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Added by G-Man on Jan. 8, 2009
Amazing Spider-Man #583 (Variant)
To celebrate the upcoming inauguration of Barack Obama, Marvel is proud to present an all-new story teaming up one of the world’s most recognizable political figures with the world’s greatest super-hero as President-Elect Obama joins Spider-Man in Spidey Meets the President!
This all new story written by Zeb Wells and art by Todd Nauck and Frank D’Armata takes place in Washington, D.C. on Inauguration Day and finds one of Spider-Man’s oldest foes attempting to thwart the swearing in ceremony of the 44th President of the United States. The story will be featured as a bonus story in Marvel Comic’s Amazing Spider-Man #583, available in comic book shops nation-wide on January 14th, 2009. A special variant cover by artist Phil Jimenez featuring the President-Elect and Spider-Man will be available for this issue.
“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 Marvel’s 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.”
For fans of Spider-Man and those wanting to own a part of this historic moment in American history, visit your local comic book retailer on January 14, 2009 to purchase the issue. To find a comic book retailer near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com/ or call 888-COMICBOOK. . For more information, please visit www.marvel.com
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50 Comments
bah....This is worse than a character "dying"....(I hate you DC...those comics are worthless.)
As long as they don't take up a whole issue for some crap like this, I could careless.
I think the idea of this is hilarious... I really hope and pray that Obama can do good things in Office that will have him remembered as a Good President... cause Lord Knows... he is getting pressure to be The Savior for this Country from all form of media including Comics...
SuperCoonce says:
January 14th! I say it's gonna be hard to find in stores at cover price.
is this issue in stores yet?
January 14th! I say it's gonna be hard to find in stores at cover price.
I wonder if all the Obama collector's item merch out there is going to be as worthless in a decade as all the #1 issues I have from the 90s. Tempting though, that Savage Dragon issue sold like cakes that are hot.
Barack Obama's a Spider-Man fan?! That's too cool.
Anyway, aren't all the villains that try to stop Barack Obama's inauguration going to seem like crazy rednecks?! lol
Anyway, aren't all the villains that try to stop Barack Obama's inauguration going to seem like crazy rednecks?! lol
Shatterstar said:
"Oh no Spidey did the terrist fist-jab. Someone call Hannity"I tried giving my daughter something a couple weeks ago and had my hand closed. She thought I was looking for a fist jab, rolled her eyes and did it. Didja see the Spirit and Ebony did it too?
Hey, G-Man!
There was no ratio involved. Retailers could order as many copies of the variant as they wanted...provided they exceeded their initial orders for the Amazing Spider-man issue that came out in July (before retailers started cutting way back on their orders because of the weakening economy) on the regular cover. So if a store ordered 150 copies of the Spidey that came out in July, and now only order 50, because that's how far the sales have dropped, it had to go back to ordering 151 of the #583 regular cover...in order to qualify for getting any of the variants. Consequently, many retailers passed on the Obama cover altogether.
Rx
There was no ratio involved. Retailers could order as many copies of the variant as they wanted...provided they exceeded their initial orders for the Amazing Spider-man issue that came out in July (before retailers started cutting way back on their orders because of the weakening economy) on the regular cover. So if a store ordered 150 copies of the Spidey that came out in July, and now only order 50, because that's how far the sales have dropped, it had to go back to ordering 151 of the #583 regular cover...in order to qualify for getting any of the variants. Consequently, many retailers passed on the Obama cover altogether.
Rx
Believe it or not, this made it to the front page of a newspaper here in the UK, and my friend said that it was also on the news...
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