94-543: Old Man Logan is an alternative version of the superhero Wolverine appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . This character is an aged version of Wolverine set in an alternate future universe designated Earth-807128 , where the supervillains overthrew the superheroes. Introduced as a self-contained story arc within the Wolverine ongoing series by writer Mark Millar and artist Steve McNiven ,
188-467: A Japanese American , Hama argued that his depiction was somewhat more authentic than previous American superhero stories told in Japan. In 1991, Wolverine also appeared in a one-shot story written by Howard Mackie and penciled by John Romita Jr. , co-starring with Punisher and Ghost Rider . John Romita Jr. acknowledged primarily commercial motivations, because, as he said at the time, these three "are
282-600: A spider-sense , Logan pulls on the webs to feed her to the T-rex instead, only to be successfully fed to the T-rex himself by Archangel and Bruce Jr.. Emerging from the T-rex (killing it) with the symbiote bonded to himself as the Old Man Venom , Logan kills Archangel before berating Bruce Jr. for his actions. After considering killing him, Logan tells him that he cannot because he loves him, only to be transported to another reality before he can finish his sentence, where
376-695: A Venomized Captain America tells him to prepare for war with the Poisons. Logan then spends much of the war fighting alongside a Venomized Laura Kinney, before he is apparently killed when the Venoms destroy the Poisons' ship. Elements of Old Man Logan are incorporated into the X-Men film series ' incarnation of Logan (portrayed by Hugh Jackman ). Alternative versions of Wolverine Wolverine (birth name: James Howlett ; alias : Logan and Weapon X )
470-663: A career as a mercenary . He serves with the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion during D-Day , and later with the CIA before being recruited by Team X , a black ops unit. Sometime after WWII and before joining Team X, Logan spends time in Madripoor before settling in Japan , where he marries Itsu . While Logan is away from home, Romulus sends the Winter Soldier to kill the pregnant Itsu and has her baby taken from her womb;
564-422: A character specifically named Wolverine, who was a Canadian of small stature and with a wolverine 's fierce temper. John Romita Sr. designed the first Wolverine costume, and believes he introduced the retractable claws, saying, "When I make a design, I want it to be practical and functional. I thought, 'If a man has claws like that, how does he scratch his nose or tie his shoelaces?'" Wolverine first appeared in
658-492: A comic writer and commentator, argues that this series was particularly significant in establishing the character's popularity: "Before Claremont and Miller created the Wolverine series, Logan wasn't a key figure, but the creation of this series is when Wolverine became Marvel's Batman ." In this period, Wolverine's appearance and characterization were particularly influenced by the film roles of Clint Eastwood , particularly
752-530: A consequence, Wolverine is able to recall memories of his previous life, overcoming his previous traumatic amnesia. Moloids The comic book stories published by Marvel Comics since the 1940s have featured several noteworthy concepts besides its fictional characters, such as unique places and artifacts. There follows a list of those features. Certain places feature prominently in the Marvel Universe, some real-life, others fictional and unique to
846-543: A crossover graphic novel with Nick Fury , written by Archie Goodwin with art by Howard Chaykin . He appeared in a second self-contained story taking place in the Savage Land written by Walter Simonson and illustrated by Mike Mignola the following year. Larry Hama took over the ongoing series and had a seven-year run, from 1990 to 1997. In the first years of the 1990s, the series was usually illustrated by Marc Silvestri . Following Silvestri's departure in 1992,
940-502: A distance as if he were a projectile weapon. This tactic recurs in many future battles. In The Dark Phoenix Saga , Jean Grey apparently sacrifices herself after transforming into the Phoenix Force , thereby temporarily ending the love triangle among herself, Wolverine, and Cyclops. While his teammates often distrust him, Wolverine is invaluable in rescuing the others and defeating their enemies, particularly in their conflict with
1034-844: A father figure. She eventually learns that he is actually her biological father. In the Enemy of the State story line, Wolverine is brainwashed by the Hand . He battles Elektra, S.H.I.E.L.D., and the Fantastic Four . He also attacks the X-Mansion and kills Northstar . Wolverine is captured by S.H.I.E.L.D. and submitted to VR reprogramming. He turns against the Hand. In the House of M story line, Scarlet Witch drastically transforms reality. As
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#17327718252621128-439: A few issues, Wolverine remains in a bestial state in which he is less articulate and shrewd. In this period, Val Semeiks is usually the penciller. Sales for X-Men comics declined somewhat at the turn of the 21st century, and Grant Morrison was hired to revive interest in the characters, including Wolverine, by means of the more experimental New X-Men . Frank Quitely and Chris Bachalo drew many of these issues, as well as
