Every time Captain America has run for president in Marvel comics

Captain America first ran for president in 1980's 250th issue of Roger Stern and John Byrne's landmark Captain America. The cover features a “Captain America for President” campaign pin with Steve's smiling face. .

The issue includes the “New Populist Party” trying to create a Captain America to run for president. Steve is pretty reluctant, but the idea takes the media by storm. At the end, Cap gives a public speech rejecting the candidacy, saying that it is his duty to represent the American dream. Basically, he's a symbol that other Americans aspire to, and the reality and compromises that a politician has are at odds with that.

Of course, the question is purposefully vague about Cap's own political leanings (if he has any at all). So it is a fictional third party that tries to frame him; the story never concludes what the NPP actually means (beyond wanting to break up the two-party duopoly), they're just there so the issue doesn't tie Cap to either the elephant or the donkey. “Populist” is a vague description used by both leftists and fascists, but so does suggest someone on the side of a little guy like Cap is. (Which is why all factions of the political spectrum are trying to capitalize on it.) As the idea of ​​Cap's candidacy slowly takes hold, both Democrats and Republicans send letters to the Avengers mansion asking him to be their candidate, much like they did in the beginning. 1950s, both sides tried to recruit real-life American WWII hero Dwight D. Eisenhower (who, of course, went Republican.)

In the letters page of “Captain America” ​​#250, Stern revealed the backstory of the issue and also that the idea for it was not his own. A couple of years earlier, “Captain America” ​​writer Roger McKenzie and artist Don Perlin came to Stern (who was the book's editor) with a pitch: Captain America was going to run for president, and to win. After that, the next four years of “Captain America” ​​will follow him as president in Washington

Stern rejected the idea, saying it would be “too much of a distortion of reality.” The Marvel Universe is meant to reflect the real world in fundamental ways, such as who is currently in the White House. Then, a few years later, when Stern had become a writer for “Captain America” ​​and was nearing issue 250, he sarcastically suggested they do a “Cap for President” story by McKenzie and Perlin. Marvel editor-in-chief Jim Shooter agreed, saying they could use the issue to show why Cap is president wouldn't want to to work Stern agreed, and the rest (including story credits to McKenzie and Perlin) is written in colored ink.