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70th Anniversary Variants

Posted by John Klein III on May 27, 2015
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Marvel 70th Anniversary Frame Art

New Mutants V3 4 70th Anniversary Variant

To celebrate Timely’s 70th Anniversary, Marvel released variant covers in the same vein of their November 1986 Marvel 25th Anniversary covers.  These were released August 2009.

Timely being the company that will become Marvel, but it is still an odd thing to celebrate, as they should have waited five more years to do the 75th Anniversary, an anniversary people actually celebrate.d

Border done by Jim Cheung.   Unfortunately, Kitty didn’t make the border to this one, so she is only on the 25th Anniversary and the Women of Marvel variants.

I wish I owned any of these but I do own this :

Marvel 70th Anniversary Frame Art Collection, that contains all of the variants as single page art pieces, which I would buy more of these Variant Collections if they made them.

My wishlist contains :

New Mutants Volume Three Issue 4, with Magik

Wolverine First Class 18, with Kitty and Lockheed

That’s what happens when Kitty doesn’t make the border, my desire of them gets cut way down.

Marvel 70th Anniversary Frame Art

Posted by John Klein III on May 25, 2015
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Marvel 70th Anniversary Frame Art

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 –

Marvel 70th New Mutants Magik Variant

New Mutants 4 with Magik by Elena Casagrande & Emily Warren

Marvel 70th Wolverine First Class Kitty Pryde Lockheed

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 –

http://www.mylatestdistraction.com/?p=747

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.