1222-558: A few loose ends in this one, which include eliminating Mysterio so that the villain can never attempt the same feat he accomplished in Logan's past. Mysterio is recruited by Neo-HYDRA and Miss Sinister when they learn about Logan's history, but Mysterio turns against Neo-HYDRA to aid the Avengers when he learns that Neo-HYDRA intends to kill him once they have won. After Logan and the Avengers defeat Neo-HYDRA, Mysterio fakes his death. After
1316-475: A four-part eponymous limited series in 1982, which debuted Wolverine's catchphrase , "I'm the best there is at what I do, but what I do best isn't very nice." The subsequent 1991 Weapon X storyline by Barry Windsor-Smith established that Wolverine had received the adamantium grafted to his skeleton in a torturous process conducted by a secret government project intended to create a super soldier, and that this experience led to post-traumatic amnesia . Wolverine
1410-463: A group of 40 supervillains attacked the X-Mansion . Unable to locate his teammates, Logan slaughtered the attackers to ensure the safety of the mutant children. As the last "attacker" Bullseye was killed, Logan realized that the entire assault was an illusion created by Mysterio and his perceived enemies were actually his fellow X-Men . This destroyed Wolverine emotionally and mentally and he fled
1504-472: A longer, monthly run and afterwards Paul Smith , John Romita Jr. , Marc Silvestri and Jim Lee were frequent artists on this series. He remained a significant protagonist in this series until Chris Claremont left the title to write the new X-Men (vol. 2) and Wolverine transitioned to this new series. The character's growing popularity led to a solo, four-issue series, Wolverine (September–December 1982), by Claremont and Frank Miller. Elliott Serrano,
1598-811: A meeting with his resurrected counterpart, Logan asks Mariko to keep an eye on the version of his future wife in this timeline before he returns to the Wasteland via a time portal created by Forge. Returning to the Wastelands, Logan engages Joseph Manfredi and his henchmen who are allied with Lizard in Florida, the Creel Gang in Georgia, and the Phantom Riders in Nashville, Tennessee. When Logan
1692-626: A more psychedelic aesthetic and storytelling style. In 1993, the Wolverine ongoing series was often drawn by Dwayne Turner . Other writers who wrote for the Wolverine ongoing series include Peter David , Archie Goodwin , Erik Larsen , Frank Tieri, Greg Rucka , Mark Millar , and Gregg Hurwitz . Many artists have also worked on the series, including John Byrne, Gene Colan, Marc Silvestri, Mark Texeira , Adam Kubert , Leinil Francis Yu , Rob Liefeld , Sean Chen , Darick Robertson , John Romita Jr. , Joe Madureira , and Humberto Ramos . In
1786-498: A mutated wolverine cub, and that this rekindled Wein's frustration. He again stated that he had "always known that Wolverine was a mutant." In an article about the evolution of Wolverine included in a 1986 reprint of The Incredible Hulk #180–181, titled Incredible Hulk and Wolverine , Cockrum said he considered having the High Evolutionary play a vital role in making Wolverine a human. Writer Wein wanted Wolverine to be
1880-486: A mysterious masked mutant Wildlife, who is actually an amnesiac Beast , the former X-Men member, until the arrival of former Secret Empire agent, Linda Donaldson recovers Beast's memories. Wolverine kills Living Diamond for killing both Beast and Linda. Before taking Mesmero away, as Wolverine's old mask was heavily damaged, Wolverine takes Beast's Wildlife mask, which then becomes his iconic mask he uses through years. Later, Professor Charles Xavier recruits Wolverine to
1974-590: A new costume for Wolverine (taken from his adversary Fang ) in the final issue of his run, but it was dropped one issue into Byrne's run because he and Cockrum alike found it painfully difficult to draw. In 1979, Wolverine featured in his first solo story, "At the Sign of a Lion", published in Marvel Comic #335 (UK). Written by Mary Jo Duffy , with pencils by Ken Landgraf and inks by George Pérez —marking Pérez's debut as an inker—the story centers on Wolverine as
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#17327718252622068-543: A new iteration of his superhero-mutant team, the X-Men , along with Banshee , Storm , Nightcrawler , and Colossus . He competes with Cyclops for the affection of Jean Grey . It was later revealed that Wolverine had been sent to assassinate Xavier, who wiped Logan's memories and forced him to join the X-Men. X-Men #100 introduces the fastball special, a combat maneuver in which the super-strong Colossus throws Wolverine at
2162-452: A number of fictional hidden native humanoid races . Many of these races are genetic offshoots of Homo sapiens or a related ancestor. However, there are also some races that were actually created from the many animals or other lifeforms on Earth. The methods to create these beings vary from scientific to magical and their creators from aliens to humans to demons. A list of these races includes: Some items have been created specifically for
2256-694: A returning Mark Silvestri. Subsequently, he featured in the Astonishing X-Men series initially written by Joss Whedon and illustrated by John Cassaday . At the turn of the century, in addition to the Wolverine series and appearances in the various X-Men series, another publication expanded upon the character's past: Origin , a six-issue limited series by co-writers Joe Quesada , Paul Jenkins , and Bill Jemas and artist Andy Kubert (Nov. 2001 – July 2002). A second solo series, Wolverine: Origins , written by Daniel Way with art by Steve Dillon , spun off of , and ran concurrently with,
