Throughout October Marvel Comics will be releasing comic book covers to a selection of your favourite Marvel Heroes with special Breast Cancer Awareness variant covers, each will have a special pink coloured costume. Marvel will also include a special one page advertorial running throughout its superhero comics in October to raise awareness of breast cancer in men.
“It’s rewarding to see the partnership between Marvel and Susan G. Komen For The Cure produce such exciting art to raise awareness about the risk of breast cancer to both women and men,” said Marvel publisher and president Dan Buckley in a statement. “We hope that all our fans take a moment this month to educate themselves on the ways to fight—and reduce– this risk of this disease by checking out the free resources Komen has to offer.”
The following comic books, on-sale in October, will feature special Susan G. Komen variant covers:
- · AVENGERS #31 KOMEN VARIANT by Pasqual Ferry & Chris Sotomayor [on sale 10/10]
- · CAPTAIN AMERICA #18 KOMEN VARIANT by Dale Keown & Frank D’Armata [on sale 10/10]
- · CAPTAIN MARVEL #5 KOMEN VARIANT by Joe Quiñones [on sale 10/10]
- · FANTASTIC FOUR #611 KOMEN VARIANT by John Tyler Christopher [on sale 10/10]
- · INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #526 KOMEN VARIANT by Paul Renaud [on sale 10/10]
- · THE MIGHTY THOR #21 KOMEN VARIANT by Mike Perkins & Sonia Oback [on sale 10/17]
- · UNCANNY X-MEN #20 KOMEN VARIANT by David Marquez & Chris Sotomayor [on sale 10/17]
- · WOLVERINE #315 KOMEN VARIANT by Ben Ang & Edgar Delgado [on sale 10/24]
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