# Comic Book U.S. Presidents (Fictional, or otherwise) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 15, 2003, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-u-s-presidents-fictional-or-otherwise/213398 "2003-11-15T06:41:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-u-s-presidents-fictional-or-otherwise/213398/21 "2003-11-16T22:51:55Z")
Anyone remember _Zenith_? IIRC a man codenamed Mandala was a senior minister in Margaret Thatcher’s Cabinet. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-u-s-presidents-fictional-or-otherwise/213398/22 "2003-11-16T23:02:30Z")
There was an issue of **Captain America** where the Serpent Society contaminated the drinking water of Washington DC with a drug that turned people into snake-men. Cap’s quest to stop the Serpents had him going _mano-a-mano_ with a Ronald Reagan Reptile at one point, IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-u-s-presidents-fictional-or-otherwise/213398/23 "2003-11-17T03:17:41Z")
Back in the late 1960s in Action Comics, Superman got anothr of those ubiquitous rounds of amnesia (from Red Kryptonite, IIRC), and assumed the position of President of the United States. It turned out that the real Prez was on a secret mission at the time, so Supes was able to step in for a couple of days before they found out the truth. . DC noted that “to avoid offending the dignity of the office of the President we have not modeled this character on any real political figure.” I can’t recall the name they gave this fictitios resident. He didn’t look like anyone in politics. He ;looked pretyty distinguished, with black hair that was white at the temples – kinda a mix of Clark Kent and Reed Richards. Marvel was less skittish. In the early 1960s they showed a silhouette of the president sitting in a rocking chair, then later showed his haracteristic “wave” but no more than the top of the head). They didn’t name him, but you’d have to be pretty dense not to realize that it was Kennedy. By the end of the 1960s, they had Nixon showing up full-face in the pages of The Fantastic Four. ---
**Author:** ![ResIpsaLoquitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b3f665/32.png) [@ResIpsaLoquitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ResIpsaLoquitor)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-u-s-presidents-fictional-or-otherwise/213398/24 "2003-11-17T04:14:30Z")
Oh, duh– Dr. Doom _forcibly_ became President in Marvel’s 2099 line of comics. ---
**Author:** ![VampyChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5daacb/32.png) [@VampyChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VampyChick)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2003, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-u-s-presidents-fictional-or-otherwise/213398/25 "2003-11-20T22:35:01Z")
**Big Bad Voodoo Lou** ,I’m looking at the comic in question right now, and the Authority’s president appears to be Clinton. Except he looks nothing like Clinton. _shrug_ But Seth’s shutdown phrase: “Welcome to the Oval Office, President George.” seems to indicate that whoever he may be, the president is not Bush. I don’t know whether they killed him or not. “Door to Iraq,” doesn’t sound very promising, though. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2003, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-u-s-presidents-fictional-or-otherwise/213398/26 "2003-11-20T23:52:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Max Carnage \* > **My favorite comic book pres was from the New Universe. Can’t remember his name off the top of my head, but he had the paranormal ability to copy anyone else’s paranormal ability** Philip Nolan Voight. He succeeded President Reagan who was also a paranormal. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-u-s-presidents-fictional-or-otherwise/213398/27 "2003-11-21T01:17:40Z")
Ronald Reagan appeared in Jon Sable #1. He hired Sable to protect him from a mercenary. ---
**Author:** ![Vlad\_Dracul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/50afbb/32.png) [@Vlad\_Dracul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Dracul)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-u-s-presidents-fictional-or-otherwise/213398/28 "2003-11-21T08:23:07Z")
Have to correct VampyChick… Seth’s shutdown phrase named “President Gore” not “President George”. ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-u-s-presidents-fictional-or-otherwise/213398/29 "2003-11-21T17:40:28Z")
And \ **The Dark Knight Strikes Back** the president was a hologram created by Brainiac and Luthor (who I guess had hit his term limit and not wanted to leave) ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-u-s-presidents-fictional-or-otherwise/213398/30 "2003-11-21T17:40:31Z")
And in \ **The Dark Knight Strikes Back** the president was a hologram created by Brainiac and Luthor (who I guess had hit his term limit and not wanted to leave) ---
**Author:** ![VampyChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5daacb/32.png) [@VampyChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VampyChick)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-u-s-presidents-fictional-or-otherwise/213398/31 "2003-11-25T09:20:07Z")
…well, heck. Sorry 'bout that. ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-u-s-presidents-fictional-or-otherwise/213398/32 "2003-11-25T11:13:12Z")
FDR made frequent appearances in The All Star Squadron. It’s easier to use a political figure when you don’t have to worry about keeping things “up to date”. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-u-s-presidents-fictional-or-otherwise/213398/33 "2003-11-25T11:21:19Z")
I remember reading The Authority: Under New Management a while ago. The President made an appearance, and while he wasn’t named, from some angles he looked a lot like Clinton. Others, not so much. I’m not sure if it was meant to be him or not- would’ve made sense, since the thing was set on 12/31/1999. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-u-s-presidents-fictional-or-otherwise/213398.md?page=1)