mask 00:10
I mean, you know, like, look at Captain America.
But, really, he's the wish fulfillment of assimilated Jewish artists - Marvel's Behind the Mask 00:44
But, really, he's the wish fulfillment of assimilated J...
Dwayne McDuffie and I had a conversation many years ago. - Marvel's Behind the Mask 00:20
Dwayne McDuffie and I had a conversation many years ago.
And, to me, that's something that's very universal - Marvel's Behind the Mask 00:10
And, to me, that's something that's very universal
Ben Grimm kind of acted the same way my father would act. - Marvel's Behind the Mask 00:21
Ben Grimm kind of acted the same way my father would act.
You know, you have the story of the golem. - Marvel's Behind the Mask 00:14
You know, you have the story of the golem.
And many of these themes in superhero narrative are rooted in Biblical story. - Marvel's Behind the Mask 00:08
And many of these themes in superhero narrative are rooted i...
For example, The Hulk. - Marvel's Behind the Mask 00:27
For example, The Hulk.
To me, Hulk is a man of color, to a certain degree. - Marvel's Behind the Mask 00:26
To me, Hulk is a man of color, to a certain degree.
You've got this very simple kernel, - Marvel's Behind the Mask 00:28
You've got this very simple kernel,
When you have a simple rule, a very simple set-up like that, - Marvel's Behind the Mask 00:11
When you have a simple rule, a very simple set-up like that,
Uncle Ben is dead and, in a sense, it's really I who killed him - Marvel's Behind the Mask 00:17
Uncle Ben is dead and, in a sense, it's really I who ki...