| Mister E | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Timely Comics Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Daring Mystery Comics #2 (Feb. 1940) |
| Created by | Joe CalCagno Al Carreno |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Victor J. Goldstein |
| Team affiliations | The Twelve |
| Notable aliases | Victor Jay |
Mister E (Victor J. Goldstein, also known as Victor Jay) was a Timely Comics Golden Age superhero. He appeared in Daring Mystery Comics #2 (Feb. 1940), and reappears in 2008 in The Twelve.[1] [2] His only story has been reprinted in The Twelve #1/2.
Before fighting crime as Mister E, Victor Jay was a wealthy sportsman. He has no superpowers, but was athletic. Along with the other members of the group known as The Twelve, Mister E was frozen in suspended animation at the end of World War II. He and the others were discovered and awoken in the year 2008. In the J. Michael Straczynski-written series The Twelve, he finds himself rejected by his now 68-year-old son for having hidden his Jewish identity by changing his name from Victor J. Goldstein to Victor Jay in order to escape prevalent contemporaneous anti-Semitic attitudes that prevented him from climbing the social ladder.[3] Straczynski said, "Because many Jewish immigrants had to change their name and conceal their backgrounds in order to be accepted, this let me put a metaphor inside a metaphor."[4]