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created: 8 June 2021
Last Updated: 6 May 2022

Preface
Origins and Background.
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Featured: I Go Pogo, Art Spiegelman Comics & Politics

Introduction
Politics and Pop Culture.
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Featured: Obama is Superman, Trump is Batman

Chapter 1
Campaigns and Comics.
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Featured: Picture Life of a Great American, The Story of Harry S Truman, "Character," "Dead Abe Lincoln,"A Man Named Stevenson, A Vida de Franklin D. Roosevelt, Alabama Needs "The Little Judge", Alabama Needs John Patterson, Alford in Action in Arkansas, Eisenhower & Nixon, Elect Robert B. Meyner, Here's What a Republican Congress Did For You, Man Against the People, Morgenthau: Man of Action, Our Friend "Ken", 'Erbie & 'is Playmates (DNC) [bonus feature]

Chapter 2
Congress and the CCA.
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Featured: Senate hearing in Iron Man 2, Senator kidnapped in X-Men, Superheroes Decoded (History), Challenges to the Comic Code Authority (LOC),The Wonderful, Horrible World of EC Comics (CCI)

Chapter 3
Superheroic Presidency.
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Featured: Superman's Mission for President Kennedy, Justice League: The New Frontier, Super President, Arrow "The Candidate"

Chapter 4
Political apathy.
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Featured: Prez: The First Teen President, Prez, Watchmen, The Flintstones,

Chapter 5
Political satire and parody.
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Featured: X-Presidents, Trump's Titans, Unquotable Trump, Every Family Has One, Great Morons in History: Dan Quayle, Major Flip Flop, Read My Lips, Reagan's Raiders, He Said/She Said: The Bill Clinton Story [bonus feature], On the Road with George & Barbara [bonus feature], Nixon Made Perfectly Clear [bonus feature]

Chapter 6
Graphic reportage.
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Featured: 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation, Mueller Report Graphic Novel, Operation Ajax,

Chapter 7
Elections in pop culture.
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Featured: Your Vote is Vital, Cheated!, Alvin & the Chipmunks - Alvin for President, Daffy Duck for President, You're Not Elected Charlie Brown, Howard the Duck, Bullwinkle political parody, Gumby - Political Candidate [bonus feature]

Chapter 8
Gender, politics, and comics.
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Featured: Betty Boop for President, Popeye for President, Peggy Lux for President, AOC superhero comic, Saucer Country, Lynda Carter on Supergirl, Bomb Queen, Bitch Planet

Chapter 9
Politicians of Color.
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Featured: March, MLK The Montgomery Story, Spider-Man Meets Obama, Barack the Barbarian,

Chapter 10
Presidential supervillains.
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Featured: "President Supervillain," Vote Loki, President Lex Luthor, Mark Hamill reading Trump Tweets as the Joker

Chapter 11
Political allohistories.
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Featured: Jekyll Island Chronicles, The Umbrella Academy: Dallas, Letter 44

Afterword
Politics in comics.
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Featured: Comicsgate

Post Script
COVID-19 and the politics of
apocalyptic fiction
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Featured: Black, Scooby Apocalypse