Marvel is celebrating Miracleman with a selection of variant covers showing him alongside a variety of the company's most popular characters for the very first time.

"This year, Marvel Comics will honor the 40th anniversary of Miracleman’s modern era with a transformative year for the iconic superhero," Marvel said of the variant cover series reads. "...Crafted by some of the industry’s finest artists including Peach Momoko, Pepe Larraz, John Cassaday, Mark Bagley, Terry Dodson, Jim Cheung, Mark Buckingham and Salvador Larroca, this breathtaking artwork serves as an exciting tease of Miracleman’s eagerly anticipated upcoming new adventures!"

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The variant cover series begins releasing in September and continues throughout the remainder of the year. Covers will be available on Sept. 7 for Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty #4 (by Bagley), Moon Knight #15 (by Declan Shalvey) and Wolverine #25 (by Cassaday), followed by X-Force #32 (by Momoko) on Sept. 14 and Captain America: Symbol of Truth #5 (by Salvador Larroca) on Sept. 21. Variant covers for Miles Morales: Spider-Man #42 (by Brian Stelfreeze), Shang-Chi and the Ten Rings #3 (by Pepe Larraz) and X-Men #15 (by Terry and Rachel Dodson) release Sept. 28.

The series continues in October with Amazing Spider-Man #11 (by Patrick Gleason), Amazing Spider-Man #12 (by Gabriele Dell'Otto), Avengers #61 (by Humberto Ramos), Black Panther #10 (artist to be determined), Captain Marvel #42 (by Jamie McKelvie), Carnage #7 (by Leinil Francis Yu), Daredevil #4 (by Marco Checchetto), Fantastic Four #48 *by Mark Buckingham), Genis-Vell: Captain Marvel #4 (by Jim Cheung), Hulk #11 (by Mahmud Asrar), Immortal X-Men #7 (by Sara Pichelli), Iron Man #24 (by Kubert), She-Hulk #7 (by Jen Bartel), Strange #7 (by Alan Davis), Thor #29 (by Kaare Andrews) and Venom #12 (by Ryan Stegman). A Ghost Rider #8 cover by Bryan Hitch concludes the series in November.

Miracleman's entrance into the Marvel universe was teased in last year's Timeless limited series, which featured hints that the character would soon be fully integrated into the company's roster of superheroes. While Marvel has held the license for Miracleman since 2014, protracted legal disputes have kept the hero segregated from their mainline universe.

Marvel's announcement that the cover series celebrates 40 years of Miracleman's "modern era" is a reference to the character's complex history. Created in 1954 by Mick Anglo as a UK version of DC's Captain Marvel/Shazam, Miracleman was a hero whose powers sprang from atomic energy. Like Shazam, he shouted out a word to transform into his alter ego -- in this case, it was "Kimota," or "atomic" backward -- and battled a wide variety of colorful, child-friendly villains.

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In 1982, Alan Moore revived the character for the British anthology comic Warrior, putting a darker spin on him, and it is this modern interpretation that Marvel is referencing. Miracleman would go on to change publishers multiple times, and eventually became embroiled in a legal dispute between Neil Gaiman -- who wrote several stories featuring the character -- and Spawn creator Todd McFarlane, who purchased the creative assets of Eclipse, a company that had published Miracleman stories. With the new variant cover series and last year's Timeless ads freely using Miracleman's name, the character now seems set to make waves in Marvel's 616 universe very shortly.

Source: Marvel