Presidents in Comic Books #7: Andrew Jackson

It's February again, so you know what that means...time to start up again with my Presidents in Comic Books series, the posts that were so good I had to take a full year off to research them before I continued! Also known as, "I forgot to keep doing them."

Tonight! a solitary but stunning comic book appearance that will definitely delight the good folks who are fans of the popular blog Old Hickory Highlights...America's seventh President, a guy I forgot to do the first time around, Andrew Jackson! Now, you may remember him for reducing the federal deficit to a mere $33,000 (yay!), or who legislated Indian removal, pushing Native Americans out of their land and driving them into the west (boo!), but you won't find him in too many comic books. Sure, you might think he would team up with the Flash on one of the Scarlet Speedster's trips through time, or be the vital clue in a series of mysterious thefts by the Riddler to be cracked by the Batman, or to be the real guy inside the Iron Man armor when both Tony Stark and Iron Man show up at a public benefit for gorgeous Russian ex-spies. But I did find one appearance of Andrew (Mr. Jackson if you're nasty) in superhero comics, and altho' he replaces one of my favorite characters, you've gotta admit he's one of the kick-assingest Prezzes teaming up with a top-name superteam ever:


Page from Wha...Huh? one-shot (2005), script by Mark Millar, pencils and inks by Jim Mahfood, colors by Shaughn Struble, letters by Chris Eliopoulos

There are many famous Presidential quotes:

"You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."

and

"Speak softly and carry a big stick."

Don't forget about

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

Not to mention

"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall."

But to those momentous proclamations we can now add this direct quotation from the mouth of our seventh President, Andrew Jackson:


"It's clobberin' time!"

Not to mention, it'd sure make Marvel Two-in-One a real interestin' comic, right?