real people making cameo appearances in comic books

I guess there must be a thread for this already but I can't find one. Inspired by that 'Avengers appear on Late Night' issue being linked to in the Letterman thread

http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix6/letterman_david_01.jpg

Jay Leno + Malcolm Forbes

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/easteregg4-24-3.jpg

Richard Branson in the UK Transformers comic, looking kinda photo-referenced

http://s90690880.onlinehome.us/jhiaxus/images/oddities/general/branson160_02.jpg

Tim Duncan with The Punisher
http://www.comicbookresources.com/imgsrv/imglib/500/0/1/Punisher-Duncan-a6e91.jpg

http://www.standard.co.uk/incoming/article8512608.ece/alternates/w620/One%20Direction%20Beano.jpg

http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users16/musicsavedme/default/msg-117755915181.jpg

Jack Benny

http://i58.tinypic.com/2eftgsy.jpg

http://berkeleyplacecomics.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/img_3622.jpg

https://smilingculture.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/rovers.jpg

http://www.beano.com/media/1362831/83tdsjoan_500x718.jpg

who wouldn't be envious

The pop group Madness once appeared as themselves in a strip as did singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading. Singer Tom Jones and TV presenter Dickie Davies have also received mentions.

'appeared as themselves'seems a weird phrasing in this situation

http://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/rickles1.jpg

George H.W. Bush
https://comiclists.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/pres-bush1.gif

Dr Ruth
http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/image/Ruth_Westheimer_DarkKnight.jpg

[and also Letterman I guess]

this was a special feature of Action Comics Weekly: Oprah was in Green Lantern--or should I saw Green Lantern was on Oprah?!?--Deadman, in a single adventure, inhabited the bodies of Ronald Reagan, Mikhail and Raisa Gorbachev, and D.B. Cooper. And Randy Travis had a walk on in Secret Six.

D.B. Cooper and the Kool-Aid Man!
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_bdVR-JIDi2g/TPr_85A_HPI/AAAAAAAAUO4/PZBO7h-lCxA/s1600/dm%2Babd%2Bdb01.jpg

Tuesday, 11 January, 2000, 16:50 GMT

Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell and a host of other celebrities make guest appearances in the 3,000th edition of the children's comic The Beano.

The landmark issue of the comic also features Brooklyn Beckham, the son of Posh Spice and soccer star David Beckham, Boyzone's Ronan Keating and comic Ken Dodd.

This week's special edition features sketches in which celebrities appear alongside the famous Beano character judged most like them.

The celebrity matches were chosen by some 4,000 of the comic's readers who cast their votes on the Beano website.

Pop star Geri Halliwell narrowly beat EastEnder Patsy Palmer to feature as Minnie the Minx's opposite number.

Virgin DJ Chris Evans appears as Dennis the Menace, while Brooklyn Beckham changes sexes to become Dennis' baby sister, Bea.

Rowan Atkinson, as Mr Bean, is lined up as Calamity James, although Manchester United's Gary Neville - whose errors helped Vasco da Gama to their 3-1 victory over the Reds in Rio - got some late votes.

Del Boy, from BBC TV's Only Fools and Horses, appears with Roger the Dodger, despite facing stiff competition from Tory peer Lord Archer.

Elsewhere Linford Christie is likened to Billy Whizz and soccer stars Alan Shearer and Michael Owen feature with Ball Boy.

Veteran comedian Ken Dodd appears with the gruesome dogs, Gnasher and Gnipper, while pop heart-throb Ronan Keating shares some fun with the goofy Plug.

Euan Kerr, the editor of Beano, which has been running continuously since 1938, commented: "In the past we have featured personalities like Tony Blair and Mr Motivator.

"All these people have been delighted to appear in the comic, so we thought that this competition among celebrities was a good idea to mark this great occasion for Beano - moving into its third millennium well ahead of the rest of mankind."

a companion thread of transparent analogues of real-life people would be cool

Pierre Trudeau:

https://kangaratmurdersoc.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/120-trudeau.jpg

also, just getting this one out of the way

http://www.littlestuffedbull.com/images/comics/presidents/president0803/10asm583.jpg

http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/dynamics/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2010/07/2010-07-21_071527.png

http://www.spiderfan.org/comics/images/marvel_teamup/074.jpg

http://crossover.bureau42.com/supeskennedy.jpg

http://www.littlestuffedbull.com/images/comics/capflag1.jpg

on a 'transparent analogues of real-life people' tip, Brick Springhorn and the Tenth Avenue Band

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lyNSe4WVBkQ/UxM5CHKioMI/AAAAAAAABYE/58G-NXib_ks/s1600/2014-03-01+17.04.20.jpg

http://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/9/9c/Brickspringhornandthetenthavenueband.jpg

YES!

love the creepy/enervated balloon and letterforms there

ugh, really struggling to find a jpeg of that time bill clinton appeared on a monitor to yell at Prime (from the Ultraverse) about his responsibilities to the nation. like most adult males in breyfogle's Prime, he just had spooky shadows for eyes, it was pretty great.

