The earliest part of Wolverine's life we know to be true is the Weapon X program. He was taken against his will and was experimented on by scientists that transformed him into Weapon X. They laced his skeleton with adamantium, which inadvertently laced his claws with adamantium also, and trained him to be a wild ferocious fighter with his animal instincts. They replaced most or all of his memories with implants so to this day he doesn't know where he came from or how he got to the Weapon X program to begin with.

He somehow escaped -- or was released by the scientists -- and met James and Heather Hudson for the first time. They helped him to recover some of his humanity and he joined Alpha Flight. He worked with Alpha Flight for a while and then left them to join the X-Men.

At this point he goes off on his own for a little while and, after being humiliated by Lord Shingen Harada, kills him and gets engaged to be married to Mariko. Mariko calls off the wedding because she is actually under the control of the Shadow King.

He goes on with his life and rescues Akiko, a young girl, then adopts her. He puts her in a good foster home and departs. Recently, he has discovered that this home is not appropriate for impressionable Akiko, so she finishes in Yukio's hands. The next major chronological event in his life is when he goes along with Shadowcat and kills Ogun, who is his former mentor. He goes back to the X-Men and stays with them, fighting the enemies of the X-Men and protecting the world from evil mutants with adventures on the side in his own comic book title.

He acquires many friends and enemies along the way and battles repeatedly with his arch-enemy Sabretooth. Sabretooth had thought that he was Logan's father, but that was recently proven false by a blood test performed on the two in a S.H.I.E.L.D. helicopter after a battle involving Sabretooth, Cable, and Elsie Dee. Elsie Dee is an android in the form of a little girl who has become Wolverine's friend -- even though she was sent to kill him. She works with Albert, a cyborg likeness of Wolverine.

Omega Red is another one of Wolverine's worst enemies. He was introduced in the early issues of X-Men. He has Carbonadium tentacles and a "death factor". It has been revealed that he is somehow linked to Wolverine's past, and the two have fought him before, but the details are still sketchy at best. Cyber is yet another one of Wolverine's worst enemies. He is a recent introduction to Wolverine's villain's gallery. His skin has been laced with Adamantium and he has claws on the tip of each finger filled with a specialized highly toxic hallucinogen. He is described by Wolverine as "The only one that ever really beat me." Supposedly, in his past, he fought Cyber, and Cyber left him for dead.

In the fatal attractions series, Wolverine's life is changed drastically. The X-Men go into space to battle Magneto for the last time after Magneto disrupts the Earth's electro-magnetic field. They battle and Magneto rips the Adamantium in Wolverine's bones out through his skin. Professor X takes Magneto's mind away leaving him in a vegetative state. They try to get Wolverine back to Earth so they can revive him. His healing factor cannot keep up with such a grave wound. He is just on the verge of death, when Jean Grey is sucked out the hatch of the jet and is about to die. Wolverine comes back to life and saves her.

They get back to the X-mansion and after sufficient time, Wolverine heals. He decides to test himself in the danger room because he feels he is of no more use to the team. He is doing poorly, and the robots back him into a corner, where it is then revealed for the first time that Wolverine's claws were originally bone. At this point he decides that leaving would be best for everyone, and he goes off, only penning a touching letter to Jubilee. He has a few adventures on his own and fights Cyber. He then decides to return to the X-Men. He comes back and battles Sabretooth. He pins him against the wall with two of his claws on either side of Sabretooth's head. Sabretooth either doesn't believe Logan will do it, or has a death wish -- or maybe both. He threatens everyone close to Wolverine, and it seems as if Wolverine pops the third claw, right before the Universe Crystallizes, leaving us wondering what happened.

Superhuman physical powers: Wolverine possesses a "fast healing" ability enabling him to regenerate damaged or destroyed areas of his cellular structure. This grants him virtual immunity to poisons and limited immunity to the fatigue poisons generated by his own body. It also retards his aging process. Wolverine possesses superhumanly acute senses of sight, smell, and hearing. Wolverine's skeleton was laced with Adamantium, rendering his bones virtually unbreakable. As of late, it has been ripped out through his skin by Magneto in the Fatal Attractions crossover series. He also has three claws on each hand which until recently were believed to be pure Adamantium. When, the Adamantium was removed, however, it was revealed that his claws were bone, and therefore he must have been born with them. The Adamantium had laced these too, giving them the appearance of metal and rendering them virtually unbreakable as well.

Source of superhuman powers: Wolverine's healing ability, superhuman senses, and bone claws were a result of mutation. The Adamantium was a result of a top secret project called Weapon X, which has not yet been completely revealed. Wolverine has become even more feral after an experiment on him by Genesis.

More recently, Wolverine has lost his adamantium endoskeleton, which is the basis for his super strength. Magneto took it from him in X-Men #25. Now he is more vulnerable than ever. Logan has had to explore the REAL Wolverine: what makes him tick, what ticks him off. Wolverine #119-#122 focused on his mercenary stories, leting us, the readers, enjoy a little of the old magic. Then on to conquer the Marvel world, stopping only when his bone claws failed to help him defend a world from Galactus, (who devoured it).

Wolvie got his claws back, now that he turned the big 25. But how? For now just know that in upcoming issues, Wolverine gets a supporting cast in his solo project, including a Marvel Girl that isn't Jean (!) as a protege. She ans Logan will have history, of course. A friend of Wolvie's realizes the potential of his daughter's powers and Wolvie steps in to see that she uses them for good. Hardcase and the Harriers will also make a reemergence (They can be seen in Uncanny #261).

"I'm the best there is at what I do. But what I do isn't very nice." -Wolverine (Wolverine #1 Limited Series)

The man known as Weapon X was once a member of Magneto's X-Men. However, disgruntled at the decision to leave Jean Grey, an X-Man as well as his wife, in the hands of Sinister after a mission gone wrong, Logan decided to rescue her himself. His mission was successful, but he lost a hand in the process. Realizing what must be done to stop Apocalypse from conquering the rest of the world, Weapon X willingly leads an envoy into the heart of America on a suicide mission to use nuclear weapons to end Apocalypse's reign of terror.