The Phantom currently has an excellent comic The Last Phantom. IIRC It’s put out by Boom studios. I wasn’t sure what to expect, and got hard hitting jungle action for the 21st century.
In the mid nineties, there was a strange expedition into cyberpunk with the cartoon series Phantom 2040. It reminded me a lot of Aeon Flux and was excellent. “The whole world is my jungle now!”. Phantom 2040 spawned a comic adaptation and a video game.
Lately, Syfy tried a live action Phantom. I haven’t seen it but hear it both sucked and blew.
And I liked the Billy Zane film too. I still have a few 7 11 skull rings.
Sabra- The official super hero of Israel Earth 616. Standard super hero abilities.
The Seraph- member of DC’s Global Guardians he has Moses’ staff, Solomon’s mantle and various other biblical trinkets.
Growing up, these were all I had in the way of Jewish super heroes. Then I found out Kitty Pryde was Jewish.
Nowadays, they finally made Magneto Jewish and had Ben Grimm come out as Jewish.
Marvel also had The Golem. I’ve got a two in one where he battles the Thing.
Atlas- Created and drawn by Kirby, Atlas was essentially a Conan clone.
Captain Victory And The Galaxy Rangers-Recently revived, this was fun old fashioned super hero meets old fashioned space opera. Villains included Bloody Marianne, Ursan The Unclean and Paranex The Fighting Fetus.
Silver Star- Again recently revived. It was a 12 part (IIRC) series that tried to deal with just what godlike superhumans would really do with their powers and how you stop a madman who has enough power to destroy the world.
Static- Not the Milestone teen hero who had a cartoon series. This was a hero created, drawn and written by Ditko. He had a weird tech suit that did weird tech things. The interesting part was all the philosophical and intillectual discussions and problems he had.
These were standard kid’s heroes. They had a comic adaptation. They had an NES game. But they were stillborn. Despite backing by Spielberg, they never made it off the ground. I’ve never seen a single episode of the cartoon and don’t know if one was ever released. They could have been huge. Instead they are a footnote and a mystery.
He was retconned into one (because of his name). And he is certainly not the first Jewish SH. I’m pretty sure some golden age heroes were Jewish. But if you only take Marvel, Ben Grimm -The Thing- predates Moon Knights by more than a decade.
And if we go for “not retconned/and stated as Jewish from the start”, you got Doc Samson that appeared five years before Moon Knight.
Colossal Boy of the Legion of Superheroes also predates both Thing and Moon Knight both in existing (1960 vs 1963 vs 1975) and being retconned as Jewish (1980 vs 2002(!!! was it really that late?) vs 1984).
I’m also pretty sure that Ragman (introduced 1977, so after Doc Sampson, but before all of the above retcons) was explicitly Jewish even before that tied into the origin of his powers (his suit is related to the golem), but it’s been a long time since I read his original series.
Lol, I know Superman’s backstory has some Biblical Jewish roots, but the Kents are now Jewish?? Or Krypton is actually in the Middle East (would make sense that it got blown up)?