The Thing is Jewish

By at 8:23 am Wednesday, Aug 7

The Thing, the giant, golem-like rock-character from Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four, has been revealed to be Jewish.
Ben Grimm was created by writer Stanley Lieber and artist Jacob Kurtzberg -- two men of Jewish heritage who worked professionally as Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. In 1961, they produced a comic book called the Fantastic Four, about a man whose limbs could stretch to preposterous lengths, a woman who could make herself invisible, a teenager who could become a creature of living fire and Ben -- ''The Thing,'' a monstrous creature with rocky orange skin.
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