Spiderman saves the day at Obama's presidential inauguration
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Spiderman saves the day at Obama's presidential inauguration
As a testament to the mass appeal of US President-elect Barack Obama, his face will soon be gracing the cover of yet another magazine - this time it is a Spider-Man comic. The special edition of the weekly comic features a six-page story about the superhero. Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Joe Quesada said the idea for the Spidey meets the President! edition came from a statement from Mr Obama's campaign that revealed their boss was once a Spider-Man fan. Mr Quesada said: "When President Obama's people put that information out there we just figured you know, he gave us a shout-out, let's give him a shout back. It would be a fun thing to do." But not everyone loved the idea. Austrian tourist Bernhard Wagner, who was given an advance copy of the comic to read, said in his country, politicians don't appear in comics. " I don't think there is a role for politics in comics. That's my opinion." Obama told Entertainment Weekly magazine last August that his favourite superheroes were Spider-Man and Batman because "they have some inner turmoil."
ITN | January 9, 2009
