{"id":4329,"date":"2009-01-09T05:40:29","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T05:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=4329"},"modified":"2009-01-09T05:40:29","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T05:40:29","slug":"obama-teams-up-with-spider-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2009\/01\/09\/obama-teams-up-with-spider-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama teams up with Spider-Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ObamaPresident-elect Barack Obama<\/a><\/strong> has teamed up with Spider-Man<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Marvel have announced<\/a> a special tribute issue:<\/p>\n

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!”<\/p>\n

Written by Zeb Wells with art by Todd Nauck and Frank D’Armata, the story 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.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Obama reportedly collected Spider-Man comics as a child, so Marvel wanted to give him a ‘shout-out back’ by featuring him in a bonus story, said Joe Quesada, Marvel’s editor-in-chief.<\/p>\n

Spidey even gets a fist bump from the incoming president:<\/p>\n

\"Obama<\/p>\n

The Obama story is a bonus in Marvel Comic’s Amazing Spider-Man #583, available in comic book shops on January 14th and is expected to sell out, with half the covers devoted to Obama.<\/p>\n

But can I suggest Marvel do another special issue for the outgoing vice-president<\/a>?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Maybe a teamup with\u00a0Kingpin?<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Dick<\/a><\/p>\n

Marvel describe<\/a> the bald-headed Spidey villain (aka Wilson Fisk) as:<\/p>\n

…a criminal mastermind who is involved in extensive illegal activities such as drug running, smuggling, murder, and so forth.<\/p>\n

Despite this, he has no criminal record and an army of lawyers to keep it that way, and is a criminal financial strategist without parallel.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Remind you of anyone<\/a>?<\/p>\n

> Official Marvel announcement<\/a>
\n> AP report on the story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President-elect Barack Obama has teamed up with Spider-Man. Marvel have announced a special tribute issue: 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,2],"tags":[114,734],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}