The Umbrella Academy: Plan B launched with an unusually deep cover program for a creator-driven miniseries, especially on issue #1.
Gabriel Bá draws the main cover on every issue, but the variant lineup changes artist every single time, and issue #1 alone carries six separate variant covers.
That makes tracking who drew what more involved here than on a typical two-or-three-cover launch, especially with two issues' variants still fresh off the presses.
None of the variants carry a publicly confirmed incentive ratio, which removes one layer of guesswork collectors usually have to deal with on a bigger, more commercial launch.
Here is the complete, confirmed breakdown by issue, straight from Dark Horse's own listings.
Gabriel Bá, the series artist, also draws the standard main cover on every issue of Plan B, giving the run one consistent visual anchor across all six issues.
Since Bá draws the interiors too, the main cover is the most reliable preview of how each issue's art will actually look once you open it.
Issue #1 carries six confirmed variant covers on top of Bá's main: artists Fabio Moon, Claire Roe, Jill Thompson, Mike del Mundo, Duncan Fegredo, and David Aja each contribute one.
That's a much bigger spread than issues #2 through #6 get, reflecting how much weight Dark Horse put behind launching this specific series relaunch. Bag whichever one you land in a resealable current-age comic bag if you want to handle it occasionally without resealing from scratch every time.
Issue #2 scales back to a single confirmed variant, drawn by Roger Cruz, alongside Bá's main cover.
With the Sparrows now controlling the city in this issue's story, Cruz's variant is the one alternate image tied to that specific turning point.
Issue #3's variant comes from Matias Bergara, again paired with Bá's main cover as the only two confirmed images for this issue.
This issue is the character-check-in chapter, so the Bergara variant is worth grabbing if you're specifically collecting covers tied to the series' quieter, more personal issues.
Issue #4 carries a variant from Zoe Thorogood, released alongside Bá's main cover after the series' nearly eight-month gap between issues #3 and #4.
Thorogood's variant is notable simply for being the cover that marked the series picking back up after its longest wait between issues.
Issue #5, scheduled for October 28, 2026, carries a confirmed variant from Warwick Johnson Cadwell.
Issue #6, the series finale dated December 16, 2026, carries a confirmed variant from Steve Skroce — the last new cover art the series will produce.
A launch issue for a high-profile creator-driven relaunch typically gets the deepest cover treatment a publisher is willing to commit to, and issue #1 is clearly where Dark Horse put that weight.
Every issue after it settled into a steadier one-main, one-variant pattern, which is a far more typical cover count for a miniseries once the initial retailer and collector attention has already been captured.
Since none of these variants carry a confirmed incentive ratio, availability mostly comes down to how aggressively a given shop ordered each cover rather than any locked scarcity tier.
Back-issue marketplaces and specialty shops that stocked deep on issue #1 are usually the best bet for the six-variant slate specifically, since general retailers often didn't carry all six.
With no incentive-ratio variants confirmed on any issue, scarcity here comes down almost entirely to how many copies of each cover a shop actually ordered up front.
A finite six-issue series from a creator as closely tied to the original material as Way and Bá tends to see retailers order conservatively across the board, which can make even a non-incentive variant harder to find later than its cover count alone would suggest.
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Gabriel Bá, the series artist, draws the standard main cover on all six issues.
Six confirmed variants, plus Bá's main cover.
Steve Skroce draws the confirmed variant for issue #6.
Not as of this guide; only named-artist variants are confirmed per issue.
With six variants on issue #1 alone and a new named artist on every issue since, Plan B gives collectors more covers to track than a typical creator-driven miniseries.
Slide each pickup into a current-age toploader the day you bring it home, especially anything you're planning to submit for grading later.
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