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Posted: 12:10 p.m. Friday, Jan. 9, 2009

The President Elect saved by SPIDERMAN! 

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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