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      000: The True Origin

      001: Wild Child

      002: The Origin

      003: Young Logan

      004: The Amazing Skunk-Bear

      005: Silver Fox and Sabretooth

      006: The Lost Years

      007: The Thirties

      008: Ogun

      009: World War II

      010: Landau, Luckman and Lake

      011: Canadian Intelligence

      012: Team X: The Beginning

      013: Logan, Creed and North

      014: Secret Agent Man, eh?

      015: Weapon X: The Origin(s)

      016: Weapon X: Adamantium

      017: Memory Implants

      018: The Ultimate Warrior

      019: Weapon X: Escape

      020: The Hudsons

      021: License to Kill

      022: Department H: Weapon X

      023: Department H: The Flight

      024: The Best There Is

      025: The Wolverine

      026: The X-Men

      027: Death in the Family

      028: The Phoenix

      029: Where No X-Men Has Gone

      030: Missing, Presumed Dead

     A01: Alternate Universes

     P01: Publication Order (1974-1979)
     P02: Publication Order (1980-1982)
     P03: Publication Order (1983-1984)
     P04: Publication Order (1985-1986)

      Etc: News, Questions, Comment

The Wolverine Files

019 - Weapon X: The Escape

   

Logan escaping from Weapon X

Barry Windsor-Smith, Wolverine #166.

© 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.

Logan in the wilderness

Barry Windsor-Smith, Marvel Comics Presents #84.

© and ™  by Marvel Characters, Inc.

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