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Featured In Spider-Man Comic Book
Washington,
DC - Spider-Man has a new sidekick: The president-elect.
Barack Obama collected Spider-Man comics as a child, so Marvel
Comics wanted to give him a "shout-out back" by
featuring him in a bonus story, said Joe Quesada, Marvel's
editor-in-chief.
"How
great is that? The commander in chief to be is actually a
nerd in chief," Quesada said. "It was really, really
cool to see that we had a geek in the White House. We're all
thrilled with that."
The comic
starts with Spider-Man's alter-ego Peter Parker taking photographs
at the inauguration, before spotting two identical Obamas.
Parker
decides "the future president's gonna need Spider-Man,"
and springs into action, using basketball to determine the
real Obama and punching out the impostor.
Obama
thanks him with a fist-bump.
Marvel
comics have featured most presidents, but generally in walk-on
roles, Quesada said.
"I
think President Nixon might have appeared on the cover, but
not in a good way," he said.
Obama
has said that as a child, he collected Spider-Man and Conan
the Barbarian comic books. His Senate Web site used to have
a photo of him posing in front of a Superman statue.
The Obama
story is a bonus in Marvel Comic's Amazing Spider-Man #583,
available in comic book shops nationwide on Jan. 14 for $3.99
and is expected to sell out, with half the covers devoted
to Obama.
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