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- Weapon X: The Escape

Barry
Windsor-Smith, Wolverine #166.
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and ™ by Marvel Characters, Inc.
X-23
#1 (Mar 2005) – “X-23: Innocence Lost, Part One”
Story:
Craig Kyle; Writers: Craig Kyle & Christopher Yost; Penciler:
Billy Tan; Inker: Jon Sibal
As Logan escapes from the Experiment X facility, he takes
down several guards in his path. As he exits the main building,
Logan kills an Experiment X scientist by the name of Dale Rice.
House of M #8 (December 2005)
Writer: Brian Michael Bendis; Penciler: Olivier Coipel; Inker: John Dell, Scott Hanna & Tim Townsend
After the reality-changing events of “House of M” come to a close, Logan finds that he remembers his entire past.
House of M #2 (August 2005)
Writer: Brian Michael Bendis; Penciler: Olivier Coipel; Inker: Tim Townsend
Logan specifically remembers facing a host of guards at the Experiment X facility as he tried to escape.
Wolverine
#166 (Sep 2001) - "The Hunted"
Writer:
Frank Tieri; Artist: Barry Windsor-Smith
The Director of the resurrected Weapon X program
remembers receiving orders as a young American soldier to guard
an installation that housed a joint U.S./Canadian top-secret
project, Experiment X. After Logan had finished cutting up at
least 15 Experiment X guards with his claws, he tore into the
young man, butchering his face beyond recognition. As Logan
fled the facility, the young man lay there waiting for death,
but, miraculously, survived for several hours in the bitter
cold before finally receiving medical attention that saved his
life, but not his face.
Wolverine
#175 (Jun 2002) – “The Logan
Files: Conclusion”
Writer:
Frank Tieri; Penciler: Sean Chen; Inker: Norm Rapmund
The Director of the resurrected Weapon X program, revealed
as Malcom (Colcord), remembers Logan
, as Weapon X,
attacking him.
Weapon
X #1 (Nov 2002) - "The Hunt for Sabretooth"
Writer:
Frank Tieri; Penciler: Georges Jeanty; Inker: Dexter Vines
As he attempts to leave the secret installation grounds,
Logan's
freedom is barred by Experiment X guards. Logan,
however, quickly slashes his way through at least nine of the
guards in the frigid cold. Logan
then turns to face the
last guard between him and complete freedom, a young soldier
named Malcolm (Colcord).
Marvel
Comics #84 (1991) – “Weapon X: Chapter Twelve”
Writer/Artist:
Barry Windsor-Smith
Completely naked, Logan
heads deep into the Canadian
wilderness, bounding through the snow-covered terrain in the
bitter Canadian winter.
Wolverine
#80 (Apr 1994) – “…In the Forest
of the
Night”
Scripter:
Larry Hama; Penciler: Ian Churchill; Inker: Al Milgrom
Dr. Jaime Munoz, a molecular biologist from Alexandria
, Virginia
discovers ingots of adamantium
in federal storage with medical records and tissue samples from
mutant patients. One sample, Logan X #23, demonstrates tissue
self-generation. So it seems that tissues samples from Experiment
X were kept and stored by the US Federal government (and perhaps
used to create X-23).
Warheads
#8 (Jan 1993) – “The Dream Trap, Part One”
Writer:
Nick Vince; Penciler: Simon Coleby; Inker: Rod Ramos
A time-jumping commando team, Warheads, mistakenly
“jumps” into the Canadian wilderness and finds themselves face-to-face
with Logan,
half-crazed from the remaining Experiment X implants and wires
still attached to his body. One of the Warheads commandos, Gregory,
shoots him in the shoulder, but Logan
barely seems phased.
Warheads
#9 (Feb 1993) – “The Dream Trap, Part Two”
Writer:
Nick Vince; Artist: Simon Coleby
When the Canadian wilderness begins to dissolve
under their feet, the Warheads commando team realizes that they
have not jumped into the past, but instead, directly into Logan's
dreams.
