My favorite election-themed comic book
Admittedly, I’m not sure how many election-themed comics there are, but I’m going with “Captain America” #250, by Roger Stern and John Byrne, as my favorite, in which a third party attempts to draft Captain America as a presidential candidate.
Marvel has the issue online here. (You might have to be a member.) It’s also available in the “War and Remembrance” trade paperback, which collects the Stern-Byrne run.
– Matt Price
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There was also the What If Captain America Became President? issue, in Vol 2 of Wha If…
In Ruins, the Warren Ellis what if story, reprinted by Marvel this winter, Prof X is president of a very different America.
In Earth X, Norman Osborn was President.
There was the Heralds issue of Paradise X wherein the Heralds go to a world where the Brute, a Reed Richards/Hulk amalgam was President.
In 2099, long after Doom, in the Manifest Destiny one-shot, they find Captain America in Ice, and they unfreeze him. He becomes president, with Thor’s hammer, and then passes it onto Miguel O’Hara (Spidey 2099), who for the next thousand years serves as President with Thor’s hammer. I think.
And there’s probably a slew of other Presidential themed comic appearances.
I would have done a whole thing if I’d had time to research it, but I should have just made it a Cody Guest Blog!
Oh, no, no guest blog… then the pressure is on to be totally accurate and say WHICH issue of Doom 2099 that Doom seized the presidency…
I can’t do that. That would require work. 
And, speaking of election, we forgot the biggest one of the last few years: The Third Party/Red Skull/Captain America storyline that ran, what, the first 40 issues of this new series? With Kronas and their candidate and everything?
That’s been big.
Also, didn’t Kitty Pryde’s father run for Senate or Congress in Chicago? (He died on Genosha, i think).
And FDR’s grandson just became Magog. That’s kinda politcal…
And Watchmen, too, with it’s Third-Term Nixon and totally whacked out politics.
And Batman: Dark Knight Returns/Strikes Again features a very Luthorian presidency, right?
And Green Arrow was the mayor, right? And the whole DC: Decisions thing, for whatever benefit that was…
I’m wearing that shirt today, actually….
As to Election themed… There was the whole Luthor for President thing. There’s the current election running through Brand New Day amazing. There was Graydon Creed running in the 90′s, along with Senator Kelley, in the X-Books. (Heck, wasn’t Days of Futures Past ALL about an Election/assassination?!?)
Not to mention the President Doom 2099 in all of the 2099 titles.
And Colbert for President stuff in the Marvel titles.
And…