This article first appeared on the Huffington Post.
In order to commemorate the inauguration of Barack Obama, President-elect and admitted Spider-Man collector, as 44th President of the United States, Marvel Comics just had to have Spider-Man meet the new President.

“When we heard that President-Elect Obama is a collector of Spider-Man comics, we knew that these two historic figures had to meet in our comics’ Marvel Universe,” says Marvel’s Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada. “Historic moments such as this one can be reflected in our comics because the Marvel Universe is set in the real world. A Spider-Man fan moving into the Oval Office is an event that must be commemorated in the pages of Amazing Spider-Man.”

The story is a quick read, full of laughs (sometimes at the expense of an absent Joe Biden) and details a plot by a super-villain to disrupt the inauguration. Fortunately, Peter Parker is covering the event as a photographer, which means Spider-Man is close at hand to deal with the problem.

Marvel Comics has given Huffington Post readers an early look at the cover and a few panels from the comic:

This six page back up is written by Zeb Wells, drawn by Todd Nauck and appears in Amazing Spider-Man #583 which hits stands and finer comic book shops everywhere on January 14th, just in time for the inauguration.