2350-419: A revamped version of the superhero team the X-Men; writer Chris Claremont , artist Dave Cockrum and artist-writer John Byrne would play significant roles in the character's development. In 1979, Wolverine featured in his first solo story, published in Marvel Comic #335 (UK). His position as a standalone character further advanced when artist Frank Miller collaborated with Claremont to revise Wolverine with
2444-465: A similar origin for Wolverine in the Marvel continuity, having feral mutants be an evolved lifeform. John Byrne said, both in interviews and on his website, that he drew a possible face for Wolverine, but then learned that Dave Cockrum had already drawn him unmasked in X-Men #98 (April 1976), long before Byrne's run on the series. Later, Byrne used the drawing for the face of Sabretooth , an enemy of
2538-607: A small memorial for Logan's family. With nothing left of his old home, Logan then says he plans to defeat all the new world villains and bring peace to the land—with himself and Bruce Banner, Jr. being the first members of a new group of superheroes—before riding off into the sunset. After a fight with the Ghost Riders, Old Man Logan finds that Pappy Banner's head was placed on a gamma-powered robot made from adamantium by Tinkerer . He uses it in his revenge on Old Man Logan. Before Old Man Logan can be finished off by Pappy Banner, he
2632-443: A trademark of the character. Chris Claremont took the name Logan from Canada's Mount Logan , stating that "the idea was the tallest mountain being the name of the shortest character". A revival of X-Men followed, beginning with X-Men #94 (August 1975), drawn by Cockrum and written by Chris Claremont. In X-Men and Uncanny X-Men , Wolverine is initially overshadowed by the other characters, although he does create tension in
2726-445: Is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics , often in association with the X-Men . He is a mutant with animal-keen senses, enhanced physical capabilities, a powerful regenerative ability known as a healing factor, a skeleton reinforced with the unbreakable fictional metal adamantium , significantly delayed aging and a prolonged lifespan and three retractable claws in each hand. In addition to
2820-716: Is approached by an unidentified Thor of the Thor Corps . She attacks Logan with a lightning bolt for breaking Doctor Doom 's laws, falling into the Domain of Apocalypse in the process. Already healed from the burns caused by the Thor's attack, Logan is attacked by Victor Creed (who is one of the Horsemen of Apocalypse ) and his soldiers, but Logan is rescued by the X-Men and taken to their hideout, where they are attacked by Apocalypse and his other Horsemen. The battle that ensues
2914-680: Is captured and placed in a circus. Saul Creed, brother of Victor Creed , frees Logan, but after he betrays Logan and Clara Creed to Nathaniel Essex , Logan drowns Creed in Essex's potion. Logan returns to civilization, residing with the Blackfoot people. Following the death of his Blackfoot lover, Silver Fox , at the hands of Victor Creed, now known as Sabretooth , he is ushered into the Canadian military during World War I . During World War II, Logan teams up with Captain America and continues
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3008-665: Is captured by cannibals operating in the Ozarks , he is saved by Danielle Cage and Bruce Banner Jr. who inform him that a lot of villains like the Punisher Gang are looking for him after what he did to Red Skull and Hulk. What happened to Red Skull and the Hulk Gang caused a power vacuum in the Wastelands. After a fight with the Tranquility Temple that tries to kill him and Bruce Banner Jr., Logan drives his group to
3102-578: Is eventually found by Archangel, who evaded being killed by the villains. Archangel (seeking revenge for the massacre of the X-Men) is then revealed to be working with Bruce Jr. and Spider-Bitch , who viewing Logan's escape with her father fifteen years earlier as the only blemish on her career as Kingpin of the Wastelands, restrains him with web-shooters she had gotten from her grandfather Peter Parker 's corpse and attempts to feed him to her captured Venom symbiote -infused T-rex ; due to Ashley not inheriting
3196-416: Is generally referred to by this code name rather than as Wolverine. In this reality, Logan still has his adamantium, and Magneto, now the leader of the X-Men, helps him to control his feral rages. Weapon X is also missing a hand. He and Jean Grey are lovers in this reality. The series lasted four issues, before concluding and the return to the original name and numbering of the Wolverine series. Following
3290-518: Is intervened by the Thor who attacked Logan earlier and as she argues with Apocalypse, Logan flees and hides. The Thor then demands to know to where he had run, but no one answers. Angry, she attacks both the X-Men and the Horsemen with a lightning bolt and then looks for Logan through the domain. When she is near the domain's walls, Logan climbs it and attacks her from behind. Enraged, the Thor attacks him with another lightning bolt and lets him fall into
3384-530: Is reborn on the Battleworld domain called the Wastelands, a recreation of his native reality with his memories still intact, although he does not know how he arrived in Battleworld. After having declared the intention to set his world right, Logan disrupts a poker game between the Gladiator and his Flying Devils, and he ends their human trafficking ring by killing them, freeing those imprisoned. While on