Thomas Jefferson as a Satanist in Batman/Detective Comics
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/batstory40b.jpg

Not really a cameo, because he's the the other protagonist, but:

http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111022132648/marveldatabase/images/6/6d/Eminem_punisher.jpg

is the Red Skull in disguise as Spider-Man in that Obama story?

https://36.media.tumblr.com/5d32bb05210c83db51df8a1bf47fa367/tumblr_n3d46tuzrj1rvhk4ho1_500.jpg

I give up, who?

norman osborn

Khrushchev practically a regular in early 60s marvel comics

http://winterdrake.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/DaThatIsWhyYouWillNeverBeDictator1.jpg

I remember reading some 1970s marvel uk comics that reprinted 60s Iron Man stuff + marvel uk's preoccupation with changing random things for no good reason had extended to drawing hair and a beard on Khrushchev, and tippex-ing out his name and replacing it with 'The Mad Ghost', written in a different font to everything else. I guess they thought that Khrushchev's presence would confuse the kids as he hadn't been soviet premier for about 10 years at that point?

they's also removed all references to 'the soviet union' in the dialogue and captions and replaced them with some made up country name, but hadn't done anything about the hammer + sickles on the walls etc

hahhaha, that's awesome. they should have done that with everybody. wrinkles and jowls awkwardly ghosted onto kennedy.

just looked it up and apparently 'the mad ghost' was actually the replacement name they gave to a 60s marvel villain called the red ghost in the US books, so maybe I'm getting this mixed up? or maybe they drew hair on pictures of Khrushchev and tried to make out it was all the same character? that seems plausible as red ghost looks not unlike Khrushchev with added hair anyway

http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/square_small/4/49448/2460376-jack_kirby._the_red_ghost_and_his_indescribable_super_apes._001.jpg

maybe marvel's UK reprints take place in a parallel universe where everything is the same except that nikita khrushchev moonlights as the red and/or mad ghost.

http://funnybookbabylon.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/ff178-beame-carter-ford-reagan-small.jpg

reagan, ford, carter, and abraham beame, all in one page. many more at http://funnybookbabylon.com/2011/02/06/the-adventures-of-ronald-reagan-americans-comic-bookiest-president/ . i also like the x-men #150 one with reagan, brezhnev, deng, thatcher, daniel moi, and king khalid i guess. but of course, just wheeling world leaders in to indicate a high-stakes situation is sort of old hat.

written in a different font to everything else

people's hands aren't fonts

i can't make my hand turn into a font

So many in Herbie - kruschev, lbj, kennedy, various movie actors etc.

The Joker met Ayatollah Khomeini (and became ambassador to the UN for Iran) in the death-of-Robin story
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_m_yEp4yvWQY/R-kOxbH8eUI/AAAAAAAAI20/rYrWIJELtUk/s320/11.jpg

http://herbiepopnecker.com/examples/titles/01b.jpg

Well done, "Shane O'Shea". Well done.

Wesley Willis in Wonder Woman

http://i.onionstatic.com/avclub/4237/03/original/595.jpg

great thread. i still want to find that bill clinton issue of breyfogle's prime. it was early, like around #4-6. around when prime goes to the moon.

wow @ that abe beame one. how'd rick perlstein miss that.

RIP Abe Vigoda

http://13thdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/IMG_7205-580x382.jpg

elton! and sanford!

http://www.hembeck.com/Images/FredSez/CountDuckulaCover380.jpg https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/54/bb/c3/54bbc3cf08908742f5ef2ea4754a5da6.jpg

http://www.hembeck.com/Images/FredSez/CountDuckulaPanel425.jpg

Geraldo Rivera meets Count Duckula

(this seems an odd combination. was the Count Duckula cartoon even shown in North America? Geraldo is not particularly well known in the UK afaict)

The fact that it's issue eight of an American Marvel comic rather than a British one suggests to me that Count Duckula did get some kind of screening in the US.

