Shadow and Flame with Magik

Cover Dated 2009

I would buy these Variant Cover collections, nearly every time.  If you have a theme event, and it has at least 30 covers, might as well collect them.  I own this one and the Wolverine Art Appreciation collection.

To Celebrate Timely Comics 70th Anniversary, Marvel released Frame Art variants like they did for Marvel’s 25th anniversary and the Women of Marvel Variants.  I do wish that they were done as regular covers for the October 2009 issues.

There were 39 of these covers.  All but two are shown on the cover (both front and back).  I wish the frame art would have made part of the cover to this comic.

So the two characters that are not shown on the cover are Magik and X23.  Which is so odd to me as the cover sports three Wolverines and two Spider-Mans.

I just want to own two of these –

New Mutants 4 with Magik by Elena Casagrande & Emily Warren

Wolverine First Class 18 with Kitty and Lockheed  by Takeshi Miyazawa

The cool thing about the covers shown in this collection, is that it doesn’t have the issue numbers or the ISBN cluttering the art.  Another nice thing about the collection is that the covers are in alphabetical order of the comic title.  Not sure what the other way of doing it is but I like that they went with the order they did.

This site has all of the covers –

Marvel 70th Anniversary Frames Revisited

The other issues were –

Agents of Atlas 9
Amazing Spider-Man 601
Amazing Spider-Man 602
Amazing Spider-Man 603
Avengers : Initiative 27
Black Panther 7
Cable 17
Captain America : Reborn 2
Daredevil 500
Dark Avengers 8
Dark Wolverine 77
Deadpool 13
Deadpool : Merc with a Mouth 2
Exiles 5
Fantastic Four 570
Guardians of the Galaxy 17
Hulk 13
Incredible Hercules 133
Incredible Hulk 601
Invincible Iron Man 16
Mighty Avengers 28
Ms. Marvel 43
New Avengers 56
New Mutants 4
Nova 28
Punisher 8
Runaways 13
Secret Warriors 7
Son of Hulk 14
Thunderbolts 135
Uncanny X-Men 514
War Machine 9
Wolverine First Class 18
Wolverine Origins 39
Wolverine Weapon X 4
X-Factor 47
X-Force 18
X-Men Forever 5
X-Men Legacy 227

The Frame itself was designed by Jim Cheung

Only Storm and Invisible Woman are the only ones who are on all three Frames – 25th, Women and 70th, which is pretty impressive.