This coming spring, Marvel Comics celebrates 300 Marvel Masterworks releases. To mark the occasion, the House of Ideas has announced a celebratory line of variant covers by artist Ema Lupacchino that will be available for certain titles starting in February 2021.
Marvel has revealed Lupacchino's Marvel Masterworks-inspired variants for Amazing Spider-Man #59, Captain Marvel #26 and Daredevil #27, with the New York-based publisher promising more are on the way. The variants mirror the design of the Marvel Masterworks hardcovers, with Lupacchino's depictions of the eponymous heroes appearing in a golden frame against a marble-esque background.
Originally launched in 1987, Marvel Masterworks is a series of hardcover and trade paperback collections that feature reprints of some of Marvel's most iconic stories from the Silver Age of comics, with the books easily identifiable by their covers -- which feature a classic cover surrounded by a silver border. Over the years, Marvel Masterworks has expanded to also reprint Golden Age comics from Marvel's predecessors, Timely Comics and Atlas Comics, and even some Bronze Age titles.
"For over thirty years, the Marvels Masterworks line has collected the most seminal stories in Marvel history," the publisher's official release reads. "Across 300 volumes, the iconic tales of Spider-Man, the Avengers, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four and more have been presented in these stunning hardcover collections. Celebrate this grand tradition by adding these one-of-a-kind Masterworks covers to your collection starting in February. Feast your eyes on the first three covers below, featuring Spider-Man, Daredevil, and Captain Marvel, and stay tuned for more Masterworks variant cover reveals in the coming weeks!"