Other Versions
- In 1993, Neil Gaiman featured the character in issue #54 of his Sandman series, in a story called "The Golden Boy". In it, Prez is a young man who adores not simply his country but everything that it stands for. Much of the story includes revised versions of real-life events from years that followed, and the assassination attempt on Prez's life takes the life of his fiancée, which Prez forgives when he learns that the assassin is mentally unbalanced. Eventually, he is killed, and Boss Smiley confronts him with a day of reckoning. At this point, Sandman's protagonist, Dream, intervenes and offers him passage to alternate Americas.
- Prez was the indirect subject and appears briefly in the 1995 "Vertigo Visions" one-shot Prez: Smells Like Teen President, by Ed Brubaker and Eric Shanower. In this story, a Generation X teenager seeks out the vanished former president, whom he believes to be his father. The cause of Prez's death is here reported to be brain cancer, apparently caused by a metaphorical cancer growing in the collective soul of the country during the presidencies of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
- A character based on Prez appears in Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again. Lex Luthor creates a computer program which takes on human form and assumes the role of Commander in Chief. Its name is "Rick Rickard" and it resembles a middle-aged Prez.
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