The Walt Disney Company celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2023, and Marvel is getting in on the party with its monthly Disney100 Variant Cover Program featuring Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, and all their friends.
Marvel's Disney100 Variant Cover Program will launch in January and continue for a full year on its ongoing Amazing Spider-Man title. Each of the 12 covers in all will be available in color and black-and-white versions, and the first one by Lorenzo Pastrovicchio with colors by Valeria De Sanctis will debut January 11, 2023 for Amazing Spider-Man #17.
Pastrovicchio and De Sanctis's Disney100 cover pays homage to the first time Captain America assembled Earth's Mightiest Heroes in Avengers #4 (1964).
It will be followed by an homage to Fantastic Four #1 (1961), with an Amazing Spider-Man #19 variant cover drawn by Giada Perissinotto and colored by Chiara Di Francia hitting shelves on February 8, 2023. And the third cover, an homage to Incredible Hulk #1 (1962), will be drawn by Vitale Mangiatordi and colored by De Sanctis for Amazing Spider-Man #21, which releases March 8, 2023.
Newly released covers include April 5's Amazing Spider-Man #23 by Pastrovicchio and Di Francia (1991's Infinity Gauntlet #1), May 3's Amazing Spider-Man #25 by artist Donald Soffritti and Di Francia (2004's New Avengers #1), and June 7's Amazing Spider-Man #27 (2004's Invincible Iron Man #76) by artist Claudio Sciarrone and colorist Enrico Pennazza.
The Walt Disney Company acquired Marvel Entertainment in 2009, a year after Iron Man kicked off the Marvel Cinematic Universe. At D23 2022, Disney released special edition variant covers for the milestone Amazing Fantasy #1000, featuring Spider-Man celebrating his 60th anniversary and Mickey and friends celebrating their 100th.
Marvel's Disney100 Variant Program continues this celebration (and apparent BFF relationship between Mickey and Spidey) into 2023.
In addition to Amazing Spider-Man, don't miss all the new Spider-Man comics and collections from Marvel arriving in 2023.