Yeah it definitely did. I remember it

one's a sinister creature of the night whose actions often lead to comedy and the other's count duckula

Duckula, like Danger Mouse, had a decently long run on Nickelodeon (children's cable channel). That comic is still insane, though.

Magneto Rodney Dangerfield and Titanium Man:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hG0Pn6R4pcE/Up6qxNl_i5I/AAAAAAAABCY/V0EcnzY-5Ss/s1600/IM_134D.png

this is from a late 70s marvel one shot telling the story of the Beatles, so not really a cameo, but

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c0/Paul_McCartney_%28Earth-616%29_from_Marvel_Comics_Super_Special_Vol_1_4_001.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20160923081433

I remember one of the Sinister Dexter pair from 2000Ad morphing into what looked massively like Nick Cave for a panel. But wouldn't have a clue when that would be.
Has anybody seen that strip?

I think it's Finnegan Dexter and it's cave with stand up hair as far as I can remember. I think he's wearing a white suit too.

Finnegan Sinister, it's Ramon Dexter.
& I think it's the Irish one. But has been years since I saw it.

http://blogs.faz.net/schachblog/files/2016/11/DonaldCarlsen2-680x1024.png

Minnie the Minx meets Jimmy Savile (also Boy George, Henry Cooper and David Attenborough)

http://the-slipper.blogspot.co.uk/2016_06_01_archive.html

from that same blog, Dennis the Menace meets Mike Read:

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9_q_rPi7x0A/VfR8lvFSbzI/AAAAAAAACF0/7X9PTkTl2rI/s320/Beano%2B2281%2B4.jpg

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BrXjajo6bhk/VfR8mKH1dlI/AAAAAAAACF0/ytxI3weQBpY/s320/Beano%2B2281%2B5.jpg

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zvu4YNxlurs/V1yfI4dWu1I/AAAAAAAACsA/oV3lzGQy04oGG05tfHhyUKkSSh4uEQC9ACKgB/s1600/Beano%2BComic%2BLibrary%2B99%2B31.jpg
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ea7GATTShv0/V1yfIwu1u2I/AAAAAAAACsA/I9PVWvDNYdYX_adh75xYc9MXnghKrH2GQCKgB/s1600/Beano%2BComic%2BLibrary%2B99%2B32.jpg

Minnie the Minx, the original rockist?

God, I remember both of those when they originally published. The creepy Mike Read image is especially emblazoned

http://news.images.itv.com/image/file/236592/image_update_8b4261b988018fca_1374484874_9j-4aaqsk.jpeg

http://i.imgur.com/VucemKC.png

more Khrushchev in early-60s Marvel. sort of surprised that this one has never become a meme, with photos of various ppl photoshopped into the last panel.

Jesus Christ how is Marvel's treatment of archive material still such hideous vandalism after all these years

lol yeah good meme there. see thumbs-up-osama.jpg, etc.

don't think we've had this one

https://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/2/2e/Lois_Lane_009.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20060310152950

That Khrushchev panel doesn't quite "make sense," in the context of what I take the story to be -- revealing him to be an alien is just turning up the juice a bit on associations already in place (for American readers). Seems like the proper "shock ending" would be a photo of Kennedy or Johnson (depending on the year)... though I guess no way would that have been contemplated in those times, or passed the Comics Code Authority!

http://www.supermegamonkey.net/chronocomic/entries/scans17/ASM299_Party.jpg

Spider-Man tries to track down Chance the next day (no sign of all of the damage to the city that happened in Fall of the Mutants), but gets blocked when a police officer calls him out for lurking on top of the truck that Chance's unconscious body is being transferred in. Since Spider-Man doesn't have any evidence, the policeman won't open the truck and he sends Spider-Man on his way. MJ cheers him up by taking him to a party with Eddie Murphy and Paul Shaffer.

props to fnord's / SuperMegaMonkey's marvelously old-school Marvel Comics Chronology project.

Pete's such a dork; he was sure lucky that MJ put up w/him...

I recall Paul Shaffer popping up at least one other time in an '80s Marvel book -- probably drawn better than the above...

I first saw that page about 20 years ago in a trade paperback and I don't think I ever realised until now that it's supposed to be Paul Shaffer

McFarlane not an ace w/portraiture...

