Next week, Barack Obama will be saved from the dastardly Chameleon by Spider-Man in a special inaugural edition of The Amazing Spider-Man. It will be a five-page backup story. It will be embarrassing to read, as most appearances of real-life people in superhero comic books usually are (except for when David Letterman was in The Avengers, which was super hott). It will also be a tremendously popular issue of the comic book, selling out in comic book stores all across the country. This will be because people will think the comic book will be valuable one day. The comic book will never be valuable, unless you could coerce Barack Obama into signing the thing. The end, spoiler warning off. Here is the cover, with a lame joke that doesn’t really make sense if you think about it for a second or two:

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  3. Now that 90% of comics are collected by adults, nothing published after about 1990 will ever come close to the value of “golden age” or “silver age” comics, because there is no longer someone (thanks mom!) to toss them out as “junk”, thus creating the kind of scarcity for certain issues that made them valuable in the first place.

  4. Well said, COMTE @3.

    @2: I am on the cover of a comic book, running in fear from Godzilla. It’s the perfect way to make an appearance in a fictional medium, I think.

  5. @2 Paul has already made numerous appearances as the Mole Man, one of the Fantastic Four’s oldest and most storied villians.

  7. Oh so when the Stranger had a girl on the cover nipping out in a wet “Obama” t-shirt you guys weren’t being exploitative at all (See Feb 14, 2008 issue)… No not like this dirty comic book.

  9. Stephen Colbert appeared in a five page back-up story in a recent issue of Amazing Spider-Man, and it was pretty hilarious. Why you gotta be so jaded, Paul?

  11. I plan to buy the issue, not because I think it will be valuable, but because I think it’s going to be fun and campy. It’ll go great next to my other never-gonna-be-worth-anything “collectibles,” like the “V.I.P. Limited Edition” of “Showgirls,” my still-in-the-box “Mel B. ON TOUR” Spice Girls doll, and my Nancy Pearl Librarian Action Figure with “Amazing Push-Button Shushing Action.”

    Snob it up all you want, but as far as I’m concerned, it’ll be $2.99 well spent.

  13. What’s up with Obama’s hand? Aside from weird proportions he’s either got some pointy coke-thumbnail or vampire-hand thing going on.

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