Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, appears in Marvel Comics as a real-world political figure occasionally drawn into the superhero universe, sharing pages with characters like Captain America amid the politically charged storytelling of the Bronze Age.

Before he was the 39th President of the United States, Jimmy Carter was already making his mark in the funny pages — debuting in Marvel Treasury Edition #12 in 1976, brought to life by the distinctive Bronze Age talents of Steve Gerber and Sal Buscema. Across nearly four and a half decades of comics history, this real-world figure has kept extraordinary company, sharing pages with Captain America, Deadpool, and a who's-who of American presidents including Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. With appearances spanning from Marvel's oversized Bronze Age spectaculars to High Times Magazine and Captain America: Man Out of Time, Carter's comics footprint is a genuinely eclectic slice of pop-culture history — and at least one of those 19 catalog appearances carries enough weight to be flagged as a key issue worth a collector's attention.