Elektra: Assassin & the US President
Posted: Tue May 27, 2014 5:46 pm
The Elektra: Assassin miniseries, when published (1986-1987), took place in the nebulous past… sometime before DD 168 (early 1981, Elektra’s first appearance). It’s currently placed between CA 132 & CA 135 for Nick Fury (or, around comics published in early 1971).
The US President appears in Elektra: Assassin… but we don’t currently have any US Presidents listed as appearing in Elektra: Assassin. We do have Ken Wind, who was elected President (and took office) at the end of the mini (and turned out to be a power-mad crazy person influenced by the Beast of the Hand), but not the President that Wind defeated. Who is the US President in Elektra: Assassin? It’s Richard Nixon.
Ah! (you say), Richard Nixon killed himself in front of Captain America in CA 175 (Wasp says it was a “highly placed government official” in AVF 2, but Cap himself confirms it was the President in CA:REBORN 3) while he was President. Nixon couldn’t have been defeated in an election since he died while he was still in office. Well… (I say), the President did kill himself in CA 175, but we never see his face, and he’s never called by his name. WAS it Nixon?
So, we have Richard Nixon being defeated in a Presidential election in the Elektra: Assassin mini. We also have a power-mad crazy person as President at the end of the Elektra: Assassin mini who’s never appeared since and was last seen in Elektra: Assassin still in office. AND, we also have a power-mad crazy person as President in CA 175 that ends up killing himself. Do you see where I’m going with this?
We’d have to ignore that Nixon was already in his second term by this point (circa CA 175, mid 1974), and couldn’t have run for a third term. BUT! That’s Nixon in Elektra: Assassin; it has to go in his chronology somewhere. Maybe in the Marvel Universe Nixon only served one term? After all, there was never a real President Ken Wind, and yet, there he is in Elektra: Assassin #8. In any case, the Elektra: Assassin mini would have to go near or at the end of Nixon’s chronology.
Now, Wind defeats Nixon in the election in Elektra: Assassin #7, and Elektra: Assassin #8 happens FOUR MONTHS LATER with Wind already in office. Nixon appears in H2 174, which was published two months before CA 175. I don’t think we can squeeze four months of Marvel Time between H2 174 and CA 175, so what if the election seen in Elektra: Assassin #7 happens before H2 174, H2 174 happens sometime before Wind is inaugurated, then Elektra: Assassin #8 happens, then CA 175 happens?
It would look like this in the listings:
FURY, COL. NICHOLAS "NICK" JOSEPH
…
WTS 5
*E:A 3-BTS (move from here)
*E:A 4 (move from here)
*E:A 5 (move from here)
*E:A 6 (move from here)
*E:A 7 (move from here)
FFWGCM 6
…
CA 167
*E:A 3-BTS (move to here)
*E:A 4 (move to here)
*E:A 5 (move to here)
*E:A 6 (move to here)
*E:A 7 (move to here)
A 118
…
NIXON, RICHARD MILHOUS
…
A 101-BTS
*E:A 3-FB
*E:A 5
*E:A 6
*E:A 7
H2 174
**CA 175 (delete)
WIND, KEN
…
E:A 8
*CA 175
*AVF 2-FB
*AVF 12
Thoughts?
The US President appears in Elektra: Assassin… but we don’t currently have any US Presidents listed as appearing in Elektra: Assassin. We do have Ken Wind, who was elected President (and took office) at the end of the mini (and turned out to be a power-mad crazy person influenced by the Beast of the Hand), but not the President that Wind defeated. Who is the US President in Elektra: Assassin? It’s Richard Nixon.
Ah! (you say), Richard Nixon killed himself in front of Captain America in CA 175 (Wasp says it was a “highly placed government official” in AVF 2, but Cap himself confirms it was the President in CA:REBORN 3) while he was President. Nixon couldn’t have been defeated in an election since he died while he was still in office. Well… (I say), the President did kill himself in CA 175, but we never see his face, and he’s never called by his name. WAS it Nixon?
So, we have Richard Nixon being defeated in a Presidential election in the Elektra: Assassin mini. We also have a power-mad crazy person as President at the end of the Elektra: Assassin mini who’s never appeared since and was last seen in Elektra: Assassin still in office. AND, we also have a power-mad crazy person as President in CA 175 that ends up killing himself. Do you see where I’m going with this?
We’d have to ignore that Nixon was already in his second term by this point (circa CA 175, mid 1974), and couldn’t have run for a third term. BUT! That’s Nixon in Elektra: Assassin; it has to go in his chronology somewhere. Maybe in the Marvel Universe Nixon only served one term? After all, there was never a real President Ken Wind, and yet, there he is in Elektra: Assassin #8. In any case, the Elektra: Assassin mini would have to go near or at the end of Nixon’s chronology.
Now, Wind defeats Nixon in the election in Elektra: Assassin #7, and Elektra: Assassin #8 happens FOUR MONTHS LATER with Wind already in office. Nixon appears in H2 174, which was published two months before CA 175. I don’t think we can squeeze four months of Marvel Time between H2 174 and CA 175, so what if the election seen in Elektra: Assassin #7 happens before H2 174, H2 174 happens sometime before Wind is inaugurated, then Elektra: Assassin #8 happens, then CA 175 happens?
It would look like this in the listings:
FURY, COL. NICHOLAS "NICK" JOSEPH
…
WTS 5
*E:A 3-BTS (move from here)
*E:A 4 (move from here)
*E:A 5 (move from here)
*E:A 6 (move from here)
*E:A 7 (move from here)
FFWGCM 6
…
CA 167
*E:A 3-BTS (move to here)
*E:A 4 (move to here)
*E:A 5 (move to here)
*E:A 6 (move to here)
*E:A 7 (move to here)
A 118
…
NIXON, RICHARD MILHOUS
…
A 101-BTS
*E:A 3-FB
*E:A 5
*E:A 6
*E:A 7
H2 174
**CA 175 (delete)
WIND, KEN
…
E:A 8
*CA 175
*AVF 2-FB
*AVF 12
Thoughts?