Marvel is paying homage to its own🙈 past with a series of No-Prize variant covers hitting ꧟shelves in February 2023.
No-Prizes were sent to Marvel Comics fans who noticed continuity errors an🦋d wrote to editor Stan Lee about them in t🐈he '60s. Essentially, writing to Lee meant fans might receive a reply in which they didn't receive any kind of reward other than the response itself. If there was no prize, there could be no "winner" in a conversation about continuity errors.
Later, as noted by🌠 Marvel, No-Prizes were given out to fans who could come up with creative reasons to explain away continuity errors. After Lee stepped away as editor, No-Prizes declined.'
Now, Marvel is bringing them back - sort of. The publisher will release special No-Prize variant covers for issues of Amazingಌ Spider-Man, Black Panther, and the Hulk next year. Each one features a standard-sized envelope featuring the titular character and text explaining that the recipient - in this casꦜe, the person purchasing the variant cover - has gotten a No-Prize.
Marvel has announced several special and/or celebratory variant cover programs in recent weeks, including 澳洲幸运5开奖号码ꦑ历史查询:a year's worth o𒁃f Disney 100 variants featuring Mickey and friends in classic comics homage covers, anotheꦚr set of covers paying homage ♓to its own past with new and modern characters, and its 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:2023 Stormbreakers variants.
Check out ♋the No-Prize c🌊overs in the gallery below.
The Amazing Spider-Man #19 and Black Panther #14 will be available February 8, 2023. Hulk #12 will follow one wee🌸k later, on February 15, 2023.
Check out all the new Spider-Man comics and collections from Marvel arriving in 2022 and 2023.
Samantha Puc (she/they) is an editor at Newsarama and an avid comics fan. Their writing has been featured on Refinery29, Bitch Media, them., The Beat, The Mary Sue, and elsewhere. She is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative nonfiction at The 💞New School.
