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- ↑ "The Awesome Superpowers of the Jewish Hero Corps". ComicsAlliance. 26 August 2010. Retrieved 2017-11-25.
- ↑ The superheroes on this list published by Judaica Press form the Jewish Hero Corps, an educational comic released in 2010 targeted at Jewish children. To date, only two issues have been released.