After almost a year of Marvel and Disney collaborating on variant covers to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Disney,* you may have noticed some iconic covers seem to be missing. Yesterday Marvel revealed the reason. Starting in January, the variant covers continue as a celebration of the 60th anniversaries of both the Avengers and the X-Men. As before, they seem to all be variants to issues of Amazing Spider-Man. (Had any of you opened up the books to see?)
The core 5 plus occasionally Pete will be mixing it up on classic covers from Earth’s Mightiest Super-Heroes and the Strangest Super-Heroes of All!
On Sale 1/3
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #41 DISNEY WHAT IF? VARIANT COVER BY LORENZO PASTROVICCHIOOn Sale 2/14
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #43 DISNEY WHAT IF? VARIANT COVER BY LORENZO PASTROVICCHIOOn Sale 3/6
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #45 DISNEY WHAT IF? VARIANT COVER BY VITALE MANGIATORDI
If you have a local comics shop, get down there and let them know you want these covers held for you. Though some have popped up in the Disney parks, they go pretty fast in regular shops. A couple of the Disney 100 covers have also been put on t-shirts, but really Marvel, what would be cool is to have them as big prints. Just a suggestion. Just a plea. Maybe for Disney 102.
And I want a year of Oswald 100 variant covers.
*Honor bound to point out that Disney 100 marks 100 years since the founding of Laugh-O-Gram Studios, not Walt Disney Studios. Those initial shorts were mostly the “Alice” comedies, combining animation with live-action footage of a young actress. The most shocking thing about that is that makes Pete, of all characters, the oldest Disney creation still in use. We get Mickey 100 in 2028.