I remember/have that issue, btw (just clicked the link), but didn't recall the page above. The Venus Butterfly thing is pretty cute... guess Pete gets a pass, after all.

McFarlane's Spidey still looks totally awesome to me

Yeah, I was thinking that as I looked at those scans -- black-costume McFarlane Spidey is pretty classic.

i love the rad swingin' poses with his arms and legs all twisted and flying every which way but kinda hate everything else about it. still as 'star' artists of that period go that puts him way ahead of almost everybody, certainly liefeld and silvestri.

It’s iconic (in that its imitators ruled the world for the next few few years) but the webbing is terrible, and what’s Spider-Man with terrible webbing?

that page looks ghost-pencilled by Erik Larsen

McFarlane Spidey webbing was awesome, every artist should have made up their own look for it

i love the rad swingin' poses with his arms and legs all twisted and flying every which way but kinda hate everything else about it. still as 'star' artists of that period go that puts him way ahead of almost everybody, certainly liefeld and silvestri.

I really like Silvestri's 80s X-Men art, especially in black and white in the essentials collections.

has ilx ever polled the image founders?

I haaaaaaate Silvestri's X-Men, it's really hideous imho and iirc he was the chief founder of the "don't bother drawing the background" school. My pet theory is that if Claremont as plotter was broken by line expansion, hopeless editorial edicts, and just running out of ideas, Claremont as scripter was broken by Silvestri's art, which just invites the abuse of any latent or not-so-latent tendency to oververbalize things because otherwise you'd have no clue wtf is happening from panel to panel. And he stuck around for like fifty issues, not counting fill-ins!

xp yeah seriously the webbing rules

Not a big fan of Silvestri’s artwork, either... and Rick Leonardi was sort of Erik Larsen to Silvestri’s McFarlane, no?

I agree w/Dr. Casino that Claremont’s writing probably would have been better served by less muddied artwork.

Stewart Lee in today's Doomsday Clock #3.

https://www.bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/dc3-768x401.jpg

"Is Alan Moore pissed off about our latest attempt to fuck with him for no good reason?"
"He hasn't said anything, I think he might be burnt out by all the previous attempts."
"Hmm. Let's try drawing friends of his into it, then"

that is... weird on several levels

Michael Kupperman has been tweeting panels from issues of Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen, including one where Jimmy goes to Hollywood

https://i.imgur.com/Nya04c9.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/0sXAkdE.png

also came across a panel of Jimmy meeting Jackie Kennedy while doing a GIS for the above

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sBscCEWXDDY/UvgflKXUtuI/AAAAAAAALuk/Mug0XsDlx9E/s1600/Supermans+Pal+Jimmy+Olsen+069+-+26.jpg

not quite the same thing, but a poster of Jimmy, Rosalynn and Amy Carter with Captain America

#ArchivesResolutions Save energy like the Carters did! They received this poster (signed by Stan Lee!) of Captain America with the president, Rosalynn Carter & Amy during a reception touting an Energy Dept youth conservation program 10/1/1980. #ArchivesHashtagParty #superheroes pic.twitter.com/zHzwfv0tdT

— Jimmy Carter Library (@CarterLibrary) January 12, 2018

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--XfP6jQDO--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/18lp2etcoq6n1jpg.jpg

Is the stand up comedian in Doomsday Clock #3 actually named as Stewart Lee, or has the artist merely used Lee's image when asked to draw a stand up comedian, possibly because Lee and Alan Moore are known to be friendly?

Everybody's assumption is the latter, mainly because it's not a joke you could ever imagine Stewart Lee telling (and it doesn't go on for 20 pages).

My delight at seeing a Spider-Woman costume is tempered somewhat by the awfulness of said costume...

Obviously W Allen, and is that Teddy Kennedy at the top? I don't recognise the footballer(?) in the right-hand frame
https://img.etsystatic.com/il/9c03ed/767260390/il_570xN.767260390_prgr.jpg

Joe Namath imo

a person I have never seen a photograph of, and only know exists bcz of MAD magazine

Thank you, if asked I would've said Joe Namath was a baseball player, so this cover may now help me to remember otherwise.

