{"id":269,"date":"2009-01-12T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=269"},"modified":"2009-01-11T00:49:41","modified_gmt":"2009-01-11T05:49:41","slug":"obama-meets-spider-man-or-mr-spider-man-goes-to-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/12\/obama-meets-spider-man-or-mr-spider-man-goes-to-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Meets Spider-Man (or Mr. Spider-Man Goes to Washington)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"Spider-Man meets Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marvel.com\/news\/comicstories.6546.Spidey_Meets_the_President!\" class=\"broken_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Spider-Man meets Obama\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/amazing_spiderman_583.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"493\" \/><\/a>If you&#8217;re a geek and haven&#8217;t heard about this already, then you live under a rock (probably a rock in your parents basement).\u00a0 On January 14, President-Elect Obama makes his nationwide comic book debut in the Marvel Universe in a special bonus story in AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #583.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">From Marvel&#8217;s press release for the issue:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;This all new story written by Zeb Wells and art by Todd Nauck and Frank D&#8217;Armata takes place in Washington, D.C. on Inauguration Day and finds one of Spider-Man&#8217;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&#8217;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;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&#8217; Marvel Universe,&#8221; Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada said in the release. &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you can&#8217;t read what Spider-Man is saying on the cover, here you go&#8230;\u00a0 &#8220;Hey, if you get to be on my cover, can I be on the dollar bill?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Read more at <a title=\"Obama Spider-Man Announcement at Marvel Comics\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marvel.com\/news\/comicstories.6546.Spidey_Meets_the_President!\" class=\"broken_link\">Marvel Comics<\/a> and <a title=\"Obama Spider-Man news at Newsarama\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newsarama.com\/comics\/010908-Spider-Man-Obama.html\">Newsarama<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Tell the world about ONCE UPON A GEEK:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener 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