Posted: 12:10 p.m. Friday, Jan. 9, 2009
By Art Terrell
*To reward Barack Obama's childhood love for Spider-Man comics,
Marvel Comics has announced it will give the president-elect 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, according to
the Associated Press.
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.
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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