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An essay written by Art Spiegelman, the creator of the Holocaust graphic novel, in a Marvel book was rejected because he compared US President Donald Trump to a villain of Marvel.
Spiegelman said in the test, which was published in the British daily The Guardian, that the co-publisher of the book, Marvel Comics, was trying to remain "apolitical" and asked him to change the sentence or essay, supposed to be the introduction of the book, could not be published.
The book entitled "Marvel: The Golden Age 1939-1949, a collection ranging from Captain America to Human Torch" will be available in September with an introduction from Marvel's editor, Roy Thomas.
Spiegelman writes about how "young Jewish creators of early superheroes evoked mythical secular saviors – almost in the image of God – to deal with the economic upheavals that surrounded them in the Great Depression and to shape their premonitions of an imminent world war ".
He concludes his essay with: "In today's world, the red skull, the most infamous villain of Captain America, is alive on the screen and an orange skull haunts the United States."
After learning that the test could not be published with the Orange Skull reference, Spiegelman writes, "I did not think myself particularly political about some of my fellow travelers, but when asked to kill a relatively innocuous reference to an Orange Skull, I realized that it was perhaps irresponsible to be playful in the face of the serious existential threat with which we now live, and I withdrew my introduction.
He later learned that his president and former CEO of Marvel Entertainment, Isaac "Ike" Perlmutter, was a longtime friend of Donald Trump, and that he and his wife had recently donated a maximum $ 360,000 to the "Trump Victory Joint Fundraising Committee" for 2020.
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