3478-412: Is recruited for a new squad. Gil Kane illustrated the cover artwork but incorrectly drew Wolverine's mask with larger headpieces. Dave Cockrum liked Kane's accidental alteration (he thought the original was too similar to Batman 's mask) and incorporated it into his own artwork for the actual story. Cockrum was also the first artist to draw Wolverine without his mask, and the distinctive hairstyle became
3572-412: Is ripped out by Magneto in X-Men (Vol 2) #25. Writers were inspired by a passing joke of Peter David's. It is revealed that Wolverine has natural bone claws, in contrast to previously established narrative continuity that his claws were entirely bionic. Wolverine himself is confused by this realization, and his healing factor is also greatly weakened by recovery from this extraordinary injury. He leaves
3666-471: Is suddenly attacked by Bruce Banner Jr. who separates Pappy Banner's head from the adamantium armor. Rather than kill the head, Old Man Logan buries it and plants a tree over it so that its roots can slowly dig into his skull. Some time later, Old Man Logan and the now adult Bruce Banner Jr. are featured during a scene when the new Defenders , led by an older Susan Storm , travel back in time to use cosmic energy to restore their dying Earth. Now calling himself
3760-728: Is typical of the many tough antiheroes that emerged in American popular culture after the Vietnam War ; his willingness to use deadly force and his brooding loner nature became standard characteristics for comic book antiheroes by the end of the 1980s. As a result, the character became a fan favorite of the increasingly popular X-Men franchise, and has been featured in his own solo Wolverine comic book series since 1988. Wolverine has appeared in most X-Men media adaptations, including animated television series , video games and film . In live action, Hugh Jackman portrayed
3854-536: Is unsuccessful and causes Wolverine's mutation to accelerate out of control. He is temporarily changed into a semi-sentient beast-like form. Eventually, the villain Apocalypse captures Wolverine, brainwashes him into becoming the Horseman Death , and successfully re-bonds adamantium to his skeleton. Wolverine overcomes Apocalypse's programming and returns to the X-Men. Jean Grey becomes again possessed by
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3948-713: The Hellfire Club . In this decade his new X-Men teammates included Longshot , Dazzler , and Rogue . He becomes engaged to Mariko Yashida and battles The Hand . However, the engagement is broken because of the intervention of a member of the Hellfire Club. He becomes a close defender and mentor for Kitty Pryde . He battles Sabretooth during the Mutant Massacre story line, though he later discovers that he had many previous interactions with Sabretooth that his traumatic amnesia concealed. Separate from
4042-555: The High Evolutionary , Wein denies this: While I readily admit that my original idea was for Wolvie's claws to extend from the backs of his gloves ... I absolutely did not ever intend to make Logan a mutated wolverine. I write stories about human beings, not evolved animals (with apologies for any story I may have written that involved the High Evolutionary). The mutated wolverine thing came about long after I
4136-670: The Hulk ), Magneto (later conquered by a new Kingpin ), Doctor Doom , and the Red Skull , who has named himself president of the United States. Superheroes have been wiped out of existence, with the few survivors in hiding. Logan lives with his wife Maureen and young children Scotty and Jade on a barren plot of land in Sacramento , California , now part of the territory known as Hulkland. Needing money to pay rent to his landlords
4230-595: The Hulk Gang (the incestuous hillbilly grandchildren of the Hulk and his first cousin She-Hulk ), Logan accepts a job from a blind Clint Barton to help him travel east to the capital of New Babylon and deliver a secret package (which Logan assumes to be drugs). Logan and Barton encounter several diversions on their journey. They rescue Barton's estranged daughter Ashley (who seems to be an aspiring Spider-Girl) from
4324-536: The Reavers but gets wounded. Later, he decides to hunt down Lady Deathstrike. Logan experiences nightmares about a villain uprising, and Jean Grey convinces him to change his mind. He seeks help from experts to rescue Bruce Banner Jr. from the Wastelands. In the current time, he defeats the Hulk Gang with help from Hawkeye. He is also involved in the " Civil War II " and " Inhumans vs. X-Men " storylines. Logan becomes part of Kitty Pryde's Gold Team of X-Men and confronts
4418-765: The Revisionist Western antihero films featuring the Man with No Name . Dialogue and scenes also present a direct homage to Eastwood's neo-noir detective film Dirty Harry . This inspiration continued to be significant throughout the development of the character and his adaptations. The mini-series was followed by the six-issue Kitty Pryde and Wolverine by Claremont and Al Milgrom (Nov. 1984 – April 1985). Marvel launched an ongoing solo book written by Claremont with art by John Buscema in November 1988. It ran for 189 issues. In 1989, Wolverine also featured in
