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How Jack Kirby and DC Comics Predicted Trump With a Bloviating Demagogue in 1971

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In Glorious Godfrey, DC Comics’ Jack Kirby created a fascist demagogue that eerily anticipated Donald Trump, right down to the gravity-defying orange hairdo.

Elana Levin
Elana Levin
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