10 Things Marvel Wants You To Forget About Wolverine
8. The Original Origin
If you know what Marvel originally had intended as Wolverines backstory, however, youd be thankful with what was eventually produced for Origin. Logan actually made his first appearance not in Giant Size X-Men #1, when Charles Xavier recruited him for his team of mutant heroes, but as a one-off adversary for the Incredible Hulk in his comic a year before, with not a whole lot of explanation barring the fact that he was an agent of the Canadian government. The rumours of what co-creators Len Wein and Dave Cockrum had in store for his origin, well Wein strenuously denies them, but Cockrum has hinted at it before, and theres no smoke without fire, is there? Apparently the original intention was to reveal that Wolverine wasnt a mutant at all, but rather an actual wolverine - as in the small, furry woodland creatures - who had been transformed into a human by the geneticist and longtime Marvel character the High Evolutionary. Wein claims nothing of the sort was ever on the cards, but some of Cockrums original designs took it into account, and one early X-Men appearance revealed that his DNA wasnt entirely human.
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