Ok, how about this for an idea. We take it in turns to post a favourite (British spelling) comic cover every day. This went really well on the comic fan website that I used to frequent. What we tried to do was find a theme or subject and follow that, until we all got bored with that theme. I'd like to propose a theme of letters of the alphabet. So, for the remainder of October (only 5 days) and all of November, we post comic cover pictures associated with the letter "A". Then in December, we post covers pertaining to the letter "B". The association to the letter can be as tenuous as you want it to be. For example I could post a cover from "Adventure Comics" or "Amazing Spider Man". However Spider Man covers can also be posted when we're on the letter "S". Adventure Comic covers could also be posted when we're on the letter "L" if they depict the Legion of Super Heroes. So, no real hard, fast rules - in fact the cleverer the interpretation of the letter, the better, as far as I'm concerned.
And it's not written in stone that we have to post a cover every day. There may be some days when no cover gets posted. There's nothing wrong with this, it just demonstrates that we all have lives to lead.
If everyone's in agreement I'd like to kick this off with one of my favourite Action Comic covers, from January 1967. Curt Swan really excelled himself here.
Discussion and voting on future monthly themes takes place on the "Nominations, Themes and Statistics for A Cover A Day" thread. Click here to view the thread.
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Ok, well this one isn't quite Presidential, but I'm guessin' a senator is only one step down from a President, and besides, I really like this cover.
Don't forget to vote tomorrow you US citizens. The weight of the free world rests on your shoulders.
They both have to be citizens and at least 30 years old. Since Siegel and Shuster created him, was there a story in which the U.S. government officially made him a citizen? We know he's 30, but is Lois willing to say she is?
The Foundling Statute makes a "person of unknown parentage found in the United States while under the age of five years" a citizen and de facto treats them as being born citizens (solidified at age 21).
Clark Kent is qualified and could even run for president.
Update: did some searching. Amazing World of Superman” #1 (May 1973) indicates that the Silver Age Superman, at least, was made an honorary citizen of all UN member countries. New Adventures of Superboy #12 (1980) indicates that Congress made him an American citizen.
Hmmm... update overlaped with Luis's reply below.
This must be the Earth-One Superman, given that Lois Lane #62 is cover-dated January 1966.
Earth-One Superman was shown in Superman #146 (1961) to have been awarded citizenship from every member country of the UN (as mentioned in a fairly recent thread about the first few Earth-One Superman stories). We were shown the names of the United States, Australia and Brazil.
As for Earth-Two Superman, IIRC it is not entirely clear how much paperwork there is documenting his filiation from the Kents. But early Superboy stories certainly give a strong impression that young Clark Kent is considered a US citizen. I don't think it is ever questioned whether he might be from another nationality.
Planet, sure. Dimension, biological species, even matter polarity, all of those are fair game for questioning about young Clark Kent. But not his US citizenship. It was a different time.
However, if Superman were to run for Senator of whatever state Metropolis is in (New York? Delaware? Illinois?), he must prove that he resides in that state in a legal residence. I don't think that the Fortress of Solitude counts!
Since Steve brought it up:
(Copied and pasted from Google. My clarifications are in parentheses)
The order of succession to the US presidency is as follows:
The order of succession for cabinet officers is based on the order in which their agencies were created.
(When Nixon’s VP resigned to avoid prosecution there was no succession to VP. There still isn’t, but Congress can now appoint a VP. This was how Gerald Ford ascended to VP from a non-succession leadership position in the House. When Nixon resigned, Ford became President. When Ford ran for President in 1976, he lost. He was only elected by the voters in his original House district.)
Challengers of the Unknown #11. Another great wash cover.
Is that the name of the technique used? "Wash cover"? It is certainly great-looking. Gives quite the pulp feel.
"Color wash," I believe. (Richard and I have discussed this technique in quite a few threads in the past.) How that differs from the black & white "wash" technique I do not know.
Jack Adler did this process on, I believe, every DC comic with a color wash cover. He worked in production for DC from 1946 to 1981. He rose to vice president of production. As far as I know, he was the only one to create color wash covers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Adler
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