Which U.S. president owns a large collection of Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comic books?
In a 2008 interview with one of Barack Obama’s personal advisers, it emerged that President Obama collects “Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian” comic books.
When Marvel Comics discovered the president was an avid collector of Spider-Man comics, they decided to have Obama the comic book character grace the cover of their The Amazing Spider-Man #583 (January 2009) comic. For the story “Spidey Meets the President!”, this particular release proved extremely popular and sold out immediately.
A day after the release, the edition where Spider-Man met the President was sold for $300 on eBay. Prior to the Spider-Man story, the president-elect was featured in Secret Invasion #8; this is the first appearance of president-elect Barack Obama in a Marvel comic.
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