![]() ![]() I mean, I couldn’t call him “Moose” because that wouldn't sound good. ![]() ![]() I chose the name “Wolverine” because I was obsessed with animals as a kid and I knew wolverines were from Canada. I didn’t know he was a mutant, he was just a character that I knew was Canadian. I sat down with the broadest idea of what this character could be. “I thought we’d sell more comics in Canada if we had a character that was Canadian.” Also, my job at that time was to sell more comic books, so I thought we’d sell more comics in Canada if we had a character that was Canadian. I had created a couple when I was doing X-Men - Banshee and Sunfire - and I wanted more. One thing I wanted to do was to introduce more international characters. When Stan Lee was promoted to president of Marvel, I became editor-in-chief. Roy Thomas (former Marvel editor-in-chief, co-creator of Wolverine): In 1972 I was associate editor at Marvel, which basically meant that I was the number two editorial guy. He was never meant to be a longstanding enemy of Bruce Banner though, as Wolverine co-creator Roy Thomas reveals. He was teased at the very end of The Incredible Hulk issue #180 and in issue #181, he had his showdown with the green goliath. ![]() The Incredible Hulk #181, artwork by Herb Trimpe, John Romita and Gaspar Saladino Marvelīefore it was even decided that he was a mutant, Wolverine was introduced as an enemy of The Hulk. Now, on the fifth anniversary of Logan’s release, Inverse catches up with Wolverine’s most important storytellers from every era to share the behind-the-scenes history of Marvel’s most captivating mutant.įive years after Logan's swan song, Inverse celebrates all things Wolverine. Wolverine’s cinematic journey began with the release of X-Men in 2000 and, as far as we know, concluded with Logan in 2017. No one could have predicted Wolverine would eventually become the most popular, compelling, and enduring member of the X-Men - not only within the pages of the comics but on television and the big screen as well. He wasn’t a breakout character and received about as much of the spotlight as the soon-to-be-killed Thunderbird. At the time, Wolverine was just another guy on the team. Giant-Size X-Men was a huge success, so much so that instead of continuing as a quarterly book, Marvel decided to resume publication of the bi-monthly X-Men title with Xavier’s new recruits. Finally, from Canada, there was Wolverine, an obscure angry little man who had battled the Hulk a year earlier “He had to be short and bad-tempered because wolverines are small and bad-tempered.” He also recruited the Japanese Sunfire and the Irish Banshee, both of whom had previously appeared within X-Men’s pages. From Germany, there was Nightcrawler from Russia, Colossus from Kenya, Storm, and from an Apache reservation in Arizona, Thunderbird. So Professor X assembles an international team of mutants from every corner of the globe. In the story, the original X-Men are captured and only Cyclops escapes. It seemed Marvel had given up on its mutants, but the tide turned in April of 1975 with the debut of a new quarterly book called Giant-Size X-Men. Their last new story had been told in March of 1970 with issue number 66, and due to lackluster sales, issues 67 through 93 offered nothing new. In early 1975, the X-Men were in bad shape.įor five years, readers only got reprints of older issues featuring the original five X-Men - Cyclops, Jean Grey, Beast, Iceman, and Angel. ![]()
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