FFF Results Post #125—Cameos

On Friday afternoon, participating CR readers were asked to "Name Five Celebrity Cameos In Comics That You've Enjoyed." Here are the results.

adapted from a suggestion by Fred Hembeck

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Tom Spurgeon

1. Tad Doyle, Hate #17
2. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, Fantastic Four Annual #3
3. Tom Wolfe, Strange Tales #180
4. Henry Kissinger, Super-Villain Team-Up #6-7
5. Bill Clinton, Sanctuary

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Kiel Phegley

1. Adam Ant, Blue Monday #3
2. The entire history of Rock N Roll, Red Rocket Seven #1 - 7
3. Brian K. Vaughan, Acme Novelty Library #18
4. Princess Diana, unpublished issues of X-Statix I'm assuming I would've really dug
5. I remember being in Seventh Grade and reading in TV Guide how this dude from "All My Children" was going to be in Valiant's The Second Life of Doctor Mirage #13 and thinking it was cool. I never read the comic or watched the show, but now that I'm googling because of this topic, I'm finding that apparently the guy is some sort of amateur cartoonist and "He is also an official Disney artist." I wonder how one earns such an ambiguous credit. Do you think they give them out on the studio tour?

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Michael Dooley

* Don Knotts in Fun with Milk and Cheese ("Birthday" by Evan Dorkin).
* Pablo Picasso in Comix Book ("Ace Hole, Midget Detective" by Art Spiegelman).
* Harold Lloyd in Fred the Clown ("The Shoulders of Giants" by Roger Langridge).
* Frank Sinatra in Brought to Light ("Shadowplay -- The Secret Team" by Alan Moore and Bill Sienkiewicz).
* Jacqueline Kennedy in Help! ("Goodman, Underwater" by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder).

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Scott Dunbier

* Everyone on the cover of Superman vs. Muhammad Ali
* Bill Hicks in Preacher
* Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew in Green Lantern/Green Arrow #83
* Julie Schwartz in Flash #179
* Bob Wayne as Agent W in Sleeper

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Marc Arsenault

I probably severely stretch the cameo limitation here...

* David Wilkerson, The Cross and the Switchblade
* All the many guest stars in Marvel's Spoof comic (Spiro T. Agnew, the Partridge Family, John Wayne, Joe Namath, etc.)
* Richard M. Nixon, From Beyond the Unkown 17 ""It is scientifically impossible that there could be a planet like Earth... whose most famous leader is named Nee-Xon!"
* Jimmy Carter - Marvel Two-in-One 27
* Billy Jane Kane (Billy Jean King) a 70's Wonder Woman where I first got the whole weird DC treatment of real places and people thing.

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John Vest

1. Bertrand Russell, Zap #0
2. The Beatles, Strange Tales #130 (a really funny story and the Thing wears his Beatles wig)
3. Country Joe and the Fish, Nick Fury Agent Of SHIELD #15
4. Jann Wenner, Daredevil #100
5. Richard Nixon, Fantastic Four #104

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Jeff Chanley

* David Letterman in Avengers #239
* Rolling Stones in Bloom County
* Reagan in Rom #53
* Dan Clowes in Tales to Demolish #2
* Don Rickles in Jimmy Olsen #141

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Chris Keels

* Chuck Barris and the Gong Show panelists in the 1977 Fantastic Four Annual. Marie Severin was clearly brought in for that sequence to make the caricatures just right.
* Uri Geller teaming up with Daredevil
* Gilbert Hernandez's tribute to the Danish comedian who played Peterson the janitor in "Reptilicus" (No, really, the movie, the guy,and the onen page strip are great...)
* Blue Oyster Cult (in a clearly photoreferenced panel) in that David Anthony Kraft demon war sequence in Defenders that was supposedly an elaborate homage to them. I guess. I don't know anything about BOC other than that Will Ferrell SNL sketch.
* And of course... Don Rickels meets Jimmy Olsen.

