Starting next week, Marvel Comics will pay tribute to Chadwick Boseman by honoring the much-missed actor with a cover banner on various comics series. The Black Panther star passed away at the end of August at the age of just 43, after a private four-year battle with cancer.
We don’t know the full details at present, but AIPT Comics has revealed that most of Marvel’s releases coming next Wednesday will sport a black banner, adorned with Black Panther symbols, which reads “Rest in Power Chadwick Boseman 1976-2020”. It’s unknown exactly how many comics will sport the banner, or how long this tribute will last for, but the image provided by AIPT showed that both Juggernaut #1 and The Immortal She-Hulk #1 will carry the banner.
This tribute is very similar to how the House of Ideas commemorated the passing of Stan Lee back in 2018. On that occasion, the banner carried across titles released from December 19, 2018, to January 9, 2019. In the case of the Lee covers, though, they decided to strip away the trade dress leaving just the cover art and the banner. With the Boseman covers, the banner is the only change.
Boseman was due to start preparing for Black Panther 2 this very month, ahead of filming in March next year. It’s been said that Marvel is putting the project on the back-burner at present out of honor to the late star and is instead working on a way to pay their respects to him in their movies. That said, it’s believed the studio is leaning towards having T’Challa replaced by his sister Shuri (Letitia Wright).
Chadwick Boseman‘s final movie, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, will be released posthumously on Netflix, likely later this year.
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