Spiro Agnew

A satirical comic caricature of the real U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew, this Silver Age underground creation appeared in irreverent humor publications, lampooning the Nixon-era political figure alongside other topical targets of the day.

Few comic characters can claim to have shared ink with both Alfred E. Neuman and Cyclops, but Spiro Agnew is no ordinary figure — a Silver Age satirical creation who burst onto the underground and humor-magazine scene in 1969, courtesy of creator Hak Vogrin in Yellow Dog #2. Published across a politically charged decade that stretched into the late 1970s, Agnew found his natural habitat in the gleefully irreverent pages of Sick, Mad, and MacPherson Editorial Cartoons, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and Lyndon Johnson in the grand tradition of comics-as-political-commentary. With ten catalog appearances and a key issue to his name, this Hewfred Publications fixture is a genuine artifact of an era when satire was sharp, newsprint was cheap, and no public figure was safe from a cartoonist's pen — a small but choice slice of Silver Age Americana for the historically minded collector.