[Tex/LaTex] How to put a wide figure on the top of the first page of a two-column paper

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I'd like my academic paper to have a page-width-spanning figure right underneath the title. How do I do this? Whenever I try using \begin{figure*}...\end{figure*} with the figure at the start of my paper, it always pushes it to the second page, no matter what combination of h, t, ! arguments I put.

To be clear, I want something like this: figure span to one column on double column page

but I want my figure to be at the top of the FIRST page underneath the title. Does anyone have a minimum working example?

My document begins like this:

\begin{document}
\maketitle
...

Best Answer

You may (mis)use the title field and insert a picture. To insert a caption, I used the \captionof from caption package as a floating figure there makes me uncomfortable!

\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{caption}

\title[The title]{%
The Title\\[1em]
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{logo}%
\captionof{figure}{This is a figure}
}
\author{The Author}
\date{\today}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

\lipsum[1-5]

\end{document}

enter image description here

To avoid trouble with headers or bookmarks use 

 \title[The Title]{The Title\\[1em] 
  \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{logo}
  \captionof{figure}{This is a figure}
  }

as suggested by Gonzalo.

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