This month has two What The--?! covers, although they are kind of related. Are you ready to say What The--?! ... well, how's this:
See? I told you.It's Avengers #1 Blank Cover Second Printing Variant, cover art by, uhm, well, you know. This is also a variation on the BLANK COVER variant for this month's X-Men #1. This happened fairly recently in a different way, with Fantastic Four 574, featuring four images of the Fantastics that HAD ALREADY BEEN DRAWN for four separate variant covers and merely compiled one more time in a team shot and called a variant cover. It's lazy, it's doing nothing to further Marvel comics as art, and it panders to a collectors mentality that is largely unhealthy as the main focus of a business model.
This, my friends, is an incentive cover designed to entice collectors to buy them. Here's the gimmick for this gimmick cover-- there is no gimmick. Heck, there's no cover at all, in my opinion. Please, collectors, stop thinking that this is a rare thing that you should buy. If we ignore them, they go away.
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