Marvel Comics Reveals New Midnight Marvel Variant Cover Program

by Tony Thornley

Marvel Comics continues to do new and unique programs with their upcoming Midnight Marvel horror line, and announced yesterday is a new cover program across all three titles.

It started with a shift to release all three series on the same date each month, starting on October 7th. But with the new announcement, the publisher has unveiled a unique cover program.

The line — consisting of dark, horror influenced takes on the X-Men, Fantastic Four and Spider-Man — will feature five unified themes each month. This will ensure a unified theme, but also will allow fans to find a theme — designated A through E — they like and stick with it.

The themes are:

Cover A – Regular

· The main series cover presented with the Cloaked Midnight trade dress.

Cover B – Midnight Bloodbath

· Blood-soaked covers showcasing the terror the Midnight Universe.

Cover C – Midnight Special

· Spotlight covers showcasing Midnight reimaginings of Marvel Heroes new and old.

Cover D – Midnight Horror Homage

· Chilling covers inspired by iconic horror images.

Cover E – Midnight Gallery

· Prestige painted covers of the haunting Midnight Universe.

The titles in the initative include

In Midnight Spider-Man #1 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and ScieTronc, Spider-Man discovers that with great power… comes something monstrous.

In Midnight Fantastic Four #1 by Benjamin Percy and Kev Walker, a scientist’s curiosity accidentally unleashes ancient terrors upon the world while also transforming himself and three others in strange and horrifying ways.

And in Midnight X-Men #1 by Jonathan Hickman and Matteo Della Fonte, the X-Men’s battle is no longer one of acceptance, but of survival…and blood.