Live Blogging the Obama-Spidey release

The first customer in line with the first copy, 8:30am.

This is it folks! In just one short hour, we open up our doors to folks waiting in line to get their hands on a piece of history. So far there are a dozen people in line, with more showing up by the minute. As expected, we have a limited supply of the Barack Obama cover to Amazing Spider-Man 583, and should sell out very quickly.

Roger Clark, a reporter from New York 1 has been reporting LIVE from Jim Hanley's Universe. Stay tuned to NY1 and this space for more!

Live blogging and photos continue after the jump!


Update 7:40am:
The line grows longer as the phone starts to ring off the hook following the NY1 reports. For those wondering, we are selling both the Obama cover and the normal John Romita cover AT COVER PRICE! That's right, folks, just $3.99. We expect to sell out very quickly, but there is still room in line to get the Obama cover.

Update 8:00am:
For those calling concerned they will not get a copy today, fret not! We will have many, many, many additional copies NEXT WEEK! That's right, next week we will have additional copies of the Barack Obama cover to Amazing Spider-Man 583, at no per-customer limit, at only $3.99!

Right now, there is still some room on line outside to get the comic today, but quantities are limited, with one copy per customer.

Update 8:15am:
Almost there, folks! Don't forget, we will sell out quickly, but in addition to the extra copies coming in seven days, our New Dorp, Staten Island location will have copies available at noon!

Update 8:30am:
The doors are open! We're letting the first of the folks waiting in line now.

Update 9:00am:
Hoo-dilly! As expected, we sold out of the Obama cover very quickly, but we still have a small number of the normal cover available. I just let the last of the line in, and I want to give a hearty thanks to all the folks that waited. I stood out there for 45 minutes letting folks in and hanging out. Ah, 16 degrees with a 1 degree wind chill! It was worth it!

Update 9:30am:
In case folks are wondering, at this moment, we do have copies of Amazing Spider-Man 583. Barack Obama is not on the cover, but he is featured on the inside of the book in the five page back-up story. At only $3.99, it is totally worth getting. And don't forget, next week we are getting additional copies with the soon-to-be president on the cover, and our Staten Island store will have a limited number of the first printings of the Obama cover when they open at noon, limit one per customer.

Update Noon:
The Manhattan store is now completely sold out of Amazing Spider-Man 583, and New Dorp is opening up its doors as I type this. Congrats to everyone that got a copy, and we look forward to seeing everyone next week when we get more of the Obama variants in!

And don't forget about all the other great new books that came out this week, including Final Crisis 6, Fables 80, the new Walking Dead omnibus, X-Infernus 2, and many more great books!

Update 9:30pm:
Check out these pics from the release this morning.



The individual images from the release can be seen here.

Jeff