Lyndon B. Johnson

Mad Magazine's satirical caricature of the 36th U.S. President, Lyndon B. Johnson appeared as a target of the publication's sharp political humor, lampooning the real-life politician alongside other Kennedy-era figures in its irreverent send-ups of American politics.

Few characters capture the irreverent spirit of Silver Age satire quite like Mad's take on Lyndon B. Johnson, who first skewered his way onto the page in Mad #79 in 1963, brought to life by the legendary Antonio Prohías. Appearing across publications like Mad, Sick, and Pogo: Welcome to the Beginning, this caricature version of the 36th president kept some genuinely rarefied company — sharing ink with the likes of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Richard Nixon, and Abraham Lincoln. It's a murderer's row of American political mythology, and the fact that LBJ holds his own among them speaks to how central a figure he was in the satirical imagination of the era. With appearances catalogued across more than five decades (1963–2017), he's a fascinating artifact of how comics have always used humor as a lens on power.