And lol yes, I was that mythical Brit boy reader who knew abt Spiro Agnew because of MAD magazine.

https://frinkiac.com/meme/S07E12/47147.jpg?b64lines=IEJveSwgdGhleSdyZSByZWFsbHkKIHNvY2tpbmcgaXQgdG8gdGhhdCBTcGlybwogQWduZXcgZ3V5IGFnYWluLiBIZSBtdXN0CiB3b3JrIHRoZXJlIG9yIHNvbWV0aGluZy4=

Why would they think Joe Namath was a bad specimen of man? The pantyhose ads?

Isn't the gag just that those "normal humans" appear repulsive to the post-atomic war mutants?

Maybe but I don't think so - why would they pick celebrities then rather than just generic faces? I think it's a gag on "oh, no, THOSE people are the typical male??"

I see what you mean; I guess one needs to be from that era to understand it. I get how Woody Allen works for that gag, but not really the other two.

Btw, to build on a comment above -- pretty much my entire knowledge of Watergate comes from several close readings of "The Doonesbury Chronicles" as a teen (our dog-eared copy of the book had a singed back cover, I assume from a parent leaving a joint on it or something).

Update: I sent the “Spoof” cover to my dad. He says Namath “had a nickname of ‘Broadway Joe’ because he owned a nightclub in New York when he played for the Jets and had an image as a ‘swingin’ bachelor’ type.” Still not sure why that made him a subject of ridicule, but ok.

Kennedy is b/c of Chappaquidick — I had thought the comic predated that, but in fact it’s from 1973 (four years later): http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Spoof_Vol_1.

And I assume Allen was just seen as a goofy nebbish back then (but he makes he most sense of the three nowadays...).

Joe Willie did a pantyhose commercial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbANHzJttog

That ad is pretty funny (I like how they have a lady kiss him at the end, so you know it’s All in Fun).

http://www.supermegamonkey.net/chronocomic/entries/scans24/CA423_TAsides.jpg

FDR meets the Sub-Mariner in a 1990s continuity-insert story. Several more images over at supermegamonkey.

FDR DGAF

ha, goofy.

I just read an issue of "The Unstoppable Wasp" in which Janet Pym talks to Sen. Cory Booker on a cell phone (though they don't show him).

i could swear I already mentioned this itt but T0m H4rt and I got to appear (and get offed) as lowlife schemers in Fatale. Artist worked from photos of our younger longhaired seattle selves.

just get offed

a subgenre of this that I particularly like is cameo appearances by real people who are now almost totally forgotten

https://i.imgur.com/RtaogE4.png

photos of the real Judge William Long and Mayor William F. Devin (I couldn't find any of Mrs John L Locke):

https://static.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/2024082574-300x0.jpg http://www.historylink.org/Content/Media/Photos/Large/sma135.JPG

There's a 'Camp Long' park in Seattle named after Long but aside from that none of them seem to have left much trace

Coincidentally I just read a Batman comic that based a whole story around this guy, who was apparently super-famous in the big band era but is now pretty much a footnote.

http://www.jasmine-records.co.uk/store/image/cache/catalog/jasmine/product/604988039825-500x500.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-l0D5JRiLds0/UBNU-2wDCxI/AAAAAAAApfA/UoXkrgff5EQ/s640/det14409.jpg

Interesting documented use of the etymologically mysterious term “copasetic” (sic).

Nice disguise on that album cover, jeffrey tambor

Douglas Wolk, late of this parish, spots some faces drawn by Mark Gruenwald: https://allofthemarvels.tumblr.com/post/174249987928/dan-rather-ed-koch-and-barbara-walters-all-appear

https://i1.wp.com/downthetubes.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Beano-Cover-061113.jpg

the proud 'still only £2!' is bending my brain a bit there

Yeah I'm sure the Beano costs 10p.

that's the price it is and will forever be in my mind for sure

Also big up to that artist for being confident enough to feel he could draw Richard Hammond without ever having seen him or heard him described.

Unrelated but related:

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/f6/85/19/f68519cc95e886a36b3e538c37542d5b.jpg

kind of related but Rick Moranis "starred" in this cartoon that I thought I totally dreamed up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGhZegXEj3U

Wait, what

https://babblingsaboutdccomics3.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/sup_62.png

http://thefifthbranch.com/images/oldies/superman/wellessaves.jpg

This would make sense if it was published back in the thirties when most people would've only known Welles by his voice, but this was nine years after Citizen Kane! There would've been no shortage of reference pictures of him, surely.

Maybe it was supposed to be Clark Gable but they couldn't get permission to use his likeness, so they just shrugged and went, "Uhh, Orson Welles, maybe?"