4512-434: The 1977 sports film Slap Shot . Byrne also created Alpha Flight, a group of Canadian superheroes who try to recapture Wolverine due to the expense their government incurred training him. Later stories gradually establish Wolverine's murky past and unstable nature, which he battles to keep in check. Byrne also designed a new brown-and-tan costume for Wolverine, but retained the distinctive Cockrum cowl. Cockrum had introduced
4606-551: The 2010–2013 Avengers series and the 2010–2013 New Avengers series. Wolverine was born as James Howlett in northern Alberta , Canada (approximately near Cold Lake ), during the late 19th century, purportedly to rich farm owners John and Elizabeth Howlett, though he is actually the illegitimate son of the Howletts' groundskeeper, Thomas Logan . After Thomas is thrown off the Howletts' property for an attempted rape perpetrated by his other son, named simply Dog , he returns to
4700-539: The 2015 Secret Wars storyline, written by Brian Michael Bendis with art by Andrea Sorrentino. This story is continued in an ongoing series with the same name beginning in January 2016, written by Jeff Lemire with Sorrentino returning as artist. The United States and the world of Earth-807128 has been conquered and divided among supervillains, with territories belonging to the Abomination (later conquered by
4794-881: The 2024 Marvel Cinematic Universe film Deadpool & Wolverine . Old Man Logan debuted as a character in Mark Millar 's run on Fantastic Four , which featured characters who are heavily implied to be the aged Wolverine and Bruce Banner Jr. as an adult. Wolverine: Old Man Logan started as an eight-issue storyline from the third volume of Wolverine ongoing series by writer Mark Millar and artist Steve McNiven , published by Marvel Comics in June 2008. The series ran through Wolverine (volume 3) #66–72 (June 2008 – June 2009) and ended in Wolverine Giant-Size Old Man Logan #1 on September 9, 2009. Old Man Logan debuted in his solo series during
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#17327718252624888-617: The Badlands where they meet with Forge and Dwight Barrett. Forge's lair is attacked by Sabretooth and his clones. Forge unleashes an unstable Speedball from his container who destroys the Sabretooth clones as Sabretooth makes off with Bruce Jr. Tracking Sabretooth to a Weapon X facility, Logan and Danielle discover that the head of the Weapon X facility is Mister Sinister who created the Sabretooth clones and claims that he orchestrated
4982-481: The Battleworld domain called the Kingdom of Manhattan. While wandering the city he has not seen in years, Logan meets this domain's Jean Grey and Emma Frost. They take him to meet the rest of the X-Men, as well as "his" son Jimmy Hudson . Logan later leads the superhero population of the Kingdom of Manhattan in a rebellion against God Emperor Doom. Subsequently, Logan finds himself in a new world. Logan wakes up in
5076-461: The Canadian government's Department H . He becomes Wolverine, one of Canada's first superheroes. In his first mission, he is dispatched to stop the destruction caused by a brawl between the Hulk and the Wendigo . After the Canadian government failed to capture Hulk, Wolverine is forced to team-up with Living Diamond to infiltrate Brand Corporation, where they are briefly caught by Mesmero and
5170-492: The Deadlands. He takes shelter inside a cave where he finds an uninfected She-Hulk who has been there for a long time. He tries to convince her to throw him out of the Deadlands when the zombies find them. In a desperate attempt to save Logan's life, She-Hulk grabs him and jumps as high as she can to throw him out of the Deadlands as he had suggested, ultimately sacrificing her own life to do so. Afterwards, Logan finds himself in
5264-547: The Hooded Man, Old Man Logan accompanies Gaia back to his original timeline in order to repopulate the now desolate Earth and keep her from going insane from the lack of inhabitants. He is later seen gardening with Gaia who is now pregnant with his child. The history of this Old Man Logan is the same as the one on Earth-807128. When the multiverse was destroyed and Battleworld was created, a different version from an altered universe version of "Old Man Logan" called Earth-21923
5358-528: The Howlett manor and kills John Howlett. In retaliation, young James kills Thomas with bone claws that emerge from the back of his hands, as his mutation manifests. He flees with his childhood companion, Rose, and grows into manhood on a mining colony in the Yukon , adopting the name "Logan" . When Logan accidentally kills Rose with his claws, he flees the colony and lives in the wilderness among wolves, until he
5452-584: The Phoenix Force, and Wolverine has no other choice but to kill her with his claws. Wolverine learns about the existence of X-23 . He initially believes her to be a clone, raised to be a perfect assassin. X-23 later goes by the name Laura. She is eventually enrolled at the Xavier Institute , with her true origin being kept secret as Logan's way of protecting her. Despite being introduced as Wolverine's "sister", she quickly accepts Wolverine as
5546-757: The Weapon X organization. Logan tracks down the Regenix drug and confronts the Crazy Thunder Gang. He helps Silver Samurai rescue Mariko Yashida from the Hand's control. Later, Logan, Lady Deathstrike, and Sabretooth are captured by the Orphans Of X but eventually rescued and revived. After defeating an alternate version of the Maestro, Logan recognizes that he is dying of old age, now relying on regenix to supplement his failing healing factor. He decides to return to his original timeline after sorting out
