Superhero Barack Obama? Certainly the world could use one right about now. Marvel Comics is set to spin a web of capitalization on the popularity of the president-elect.

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Joe Quesada, Marvel’s editor-in-chief, tells the Associated Press that the comic book production company wanted to give Obama a “shout-out back” after the soon-to-be-prez said he collected Spider-Man comics as a kid. “How great is that? The commander-in-chief to be is actually a nerd-in-chief,” Quesada says. “It was really, really cool to see that we had a geek in the White House. We’re all thrilled with that.”

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