Marvel is celebrating the 60th anniversary of Spider-Man by featuring a series of variant covers in April of other heroes dressed as the wallcrawler
Marvel will start celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Amazing Spider-Man a bit early as this April will feature a variety of special variant covers featuring other Marvel superheroes wearing new costumes that are inspired by the iconic costume that the wallcrawler has been using ever since Steve Ditko and Stan Lee debuted the hero in Amazing Fantasy #15 back in 1962.
There will likely be more variants announced in the future, but for now, Marvel has announced (and released images for) nine variant covers scheduled to be released in April 2022 alongside the release of Amazing Spider-Man #1, the new run on the series by writer Zeb Wells and artist John ROmita Jr. (returning as the main artist for Amazing Spider-Man for the first time in over a decade), plus one variant not scheduled until a June 2022 release.
While these covers will likely just be really cool images, it is important to note that past themed variant cover months like these have actually resulted in ideas that directly impacted the Marvel Universe, like the introduction of Gwenpool after a similar series of Gwen Stacy-themed variant covers was released in 2015 (in honor of the debut of Spider-Gwen) and the first depiction of Gwenom from that same line of variant covers.
Things kick off on April 6th with a Romina Jones cover featuring Mary Jane as Spider-Woman, as part of the 14 variant covers Marvel will be releasing for Amazing Spider-Man #1….
Next, Kyle Hotz and Alex Guimarães give us a dark symbiote version of Spider-Man on the variant cover of Carnage #2…
On April 13th, Rahzzah gives Shang-Chi a Spider-remake on the variant cover of Shang-Chi #11…
Next, Declan Shalvey gives us the Spider-Man of Thunder on this Thor #24 variant cover…
The final variant for that week will be Pete Woods having Venom drop the black and white look for a red and blue Spider-Man style look on this Venom #7 cover…
On April 20th, Spider-Man’s fellow victim of a radiated spider-bite, Silk, decks out in a Spider-Man costume on this Bengal variant cover for Silk #4…
That same week, Rod Reis delivers a Spider-Man riff on the Silver Surfer on this Silver Surfer Rebirth #4 variant cover…
On April 27th, Dan Jurgens (who famously designed Ben Reilly’s Spider-Man costume a little over 25 years ago) designs a Spider-Man themed armor in this Iron Man #19 variant cover (Jurgens is inked by Brett Breeding on the cover, with colors by Edgar Delgado)…
That same week, Kaare Andrews shows Emma Frost paying tribute to Spider-Man while wearing not a whole lot on this Immortal X-Men #2 variant…
Then, in June 2022, David Baldeon and colorist Israel Silva will be delivering this Captain Marvel Spider-Man riff variant cover for Captain Marvel #39…
Marvel will likely be releasing more Spider-Man variants before April comes around.
Source: Marvel
About The Author
For all the latest Comics News Click Here
For the latest news and updates, follow us on Google News.