5640-549: The Weapon X program, although his memories remain unreliable. He meets Maverick , another former participant in the Weapon X project, and discovers that he had previously worked together with Sabretooth in a covert team subsequent to the project. In X-Men #25 (1993), at the culmination of the " Fatal Attractions " storyline, the supervillain Magneto forcibly removes the adamantium from Wolverine's skeleton. This massive trauma causes his healing factor to burn out and also leads to
5734-433: The X-Men temporarily as a result. In 1994, the Wolverine ongoing series was usually drawn by Adam Kubert , the brother of the artist for X-Men . In 1995, all of the X-Men related comic books were temporarily replaced by a storyline in an alternate reality, named Age of Apocalypse . The Wolverine series was replaced by a series called Weapon X (not to be confused with the origin story published in 1991), in which Logan
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#17327718252625828-580: The X-Men, Wolverine has been depicted as a member of X-Force , Alpha Flight , the Fantastic Four and the Avengers . The common depiction of Wolverine is multifaceted; he is portrayed at once as a gruff loner , susceptible to animalistic " berserker rages" despite his best efforts, while simultaneously being an incredibly knowledgeable and intelligent polyglot, strategist, and martial artist, partially due to his extended lifespan and expansive lived experiences. He has been featured in comic books, films, animation, and video games. The character first appeared in
5922-438: The X-Men, he has adventures in Madripoor disguised as his alter ego "Patch." He is a mentor for Jubilee . When the X-Men split into two different subgroups, he participates in the "Blue Team" along with Cyclops, Rogue, Beast , Gambit , and Psylocke . Jean Grey had been resurrected by this point, leading to resumption of his rivalry with Cyclops. He also discovers some aspects of the trauma and brainwashing he received from
6016-472: The age of a young adult, with superhuman strength and agility similar to Spider-Man . This changed when Wein saw Cockrum's drawing of the unmasked Wolverine as a hairy 40-year-old. Wein originally intended the claws to be retractable and part of Wolverine's gloves, and both gloves and claws would be made of adamantium . Chris Claremont eventually revealed that they were an integrated part of Wolverine's anatomy in X-Men #98 (April 1976). Writer Jeph Loeb used
6110-489: The armaments and costumes of fallen superheroes. Without using his claws, he kills Red Skull's men and engages Red Skull himself, eventually decapitating him with Captain America's shield . He grabs a briefcase of money (their intended reward for the delivery) and uses pieces of Iron Man's armor to fly back home. Upon arriving, Logan discovers that the Hulk Gang murdered his family and left the bodies unburied in his absence. His neighbor Abraham Donovan states that Logan's family
6204-598: The boy would later become Daken . Logan believes his son to be dead for many years. As a member of Team X , Logan is given false memory implants. Eventually breaking free of this mental control, he joins the Canadian Defense Ministry. Logan is subsequently kidnapped by the Weapon X program, where he remains captive and experimented on, until he escapes. It is during his imprisonment by Weapon X that he has adamantium forcibly fused onto his bones. James and Heather Hudson help him recover his humanity following his escape, and Logan begins work as an intelligence operative for
6298-513: The character across ten installments of the X-Men film series produced by 20th Century Fox between 2000 and 2017, and reprised the role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film Deadpool & Wolverine (2024). Henry Cavill portrayed an alternate version of Wolverine dubbed "Cavillrine" in Deadpool & Wolverine . Troye Sivan portrayed a young version of Logan in the 2009 film X-Men Origins: Wolverine . Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Roy Thomas asked writer Len Wein to devise
6392-434: The character became popular with fans. After the death of Wolverine , Laura Kinney took the Wolverine mantle but an Old Man Logan from the similar Earth-21923 was brought in to serve as an X-Man and featured in his own ongoing series . Old Man Logan was a principal inspiration for the 2017 film Logan , starring Hugh Jackman as the title character , with Jackman later making a cameo appearance as Old Man Logan in
6486-416: The clutches of the new Kingpin. However, she then murders Kingpin and reveals her intention to seize his territory of Hammer Falls (formerly Las Vegas ) herself as the new Kingpin and "Spider-Bitch" before attempting to kill her father. Logan rescues him and the pair escape, as Spider-Bitch sends her forces after them. They escape a cluster of Moloids who are destroying cities by sinking them from beneath
6580-478: The discovery that his claws are actually bone. Wolverine leaves the X-Men for a time, embarking on a series of adventures during which his healing factor returns. Feral by nature, Wolverine's mutation process will eventually cause him to degenerate physically into a more primitive, bestial state. Elektra helps him to recover his humanity. After his return to the X-Men, Cable 's son Genesis kidnaps Wolverine and attempts to re-bond adamantium to his skeleton. This
