Editing Prez (character) (section)

==Story==
Following the real-world passage of the [[Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution|26th Amendment]] in 1971, which lowered the minimum vote age to 18 nationwide, an amendment is passed allowing teenagers to also be elected to public office.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://majorspoilers.com/2010/05/23/retro-review-prez-1-aug-sept-1973/ |title=RETRO REVIEW: Prez #1 (Aug./Sept. 1973) |date=23 May 2010 |last=Peterson |first=Matthew |publisher=Major Spoilers |access-date=2013-09-03}}</ref> Teenage Prez Rickard – named by his mother with the dream of him someday becoming President – takes the initiative of fixing the clocks in his town of Steadfast to run on time, making him a local hero.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Markstein |first1=Don |website=Don Markstein's Toonopedia |access-date=2 April 2020  |url=http://www.toonopedia.com/prez.htm |title=Prez}}</ref> Shady businessman Boss Smiley (a political boss with a [[Smiley|smiley face]] for a head) recruits him to run for the [[United States Senate|Senate]], thinking that he can manipulate the boy. However, inspired after encountering Eagle Free, a young [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]], Prez campaigns on his own terms, and is instead elected president.<ref name=regrettable>{{cite book |last1=Morris |first1=Jon |title=The League of Regrettable Superheroes: Half Baked Heroes from Comic Book History |date=2015 |publisher=Quirk Books |location=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |isbn=978-1-59474-763-2 |pages=230–231}}</ref>

He selects his mother to be Vice President, makes his sister his secretary, and appoints Eagle Free Director of the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]]. As president, Prez fights a legless [[vampire]] and his [[werewolf]] henchman, a right-wing militia led by the great-great-great-great-great-grandnephew of [[George Washington]], evil chess players, and Boss Smiley. He is attacked for his stance on gun control and survives an assassination attempt during that controversy.