Watching the news last night, there was a segment about the new issue of Spider Man featuring 'Bamsies. Way to fly off the inaugural coattails, Marvel!The view of Midtown Comics recalled memories of Disney World as the line wrapped out the door and down the block and people waited in the cold for a copy of the issue when it went on sale yesterday.
I was avidly envisioning Spider Man taking on Obama and was in utter suspense as to who the victor might be. Obama has the commanding presence and booming voice, but how would that go up against a Spidy web, I pondered...
Then I received further information that Obama actually justs makes a cameo in the comic and is not donned in super villain attire, to my disappointment.
Despite the obvious let down, people can sign up for a special second printing by Marvel Comics of the Spider-Man Obama issue.
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Marvel handled it all wrong from a marketing and sales point of view. My friends on the insides were telling me how it was all horribly done, the best complaints are from the retailers:
You probably won’t see folks lining up for the variant cover at Comics Conspiracy in Sunnyvale, Calif. On Monday, the retailer posted a notice on its website informing customers that it won’t have the Obama cover because, “Marvel, for some reason, decided to make this book an incentive cover, meaning we had to order more copies of another book in order to get this issue.” (small stores get screwed like that)
John Hitchcock, owner of Parts Unknown in Greensboro, N.C., told the News-Record he ordered just 25 copies of the variant cover because Marvel “didn’t let us know Obama would be in it two-and-a-half months ago, when we had to order. So we’re making sure everyone who subscribes to it gets their copy. Then we’ll be selling them first come, first serve.”
Though those first prints are gonna make people a lot of money...
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