6674-415: The early 1990s, Wolverine featured as a prominent character in X-Men vol. 2, initially written by Chris Claremont and illustrated by Jim Lee . The first issue of this comic book series is the highest selling comic book in history. Following the departure of Claremont and Lee, Scott Lobdell and Fabian Nicieza usually wrote the title while Andy Kubert illustrated it. In 1993, Wolverine's adamantium
6768-588: The final "teaser" panel of The Incredible Hulk #180 ( cover-dated October 1974), written by Wein and penciled by Herb Trimpe . The character then appeared in a number of advertisements in various Marvel Comics publications before making his first major appearance in The Incredible Hulk #181 (November 1974), again by the Wein–Trimpe team. In 2009, Trimpe said he "distinctly remembers" Romita's sketch and that, "The way I see it, [Romita and Wein] sewed
6862-675: The graves of his deceased family and he dies looking up into the sun. After burying Logan with his family, Danielle Cage, now acting as the new Thor, Bruce Banner Jr. as the new Hulk, and Dwight Barrett as the new Ant-Man, form a new incarnation of the Avengers and vow to keep fighting the opposition until they can find a place they can call home. In the Venomverse crossover, the Earth-21923 version of Old Man Logan raises Bruce Jr. for fifteen years before telling him of his true parentage. Bruce Jr. leaves his adoptive father in anger as Logan
6956-506: The last panel of The Incredible Hulk #180 before having a larger role in #181 ( cover-dated November 1974), in the Bronze Age of Comic Books . He was created by writer Len Wein and Marvel art director John Romita Sr. Romita designed the character's costume, but the character was first drawn for publication by Herb Trimpe . Since 2017, Marvel editor-in-chief Roy Thomas has also claimed co-creator credit. Wolverine then joined
7050-744: The mansion and wandered away to a train track in shock and shame. Though he made a subsequent suicide attempt by allowing a freight train to run him over, Logan could not actually kill himself, but had effectively killed "Wolverine". When they arrive at the capital, Hawkeye delivers his package to an underground resistance group hoping to begin a new team like the Avengers . The package contains super-soldier serum, enough to form an army, but Barton's clients expose themselves as undercover S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. They shoot and kill Logan and Barton. Logan's body heals and he awakens in Red Skull's trophy room amongst
7144-554: The martial artist superhero Iron Fist , whose stories Chris Claremont was writing. Byrne then conceived of the idea of Sabretooth being Wolverine's father. Together, Byrne and Claremont came up with Wolverine being about 60 years old and having served in World War II after escaping from Sabretooth, who was about 120 years old. Following Byrne's departure, Wolverine remained as a prominent character in X-Men , which later changed its name to Uncanny X-Men . Cockrum returned for
7238-509: The monster together and I shocked it to life! ... It was just one of those secondary or tertiary characters, actually, that we were using in that particular book with no particular notion of it going anywhere. We did characters in The [Incredible] Hulk all the time that were in [particular] issues and that was the end of them." Though often credited as co-creator, Trimpe denied having had any role in Wolverine's creation. The character's introduction
7332-511: The murder of Logan's family was intended as a message to others, he really just wanted to get Logan angry enough to fight him because he had gotten bored with being a "super-villain landlord" like the others. In his Hulk form, Banner easily defeats Logan and then consumes him. Logan recuperates within Banner's stomach and bursts out, killing the Hulk. Afterward, he discovers a baby Hulk named Bruce Banner, Jr. A month later, Logan and his neighbors hold
7426-511: The neighboring domain of Technopolis as she is attacked by Apocalypse's Infinite Soldiers. Logan is taken to Stark Tower by Baron Stark and Grand Marshal Rhodes , the Thor of that domain. After healing from his injuries, Logan awakens only to find himself in a totally different domain from the one where he was. He ends up fighting Rhodes, but is defeated and sent to the Deadlands as punishment for breaking Doom's laws. Due to his healing factor, Logan succeeds in fighting through hordes of zombies in
7520-535: The past on Earth-616 and decides to prevent his apocalyptic future. He targets the minor villain Black Butcher and easily kills him. He seeks Mysterio 's location and is joined by Kate Bishop. Logan meets Commander Steve Rogers , who shows him his adamantium-coated corpse from the future. Logan appears in Extraordinary X-Men but declines to rejoin the team. He decides to protect Maureen from
7614-465: The protagonist. The narrative unfolds in a bar, where Wolverine, sitting alone, becomes embroiled in a fight with Hercules after the latter attempts to intimidate him. This story is notable for being Wolverine's first appearance as a standalone character, separate from the X-Men. Despite suggestions that co-creator Len Wein originally intended for Logan to be a mutated wolverine cub, evolved to humanoid form by an already established Marvel geneticist,
7708-443: The return to the original timeline, a follower of Apocalypse captures Wolverine and attempts to bond adamantium to his skeleton a second time, with the goal of making him one of Apocalypse's warriors. However, Wolverine's healing factor and willpower reject the process; the ensuing stress leads him to regress into a bestial state. Stick , the former mentor of Daredevil , sends Elektra to re-train Wolverine, and heal his psyche. For
