Hate-Mongering in the Bush Years

My MAGA-inspired history of white supremacist supervillainy continues … Last we heard from Marvel’s Adolf Hitler, AKA Hate-Monger, his new “living energy” incarnation was destroyed by the combined psychic link of thousands of racially diverse Americans rejecting his message of hate in Captain America #48 (December 2001). (See The Re-re-re-return of Adolf Hitler.) Five years later, Matt Fraction and Ariel Olivetti created another new Nazi-themed Hate-Monger for Punisher War Journal #6-10 (June-October 2007). His first statement, “America is for Americans,” updates Hitler’s 1923 slogan “Germany is for Germans.” This “All-New, All-Racist Hate-Monger” also says, “Heil Hitler. Heil me.” And though Fraction’s use of the term “miscegenation” sounds intentionally anachronistic too, a reference to his “grandfather’s Luger P-08. A classic. A holy relic that survived the fall of Berlin” means he is descended from a Nazi soldier and so is not Hitler even in some new science-fictional sense.…