Height: 53"
Weight: 195 lbs.
Powers: Awesome healing factor that prevents his aging and poisoning attacks. Bone claws in the forearm and many fighting knowledge.
First Appearence: Hulk #181
Creators: Len Wein and Herb Trimpe
Pro-File: Wolverine has been a mystery since the day he appeared in comics. After the discovery that many of his memories were implants that came from the Weapon X program, not even Logan knows who he is. For this, Iīll split Wolverineīs special bio in 2 parts: one with facts that are the truth, and the second with just unclear information.
The first fact that we have almost sure about Loganīs past is the time that he was in World War II. Logan looked a lot like he looks now (before the feral transgression), which means that his healing factor could have maintaned him alive for many years before that point. He was already trained in combat arts and had a vast experience in strategy. Another old memory take place in the Spanish Civil War, where he fought along Puck of Alpha Flight against Lady Deathstryke. Unless all of them had memory implants, this time was for sure.
Logan was also a member of CIA, working with Maverick and Sabretooth. We know that Creed and North also had memory implants, but Carol Danvers also knew Logan in this time, and so did Omega Red, his greatest enemy then. It seems that in that time, he did not had the adamantium implants, and didnīt use his bone claws either.
Now for the most strange part, the Weapon X program. This organization took some mutants, such as Wolverine and Sabretooth, so they could make experiences with them. They put the adamantium inside Loganīs body and the memory implants inside his head. The Weapon X saga, that was written by Barry Windsor-Smith, shows three scientists "working" on Logan, after kidnapping him. In the beggining of the book, it was hinted that Logan didnīt had a mother by then, but looked younger then in World War II. This can mean only two things: Logan suffered that too from the memory implants, or the bonding process happenned even before the Spanish Civil War. Both theories are impossible: the first one itīs based in the fact that Logan got his memory of been young from the Project, but his image as a youth, appears before the Weapon X thughs got him. The second theory itīs even more illogical, for two main reasons: there is no way that before the Spanish War, there would be in Canada or in any other place on Earth a major project with so advanced technology. Unless this tech were from another planet, but that brings us another problem. If this experiments happenned around 1930, and the oldest scientist, Cornelius was past his fifties, he would have more that 100 years today, and he didnīt showed that when he was killed by Shiva: he looked exactly the same. This takes us to the idea that they were put under some criogenic system, that kept them alive and young. Back in the Weapon X saga, it was hinted that Cornelius worked for another man, who never was revealed. After the Weapon X program, Logan started to run through Canada, untill he met Heather and James Hudson. They took care of him, and Logan even came to love Heather. The Hudsons were the leaders of the Department H, an organization that would unite many Canada super-heroes. Logan joined the team and in one of his first missions, he took the Hulk, who was rampaging in Canada. He lost that battle, but there were rematches.
Years later, Logan left the Weapon X program when Charles Xavier invited him to join his New X-Men. Logan left the Department H and some time later was attacked by his former teammates of Alpha Flight and defended by the X-Men.
Logan also had tales in Japan, where it seems that he was trained in Martial Arts by Ogun, saved Mariko Yashida and felt in love with her and adopted little Amiko. His past with Ogun are unclear, but he killed his sensei to save Kitty Pryde, years after his training. Logan almost married Mariko, but the Clan did not accept him and he gained the Clan Sword, forged with alien metal by a demon instead of Mariko love. He saved Amiko from a dragon when this monster attacked her village and killed his mother. Logan adopted the girl and gave her to Yukio, a former love of his. He also had many adventures in Madri Poor, when he left the X-Men for solo adventures as Patch. Years later, Logan "killed" his love Mariko Yashida, when she was poisoned and asked him to end her suffering.
In the X-Men, Logan met Jean Grey and had his greates passion: but the flame was reduced when he got more human and understood that she belonged to Scott Summers. He developed the Fast Ball Special with Colossus, attack that he used inverted against the Dark Phoenix. At this time his rage for Sabretooth was great and he had many other enemies, like Bloodscream. When the X-Men crossed the Siege Perilous in Australia, Logan was left behind, and Pierce and his Reavers put him in a cross, almost killing him. Logan was saved by Jubilee, who was hiding in the Australian Complex. Both of them then went to Madri Poor and saved Psylocke from the Hand. Later they joined the X-Men again and stayed ther since now.
Back in the X-Men, Logan fought Magneto and lost his adamantium revealing his bone claws, that not even him knew about. His healing factor could not sustain all of the damage and started to fail. Some time after Logan recovered his healing factor and returned to the X-Men. Some time later, Genesis killed Cyber and took the adamantium in his skin to forge a new skeleton to Wolverine. He tried to place it inside Logan, but he reject it to save Cannonball. He went into a more feral state and killed Tyler, and that only made worse his relation with Cable (the villainīs father). He slowly returned to his humanity with the help of Elektra. Now Logan is back in the X-Men with a much faster healing power.
After some time with the team, Wolverine had to face again his most formidable foe: Sabretooth. But this time he had adamantium laced to his bones. It was very difficult for Logan to defeat him, but with the help of Shadowcat, he made it happen. Of course that in the process he defeated a whole group of Hydra soldiers. Now, Logan is in space, trying to save beings of different races from the Collector.
Many of Loganīs memories may come from the memory implants in the Weapon X project. It seems that he was abandoned by his tribe in Canada for being weak, and was raised by Wolverines in Canada. He took the name Wolverine after a battle against a demon when he saved an indian tribe also in Canada. He grew and had and affair with Silver Fox, and indian who was later killed by Sabretooth. But Silver Fox was just a code name for a woman that worked with Hydra years after that and was never killed bvy Sabretooth! Creed also though that Logan was his son, but SHIELD seems to have proved they are not related.