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One of my favorites, from the Dennis O'Neil and Neal Adams run, GREEN LANTERN 83, April-May 1971, where the two villain characters are given the faces of then Vice-President Spiro Agnew, and the litle girl with enormous power he controls has the face of Richard Nixon.

full issue at :
https://readallcomics.com/green-lantern-v2-083/


I don't really know how much to read serious commentary into the Agnew and Nixon characters. The Agnew character (Grandy) is prone to law and order rhetoric of the real Agnew while he was VP. He exerts power and control over the actions of the little Nixon girl (Sybil), which might be just a plot device and have no serious political commentary. Or it could be commenting that Spiro Agnew had control and ideological influence over the actions of Nixon, with ramifications that hurt a lot of innocent people. But I don't see a basis for that in the known facts about Nixon and Agnew's White House policy.

But this much is certain: Dennis O'Neil, Neal Adams, and Dick Giordano all were liberals whose views tilted to the far left, and they sure weren't fans of Nixon and Agnew. I think they injected Nixon and Agnew likenesses just to vaguely portray the two Republican leaders in a silly way. And the ambiguity of any possible deeper meaning is left up to the reader, and maybe makes it more memorable and better received, by not being too heavy handed in forcing any particular message.

Agnew was removed from office for corruption charges, investigated for crimes committed years before he was VP, when he was a government executive in Maryland, and resigned as VP in Oct 1973.
More famously, Nixon was involved in covering up the Watergate scandal, and was forced to resign in August 1974.

Alfred Hitchcock also makes a cameo appearance, delivering the mail on page 4.