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Don MacPherson

1) All of the celeb cameos on the cover of Superman Vs. Muhammad Ali
2) JFK - Superman v.1 #170
3) David Letterman - Avengers #239
4) Marv Wolfman & George Perez - Tales of the Teen Titans #50
5) Gordon Brown - Captain Britain and MI-13 #1

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J. Caleb Mozzocco

1.) Dan Rather in Anthony Lappe and Dan Goldman's SHOOTING WAR
2.) Mayor Bloomberg in Fred Chao's JOHNNY HIRO #1
3.) Queen Victoria in Joann Sfar and Emmanuel Guibert's THE PROFESSOR'S DAUGHTER
4.) Grant Morrison, Geoff Johns, Mark Waid and Greg Rucka as the villains in Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang's DOCTOR 13: ARCHITECTURE AND MORALITY.
5.) Jerry Falwell in AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #36...because it made him look like a meaner jerk than supervillains Dr. Doom, The Kingpin and Magneto, who were shedding tears at ground zero while he was blaming 9/11 on gay folks and the ACLU.

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Richard Pachter

* JFK in Action Comics #309
* Mantis (as Willow) in JLA #142
* Curt Swan in Superman Annual #9
* Barry Allen in Quasar #17
* Harry Broertjes in Fred Hembeck's Pal, Jimmy Olsen

[Editor's Note: I'm pretty sure that's the Kennedy from #309; I don't care either way.]

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Fred Hembeck

1. Jann Wenner in Daredevil 100 -- If you're a superhero set in San Francisco back in '73, what better way to celebrate your centennial issue than to give an interview to the founder of Rolling Stone magazine?

2. Robert Young in Dennis The Menace in Hollywood (1959) -- The Mitchells visit the set of "Father Knows Best" while on vacation in Tinseltown, and the future Marcus Welby discovers that in some families, the title of his then current program isn't always true...

3. Stan Lee and Carl Burgos (at the New York World's Fair no less!) in Strange Tales 123 (1964) -- Wherein the creator of the original Human Torch gets his one and only shot at illustrating an adventure starring the android's teen-aged successor before -- after pencilling a mere handful of Giant Man episodes -- leaving Marvel forever for the greater glories of Myron Fass and his Enterprises.

4. Krushchev and Kennedy in Action Comics 283 (1961) -- Everyone remembers that unfortunately timed issue of Action Comics with JFK covering for Supes secret ID that hit the stands the third week of November in 1963, but even through here the two Cold War leaders are, in actuality, disguised Durlans (Chameleon Boy's people), seeing the Man of Steel knock the two of them out literally with a flick of his little finger before the readers are made of their true identities makes this for a particularly memorable, if extremely odd, story.

5. Joe Kubert, Gene Colan, Ross Andru and Mike Esposito, Irv Novick, and Jack Abel in Sea Devils 13 and 14 (1963) -- Editor Bob Kanigher auditions various artists (and one team), involving each cartoonist in the actual stories, asking readers to vote for their favorite to succeed the outgoing Russ Heath. Didn't really matter, though--Novick handled #15, after which George Kashdan took over the editorial helm--and didn't use any of these guys!

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Grant Goggans

1. Ronald and Nancy Reagan in a Wonder Woman early in Gene Colan's run, might've been # 290.
2. Frida Kahlo in "Doctor Who: The Way of All Flesh" in Doctor Who Magazine #306-310
3. Northrop Frye in The New Defenders when Hank McCoy was doing a university lecture tour in the mid-1980s
4. Margaret Thatcher as "Iron Aggie" in "Robo-Hunter: Play it Again Sam" in 2000 AD #292-307
5. John Lennon and Stu Sutcliffe in the first episode of "The Invisibles."

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Stephen Frug

* Geoffrey Chaucer in Sandman #13
* Kelly Donovan in Scott McCloud's Making Comics
* Warren Ellis in Powers #7
* Harlan Ellison in The Dark Knight Returns
* Gary Gygax in Xkcd #393

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Don Sticksel

* Frank Sinatra & Dean Martin - Herbie 5
* David Letterman - Avengers 239
* Don Rickles - Jimmy Olson 139
* Uri Geller - Daredevil 133
* Merv Griffin (off panel, I'm sure) - Milk & Cheese

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Buzz Dixon

1 - Jumpeen Prince Mick (Jagger) in CEREBUS: CHURCH & STATE II
2 - Prince Keef (Richard) in CEREBUS: CHURCH & STATE II
3 - John Belushi, MARVEL TEAM-UP #74
4 - Charles Brubaker (comic strip geek extraordinaire) in the June 8th, 2008 RETAIL Sunday strip
5 - Todd MacFarlane in CEREBUS: LATTER DAYS

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