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1. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 17:41:47 UTC Robert McNees

   To everyone celebrating this evening, Happy Hanukkah from Jack Kirby and Ben Grimm.

   • The Geoff (_thegeoff@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 17:56:39 UTC The Geoff

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     @mcnees Never thought of The Thing as a golem, but that makes a certain amount of sense 😂
     (I do classify golem mythology as the first robot SF stories.)

   • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 18:08:35 UTC Robert McNees

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     • The Geoff

     @_thegeoff The character is canonically Jewish, but I don't if that was something that Lee and Kirby always intended, or something they decided later on. I never really thought about the golem connection!

   • The Geoff (_thegeoff@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 18:09:30 UTC The Geoff

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     @mcnees Huh, never realised that - makes a lot of sense though!