Marvel Premiere (Ant-Man) #48

Unpublished cover (VERSION I)

 

I can't seem to locate the original to this unpublished cover, but I recently stumbled upon this xerox copy of it. This is actually my first attempt at this cover, which was rejected for having the Scott Lang character too small.  (I thought he was at scale, actually.) I did a second cover, with a larger main figure, which was also nixed. The E.I.C. really favored the Ant-Man character and wanted him to always be on the winning side of things, even though this particular scene actually appears in the story.  Because the dreaded deadline doom that was upon me while inking the interiors of this title, Dave Cockrum and Bob McLeod wound-up doing the second, published version of this cover in my stead. (see above)

The second version of this cover was found in pencil form and inked by me in March of 2005.  I also added the trade dress.

 

 

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