QUICK TAKES - Jan. 9, 2009
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Barack Obama often gets treated like Superman, but he apparently hangs with Spider-Man.
Marvel Comics just 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 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,” says Editor in Chief Joe Quesada.
“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, such as the time that John F. Kennedy appeared in the pages of “Superman” and Richard Nixon’s 1972 cameos in “The Fantastic Four” and “The Incredible Hulk.”
-- Geoff Boucher
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