Collectors of sneakers and comic books share a handful of common traits: both can be nerdy, territorial types prone to spending absurd amounts of time and money on their hobby. Both passions come with the burden of explaining them to people not in the know. At social functions, during small talk at work, or when catching up with relatives, these people may be expected to defend the significance of an Air Jordan 1 from 1985 or an ancient issue of Action Comics. Collectors of both kinds will go to great lengths to protect these artifacts, treating them as treasure and stacking them up in secret preserves. The interests of the comic book lover and the sneaker obsessive will occasionally find a perfect middle ground in the form of special edition shoes that reference (officially or otherwise) the characters of comic lore. A pair worn by an animated Spider-Man onscreen becomes a real-life colorway launched in conjunction with the web slinger’s latest movie.…