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Snark Free Corner for 2/19
Welcome to the latest installment of your breath of snark free air!
Special President's Day edition!
Enjoy!
COOL COMIC THINGS
A cool comic thing is Captain America's relationship with the President of the United States.
It started with FDR, who gave Cap his round shield...
It continued into the Nixon administration, with negative results...
And the Reagan White House did not fare too well in Captain America comics...
Bill Clinton, however, had a really cool moment with Cap, where Clinton thinks Cap has just been killed in an explosion...
Classy move by Clinton, no?
And Cap's response is great, too....
The end of the issue is dramatic, as well...
Cap interacted with George W. Bush in the Captain America Annual 2001, where we learn that Cap is responsible for George H. Bush surviving World War II!
Are there any other significant interactions with United States Presidents that I am missing in Captain America comics?
SNARK FREE CHALLENGE
Who do you think would make a better president - Tony Stark or Reed Richards?
COVER HOMAGE
Name me a comic book cover that is an homage to this important moment in a President's life.
COOL COMIC BOOK MOMENT
In Action Comics #309, Superman is faced with quite a pickle. He has to appear on a TV show along with Clark Kent!!
What to do? What to do?
Well, in a really cool comic moment, we see Clark Kent appear at the same time as Superman, and learn that playing the role of Clark Kent is none other than the President of the United States, John F. Kennedy!
It leads to this excellent exchange (please note that the comic came out about a year after Kennedy was killed).
ODD COMIC THINGS
Isn't it weird how Pete Ross became President? Not the exact manner (as he was Vice-President when it was revealed that Lex Luthor was a super crook), but how he was elected Vice-President in the FIRST place!
Pete did not even finish his first (and only) term in Congress because he was part of a dangerous conspiracy.
And since Luthor did not even know that Pete knew Superman at the time, why WAS Pete Ross chosen?
Well, that's it for this installment of Snark Free Corner.
Hope you had fun!
- Posted on February 19, 2007 @ 09:35 PM
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13 Comments
Dasbender
February 20, 2007 at 3:22 am
Action Comics Annual #3
DanCJ
February 20, 2007 at 3:56 am
I like these new backwards homage quizzes. Unfortunately I keep being beaten to the only answers I know
Dan
David C
February 20, 2007 at 8:02 am
Cover Homage: What If? #26
Levantine
February 20, 2007 at 8:47 am
Was that supposed to be Nixon in that Nixon-era Cap comic?
How many superheroes besides Superman and Cap interact with presidents regularly?
Bill Reed
February 20, 2007 at 9:02 am
The Kennedy issue only would've come out about a month or so after the assassination, tops. Yeah, it's cover-dated Feb. 1964, but, of course, they're two months ahead, putting the issue in December. Unless it was during the time when they were three months ahead, in which case it could pre-date the assassination by a week or two.
I'm surprised they ran the issue after his death. Unless it was already at the printers.
"O" the Humanatee!
February 20, 2007 at 11:53 am
Omigod! I just realized: Superman was the "second gunman"! He had to kill Kennedy because the President might give away his secret I.D. if blackmailed over his affair with Marilyn!
And Jack Ruby was probably a disguised Superman Robot.
Brian Cronin
February 20, 2007 at 12:19 pm
Brilliant theory, O!
Do you have any literature I can read?
Annoyed Grunt
February 20, 2007 at 2:37 pm
IIRC, Clinton was a pallbearer at Cap's funeral when he was thought dead at the start of Waid's run.
Billy F
February 20, 2007 at 2:44 pm
for the cover homage:
There is an issue of Prez, isn't there?
yeah, that's all I got.
Bill
February 20, 2007 at 5:58 pm
Earlier in the storyline with Clinton and Cap, there's the moment where Clinton strips Cap of his US citizenship! "Man Without a Country" - my favorite Mark Waid storyline
D.B.
February 20, 2007 at 6:30 pm
I remember Nixon being a jerk to Reed Richards in an old FF issue where Magneto was using atlanteans to attack NY.
Levantine
February 20, 2007 at 6:32 pm
Yeah, but isn't Reed a jerk to just about everyone else.
a different Dan
May 18, 2007 at 12:46 am
According to Overstreet, Action Comics 309 was on the stands last week of December, 1963.