Presidential spidey-senses tingle
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Los Angeles Times
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Barack Obama sometimes 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 the president-elect.
Marvel Comics executives said it is 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 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."
There's plenty of presidential history in the comics, including John F. Kennedy's appearance in the pages of Superman and Richard Nixon's cameos in The Fantastic Four and The Incredible Hulk series.