THE COCKRUM COSTUME

(Andy Yanchus color guide)

SKY-WOLF: Dave Cockrum and Marv Wolfman created this Blackhawk inspired feature, which ran in MARVEL FANFARE 16 and 17 (1984). Not exactly sure where it originated. The original art for the splash reads both "Marvel Premiere #41" and "Skywolf #1," so one assumes it predates FANFARE.

There's also a Cockrum painting in existence that seems to have a 1979 date.

I assume it was at one time slated for publication in MARVEL PREMIERE in 1979, but how much was done at the time, and was it ever intended as a stand-alone series?

Nightcrawler was basically fully formed long before Cockrum left DC for Marvel. Typhoon is a sort of Storm prototype, which he would also flesh out more before launching the New X-Men.