Monday, January 19, 2009

FOUND! Spiderman and Obama: A Tough Comic to Find

UPDATE: Jan. 21, 2009 - Today, my local comic book shop, Alliance Comics of Bowie, Md. had a few issues left of the 2nd printing of this comic book (left for the loyal customers only) so I managed to buy one! Looking forward to reading it!
I couldn't get a copy, and neither could a lot of my friends who are also comic book collectors:
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 15 (UPI) -- U.S. comic book retailers said a Spider-Man comic featuring President-elect Barack Obama on the cover flew from shelves faster than you can sling a web.
Excalibur Books & Comics in Portland, Ore., said copies of "Amazing Spider-Man #583" sold out "before the door opened" Wednesday and hundreds of people lined up outside of Midtown Comics in New York's Manhattan borough in the hopes of snagging a copy, The (Portland) Oregonian reported Thursday. Excalibur ordered 70 copies of the issue for regular subscribers and four additional copies stocked by the store were quickly claimed by callers.
The plot is that Spider-Man's enemy The Chameleon plans to impersonate Obama at his inauguration and take over the country. The super hero and the politician team up to foil the plot. "Honestly," Obama says in the comic after the villain's plot is foiled, "I'm more upset by the Chameleon's shockingly deficient understanding of the electoral process."

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