real people making cameo appearances 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

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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

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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.