Amazing Spider-Man #583 (2009)

One of the nice things about the Brand New Day era is that the rotation of creative teams means that we get a good mix of big, multi-issue stories and smaller character-focused issues like this one. It’s Betty Brant’s birthday, and Peter Parker tries to organize a party for her, but she’s been such a good reporter that everyone is mad at her.
But the real reason that this is one of the best-selling issues of all-time is the back-up feature…

Wherein Chameleon attempts to steal President Obama’s identity on Inauguration Day.

WAR OF KINGS (2009 EVENT): Lilandra dies
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Guardians of the Galaxy #7-8 (2009)
The core members of the team we think of when we think of GotG are scattered right now, so we get multiple storylines–and only little pieces of those. The main…