10 Terrible Comic Book Covers Marvel Wants You To Forget
1. Spider-Woman #1
The most infamous comic book cover to land on this list is also the most recent. Fortunately, it was a variant cover, which means it didn't land everywhere when Spider-Woman #1 went to print, but that doesn't mean people didn't stand up and take notice.
As more and more artists divest from sexist art-styles, Milo Manara illustrated a cover for a comic book that seemingly disregarded that notion altogether. Marvel published this book and almost immediately took flak over the way Spider-Woman was depicted on the cover.
The image was about as over-objectified as it could be and the world took notice. The story revolving around the cover was picked up internationally by Time and many other outlets, but even with word of the cover going out prior to its release, Marvel went ahead and released it anyway, but with one minor change: they moved the title to cover the most offensive part of the image.
Needless to say, Spider-Woman received a redesign just a year later curtesy of Kris Anka - no doubt spurred on by the controversy Manara's cover stoked.