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Marvel taps Ernanda Souza for Hispanic Heritage Month variant covers

Incredible Hulk and X-Men Red are on the list of titles getting Comunidades covers, with more to be announced later.

Features by Grant DeArmitt, Staff Writer

Published on Wed Aug 30 2023

Marvel is celebrating Hispanic and Latin American Heritage Month 2023 with a series of stunning covers by artist Ernando Souza, in a series they're calling the Comunidades Variants.

The Comunidades variants will be released in October, each spotlighting a fan-favorite Latin or Latinx character in Marvels roster. You can check out the list of the announced variants here:

October 11: Avengers #6
October 11: X-Men: Red #16
October 18: Incredible Hulk #5
October 18: Scarlet Witch #9

According to Marvel's official site, the list isn't complete just yet; more titles will be announced as part of the Comunidades Variant program in the coming weeks.

Also lined up for Hispanic and Latin American Heritage Month is a host of stories from every corner of the Marvel Universe, starring and written by Latin and Latinx members of the House of Ideas. These include:

A Power Man story in by writer Vita Ayala and artist Alitha Martinez
A Shark-Girl and Sunspot team-up by writers Raphael Draccon and Carolina Munhóz and artist Marcelo Costa
Firebird's return to the Avengers by writer Kalinda Vazquez and artist Alba Glez
An adventure through dimensions featuring Straneg Academy's Eva Quintero by Juan Ponce and artist Ig Guara

As of this writing, Marvel's only revealed two Comunidades covers, with a promise to unveil more the closer we get to October. Check out those two covers below; we'll be updating as more covers pop up.

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Grant DeArmitt: Grant DeArmitt (he/him) likes horror, comics, and the unholy union of the two. As Popverse's Staff Writer, he criss-crosses the pop culture landscape bringing you the news and opinions about the big things (and the next big things). In the past, and despite their better judgment, he has written for Nightmare on Film Street and Newsarama. He lives in Brooklyn with his partner, Kingsley, and corgi, Legs.

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