Hey, just because we’re nerds doesn’t mean we don’t like football — especially college football (O-H….I-O!). Labor Day weekend is the official end of summer and beginning of the college football season, so to celebrate Marvel Comics teamed up with ESPN to create some pretty cool “cover artwork” for some of the biggest matches of the weekend.
Check out the cover art right here:
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ESPN worked with Marvel to remake some classic comic covers in the spirit of six key matchups, “Marvelizing” the mascots of the 12 teams playing. Marvel fans and college Football fans are some of the most rabid out there and making covers that combine that fandom has been incredibly well received.
The covers have been a huge hit on social media and have been featured in content on-air from SportsCenter to ESPNU, where commentator Tom Luginbill showed his Marvel fanboy side in a special feature on the covers. Overall, the project has been a wild success and is hopefully a barometer of how great kickoff weekend will be.
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Darren Sanchez, associate manager of editorial publishing at Marvel, said this: “ESPN selected the six matchups based on what they thought were the biggest games of the weekend. Internally, we discussed the best way to approach this and I pitched doing them as homage images to classic Marvel covers. The team here at Marvel loved the idea and ESPN got it right away as well. I wanted to honor some of the legends in comics such as Jack Kirby, so I looked through some options of Marvel’s best one-on-one battle covers and selected the six. For Alabama versus USC I decided to use one of my all-time favorite covers, Jack Kirby’s Thor No. 126. Auburn versus Clemson was an unusual one because it was two tigers, so I went with the famous Todd McFarlane layout of Spidey versus Venom.”
Woo hoo! Football season is officially here. Who ya pullin’ for?
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