Marvel will be celebrating Women’s History in March with a series of six variant covers throughout the month featuring major Marvel female heroes as prominent female historical figures. Marvel has released four of the covers so far, with two more to be revealed in the weeks to come.
In a clever twist, the covers will all be drawn by prominent female comic book artists. If you want to put things into perspective, there wasn’t a regular female artist on a Spider-Man ongoing series until 1980 (Marie Severin on Spectacular Spider-Man), so it is wonderful that in recent years, Marvel has had so many excellent female artists that the company could easily come up with six outstanding choices for these variant covers.
On March 9th, superstar artist Sara Pichelli will have a variant cover for Captain Carter #1 featuring Captain Carter as a member of the women’s suffragette movement, with signs both from the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), the militant wing of the women’s suffragette movement in England that was formed in 1903 by Emmeline Pankhurst and also the American suffragette movement, marked by an iconic sign waved by Mary Windsor that stated “To Ask Freedom for Women is Not a Crime. Suffrage Prisoners Should Not be Treated as Criminals”…
That same week features a variant cover by Rian Gonzalez for Eternals #10 featuring Sersi as Cleopatra. One of the fascinating things about the Eternals, of course, is that they have been around for so many years that they actually interacted with these famous historical figures (like Sersi, for instance, was revealed to have been the Circe of Greek mythology)…
A week later, on March 16th, Betsy Cola drew the variant cover for X-Men Unlimited: Latitude #1 featuring Magik as Joan of Arc. Magik, like Joan of Arc, died, but sadly Joan was not a comic book superhero, so her death was permanent….
On March 30th, Ema Lupacchino drew the variant cover for Immortal X-Men #1 featuring Emma Frost as Queen Elizabeth I…
There are also covers for Thor #23 by Karen Darboe and She-Hulk #3 by Jan Bazaldua, but those covers have not yet been released, but Marvel will preview them before March (Thor #23 will be out March 9th and She-Hulk #3 will be out March 23rd).
Source: Marvel
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