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One of the examples from my early collecting days is DOOMSDAY PLUS ONE issue 1, July 1975 :

https://readallcomics.com/doomsday-1-001-1975/
or
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Doomsday-1-1975/Issue-1?id=153140

[Linked Image from milehighcomics.com]


At least back to the 1950's and 1960's, the president would be shown in comics stories but in shadow with his face not shown, and not named. I don't know if this was done in the Golden-Age and Silver-Age era out of reverence, or maybe for liability reasons, not wanting to show a president's name and likeness without permission, or for some other reason.

The CAPTAIN AMERICA 193 one I listed above by Kirby was done almost the exact same time as this one, but was not shy about naming political leaders.


This DOOMSDAY +1 issue would have been the period Gerald Ford was president, but to me the guy in the shadows looks more like Nixon.
And you also can see the Russian Premier, who more visibly looks like Leonid Breshnev.
I like how both presidents are shown as they each launch nuclear strikes, each thinking their nation is under full nuclear attack, and each think they have to launch an all-out counter-strike before their nation and its military are completely destroyed, but each manifest great sadness about having to give the order.

Rarely does a comic show you the complete destruction of the world in such vivid detail.
In 1975, at age 11, that was a little scary
It also has the bonus of being very early work by John Byrne. But I had no idea who Byrne was back then, and it wasn't until I started reading X-MEN in 1980 that I made the connection Byrne was the same artist who did DOOMSDAY +1.
Byrne did art on 1-6, and 7-12 reprint the first 6 issues.

The series has been reprinted multiple times since then too
https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?q=doomsday+%2B1..&pubid=&PubRng=
and
https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=262071