real people making cameo appearances in comic books

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