Martinex1: Our friend and frequent commenter, Colin Bray, made a great suggestion at election time to take a look at comic covers with Presidents depicted. We couldn't pull it off in time for the polls, but who says this isn't the age of second chances - so here we are on inauguration day with a look back at the White House denizens who have made it onto four-color covers.
Pick four favorites and we can have a grand discussion! I suspect that there are some here that you may have not seen before. We've included work from the Golden, Silver, Bronze, and Aluminum Ages. We've included past presidents, living presidents, and even fictional presidents. And a special nod of the hat to Mad Magazine which has had a healthy history of lampooning the oval office. Colin supplied a wonderful sampling of comics with the Mount Rushmore background, so those are here as well (the "faces" could almost have been a topic unto itself).
Lincoln and Washington definitely make appearances as do our more modern Presidents, so you have plenty of choices to pull from. From serious to parody, from biographical to satirical, from fictional to factual - it is all here today at the quarter bin.
Let's keep it civil and clean and cordial with a bipartisan handshake and discuss the comic covers at hand! Make a difference and share your comments. Where else can your vote have four outcomes?
Thank you Colin for the concept and contribution! Cheers all!
P.S. Since Colin made a suggestion from across the pond, I figured it was only fair to share a couple of covers that spotlighted UK leadership, so I give you Captain Britain, Prime Minister James Callaghan, and the Queen as alternative choices! Enjoy!
Redartz: In response to a remark from Garett, and in the presidential spirit of the day, here are a few pages from Dell's 1957 "Life Stories of American Presidents", with art by John Buscema: