Marvel Comics Honors CARNAGE Artist Clayton Crain With 20 Phenomenal Character Variant Covers
From the blazing trails of Ghost Rider to the savagery of symbiotes and the murderous mutants of X-Force, Clayton Crain’s iconic art style has brought drama and gravitas to every corner of the Marvel Universe over the years.
Now, to celebrate his landmark career spanning decades, Marvel is highlighting his works this January with special “Clayton Crain Variant Covers.”
Throughout the month and into February, Crain’s will feature stunning depictions of various Marvel heroes on more than 20 select title covers, featuring many of the characters he played an important role in, including Venom and Archangel. The covers will also be available as blank variant covers.
“Each of the 20 covers is painted in acrylic, which took around 150 hours in total,” Crain explained today. “Many of them, even after nearly 27 years in the industry, represent my first chance to publish a piece of this character. It was a great moment and I thank my editors for their trust in completing such a marathon of covers.”
Crain is an incredible artist whose credits include Ghost Rider: Trail of Tears, Ghost Rider: Road to Damnation, Venom vs. Carnage, X-Force, Carnage: family feudAnd Carnage, United States.
It’s hard to pick a favorite when looking through these variants, but it would be great to see Marvel Comics do more of these, highlighting their greatest artists and characters.
Check out the “Clayton Crain Variant Covers” below and stay tuned for more as we have them.
On sale 1/7
NOVA: CENTURION #3 CLAYTON CRAIN VARIANT COVER
VENOM #253 CLAYTON CRAIN VARIANT COVER
WOLVERINE #14 CLAYTON CRAIN VARIANT COVER
On sale 1/14
BLACK CAT #6 CLAYTON CRAIN VARIANT COVER
DUNGEONS OF DOOM #1 CLAYTON CRAIN VARIANT COVER
KNULL #1 CLAYTON CRAIN VARIANT COVER
SPIRITS OF VIOLENCE #4 CLAYTON CRAIN VARIANT COVER
UNCANNY X-MEN #22 CLAYTON CRAIN VARIANT COVER
On sale 01/21
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #20 VARIANT COVER BY CLAYTON CRAIN
BLACK PANTHER: INTERGALACTIC VARIANT #2 COVER CLAYTON CRAIN
DAREDEVIL/PUNISHER: THE DEVIL’S TRIGGER #3 VARIANT COVER BY CLAYTON CRAIN
INGLORIOUS X-FORCE #1 CLAYTON CRAIN VARIANT COVER
PLANET SHE-HULK #3 CLAYTON CRAIN VARIANT COVER
X-MEN #24 CLAYTON CRAIN VARIANT COVER
On sale 1/28
INFERNAL HULK #3 CLAYTON CRAIN VARIANT COVER
IRON MAN #1 CLAYTON CRAIN VARIANT COVER
PUNISHER: RED BAND #5 CLAYTON CRAIN VARIANT COVER
On sale 2/11
CYCLOPS #1 CLAYTON CRAIN VARIANT COVER
WADE WILSON: DEADPOOL #1 VIRGIN VARIANT COVER CLAYTON CRAIN VIRGIN
On sale 02/18
CAPTAIN AMERICA #7 CLAYTON CRAIN VARIANT COVER