Wolverine
#34 (Dec 1990) – “The Hunter in Darkness”
Writer:
Larry Hama; Penciler: Marc Silvestri; Inker: Dan Green
Logan
vaguely remembers, after escaping from Experiment X, coming
upon the “Hunter in the Darkness,” a large wolf-like creature
of Canada ,
after the creature had been caught in a steel bear-trap. With
a spark of human compassion still in him, Logan
frees the Hunter
and drags the trap off, throwing off the trail of his human
hunters. Caught in the moonlight, Logan
is shot through
the lung by a young Royal Canadian Mountie, Sgt. Doolin. Logan
's lung quickly
heals and he easily slips away into the wilderness.
Wolverine
#46 (Late Sep 1990) – “Home Is the Hunter…”
Writer:
Larry Hama; Penciler: Marc Silvestri; Inker: Dan Green
In a confrontation between Hunter in the Darkness, Wolverine,
Sabretooth and Lady Deathstrike, it becomes clear that Hunter
remembers Logan
from long ago
when he freed him from a bear-trap.
Wolverine
#84 (Aug 1994) – “Things That Go Bump in the Night”
Scripter:
Larry Hama; Penciler: Ron Wagner; Inker: Reinhold, Younger,
Palmer, Milgrom with Yancey Labat and Matt Banning
“The Hunter in Darkness” again confirms these events when he
calls off an attack on Logan .
Wolverine
#118 (Nov 1997) – “Out of the Darkness Into the Light”
Writer: Larry Hama;
Penciler: Leinil Francis Yu; Inker: Edgar Takeo
After Experiment X, Logan
remembers living
like an animal, hunting wildlife as a source of food.
… Logan
seems to have
ranged over large sections of territory after Experiment X…
Daredevil
(Vol. 2) #54 (Jan 2004) – “Echo, Part 4”
Writer/Artist:
David Mack
Near the Pine Ridge Reservation in South
Dakota , Logan
states, “…long ago
I used to run these woods like a wild animal.” There he met a
chief of the Lakota Nation. “…When I approached him, wild and
snarling, wounded and full of rage, he stood there. He talked
to me in a slow and even voice. He talked me down until I settled
down. He stood there unflinching. Unafraid.”
Marvel
Comics Presents #130 (1993) – “Passion Play, Part Eight: Missing
Lynx”
Writer:
Scott Lobdell; Scripter: Dan Slott; Penciler: Dennis Jensen;
Inker: Jon Holdredge
Wolverine tells a woman known as Lynx that he had some good
times living in the wilderness after Experiment X.
Wolverine
(Vol. 2) #13 (Jun 2004) – “Return of the Native, Part I”
Writer:
Greg Rucka; Artist: Darick Robertson
Sabretooth informs Logan that there was a female
mutant involved in Weapon X, nicknamed the Native.
Wolverine
(Vol. 2) #14 (Jun 2004) – “Return of the Native, Part 2”
Writer:
Greg Rucka; Artist: Darick Robertson
Logan travels to British Columbia and tracks down the
Native. Though mute, she recognizes him as a fellow Weapon X
experiment. When they return to her cave, Logan discovers that
she has carved pictographs on the wall depicting their captivity
within the Weapon X facility. Logan then discovers his dog tags,
“Wolverine,” and hers, “Feral.”
Wolverine
(Vol. 2) #15 (Jul 2004) – “Return of the Native, Part 3”
Writer:
Greg Rucka; Penciler: Darick Robertson; Inker: Jimmy Palmiotti
& Tom Palmer
The Native takes Logan to a strangely familiar
abandoned cabin within the Pacific Northwest. As Logan walks
through the cabin, he realizes that he lived there briefly with
the Native, presumably after he escaped from Experiment X.
Wolverine
(Vol. 2) #16 (Aug 2004) – “Return of the Native, Part IV”
Writer:
Greg Rucka; Penciler: Darick Robertson; Inker: Jimmy Palmiotti
The Native confirms that Logan
lived in the abandoned
cabin, but Logan
simply cannot
fully recall the memory.

Barry
Windsor-Smith, Marvel Comics Presents #84.
©
and ™ by Marvel Characters, Inc.
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