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Obama makes comic cover
President-elect to appear in latest 'Spiderman' offering from Marvel.
- By Geoff Boucher
- Published: 23:47 January 9, 2009
Washington: President-elect Barack Obama often gets treated like Superman, but he apparently hangs with Spider-Man.
Marvel Comics announced that issue No 583 of The Amazing Spider-Man will hit the stands Wednesday with two covers, one of them a special Inauguration Day edition that shows the wall-crawler with Obama.
Marvel Comics executives said it was a natural to put the 44th president in a heroic context.
"When we heard that President-elect Obama is a collector of Spider-Man comics, we knew that these two historic figures had to meet in our comics' Marvel Universe," editor in chief Joe Quesada said.
Historic
"Historic moments such as this one can be reflected in our comics, because the Marvel Universe is set in the real world. A Spider-Man fan moving into the Oval Office is an event that must be commemorated in the pages of Amazing Spider-Man."
Some past presidents who appeared in comics include John F. Kennedy in Superman and Richard Nixon's cameos in The Fantastic Four and The Incredible Hulk.
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