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Talk about a super-hero team up!
And the winner of the first big marketing gimmick of 2009 goes to Marvel, who will feature President-elect Obama in a coming issue of "The Amazing Spider Man"
According to USA Today, Mr. Obama wil be featured in five pages and even do a "fist bump" with the famous Wall Crawler. "Amazing Spider-Man" #583 is due out on newsstands on January 14, and my bet is will attract bigger-than-usual crowds (if you're a comic-book geek, better get set to suffer longer lines of the curious at your local comics den)
We're starting to see more of this sort of thing as comic book companies grow more savvy about getting the word out about their four-color offerings. Marvel killed off the original Captain America in the recent past, for example, and announced the development in one of the New York tabloids. DC announced the return of the Silver Age Flash, Barry Allen, in the New York Daily News last year. Typically, these developments aren't really world-shattering, but they sure do feature nice big pictures for the newspapers.
This isn't the first time that the U.S. president has appeared in a comic book. Over the years, I've read books that featured Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan (I'm not that old - the first book I mentioned was set in World War II).
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