Today in Comics History, January 9: Happy birthday, Richard Nixon!

Born on this date in 1913: Richard M. Nixon, America's only hounded out of office president! There's an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could get his picture in so many 1970s comic books!" Yes, there's a lot of Tricky Dick pop-ups (ew) within the pages of comics, but I'm gonna just shoot you this here cameo from the broccoli-stained pages of Hulk...


from Incredible Hulk (1968 series) #152 (Marvel, June 1972), script by Gary Friedrich and Steve Englehart, pencils by Dick Ayers, art corrections to faces by Herb Trimpe, inks by Frank Giacoia, colors by Mimi Gold (?), letters by Artie Simek
...which shows you that ol' Dick Nixon was just too busy having the US Military hunt down old Jade Jaws to ever commit any conspiracies or screw up Vietnam or run over folk singer Joni Mitchell in his limosine.

Want more? Sure, Sally Strothers, Strother Martin, and Martin and Lewis...we all do! So if you click on over to 13th Dimension, the blog that's a pedagogue, you'll check out thirteen more Nixon appearances in comic books, ranging from a Star Trek spin-off to ruling the earth as a disembodied head. (Four thousand more years!) Also, there's Duck Nixon. All over at the totaly excellent 13th Dimension, which you can find lots of nifty screenshots and if you're not careful, you may just learn something. Did I mention it's written by my pal John DiBello? I helped out with the jokes, though. It's the ONLY website on the World Wide Internet with so much Nixon content! (Aside from some files of the FBI and CIA.)


Tricky birthday, Happy Dick! I mean...strike that; reverse it.