EXCLUSIVE: Marvel's Secret Wars Eight-Issue Interlocking Variant By Simone Bianchi

04/10/2015 01:02 pm EDT

Marvel Comics has provided ComicBook.com with a first look at Simone Bianchi's epic 8-issue interlocking variant cover for Secret Wars.

You can check out Bianchi's uninked pencils for the entire image in the gallery below, featuring characters from the Avengers, X-Men, Spider-Man, and more, and highlighting big moments from Marvel's history.

We also have Bianchi's finished variant for Secret Wars #1, which make up the upper right corner of the finished image.

Bianchi looks like he's giving the Marvel Universe that was a fitting set off with this impressive piece of art. Check it out in the gallery below.

Secret Wars begins in May.

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