Andrew Johnson: the FIRST Impeached President!

With lame-duck President Donald Trump about to be impeached for the second time...

...lets look at how the first President to undergo the ritual was portrayed in comics, starting with this one-pager by writer/artist Joseph Kaliff from Centaur's Wham Comics #1 (1940) which doesn't mention his impeachment!

OTOH, this one-pager by artist John Buscema and an unknown writer from Dell's one-shot Life Stories of American Presidents (1957) tackles it head-on...

....while this half-pager from Our Presidents (1953) doesn't have the space to go into detail...

....unlike this text piece illustrated by Alex Blum and scripted by an unknown author from Classics Illustrated #105 (1953)!

The matter was ignored in the same publisher's Classics Illustrated #162a (1961), illustrated by George Evans...

...though the political conflict behind the impeachment is mentioned!

The impeachment is covered again (briefly) in the same publisher's World Around Us #21 (1960), though only referred to as a "trial"!

Finally, EC's Picture Stories from American History #4 (1947) presents the matter in their feature on the post-Civil War Reconstruction period...

Writer Jerry Coleman and artist Allen Simon cover the impeachment as a sidebar to the main story.

You'll note differing "points of view" in the various versions, much as TV and movie "docu-dramas" tend to differ when retelling the same events.

Which is closest to the truth?

I offer the legendary Encyclopedia Brittanica as an unbiased source on the topic HERE and HERE.

Then judge for yourself...

Monday Madness MAD "Mad's All-Inclusive Do-It-Yourself Impeachment Newspaper Story"

When the previous criminal Repug Prez was about to be impeached in 1974...

...it was (unlike now) for a non-violent crime and MAD Magazine was at a creative peak, as demonstrated by this classic (and pretty comprehensive) piece by writer Frank Jacobs published in EC's MAD #170 (1974)!

The process took several months, allowing for such satirical pieces to be produced.

Today, sadly, MAD is gone, and the increased speed political matters are now proceeding at prevents such material from being created.

Don da Con Suspended Permanently from Twitter...

From Trump in 100 Tweets by Vanessa Duhamel and Francois Boucq!
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No English edition available, but it's easy to translate and the cartoons are hilarious!

Space Force Saturday SPACE SQUADRON "Vulturos of Space!"

Buckle up your jetpacks, space cadets...

...as we hurtle to the year 2000 (as seen from the 1950s) and witness sexism in space.

So much for Women's Lib in the then-future!

This never-reprinted tale from Atlas' Space Squadron #2 (1951) reflects the sexual politics of the time it was written.

In reality, by 2000, we not only had female combat pilots in the military, but female astronauts as well...women every bit as brave and competent as their male counterparts!

The artist is Werner Roth, who would be Jack Kirby's successor on The X-Men, but the writer is unknown.

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Complete Adventures of Lucky Starr

by Isaac Asimov

(under the pen-name "Paul French") 

Omnibus of ALL Six Space-Opera Sagas!

David Starr: Space Ranger, Pirates of the Asteroids, Oceans of Venus, Big Sun of Mercury, Moons of Jupiter, Rings of Saturn

Friday Fun SNAFU "Understanding the Atom: Diagram of an Atom Bomb"

Considering Don da Con almost managed to stage a coup and gain total control of the government on Wednesday...

..we thought we'd offer this never-reprinted, easy-to-understand diagram of the weapon he's only one temper tantrum away from launching from #2 (1956) of Atlas/Marvel's short-lived 1950s MAD b/w magazine clone, SNAFU, written by Stan Lee and rendered by Joe Maneely.

Most of you are aware Marvel had a fairly-successful MAD clone in the 1970s-80s called CRAZY, but they also gave it a try back in the 1950s, with a three issue run!

#1

#2

#3

As you can see from the contents page of #2... 

...the incredibly-versatile John Severin and Joe Maneely handled literally all the artwork for the series.
Also, Irving Forbush was their Alfred E Neuman / Sylvester P Smythe-type mascot, whose face was shown constantly.
Later versions of Irv in Not Brand Echh, What Th--?, and other comics didn't show his face, and his "costume" as Forbush-Man included an all-concealing cooking pot with holes in it as a mask!
To date, none of the material from these very hard-to-find issues of Snafu has ever been reprinted, which is a pity, because it's pretty damn good! 

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