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Big Guns And Lots Of Pockets: Marvel ’92 Variants Rewind Time This December

By Nick Tylwalk

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Pull up a chair, kiddies! I’m going to tell you a story about a time when the X-Men were Marvel’s number one franchise and hardly anyone cared about the Avengers. It was a simpler time, before the internets, when super heroes were larger than life — and the size of their guns and number of utility pockets on their costumes was larger still.

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It was a magical time called the early 90s, and Marvel wants to help us take a trip down memory lane to revisit it with its December variant cover program. The Marvel ’92 Variants will grace two dozen different All-Neew, All-Different Marvel titles, featuring not only the characters as they appeared in 1992, but also calling upon some of the artists who were working on them at that time.

“The X-Men aren’t the only ones getting in on the ‘92 action,” Marvel SVP Sales & Marketing David Gabriel said in a press release. “Witnessing that memorable era of comics brought to life again got us thinking about all the fun incarnations of Marvel’s most popular characters. Before we knew it we had a huge list of 1990s characters ready to make their 2015 debut!”

Which characters in particular are getting the retro treatment? Here’s a list of the Marvel ’92 Variants as they stand right now:

  1. All-New X-Men #3 Marvel ’92 Variant by Rob Liefeld
  2. All-New Wolverine #3 Marvel ’92 Variant by Tom Raney
  3. A-Force #1 Marvel ’92 Variant by J. Scott Campbell
  4. Black Knight #2 Marvel ’92 Variant by Steve Epting
  5. Carnage #3 Marvel ’92 Variant by Mike Deodato
  6. Daredevil #1 Marvel ’92 Variant by Larry Stroman
  7. Deadpool #3 Marvel ’92 Variant by Rob Liefeld
  8. Doctor Strange #3 Marvel ’92 Variant by Mark Texeira
  9. Drax #2 Marvel ’92 Variant by Ron Lim
  10. Guardians of the Galaxy #3 Marvel ’92 Variant by Larry Stroman
  11. Guardians of Infinity #1 Marvel ’92 Variant by Ron Lim
  12. Hercules #2 Marvel ’92 Variant by Mark Texeira
  13. Mighty Thor #2 Marvel ’92 Variant by Ron Frenz
  14. Ms. Marvel #2 Marvel ’92 Variant by J. Scott Campbell
  15. New Avengers #4 Marvel ’92 Variant by Tom Raney
  16. Nova #2 Marvel ’92 Variant by Pasqual Ferry
  17. Scarlet Witch #1 Marvel ’92 Variant by TBD
  18. Silk #2 Marvel ’92 Variant by TBD
  19. Spider-Man 2099 #4 Marvel ’92 Variant by Pasqual Ferry
  20. Totally Awesome Hulk #1 Marvel ’92 Variant by Dale Keown
  21. Uncanny Avengers #3 Marvel ’92 Variant by Whilce Portacio
  22. Uncanny Inhumans #3 Marvel ’92 Variant by Whilce Portacio
  23. Web Warriors #2 Marvel ’92 Variant by Mark Bagley
  24. Vision #2 Marvel ’92 Variant by Dale Keown

There’s some really interesting names on that list, including Liefeld, Campbell and Portacio. We have a sneak peek at a few of the covers below, and you should know the drill by now about hounding your LCS folks politely to see how you might be able to grab one or two of these in December.

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