Stephen Colbert, our favorite fake-news anchor on TV (he once stood still long enough to let us caricature him in person), is no mere mortal. Not since he's been immortalized in "Spider-Man."

Early this year, Marvel honcho Joe Quesada, appearing on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report," told the host he would weave Colbert's presidential bid into "Spider-Man." Then last week, a headline declared Colbert the popular-vote winner of the Marvel Universe presidency ... until the headline was "corrected" to say Obama won.

Comic Riffs caught up with Colbert to ask him about his campaign spread in the new "Amazing Spider-Man."

"After I got kicked off the ballot in South Carolina by the Democrats," Colbert told Riffs, "Joe Quesada called me and said: 'Hey, what if you continued to run in the Marvel Universe, because we had talked about doing it in conjunction?' "

Colbert appears on the cover of "Spider-Man" issue No. 573. But how does it feel to lose to Obama in the Marvel world as well as the real one?

"It turns out, President Obama — this is true — collects Spider-Man comics. Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics. ...," Colbert says. "I read it in the Telegraph."