The Re-Re-Re-Return of Adolf Hitler

Last November I started obsessively researching Marvel’s Hate-Monger – a literal clone of Adolf Hitler reshaping the country through racial hatred. The supervillain seemed to meet his final death in 1980 – before he was resurrected yet again in 2000. The new 21st-century American fascist promotes a war against Black people and the mass murder of “illegal aliens” costing “you your homes, your children’s education and hope for the future.” Any of this look familiar? Before a further deep dive, here’s a quiz: How many times did Marvel kill Hitler? During the first sporadic reign (1963-1980) of the Hate-Monger Hitlers, the answer is six: he was burnt alive in a Berlin bunker, shot by his own hate-crazed soldiers, blown-up by his own Nazi scientist, suffocated in outer space, burnt alive as he fell from a launching rocket, and burnt semi-alive when his salvaged brain was destroyed in a laboratory fire. And finally his fate-worse-than-death: imprisonment inside the Red Skull’s new but…