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World leaders and others. 

Adolf Hitler: 

I'm pretty sure that the "Navy Jones" strip is set in an undefined near-future time, which makes the Dictator of Europe here a future analog of Adolf Hitler rather than a stand-in for him. I'm almost certain that that's the case. Anyway, he tries to invade the US with a fleet of amphibious tanks and gets his ass handed to him by Navy Jones and his fish men. (Weird Comics 008, 1940)

Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling: 

Styled as Madame and Generalissimo "Kang Shy-check," the former comes to adventurer Shanghai Sheridan for aid after the latter is captured by Japanese collaborator Wu Fang. (Top-Notch Comics 005, 1940)

Clyde Beatty: 

Famous animal trainer and circus mogul Clyde Beatty had a long-running strip across several Dell Comics titles, though given that the supporting cast and premise tended to reset to zero every time the strip changed hands it might be more accurate to say that he had a sequential series of features linked only by his presence. (Crackajack Funnies 001, 1938)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt:

A fairly off-model FDR chairs an emergency meeting to discuss what to do about an alien invasion. (War Comics 002, 1940)

J Edgar Hoover: 

The Sparkler accepts an assignment from "head G-Man"/his old college roommate's dad M.L. Roover. (Wham Comics 002, 1940)

Sténio Vincent: 

I don't necessarily trust the creators of the "Voodoo Man" feature to even remember that it is set in Haiti, let alone go to the trouble to accurately represent Haiti's president on-panel, so I have to give it to them: this is an okay drawing of Sténio Vincent, the President of Haiti c. 1940. Was it done on purpose? Nobody can say. (Weird Comics 004, 1940) 

Gaius Marius & Sulla: 

It's impossible to be certain if Marius and Sulla, the Roman figures associated with the origin of super-hero the Dart, are in fact meant to be Gaius Marius and Sulla, the political figures from the late Roman Republic, but the timeline almost matches up. Plus, there really weren't that many Sullas running around Rome. (Weird Comics 005, 1940) 

Mata Hari: 

Just a notorious spy named Hattie Mary in the comedy melodrama comic strip "Hairbreadth Harry". (Famous Funnies 074, 1940) 

Winston Churchill: 

Inspector Blake of Scotland Yard is called to 10 Downing Street to talk to the Prime Minister, and it sure doesn't look like he's Winston Churchill. I do like to roast comics for not getting the appearances of world leaders right, but when it's somewhere like Madagascar you might at least have the excuse that finding a picture of the current leader of that country might be difficult in the US in 1940, but surely this not so for the Prime Minister of the UK.

The other possible defense for this, of course, is that this comic came out in June 1940 and Churchill took power in April so Neville Chamberlain might still have been PM when this was drawn, but this is hampered somewhat by the fact that it doesn't really look like him either. (Whirlwind Comics 001, 1940)