Marvel Comics' BLACK HISTORY MONTH Variant Covers Spotlight Black Panther, Storm, Captain America, And More

Marvel Comics' BLACK HISTORY MONTH Variant Covers Spotlight Black Panther, Storm, Captain America, And More

Marvel Comics has unveiled this year's Black History Month variant covers, illustrated by some of today's most acclaimed artists and hitting stands this February. See which heroes take the spotlight here!

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By JoshWilding - Jan 10, 2025 04:01 AM EST
Filed Under: Marvel Comics

Next month, Marvel Comics will celebrate Black History Month. In addition to Storm: Lifedream, a special one-shot honouring the legacy of Earth's Mightiest Mutant, Marvel will release several special variant covers.

Those are "Star Wars Black History Month Variant Covers" featuring Black Heroes from a Galaxy Far, Far Away and "Black History Month Variant Covers" spotlighting some of Marvel's greatest superheroes. 

Today, you can get a first look at the latter batch of covers featuring the work of acclaimed artists Chris Allen, Taurin Clarke, Ken Lashley, and Alitha Martinez as they stunningly depict some of today's leading Black heroes, including popular icons like Black Panther and Captain America alongside various other fan-favourites.

Here are the 8 heroes spotlighted this year along with details on where to find them throughout the month of February:

  • Black Panther, legendary superhero and King of Wakanda. T'Challa can currently be seen taking charge in Jed MacKay and Farid Karami's hit run of Avengers.
  • Captain America (Sam Wilson), whose latest high-flying adventure kicked off last week in Evan Narcisse, Greg Pak, and Eder Messias' Sam Wilson: Captain America.
  • Frenzy, the former villain who now lends her super strength to the government's officially sanctioned mutant team in Mark Russell and Robert Quinn's X-Factor.
  • Gold Tiger, a mysterious new Wakandan hero who debuted this week in Steve Foxe and Ivan Fiorelli's New Champions!
  • Power Man, or rather a version of him from the far future! Be there when this future Luke Cage and his awe-inspiring array of powers arrives in the modern Marvel Universe next month in Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing, and Bernard Chang's Power Man: Timeless!
  • Spider-Man (Miles Morales), Brooklyn's own web-slinger who's currently enjoying a celebrated run by Cody Ziglar, Luigi Zagaria and more where he'll soon face off against Deadpool for the first time in the upcoming "Pools of Blood" crossover!
  • Storm, Earth's Mightiest Mutant and one of Marvel's most groundbreaking superheroes. Celebrating 50 years of storytelling this year, the iconic X-Men leader currently stars in both Avengers and her own solo ongoing series by Murewa Ayodele and Lucas Werneck.
  • Temper, one of the X-Men's most promising students. The young temperature-controlling mutant was recently promoted to the flagship X-Men team, following Cyclops' leadership in Jed MacKay and Ryan Stegman's X-Men.

Check out the covers below and let us know which of these characters is your favourite in the comments section.

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NEWCHAMP2025002-Martinez-Black-History-Month
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STORM2024005-Clarke-Black-History-Month
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XFACT2024007-Lashley-Black-History-Month
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ProfessorWhy
ProfessorWhy - 1/10/2025, 5:08 AM
Surprisingly, those are all great covers. That BP suit is sick
dragon316
dragon316 - 1/10/2025, 9:37 AM
@ProfessorWhy - her costume reminds me of Deathstroke armor parts on it
Malatrova15
Malatrova15 - 1/10/2025, 5:10 AM
Ok but where is the White History Month?! ...we need a special series about Sabra! Now
Ryguy88
Ryguy88 - 1/10/2025, 7:16 AM
@Malatrova15 - dont worry, if these guys are all of a sudden best friends, we can all be best friends.
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WEAPONXOXOXO
WEAPONXOXOXO - 1/10/2025, 8:18 AM
@Ryguy88 - Donald "So I started shitting myself and now I wear diapers."
Lisa89
Lisa89 - 1/10/2025, 8:33 AM
@Malatrollva - Don’t worry your tiny head. The 11 longest months are all white history months.
BraveNewClunge
BraveNewClunge - 1/10/2025, 9:00 AM
@Lisa89 - baffles me how people fail to comprehend this 😮‍💨😅
Ryguy88
Ryguy88 - 1/10/2025, 11:50 AM
@Lisa89 - then where is Chinese history month?
Lisa89
Lisa89 - 1/10/2025, 12:20 PM
@Ryguy88 - All year long, baby!!
Malatrova15
Malatrova15 - 1/10/2025, 12:44 PM
@Lisa89 - ok bút what if we make it 13?...BOOM BABY
Ryguy88
Ryguy88 - 1/10/2025, 12:51 PM
@Lisa89 - so everyone else gets 11 months but black people only get 1 month? Thanks Obama!
Lisa89
Lisa89 - 1/10/2025, 1:16 PM
@Ryguy88 - Your "everyone else" is "white people" equation says everything, doesn't it? Thanks Trump. ;)
Ryguy88
Ryguy88 - 1/10/2025, 3:35 PM
@Lisa89 - well you have already established that white people and chinese people have the rest of the year, so instead of asking you about all of the other races superficially, I extrapolated.

