Religion: Jewish 
Name: Harry Houdini
Other Names: Ehrich Weiss; The Great Houndini
Classification:
real/historical person
Publisher(s): Vitaphone Corporation 
Earliest Appearance Listed in This Database: Thrills of Yesterday (1931)
Creators: Burnet Hershey
Number of Appearances: 48
Comic Book Appearances: 21
TV, Film Appearances: 13
TV, Film Appearances As Himself: 14
Occupation: escape artist, stage magician
Birth Place: Budapest, Hungary
Gender: male
Note: son of a rabbi; active debunker of seances, spiritualists
Flaming Carrot Comics (vol. 2) #28 (Aug. 1992): "When Houdini Escaped from New Jersey" (mentioned)Green Lantern (vol. 2) #1 (July-Aug. 1960): "Menace of the Giant Puppet!" (mentioned)Thrills of Yesterday (1931)
Suggested links for further research about this character and the character's religious affiliation:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Houdini
- http://comicbookdb.com/character.php?ID=19609
- http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0034364/
- http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0396378/
- https://www.comics.org/issue/15709/
- http://comicbookdb.com/issue.php?ID=2856