Comic timing: 50 years of Marvel

WITHIN hours of the recent death of Osama bin Laden, Photoshopped copies of the iconic ‘situation room’ image were posted on the internet.

One ‘photo’ imagined the key members of US President Barack Obama’s administration wearing superhero outfits.

Hillary Clinton was dressed as Wonder Woman. Joe Biden was The Flash. Superman controlled the video feed, while Batman and Spider-Man stood in rapt attention behind him. Leaning forward in his seat was the US president, dressed, appropriately, in the blue suit and mask of Captain America.