Media Release -- Archie Comics is making major news and entertainment headlines accomplishing the impossible: managing to get President Barack Obama and politics' biggest celebrity Sarah Palin to "reach across the malt-shop aisle and share a soda," as the Washington Post so aptly put it. Enjoying political headlines from the Alaska Dispatch and Anchorage Daily News to ABC, CBS, MSNBC, Fox News and everything in between, the two-part political epic "Campaign Pain" beginning December 2010 will now feature dual variant covers of the dueling politicians duking it out!

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Media Release -- In August, we'll know more about the new GUARDIANS OF THE GLOBE: Brit, Outrun, Kaboomerang, Yeti and Bulletproof. But what about the GUARDIANS OF THE GLOBE that never were: Invincible, Spawn, Rick Grimes, Barack Obama and Gary Popper? Chris Giarrusso, creator of G-MAN, will tell their tale in a series of one-page backup stories that will run with each issue of GUARDIANS OF THE GLOBE.

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Marvel Comics' Amazing Spider-Man #583 was the bestselling comic book title for 2009 based on total unit sales to comic book specialty shops, according to Diamond Comic Distributors, the world's largest distributor of comics, graphic novels, and pop-culture products.

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Per Diamond Distribution, the shipping date for Barack The Barbarian TP Volume One has changed from January 6 to January 20, 2010.

Media Release -- In stores today, IDW Publishing is proud to offer Barack Obama: The Comic Book Biography, the only graphic novel telling the life story of our country's 44th president, from infancy through the first 100 days of his historic administration. Barack Obama: The Comic Book Biography features the smash hit Presidential Material: Barack Obama, which started a craze of Obama comic books when it launched in October of 2008. The new hardcover graphic novel also includes the follow-up series chronicling the heated presidential campaign through the inauguration, and goes on to detail the first 100 days of the Obama administration.

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Media Release -- The Presidential Material: Barack Obama comic started a whirlwind of Obama-themed merchandise and became a media sensation! Now, get it in an impressive hard cover edition, paired with the follow-up series, Barack Obama, that details this historic campaign from the Democratic National Convention through his election to President on November 4th, 2008, and then until the inauguration. The story continues with the most relevant details of his first 100 Days in office, documenting the facts without bias.

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Media Release -- Only the First Dog of the United States can help Marvel's greatest (and furriest) heroes save the world in Lockjaw & The Pet Avengers #3, on-sale today at comic shops nationwide! The critically acclaimed team of Chris Eliopolous and Ig Guara present the penultimate chapter of the limited series that everyone from The New York Daily News to Wired can't stop talking about! The Pet Avengers must make their way to Washington DC—but how do you sneak a 300lb bulldog and a saber-tooth tiger (not to mention a frog wielding a hammer!) into the White House? And which major Marvel villain is on their trail?

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Media Release -- He's faced them all, but this August Ashley J. Williams is about to face the greatest horror of his entire deadite-kickin' career - a comic book convention! But this ain't any ol' comic book convention; this one features a special appearance from the President of the United States of America - Barack Obama! How do things go from there when Ash and Obama are in the same place at the same time? And did we happen to mention that the Necronomicon is there doing the thing it does best - turning ordinary humans into the demon possessed undead.

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