What did Welles look like IRL six months before that issue came out?

Here's Welles in '49:

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/f4/3d/4e/f43d4e52fa60398e7d6c350edad81236.jpg

The comic was supposed to be promoting his current movie as well, you'd think they would've tried to make it look even a little bit like him?

Funt.

https://crossover.bureau42.com/action345.jpg

could you write a story about this cover and ... win £20?

https://d1466nnw0ex81e.cloudfront.net/n_iv/600/2161025.jpg

http://www.supermegamonkey.net/chronocomic/entries/scans3/MTU74_SpideySNL2.JPG
http://www.supermegamonkey.net/chronocomic/entries/scans3/MTU74_SNL.JPG

spidey goes to SNL for a very special Marvel Team-Up. more at supermegamonkey.

I'm sure the cover of that is a dead link upthread btw

An unnamed Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon in Amazing Spider-Man 99.

http://berkeleyplacecomics.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/img_3632.jpg

Country Joe & the Fish in Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD 15.

https://people.well.com/user/cjfish/fury1.jpg

my man Hannity

AM I
GLAD
I SAW
YOU

Give it up for Spidey, he uses his first nationally-broadcast television appearance as a platform for prison reform. Good dude.

wow @ country joe and the fish

Meta - Roy Thomas and his first wife Jeanie make an appearance in Avengers (written by R Thomas):

https://i2.wp.com/berkeleyplaceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/roy-thomas-and-jeanie-thomas.jpg?resize=292%2C250

I admit, there are lots of examples of 'real' comics creators appearing in comic books

For real, just read a '70s Daredevil at the weekend featuring Stan & Joan.

Country Joe was a holy grail appearance I'd been meaning to post here for forever but couldn't track down because I misremembered the band in question as the Lovin' Spoonful.

Just took this... I see it was already posted above, but don’t wanna waste an imgur upload:

https://i.imgur.com/RgNaZkj_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

Disney synergy:

https://i.imgur.com/mEfPxxT_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

Who the fuck is that punchable-faced dude?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Kimmel

Ah, the Trump enabler.

no, that's a different Jimmy, who recently fired his (hired-six-months-earlier) head writer over disagreement re: what constitutes Trump enabling.

In a separate post, Drysdale noted that the extensive amount of jokes made at the expensive of President Donald Trump was a sticking point for her, not because of an underlying support for the president but how she sees comedy aimed at him potentially helping his image to the world at large. She wrote: “I believe that comedy is a powerful tool. I believe that it can handle anything, no matter how unfunny. I don’t believe that making fun of this man, doing impressions of him, or making him silly, is a good use of that power. It only adds to his.”

“I am making the decision for myself to never work on, write, or be involved with, another Trump sketch ever again. I have landed in several jobs and situations over the last few years, not just The Tonight Show, where the project of making fun of Trump, or doing material about Trump, has led to divided creative teams, anxiety, tears and pain. I can’t decide the outcome of this election, but I can make the choice for myself, to vote him out of my creative life.”

Kimmel pivoted from being bro-tinged middle-America-friendly snark to being comparatively radicalised against Republicans on health care (and personally lying to his face about letting newborns die) grounds during the last administration.

"made at the expensive President Donald Trump"

betting the writer's fingers were still thinking of "extensive" four words earlier

http://cache.coverbrowser.com/image/from-beyond-the-unknown/17-1.jpg

Image above didn't load, hopefully this one should

https://i.imgur.com/7zBtZNY.jpg

Scanning back through the thread and spotting Jackie Kennedy reminded me of this wtf reveal from Action #309, where it turns out JFK stood in for Clark Kent to protect Superman's secret identity. Which with spectacularly unfortunate timing, hit the newsstands a week after Kennedy went to Dallas.

https://i.imgur.com/dO9cY9X.jpg

Well, at least Supes didn't have to worry for long about JFK accidentally revealing his secret identity.

That’s why the ballistics are so confusing - first shooter missed, Supes caught the bullet in his mouth, and spat it back through JFK’s dome to keep him quiet.

Of related interest

Please search with @rblandford’s tag #popculturereferencesinMarvelComics

You will not be disappointed.

— Andrew Male (@Andr6wMale) November 1, 2021

Ladies and gents, here come Glennan, Saul, Benji and Hal...the TWISTS!

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I'm not sure why the Paul stand-in looks like more like Jason King dressed in Dr Strange's wardrobe though.

THE CLUE IS ON THEIR ALBUM COVER!

