President Obama--Avid Collector of Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian Comics

In a 2008 interview with one of Barack Obama’s advisers, it emerged that 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 (Jan. 2009), for the story “Spidey Meets the President!” This particular release proved extremely popular and sold out in a matter of minutes.