Marvel brings back the No-Prize for a series of 2023 variant covers

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Marvel will release three No-Prize variants in February 2023

The Amazing Spider-Man #19
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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 and wrote to editor Stan Lee about them in the '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.'

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Black Panther #14
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The Amazing Spider-Man #19 and Black Panther #14 will be available February 8, 2023. Hulk #12 will follow one week later, on February 15, 2023.

Check out all the new Spider-Man comics and collections from Marvel arriving in 2022 and 2023.

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