Comic Appearance of The President

In light of the national election in the USA, I was wondering just how many times an American president has been depicted in a comic book?

We're not talking a shadowy figure sillouetted in a window of the west wing from a distance...

I'm talking either full on head-shot or an over the shoulder so that there's really no question WHICH president they're talking about.

 

I can think of a few right off the top of my head.

First, Richard M. Nixon was on a view screen in the last two parts of the Subby-Magneto war thats end of Jack's run on the FF, circa #103-104.

Second, LBJ was depicted in a Tales to Astonish mid-60s  issue as Rick Jones begs him to pardon the Hulk.  And he does, without explanation to the rest of the nation or his generals.

 

Third, I recall seeing a shot or two of Kennedy i n a rocking chair while Carolyn is scolded by a nurse or Jackie in the background, but I don't recall what story this was in. Probably a Marvel comic, maybe Iron Man or Hulk, or early FF.

How many of these can you confirm, or are there other blatent examples we can cite from the Silver Age?

You need to be a member of Captain Comics to add comments!

Join Captain Comics

Votes: 0
Email me when people reply –

Replies

  • Nixon appeared (on a big communication screen) in Fantastic Four #104. The GCD tells me he also appeared in #103, but I haven't read that issue. These were the first two post-Kirby issues, continuing the Sub-Mariner/Magneto/war between Atlantis and the US story started in Kirby's last issue.

     

    I think the Hulk story you're thinking of might be the instalment in Tales to Astonish #64, from during Steve Ditko's run. At that point Banner's identity with the Hulk was still a secret. General Ross and Major Talbot suspected he was a spy. They had imprisoned him as a result of the events of the previous instalment. Rick used his Avengers priority card to get to see the president and told him the truth. The president said it "would not be in the public interest to make his secret known", but got Banner released through the Pentagon. In the sequence the president is only properly seen in one panel and from behind, but the figure has the right look to be Johnson and I think Ditko meant it to be him.

     

    Eisenhower appeared in a story in Mystery in Space #50 called "The impossible world named Earth!" The GCD tells me when this story was reprinted in From Beyond the Unknown #17 Eisenhower was replaced by Nixon.

     

     

  • Yep, those first two are right.  THat's what I recalled.

     

    Didn't know about the Eisenhower appearance..but I'm not surprised at the Nixon switcheroo!

     

    Oh, I thought of another one...Captain America confronts the head of the Secret Empire in about CA  # 165 or so, and the dude kills himself. (Wanna guess who they were hinting at?)

    Also, Rosevelt appears in various version of the Captain America origin retelling.  I'm thinking of one in flashback in about Captain America #247 or thereabouts.

  • President Eisenhower appeared in What If #9 featuring the Avengers of the 1950s.

    LBJ summoned the (mostly retired) Howlers for a mission in Vietnam.

    Ronald Reagan survived an attack by the Serpent Society in Captain America #337.

    And of course, President Kennedy in Action Comics #309.

    Many of Earth-Two's presidents were saved in All Star Squadron Annual #3.

  • He was also notorius.

    George Poague said:

    Nixon seems to have made the most comic-book appearances, probably because he was so easy to caricature.
  • ...I believe the original CAPTAIN AMERICA #1 clearly shows FDR !!!

      The arc of BLACKHAWK around 1966 that introduced the " New Blackhawk Era " showed a face-obscured but clearly indicated LBJ IIRC ( Texas accent , whiskey bottle and basset hound ? Pointing towards his stomach?? ) .

      I recall at least one realistic and full-face , if perhaps not speaking at all , or very little , LBJ in THE AVENGERS in the 00s .

      Tony Tallirco (?) drew this card/novelty shop slick production oddity , THE GREAT SOCIETY COMIC BOOK , in the mid-60s with Lyndon Johnson as Prez and many other caricatured political figures of the day .

  • ...Probably tending towards unpopularity with the demographic producing comic books then , certainly after '72 !!!!!!!!!

    Kirk G said:

    He was also notorius.

    George Poague said:

    Nixon seems to have made the most comic-book appearances, probably because he was so easy to caricature.
  • ...BTW , it has occured to me that Vice-Presidents are now standardly considered funny uncles/next-door neighbors in the sitcom of Washington !!!!!!!!!

      Really , Spiro , Al Gore , Dan Quayle , Joe Biden.........All in their own way...

  • ...Trick again ?

      Don' have it no more...:-(...I once even had the button !!!!!!!!!

    George Poague said:

    http://www.comics.org/issue/30698/cover/4/

    Everyone's favorite election issue, with one president on the cover and another inside.
  • President Nixon appeared circa Hulk #130-something (and may have helped push through funding for the building of the “Hulkbuster” base (a.k.a. “Project: Greenskin,”, IIRC).

     

    President Ford visited the facility circa #180-something after the Hulk had been subdued at one point. Banner addresses him as “Mr. Vice-president” and General Ross explains that Banner has been “out of touch.”

     

    President Carter toured Central City with Governor Jerry Brown to assess the damage caused by the Hulk circa issue #230 or so.

     

    Of course, it was Ronald Regan who granted the Hulk amnesty in #278.

     

    I’m fairly certain Presidents Bush and Clinton appeared in Hulk, too, but those issues don’t spring as readily to mind.

     

    On the DC side, President Reagan in Millennium (Nancy was a Manhunter).

     

    I also recall that President Clinton appeared in an issue of Rob Liefeld’s Captain America.

     

    JFK appeared (as a U.S. senator) in [the in-continuity] What If...? #4.

  • Sticking strictly to the Silver Age (this is, after all, the Mr. Silver Age Forum), Superman actually met JFK a couple times that I can recall... once when JFK helped protect Superman's secret ID, and once to promote the Junior Olympics.

    The Silver Age title with the most Presidential cameos, though, is almost definitely Herbie, who regularly hobnobbed with JFK and LBJ.

    Now that I think of it, Mad probably beats all other titles combined, depending on whether you consider Mad a comic book or not.

This reply was deleted.