Exclusive: Rampage Through Marvel's Kirby Monster Covers

Marvel is getting monstrous this October with 26 variant covers featuring some of the finest creation of the true King of Monsters, Jack Kirby. Each cover features a brand new rendition of a classic Kirby monster by one of the finest artists in today's industry, and we have the exclusive reveal on four of the best.

Xemnu the Titan is easily the masterpiece of all Marvel monsters; here he's hypnotically brought to life by Dan Brereton for the cover of Contest of Champions #1. Phil Noto offers a chilling take on Black Panther monster The Yeti for Extraordinary X-Men #2, and Marguerite Sauvage gets cute with a newt on the cover of Spider-Man 2099 #2. James Stokoe rounds out our exclusive selection with his noodle-headed alien gambler Poker Face for the cover of SHIELD #1. Check out the covers below!

Extraordinary X-Men #2 featuring Yeti (from Black Panther #5). Cover by Phil Noto

Spider-Man 2099 #2 featuring The Crawling Creature (from Tales to Astonish #22). Cover by Marguerite Sauvage

S.H.I.E.L.D. #1 featuring Poker Face (from Strange Tales of the Unusual #7). Cover by James Stokoe

You can check out the rest of the Kirby Monster variant covers beloww, including the covers that Marvel released previously, and the covers that debuted this morning at CBR, ComicVine, Newsarama and ComicBook.com.

Via Marvel:

Amazing Spider-Man #2 featuring Infant Terrible (from Fantastic Four #24). Cover by Paolo Rivera

Doctor Strange #1 featuring Awesome Android (from Fantastic Four #15). Cover by Erica Henderson

Guardians of the Galaxy #1 featuring Groot (from Tales to Astonish #13). Cover by Mike Allred

Karnak #1 featuring Rommbu (from Tales to Astonish #19). Cover by Eric Powell

Via CBR:

All-New, All-Different Avengers #0 featuring Devil Dinosaur (from Devil Dinosaur #1). Cover by David Marquez

Captain America: White #3 featuring Jinni Demon (from Thor #137). Cover by Glenn Fabry

All-New Hawkeye #1 featuring Elektro (from Tales of Suspense #13). Cover by Jeff Lemire

Ms. Marvel #19 featuring Wrecker’s Robot (from Fantastic Four #12). Cover by Cliff Chiang

Via ComicVine:

Ant-Man #1 featuring Scarlet Beetle (from Tales to Astonish #39). Cover by Tradd Moore

Civil War #5 featuring Lo-Karr, Bringer of Doom (from Journey Into Mystery #75). Cover by John Cassaday

Groot #5 Quonian (from Fantastic Four #97). Cover by Christian Ward

Uncanny Avengers #1 featuring Mangog (from Thor #154). Cover by Geoff Darrow

Via Newsarama:

A-Force #5 featuring Ulvar (from from Journey Into Mystery #63). Cover by Chris Samnee

House of M #4 featuring Kraa the Unhuman (from Tales of Suspense #18). Cover by Dave Johnson

Howling Commandos of SHIELD #1 featuring Orrgo (from Strange Tales #90). Cover by Michael Del Mundo

Invincible Iron Man #2 featuring Fin Fang Foom (from Strange Tales #89). Cover by Walt Simonson

All-New, All Different Point One #1 featuring Nezarr, the Calculator (from Eternals #7). Cover by Paul Pope

Sam Wilson, Captain America #2 featuring Zetora (from Journey Into Mystery #57). Cover by Tony Moore

Spider-Gwen #1 featuring Hypno-Creature (from Tales of Suspense #23). Cover by Francesco Francavilla

Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #1 featuring Thorr (from Tales to Astonish #16). Cover by Chris Bachalo

Two covers are yet to be revealed:

New Avengers #2 featuring The Blip (from Tales to Astonish #15). Cover by Simon Bisley
Uncanny Inhumans #1 featuring Vandoom’s Monster (from Tales to Astonish #17). Cover by Art Adams

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