Art by Dark Chapel
Colors by DJ Legaspi
Second to the last character of our Cockrum tribute.
it's everyone's (and my personal) favorite: the ill-tempered, no non-sense
Canadian wildman : WOLVERINE.
Or more commonly referred to as Logan amongst his teammates.
Real name: James Howlett as it was later revealed.
First appeared in the pages of The Incredible Hulk #180. Oct 1974.
Codenamed Weapon X. But was later revealed to be a roman numeral signifying him being the tenth project.
His origin story is as mysterious as it is could be fabricated
by the same folks that laced his bones with the unbreakable Adamantium element. The same unbreakable steel for his three retractable claws that he utilizes while battling various foes together with the X-men and on solo missions as Patch.
Speaking of battles, there are a handful to choose from:
Our personal pick would be the one against the mutant called Cyber in
Madripoor .And why is that?
Despite looking EXACTLY like Wolvie sans the bunny ears,
he was billed as the only mutant that Wolverine fears.
And that's saying a lot, for Wolverine had taken on numerous Marvel Giants,
Against this fluffy creature not named Wendigo,
Against THIS totally blind attorney,
We're kidding but DAMN, look at how worn out this particular trading card got.
Pamato ata namin to sa teks!
and plenty more times after that!
Seeing fit that this character was also big during the 90's (when the whole
crazy hairstyle became a trend) Thanks a lot, Onemig Bondoc!
Ol' Wolvie here also sported some equally gravity defying arc hairstyle that could rival the likes of that demon guy from Legend.
Imitation was indeed the sincerest form of flattery.
Wolvie must've been really flattered with these guy’s hairstyle:
And even folks from other companies followed suit.
The most admirable trait that Wolverine possess is that he didn't play well
with others. He’s relentless, he’s ferocious he IS in every sense as wild
as his name suggests.
He's not doing it for the Benjamins but instead he has to act instinctively
because no one else had the balls to do so. And that in essence IS the embodiment of the perfect nihilistic hero.
Although more of a solo operator.
Wolverine had been known to have short lived team-ups with various other individuals like let's say....CABLE!
Well, we all knew how THAT ended up.
He is also a member of numerous other lesser known factions such as:
but eventually relying more on his own strengths and abilities for nothing
is for forever.
He was later stripped of his adamantium claws(and some of his confidence)
by Magneto in Wolverine #75.
This was from the FATAL ATTRACTION issue (which we actually own but
we can't find in time for this documentation), the same issue where he leaves
the group to pursue some even more ALONE time with himself. This was
also the first appearance of his bone claws and his deteriorating
condition due to his missing healing factor.
Wolverine is an iconic character.
He is well beloved by all but more importantly by Marvel Comics.
He had appeared in toys,
endorsed a brand of chocolate,
and even had his alias separated from the X-men marquee.
I don't get this!
Wolverine IS still part of the group, isn’t it?.
But reading the title out loud seems like otherwise.
I’m guessing they were going for a more Batman And The Outsiders type of gimmick here but I dunno....
He's been to Japan, fought in two World Wars, died,
became Death (as a horseman) and became the lord of the vampires.
But quite frankly, who knows what the future had in
store for our favorite mutant. Let's leave that to the X-writers/artists.
But at the meantime.....on to the good part, X-merchandises!
Wolverine as he is depicted in various trading cards:
Here are a few of our Wolverine comics:
Ah, Sam Keith's Wolverine!
The best find of 'em all was of course, THIS!
Nothing too special with the cover and first story other that it has werewolves
and Deadpool in it. But the best thing about it was the Beer Run chapter
containing some gorgeously looking Massimiliano Frezzato artwork.
That's simply 12 pages of awesome-awesomeness for the low-low price of 50 bucks!
And yes, we even have the rather iconic Uncanny X-men #1.
Some of our Wolverine toys:
The smallest figure was from the Steel Mutants series.
Oh wow, we really wanted the Omega Red and Apocalypse figure from this collection.
It is also worth mentioning that Wolverine was once a Canadian secret agent,
hence the Spy Wolverine toy.
Some of it's paint job is chipping off due to improper
storage and reckless playing courtesy of a very young and impressionable
90's Dark Chapel.
We also scored this Daken (we could be wrong!)looking figure from a flea market in Hong Kong.
It's missing a claw, but who cares?
We've even kept some of the backing boards for most of these toys, thinking
it might amp up the resale value. But we were sooooo misinformed back
then, we were weird/gullible tykes back in those days.
We really wanted this Weapon X figure at the time.
Also, this Stryfe figure as well.
And more importantly, this Sauron with a cheeseball action figure.
But tough tits finding any of these nowadays!
So we're leaving all this in the past and moving on with our X-Future
which hopefully doesn't end up being my X-Past...
Wait, how is that even possible....
Dark "X-tremely Confused" Chapel of SSM!
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