Is Magneto Jewish or Gypsy? Was Joseph Magneto?
In X-Men Unlimited #2, Gabrielle Haller states definitively that Magneto is a Gypsy of Sinte descent. This should have closed the issue, except that in X-Men #72, we were told that the Gypsy “Erik Lensherr” was nothing more than a forged identity created by the now-late Georg Okekirk to help Magneto hide from the authorities, who wanted him in connection with his wife Magda’s death. So the entire question has now been thrown wide open again, with Joe Kelly apparently putting himself on the non-Gypsy side of the issue. Until any further in-continuity evidence is made available by the current writers, then, this FAQ-keeper is going to forward interested parties to Alara’s Magneto page at http://www.alara.net/magneto.html for all the information you could want on this subject. As for the Joseph/Magneto cloning issue, Terrafamilia helps us out: To be a stickler for detail– Joseph was emphatically stated to *not* be a clone. A copy, yes, but not a clone. Astra, a previously unknown charact
