Franklin D. Roosevelt

Few real-world figures have earned a place in the four-color pantheon quite like Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose comic book presence stretches all the way back to the Golden Age debut in Action Comics #10 in 1939 — brought to the page by the legendary team of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster themselves. As a recurring figure across 27 catalogued appearances spanning an extraordinary 86 years, FDR turns up at the heart of some of the most historically charged stories in the medium, sharing pages with wartime titans like Captain America, the Human Torch, Sub-Mariner, and Bucky in titles such as Captain America Comics and Captain America: Man Out of Time. Two of those appearances carry key-issue status, a testament to how powerfully the 32nd President anchors the mythology of comics' Golden Age era. For collectors who love the intersection of history and heroism, Roosevelt is a fascinating thread connecting the birth of the superhero genre to the world that made it necessary.