"new arrangements and stuff" lol

It's funny how late this was to capitalise on Sgt Pepper era Beatles as well, 1970?? I guess in the DC universe every fashion trend is about three or four years behind the real world, so at this point hip and trendy youngsters are still wearing beads and kaftans and confusing oldsters with beatnik lingo.

Captain Britain commits regicide

https://i.imgur.com/2PYbY9f.png

https://i.imgur.com/Zr8cjve.png

disappointing cop-out in this Superman comic (from Jan 1969, so they could have gone with LBJ or Nixon)

https://i.imgur.com/HYKcd2m.png

Lol at that Ed. note

bonus Queen vs Captain Britain content

https://i.imgur.com/mSm0BMx.png

Richard Nixon as the head of the Secret Empire:

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PLOT by BOB BUDIANSKY * SCRIPT by JIM LAWRENCE * PENCILS AND INKS by SOMEONE WHO SAW A PHOTO OF THE QUEEN SEVERAL YEARS AGO AND HAS SINCE FORGOTTEN WHAT SHE LOOKS LIKE

iirc the Captain Britain artwork is by Ron Wilson and Pablo Marcos, neither of whom were Brits.

Although looking again at those pages, the royal faces look like the work of another artist entirely (possibly an art droid in the Marvel UK offices)

the first image is from issue 38 of Captain Britain, the second and third from issue 39 (the final issue before it was cancelled). Pencils for both are by Ron Wilson, the inking on #38 by Mike Esposito, inks on #39 by someone called Brian H. Moore who doesn't seem to have any other credits other than the final issue of the original run of Captain Britain ... unless he's the same person as this Brian H Moore, who drew cartoons for Sinn Fein's newspaper An Phoblacht under the name Cormac: https://www.anphoblacht.com/contents/835

Maybe someone at Marvel UK knew him and as a laugh hired him to ink an issue of Captain Britain where the title character attempts to kill the queen? (Or an Irish-American working at Marvel US, maybe?)

sorry, I've just double checked the issue, and the full credits are "ART BY RON WILSON AND PABLO MARCOS * ZIPS BY BRIAN H MOORE". idk what 'zips' means here ... but maybe it was an Irish Republican Marxist cartoonist who drew the faces of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh rather than a Marvel UK art droid?

is zips short for zip-a-tone?

it is.

is the second Queen/CapB also Budiansky?


FPing jimbeaux for putting those digital recolors into my corneas.

love it, but also why is Nixon shooting himself a KRAK rather than a BANG

Looks like a Luger

is the second Queen/CapB also Budiansky?

both issues credit Budiansky with plot and Jim Lawrence with script

Always fascinating / bemusing how Marvel had an actual office in the UK but would still employ US-based authors for piecework

I see Jim Lawrence wrote some James Bond comics, so “blasted superhero’s done his nut, like I always said he would!” could have a genuine ring of authenticity about it

This is making the rounds online ("real bands being name-checked in comic books"):

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dz3e2cvgmhtrqqjiivbocjnd/bafkreig42fdxt5h3qfizxnunqqhyhowuvwptnflefjmwwqdb2nc2oxiteq@jpeg

during the ridiculous part of the 90s, mutant military posse x-force were seen dancing to a porno for pyros song in a club

why this stuck with me idk!

i’m probably posting the wrong url, but here’s aerosmith in shadowman from the early 90s:

https://valiant.fandom.com/wiki/Shadowman_Vol_1_19?file=Shadowman_Vol_1_19.jpg

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/Q00AAOSwulViY01T/s-l1600.jpg

Topical (this may be one of the dead links above; I see another Kissinger appearance w/Captain America):

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from BlueSky, a 1979 edition of the Spiderman newspaper strip where Flash Thompson and Harry Osbourne open a discotheque

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:k5vwobjngg43lj7zuw2gudib/bafkreifver4grajxq5ae4abz2s37it2zj7emtnb7u5kv7a2kurtxn2ia4u@jpeg

https://bsky.app/profile/comicsinthega.bsky.social/post/3kjj5ydogrc2l

Wow. I'm sure a bunch of those folks must turn up frequently, but I can't imagine there are too many Gene Shalit appearances out there. Oddly, he seems like he'd be the most at home if he had a page in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe. I'd believe it if he turned out to be some worthless one-off villain from Marvel Team-Up, or the very tail end of Stan Lee's Spider-Man.