But nice try, lisa
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Lisa89
Lisa89 - 1/10/2025, 3:59 PM
@Ryguy88 - As the old saying goes "When you extrapolate, you make an ass of you and your fat significant other."

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Ryguy88
Ryguy88 - 1/10/2025, 4:22 PM
@Lisa89 - wait, we are doing fat jokes now?

At least you didnt commit a crime against trannies, keeping it gender neutral.
marvel72
marvel72 - 1/11/2025, 11:21 AM
@Lisa89 - Black History Month is celebrated twice a year.

Once in February and again in October, which has 31 days which is the max you can have.
Lisa89
Lisa89 - 1/11/2025, 11:31 AM
@marvel72 - Good to see you joining in on the satire, I guess.
Slotherin
Slotherin - 1/10/2025, 5:18 AM
The Power Man one seems like an interesting concept
SummersClan
SummersClan - 1/10/2025, 5:32 AM
It’s been nice seeing Frenzy get more spotlight recently. I haven’t been following the newest X-Factor run, but I’ll definitely pick up that variant in addition to the Storm, Temper and Panther ones.
WEAPONXOXOXO
WEAPONXOXOXO - 1/10/2025, 8:19 AM
The art in Storm is just stunning.
Spike101
Spike101 - 1/10/2025, 8:31 AM
White history month anyone, can you imagine the abuse you would suffer creating one of those????
Lisa89
Lisa89 - 1/10/2025, 8:35 AM
@Spike1O1 - The 11 longest months are ALL white history months.
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 1/10/2025, 8:56 AM
@Spike101 - The vast majority of all history ever taught in America and UK has always been primarily (and oft exclusively in differing periods) around white history realy (and for that matter when I was a kid around men too outside of maybe a week on suffragettes that wasn't even part of history exams at that time).

I get the counter of why not another specific month but then the point of making one for any group such a black was due to how little was ever taught about anyone or from the perspective of anyone who were not white. It is I feel a token effort at best acknowledging historic gaps in education and a minimal effort to address that by making it more of a focus for 1 month out of 12 rather than a full overhaul of the entire education system which means in the eyes of many there are 11 white history months.

To be honest, all of history should have always be given equal weight such that there was never a point when certain voices were not heard but that wasn't the case so it is what it is.

I kinda look at stuff like this the same way I look at something like Valentines day, in that there shouldn't be need for a set day to say/show you love someone as that should occur every day of the year but I get why Valentines day is a thing just as I get why black history month is as in shame such things are considered needed by anyone but it is what it is.
BraveNewClunge
BraveNewClunge - 1/10/2025, 9:01 AM
@Spike101 - you cant be this dumb man, say it ain't so 😭😭
Spike101
Spike101 - 1/10/2025, 9:45 AM
@BraveNewClunge - I’m simply stating the case for equality which I believe is what the cause is all about, and also what I personally strongly live by.
Spike101
Spike101 - 1/10/2025, 9:50 AM
@Apophis71 - I think we are on the same page, I’m 100% up for equality. It’s something I try to abide by myself. I think posing the question is interesting as it encourages dialogue on the subject. I would hope though that anyone innocently promoting a white history month wouldn’t immediately get labelled as a member of the KKK, unless of course they were.
BraveNewClunge
BraveNewClunge - 1/10/2025, 10:00 AM
@Spike101 - you do realise white history is taught 11 months out of the year right? They literally only focus on black history in shortest month of the year which isnt equality by your standards.
UncleHarm1
UncleHarm1 - 1/10/2025, 10:01 AM
@Spike101 - Let's give equality a hundred years or so to pan out, then go ahead and make a holiday celebrating white folks' role in it. Until that day though white people's legacy in modern history is oppression. That's why we give "token" holidays to the oppressed.

