Marvel Announces Holiday Variant Covers Featuring Hulk, Spider-Man, The X-Men and More Coming This December

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Marvel Announces Holiday Variant Covers Featuring Hulk, Spider-Man, The X-Men and More Coming This December

Marvel Comics will once again celebrate the holidays this winter, with ten festive variant covers featuring beloved characters including Hulk, Spider-ManAnd these X-Men. These variants, from some of the top artists in the comic book industry, are gifts for collectors and casual fans, and are guaranteed to make Marvel fans happy.

AIPT revealed a first look Marvel’s slate of shipping “Winter Holiday Variant Covers” with some of its top titles in late 2024, which will be released throughout December – including some on Christmas Day itself.


Incredible Hulk #20 Holiday Variant, Hulk dressed as Santa alongside other festive Marvel heroes

Perhaps the stand-out among the covers is Greg Land’s Incredible Hulk #20 variant, which features The eponymous giant green hero dressed as Santa Claus, with a bag of Avengers gear—Iron Man’s helmet, Captain America’s shield, and Thor’s hammer—at his sideAs Black Cat, Spider-Man, Luke Cage and Captain Marvel pose behind him.

Marvel’s 2024 Holiday Variant Covers End The Publisher’s Year On A Cheerful Note

Ultimate Spider-Man #12 Winter Holiday Variant by Paco Medina


Ultimate Spider-Man #12 cover, a red-and-green Spidey with villains trapped in Christmas ornaments

For comic book fans, it’s always one of the most exciting parts of entering the holiday season to find out how publishers like DC and Marvel will participate in the festivities. this year, Marvel’s “Winter Holiday Variant Series” offers another crop of covers worth celebratingFrom Chris Campana’s Daredevil #16 cover, featuring the man fearlessly jumping over New York City’s famous giant Christmas tree, to Nick Bradshaw’s cover for Immortal Thor #18, featuring Thor, Loki and their supporting characters enjoying some mead in honor of the season.

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Also of note is Paco Medina’s Ultimate Spider-Man #12, which tweaks Spidey’s traditional red-and-blue outfit to be Christmas colors, red-and-green, in an eye-catching holiday alteration of the character’s classic look. Additionally, Medina’s cover features giant Christmas ornaments with the incarnation of the Sister Six reflected in the series. In this way, the cover is more than just a cheerful holiday detour, but in fact still offers a crucial hint at what the issue has in store for its fledgling version of ​​the webslinger.

Holiday variants are a lighthearted way for Marvel to celebrate another successful year

Exceptional X-Men #4 Winter Holiday Variant by Marguerite Savage


Exceptional X-Men #4 Holiday variant, Kitty Pryde in front of a Hanukkah feast

Other entries in Marvel’s 2024 Winter Holiday variant series include Marguerite Savage’s cover for Exceptional X-Men #4, with Kitty Frieda for a Hanukkah spread, Audrey Mack Scarlet Witch #7 cover, showing Wunda levitating in front of a snowy landscape, and Nao Fuji Ultimate X-Men #10 variant, which features the team gathered for a holiday meal. Among many of the covers in the series, There is an overall theme of unity, as different Marvel heroes are brought together through the season.

Marvel’s Winter Holiday Variant series is an ideal way for the publisher to emphasize the joy of comics.

Todd Nauk Miles Morales: Spider-Man #27’s cover is interesting, because rather than featuring the trio of Miles, original Spider-Man Peter Parker and Spider-Gwen rushing into action, seemingly going about superhero business as usual – except with ice skates on their feet, suggesting that they are perhaps Racing each other, rather than to the scene of a crime. All in all, Marvel’s Winter Holiday variant series is an ideal way for the publisher to emphasize the joy of comics, even amidst all the drama and narrative tensions that its characters endlessly face.

Marvel’s Winter Variants spotlight classic characters and new series heading into the New Year

Winter holiday variants by Natacha Bustos, Betsy Cola, Todd Nauck and more

Of course, Marvel’s top hat of heroes is represented among the 2024 winter holiday variants by Hulk, Spider-Man, Thor, and more, but the publisher also cleverly included some new heroes and a brand new title in those who received holiday. covers. Breakout character Spider-Boy, for example, gets his close up in a cover by Natacha Bustos, while The debuting timeline Series also get a festive cover, as an added incentive for fans to pick up the already-exciting new book when it first comes out.

The 2024 Winter Holiday Covers, featuring Hulk, Spider-Man, the X-Men and more, are a fantastic way for the publisher to end the year on a high note and ramp up to an even more exciting 2025.

Marvel’s Winter Holiday variant series for this year are must-have covers for fans of the company’s characters, especially those looking to raise their holiday spirit to superhero levels. Over the past few years in particular, Marvel has been at the forefront of exciting variant cover initiatives, expanding what was once a niche collector’s interest into an essential part of comic book fandom. The 2024 winter holiday covers, with Hulk, Spider-ManThe X-Menand more, are a fantastic way for the publisher to end the year on a high note, and charge into an even more exciting 2025.

Source: AIPT

Todd Nauk Miles Morales: Spider-Man #27 Variant cover will be available on December 4, 2024 from Marvel Comics. The remaining nine 2024 Winter Holiday variant covers will be released weekly through December 25.

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