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Spider-Man Comic Starring Obama Sells Out in Record Numbers Nationwide
foxnews.com ^ | January 15, 2009

Posted on 01/15/2009 12:47:05 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

Obama-Man, Obama-Man, does whatever a spider can.

Marvel Comics says it plans to print a second and third round of its latest "Spider-Man" comic book after the issue, which features President-elect Barack Obama, sold out in record numbers Wednesday -- just hours after hitting stands. The company expects it to be the industry's best-selling comic in over a decade.

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1 posted on 01/15/2009 12:47:06 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I can’t stomach that. But the edit is accurate.


2 posted on 01/15/2009 12:48:25 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Prepare for the new fuhrer -- Communism finally overtakes the USA)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

They should have hacked up the price on it to triple the normal cost. Irrational buyers would have paid any amount for it.


3 posted on 01/15/2009 12:53:11 PM PST by Troll_House_Cookies (Ironically, Chancellor Obama's first re-education camp will be in Alaska.)
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To: freedumb2003

"Thanks for the costume, Spiderman!"

4 posted on 01/15/2009 12:54:10 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Black widow dress


5 posted on 01/15/2009 12:55:22 PM PST by unkus
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To: Free ThinkerNY

6 posted on 01/15/2009 12:56:36 PM PST by allmost
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Marvel Comics says it plans to print a second and third round of its latest "Spider-Man" comic book after the issue, which features President-elect Barack Obama, sold out in record numbers Wednesday -- just hours after hitting stands. The company expects it to be the industry's best-selling comic in over a decade.

I like how they worked in the "comrade" jab that most people are going to miss. Nice way to lay out what Obammy's really about. Talk about back-handed...

Anyway, this is no big surprise. Spidey's always been a liberal-leaning hero. A lot of Marvel's characters are that way.
7 posted on 01/15/2009 1:02:25 PM PST by arderkrag (Liberty Walking (www.geocities.com/arderkrag))
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To: freedumb2003
The company expects it to be the industry's best-selling comic in over a decade.

Not since the days (1990s) when Bill Clinton's pals Stan Lee and Ron Perelman almost destroyed the entire comic book industry because of Marvel's monopoly on distribution (strongarming retailers to carry the full publishing line and chase after variant cover editions for "speculators" who would've been better off investing in tulips and beanie babies).

8 posted on 01/15/2009 1:05:03 PM PST by weegee (Beware the Green Menace, the socialists warning you of global warming under your bed are hysteric.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Is Peter Parker’s head missing the lower jaw? Or is he just a skull now? That is some BAD art.


9 posted on 01/15/2009 1:06:22 PM PST by weegee (Beware the Green Menace, the socialists warning you of global warming under your bed are hysteric.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I guess that Captain AmeriKKKa and the other Marvel characters are not going to be slurring America for the next 4 years as they have been for the past 8.


10 posted on 01/15/2009 1:09:53 PM PST by weegee (Beware the Green Menace, the socialists warning you of global warming under your bed are hysteric.)
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To: allmost

This isn't the first time that Spiderman has teamed up with politicians. For more on Spidey/Captain America and Rumsfeld, see here.

11 posted on 01/15/2009 1:11:15 PM PST by Captain Kirk
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To: Free ThinkerNY

This will be a collector’s item. Just like Time magazine’s 1938 Man of the Year issue


12 posted on 01/15/2009 1:12:01 PM PST by Battle of Tours
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To: arderkrag

I think the “Comrade” was photoshopped in there.


13 posted on 01/15/2009 1:13:33 PM PST by cdbull23 (What's going on in my brain? Check it out: www.cainsbrain.com)
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To: weegee

The bad art suits the bad subject matter.


14 posted on 01/15/2009 1:15:02 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY ((((Truth to a Liberal, is like a crucifix to a vampire))))
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To: arderkrag

The comrade thing is a photoshop edit. It doesn’t appear in the comic.


15 posted on 01/15/2009 1:16:12 PM PST by Melas
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To: Free ThinkerNY
I miss William Gaines' EC comics (and Wallace Wood, Bill Elder, Jack Davis, Harvey Kurtzman, John Severin, Bernie Kreigstein, Graham Ingles...

This editorial from Gaines was inspired by the Senator Kefauver (D-Tennessee, fellow senator to Albert Gore Sr.) Senate subcommittee hearings into the evils of rock albums, er comic books, and sourced from an article that appeared the Communist paper Daily Worker


16 posted on 01/15/2009 1:17:06 PM PST by weegee (Beware the Green Menace, the socialists warning you of global warming under your bed are hysteric.)
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To: cdbull23

Ah. Well, I’m on dial-up, so I can’t sit here waiting for all the original images to load. My mistake.


17 posted on 01/15/2009 1:17:20 PM PST by arderkrag (Liberty Walking (www.geocities.com/arderkrag))
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Do they like Obama? Hmmmmm maybe.

Do they like the MONEY such a comic would generate? OH YES!!!


18 posted on 01/15/2009 3:57:54 PM PST by ak267
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To: ak267

I agree. Personally, I think all of this is just like JFK... if this was 40 years ago, we’d probably be having Obama lunchboxes, too, cause everyone’s just jumping on the bandwagon to make a quick buck.

Do they like Biden? Obviously not very much, from Spidey’s jab about confusing him with a vulture =P


19 posted on 01/15/2009 5:14:01 PM PST by Hyzenthlay (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: ak267

Marvel Comics positition is to be anti-Bush, pro-UN, and pro-homosexual. They suck.


20 posted on 01/16/2009 7:21:04 AM PST by weegee (Beware the Green Menace, the socialists warning you of global warming under your bed are hysteric.)
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