Ironheart steps up for Marvel Black History Month covers

Iron Man #17 variant cover (Image credit: Marvel Comics)

Marvel Comics will celebrate Black History Month in 2022 with a series of six variant covers across its main comic book titles in February. Like its 2021 Black History Month variant covers, Marvel's 2022 Black History Month variant covers are all illustrated by one person - Joshua 'Sway' Swaby.

Joshua 'Sway' Swaby (Image credit: Joshua 'Sway' Swaby)

Here is a list of the six Black History Month variant covers Swaby is illustrating for Marvel, along with their announced 2022 release dates:

February 9: Devil's Reign #4 (of 6) featuring Luke Cage
February 9: Avengers #53 features Miles Morales/Spider-Man
February 16: X-Men #8 featuring Storm
February 16: Dark Ages #5 (of 6) featuring Monica Rambeau/Spectrum
February 23: Iron Man #17 featuring Ironheart
February 23: Captain America/Iron Man #4 (of 5) featuring Captain America (Sam Wilson)

Here are the covers released so far:

Image 1 of 6

Captain America/Iron Man #4 — (Image credit: Marvel Comics)

Marvel will also be publishing a new edition of Marvel's Voices: Legacy in February 2022, spotlighting its Black characters in stores created by Black creators.

Marvel is well-represented with our list of the Black superheroes who changed the face of comic books.

Chris Arrant covered comic book news for Newsarama from 2003 to 2022 (and as editor/senior editor from 2015 to 2022) and has also written for USA Today, Life, Entertainment Weekly, Publisher's Weekly, Marvel Entertainment, TOKYOPOP, AdHouse Books, Cartoon Brew, Bleeding Cool, Comic Shop News, and CBR. He is the author of the book Modern: Masters Cliff Chiang, co-authored Art of Spider-Man Classic, and contributed to Dark Horse/Bedside Press' anthology Pros and (Comic) Cons. He has acted as a judge for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, the Harvey Awards, and the Stan Lee Awards. Chris is a member of the American Library Association's Graphic Novel & Comics Round Table. (He/him)