Spider-Man and Barack Obama to team up
Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is getting a new crime-fighting partner – President-elect Barack Obama.
In issue No. 583 of “Amazing Spider-Man,” coming out on Wednesday – inauguration day - Obama and Spidey team up to battle long-time villain The Chameleon in a story by writer Zeb Wells and artist Todd Nauck and a special variant cover by Phil Jimenez.
But don’t expect to see him joining up with The Avengers.
“There aren’t any plans for him to join a super team or team up with the Hulk and Captain America,” says Steve Wacker, editor of “Amazing Spider-Man.”
Wacker has yet to hear anything from Obama about the comic, and he kind of likes it that way.
“I’m half hoping we never hear anything and I’m not called in front of Senate subcommittee,” he says, laughing. “I certainly hope he enjoys it.”
Obama joins Stephen Colbert as real-world figures who have made the jump to the comic page. Who else would Wacker like to see teaming up with Spidey?
“Tell Bruce Springsteen to give me a call and he can meet Spider-man,” he says.
