Vol.15 – Panini variant

Volume 15 cover variant exclusive for the publisher’s online store (Panini Comics Brazil).

It’s a “reissue” of the iconic variant released a few months prior in the Italian market. The cover art depicts the protagonist intent on hitting the ball with an overhead kick; it’s an original artwork from Yusuke Nomura made exclusively for the Italian market to tribute the historic “Rovesciata Panini”, present in all Panini sticker albums from 1965 onwards.

Since Panini Comics operates in multiple markets (Italy, France, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, and others…), this kind of cross-pollination from one market to another is nothing new. It’s a cost and resource optimization strategy that I believe will become even more common in the years to come.

Used also in the French vol.1 – anniversary edition