Mickey Mouse and friends take over classic Marvel Comics covers for Disney's 100th anniversary

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Marvel's Disney100 variant cover program launches in January 2023 with Amazing Spider-Man #17

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Disney100 variant cover art (Image credit: Marvel Comics)

The Walt Disney Company celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2023, and Marvel is getting in on the party with its monthly Disney100 Variant Cover Program featuring Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, and all their friends.

Marvel's Disney100 Variant Cover Program will launch in January and continue for a full year on its ongoing Amazing Spider-Man title. Each of the 12 covers in all will be available in color and black-and-white versions, and the first one by Lorenzo Pastrovicchio with colors by Valeria De Sanctis will debut January 11, 2023 for Amazing Spider-Man #17.

Pastrovicchio and De Sanctis's Disney100 cover pays homage to the first time Captain America assembled Earth's Mightiest Heroes in Avengers #4 (1964).

It will be followed by an homage to Fantastic Four #1 (1961), with an Amazing Spider-Man #19 variant cover drawn by Giada Perissinotto and colored by Chiara Di Francia hitting shelves on February 8, 2023. And the third cover, an homage to Incredible Hulk #1 (1962), will be drawn by Vitale Mangiatordi and colored by De Sanctis for Amazing Spider-Man #21, which releases March 8, 2023.

Newly released covers include April 5's Amazing Spider-Man #23 by Pastrovicchio and Di Francia (1991's Infinity Gauntlet #1), May 3's Amazing Spider-Man #25 by artist Donald Soffritti and Di Francia (2004's New Avengers #1), and June 7's Amazing Spider-Man #27 (2004's Invincible Iron Man #76) by artist Claudio Sciarrone and colorist Enrico Pennazza.

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Disney 100 variant covers
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The Walt Disney Company acquired Marvel Entertainment in 2009, a year after Iron Man kicked off the Marvel Cinematic Universe. At D23 2022, Disney released special edition variant covers for the milestone Amazing Fantasy #1000, featuring Spider-Man celebrating his 60th anniversary and Mickey and friends celebrating their 100th.

Marvel's Disney100 Variant Program continues this celebration (and apparent BFF relationship between Mickey and Spidey) into 2023.

In addition to Amazing Spider-Man, don't miss all the new Spider-Man comics and collections from Marvel arriving in 2023.

Michael Doran

I'm not just the Newsarama founder and editor-in-chief, I'm also a reader. And that reference is just a little bit older than the beginning of my Newsarama journey. I founded what would become the comic book news site in 1996, and except for a brief sojourn at Marvel Comics as its marketing and communications manager in 2003, I've been writing about new comic book titles, creative changes, and occasionally offering my perspective on important industry events and developments for the 25 years since. Despite many changes to Newsarama, my passion for the medium of comic books and the characters makes the last quarter-century (it's crazy to see that in writing) time spent doing what I love most.

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