1st appearance of Mr. Sinister? 0

[GeeksAreMyPeeps]

I was getting some books ready for eBay today, and as I will sometimes do, I was checking out the Marvel fandom wiki to see if there are additional notes I should include in the listing. On the page for Heroes for Hope starring the X-Men (link below), amongst the character appearances listed is "A crowd of Magneto's followers, including The Blob, Scarlet Witch, Adolf Hitler, and Mr. Sinister." The last one caught my eye, as this book was published a year before the first mention of Mr. Sinister in Uncanny X-Men, and nearly two years before he actually appeared in the book. So I checked it out, and this is the panel in question:

 It seems unlikely that this is supposed to be Mr Sinister, as these pages were written by Alan Moore, not Claremont. The question then is, who is this supposed to be? My initial thought is Colossus, but this isn't what his outfit looked like in 1985. Unless it was an artist working off of old reference, when Colossus did have weird shoulder projections on his costume, and the colorist didn't bother to check that they should be red. Any other thoughts?

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Heroes_for_Hope_Starring_the_X-Men_Vol_1_1

[BrooksR]

That is interesting. It does look like Mr sinister. Why would Colossus be hanging out with Magnetos followers? This is a neat find, I’m curious to see what it turns out to be.

Edited January 2, 2021 by BrooksR

[shadroch]

Spread the word. I'm sitting on far too many of  them.

[GeeksAreMyPeeps]

1 hour ago, BrooksR said:

Why would Colossus be hanging out with Magnetos followers?

The whole thing is in his head. Here's the 3-page Magneto sequence:

 

Edited January 2, 2021 by GeeksAreMyPeeps

[GeeksAreMyPeeps]

Keep in mind too that the copy I quoted regarding Mr. Sinister is from a wiki, which anyone could edit. So I imagine someone who wants that to be Sinister wrote the copy.