The Sorcerer #1 Unpublished Wrap-around cover

Here’s a real blast from the past—the never-published cover to the Sorcerer #1 from 1980—pencilled and inked by me.
In the early eighties, while David Michelinie and I toiled laboriously on the monthly adventures of Marvel’s Invincible Iron Man, we came up with the idea of publishing our own project, without the constraints of the Comics Code Authority and the heavy-handed editorial policies of the publishing giants. Independent publishing was in it’s infancy at that time, with only a handful of books ever seeing the light of day. So the odds were against us. It didn’t matter at the time. We were in love with the medium, as most young creators are when they meet with a modicum of success, as we had with Marvel’s Armored Avenger.
Alas, though the series was advertised for months prior to the release—the premiere of the Sorcerer #1 never happened.
Unfortunately, the backer of the Sorcerer graphic novel bailed out at the last minute, leaving us with 48 pages of visceral fun that no longer had a home.
The real interesting thing about this piece is that, some twenty odd years after I drew this, these characters finally saw life in another incarnation as Future Comics’ DEATHMASK series.
The original is huge—20’x30” on heavy poster board.