7802-400: The second Wolverine solo series. Following Larry Hama's exit from the Wolverine solo title, Mark Millar became a particularly influential writer for the character. In 2008, he and artist Steve McNiven explored a possible future for Wolverine in an eight-issue story arc entitled " Old Man Logan " that debuted with Wolverine #66. Wolverine appears as a regular character throughout both
7896-470: The series was often illustrated by Mark Texeira . Hama's run included a storyline inspired by Ernest Hemingway 's For Whom the Bell Tolls . The series was bimonthly from July 1991 to September 1992. Hama also introduced "Albert," a cyborg copy of Wolverine, and often featured Jubilee as Wolverine's sidekick. Hama also frequently delved into Wolverine's mysterious past in the Weapon X program, which
7990-537: The setting; fictional places may appear in conjunction with, or even within, real-world locales. Many Marvel Comics stories are set in New York City , where the publishing company is based. New York is the site of many places important to superheroes: New York is a center of industry, serving as the headquarters for a few Marvel companies: The following prisons are located in outer space: The Earth of Marvel's main continuity (or " Earth-616 ") has contained
8084-470: The surface. They then get chased by a Venom symbiote -infused Tyrannosaurus (imported from the Savage Land ), but they are rescued and teleported by the White Queen and Black Bolt . Throughout the story it is reiterated that the "Wolverine" persona died the day the villains attacked and that since then, Logan has refused to use his claws. Flashbacks reveal that on the night the attack happened,
8178-447: The team as he is attracted to Cyclops' girlfriend, Jean Grey . As the series progressed, Claremont and Cockrum (who preferred Nightcrawler ) considered dropping Wolverine from the series; Cockrum's successor, artist John Byrne , championed the character, later explaining, as a Canadian himself, he did not want to see a Canadian character dropped. Byrne modeled his rendition of Wolverine on actor Paul D'Amato , who played Dr. Hook in
8272-553: The top characters, right now." During this period, Wolverine also regularly appeared in cover stories for the anthology series Marvel Comics Presents . Among these stories was "Weapon X", by writer-artist Barry Windsor-Smith , serialized in Marvel Comics Presents #72–84 (1991), which was an essential depiction of Wolverine's past and the event of adamantium grafted to his skeleton. Subsequent stories in this publication were often illustrated by Sam Kieth and had
8366-438: The villains' rise to power which Red Skull took the credit for. After Logan and Danielle Cage rescue Bruce Banner Jr., they get chased by the Sabretooth clones until Danielle picks up Mjolnir and becomes the new Thor. Logan eventually meets his end after killing Sabretooth and Mister Sinister, weakly affirming that his healing factor has finally worn out and he just exhausted his final vial of Regenix. Dani and Bruce take him back to
8460-501: The way back to meet with Danielle Cage , Logan witnesses the head of an Ultron Sentinel fall from above. Wishing to investigate further, he brings it along with him back home, where Bruce Jr. and Danielle also live. After explaining this new development, he investigates the head's origins. He visits Hammer Falls and meets with the dying Emma Frost, and he learns that the head is from beyond the Wastelands, so he begins traveling beyond his domain. When Logan trespasses upon its borders, he
8554-434: Was ambiguous, revealing little beyond his being a superhuman agent of the Canadian government. In these appearances, he does not retract his claws, although Wein stated they had always been envisioned as retractable. He appears briefly in the finale to this story in The Incredible Hulk #182. Wolverine's next appearance was in 1975's Giant-Size X-Men #1, written by Wein and penciled by Dave Cockrum , in which Wolverine
8648-479: Was killed when the Hulk Gang got tired of waiting for their payment. This results in Logan finally unleashing his claws. Logan seeks out and slaughters the Hulk's grandchildren Beau, Bobbie-Jo, Charlie, Elrod, Eustace, Luke, Otis, Rufus, and Woody before encountering Old Man Banner himself who displays monstrous strength, even in his human form. It is implied that the gamma poisoning in his body had begun to deteriorate his sanity in his old age. Banner reveals that while
8742-512: Was no longer involved with the book. I'm not certain if the idea was first suggested by Chris Claremont, the late, much-missed Dave Cockrum, or John Byrne when he came aboard as artist, but it most certainly did not start with me. Wein said on the X-Men Origins: Wolverine Blu-ray special features that he has read "Ten things you did not know about Wolverine", which says the character was originally intended to be
8836-481: Was often highly convoluted and unreliable because of the false memories implanted by the program's designers. In 1992, Hama revisited the Japanese setting and characters of Claremont's and Miller's earlier limited series, ending the story with the poisoning of Mariko Yashida and her mercy killing at the hands of Wolverine. Hama credited the influence of Yakuza films as well as Ridley Scott's Black Rain . Himself
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