X-Men's Relaunch Officially Confirms Corner Boxes Are Returning to Marvel
Tom Muller, the immensely talented designer behind much of Marvel Comics' branding of their X-Men franchise over the past two years, recently revealed on Twitter that upcoming titles in the new «Destiny of X» era will include a throwback to classic comic covers, the beloved «corner boxes» but with a decidedly modern lens. While corner boxes in comics covers were first introduced by DC in the 1930s Action Comics, they became particularly prevalent in the 1960s when Marvel began using them as an opportunity to include «floating head» drawings of the main heroes featured in the issue.
The history of comics corner boxes starts with how comics used to be displayed, with comics for decades being shown in magazine racks which only showed the top of the comics, so publishers would include the boxes to clue buyers into what they were going to pick up, without needing to remove the issue from the stand. The practice of corner boxes has greatly decreased over the past three decades as comics are now usually shown on wall displays, which allow readers to see the entire cover, removing the necessity of the boxes, which are now mainly used for nostalgia purposes. And nostalgic they are, as many comics fans who either grew up reading comics before 2000 or read their parents old back issues consistently talk about how much they miss the corner boxes, which often included small jokes or teasers.
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Artist and graphic designer Tom Muller - who worked closely with Jonathan Hickman to develop the branding, logos, font, and graphic style of Hickman's House of X/Powers of X 2019 X-Men relaunch — recently tweeted out preview images of two out of five variant covers for the
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