Just because your generation don't personally own slaves doesn't mean white history is something that anyone else in the world would want to celebrate.
CreateNowSlpL8r
CreateNowSlpL8r - 1/10/2025, 10:43 AM
@UncleHarm1 - Such an idiot take. You need to go read history and stop listening to this nonsense. Everyone since the dawn of modern civilization had slaves. Who do you think actually rounded up the people to sell in Africa?

I love modern dayism as if somehow you would have been some higher moral authority. If you lived in those times, and you were a certain class, your ass would have owned slaves too.

So you should give token anything to anyone based on guilt from hundreds of years ago. You should celebrate progress but modern leftists want to paint a picture of some dystopian society where every marginalized "community" is oppressed by straight white males.

Its not white guy day 11 months out of the year. There is such an over correction that 11 months out of the year, white guys have to apologize to everyone else for being born as if out of the womb, they are guilty of some original sin.

What is that called when you treat someone differntly because of their skin color?

@Lisa89 @BraveNewClunge - I see your posts too. Mental take. Society needs to move on.

I don't know why people just cant treat each other properly. Let them pay for modern sins. You have any idea what civilizations did to each other during war? We seem to look at the US as the only people who ever colonized land. Almost every land was colonized by someone or another.
Malatrova15
Malatrova15 - 1/10/2025, 12:45 PM
@BraveNewClunge - bbe civil dont insult
UncleHarm1
UncleHarm1 - 1/10/2025, 4:21 PM
@CreateNowSlpL8r - Slavery had been around forever before the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, but African slaves were historically treated much worse. The Greeks, Egyptians, all sorts of cultures had slavery, but it wasn't a racial thing.

Because it was so awful, only about a quarter of southerners owned slaves. The part of the country that fought to keep it legal, only about 25% actually practiced slavery. So yeah, I can pretty confidently say I would find a way to avoid owning a human being. Seems like you've already convinced yourself otherwise though, you got a bad case of the if-only's there ya racist.
Spike101
Spike101 - 1/11/2025, 9:10 AM
@UncleHarm1 - maybe you misunderstood me, I certainly don’t feel the need for a specific white history month and in fact think it would be racially very inflammatory. My point is that if someone where to suggest one it would considered so, but a black history month is not. I think to make totally inclusive society then specifically cases, whatever they maybe must be stopped.
Spike101
Spike101 - 1/11/2025, 9:12 AM
@BraveNewClunge - history is taught all of the year, it’s not white history. Statements like the one you just made are a part of the problem. We need to remove special cases and replace them with inclusivity if we are to live harmoniously.
Spike101
Spike101 - 1/11/2025, 9:23 AM
@CreateNowSlpL8r - exactly 👍 segregation and treating people differently, making special cases based on skin colour, sex or anything else is what we should be avoiding not encouraging.
BraveNewClunge
BraveNewClunge - 1/11/2025, 9:27 AM
@Spike101 - that's exactly my point though. They don't teach any type of black history in months except the ones they designate (By they I mean the governments and their curriculums) and all they teach in those months is slavery, jim crow & civil rights like that's all there is to black people.
marvel72
marvel72 - 1/11/2025, 11:17 AM
@Lisa89 - So black people aren't part of those other 11 months?
Lisa89
Lisa89 - 1/11/2025, 11:29 AM
@marvel72 - Are you, like me and the person I was responding to, being satirical?
marvel72
marvel72 - 1/11/2025, 4:43 PM
@BraveNewClunge - October has 31 days.
BraveNewClunge
BraveNewClunge - 1/11/2025, 5:16 PM
@marvel72 - we are British, black history month in America is February....the shortest month of the year.
ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 1/10/2025, 1:12 PM
That Black Panther cover is just pure 🔥🔥🔥

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