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Super Prez!: Barack Obama Gets His Own Comic Book

 
By Essence · Updated October 29, 2020
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In more Obama-mania news, Marvel Comics has announced that President-elect Barack Obama will be featured in one of their upcoming stories, according to the Associated Pres. The comic starts with Spider-Man’s alter-ego Peter Parker taking photographs at Obama’s inauguration and decides “the future president’s gonna need Spider-Man. “He springs into action and Obama thanks him with a fist-bump. The soon-to-be President has said that he collected Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comic books as a child.”—BB