Marital Status: Married
Place Of Birth: Canada
Grup affiliation: New X-men, Uncanny X-Men
( former) Alpha Flight
First Apperance: The Incredible Hulk #181
Height: 5'3"
Weight: 300 lbs.
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Black
Known superhuman powers: Heightned sences, healing factor, retractable Adamantium claws
as an agent of Canada's Department H, the past of the
man known as Wolverine remains shrouded in mystery.
Logan possesses memories of being a Samurai in
Japan, a mercenary operative for the Central Intelligence
Agency, and a "wild man" in the Canadian wilderness.
Due to the extensive memory implants given to Logan
through the Weapon X program, any and all of these
memories are suspect. Logan has at least one memory
of meeting Captain America in World War II which was
verified as true. It is possible that Logan's healing factor
grants him an extended life span and has granted him the
physical condition of a man in his prime, despite his age.
Sometime after World War II, Logan was taken by a
group of scientists led by Dr. Cornelius as part of the
Weapon X program. Cornelius was hired to perfect and
use a technique that would bond the indestructible
element adamantium to human bone cells. Logan's
skeleton was bonded to the adamantium, and he was
indoctrinated into the Weapon X assassin program.
After his encounter with the Hulk, Wolverine was
conscripted by Department H to join and lead Alpha
Flight, Canada's government-run super team. During his
leadership of Alpha Flight, Wolverine was approached
by Professor Charles Xavier, who was looking for
mutants to help his students, the X-Men, escape from
the island-being known as Krakoa, which had captured
them. Wolverine left Alpha Flight to accompany Xavier
and rescue the captured X-Men. After Krakoa was
defeated, Wolverine decided to stay with the X-Men,
or reasons which included that he had fallen for the
X-Man known as Marvel Girl (see Phoenix).
Logan remained with the X-Men for quite some time,
at one time being their field commander, and
ncountering adversaries such as Proteus, Magneto, the
Brotherhood, the Brood, the Reavers,
demons from the dimension of Limbo, the Marauders,
the Morlocks, and even Dracula on one occasion.
After his encounter with the mutant assassin Omega
Red, Logan began to question the memories he
possessed, but his searches to find his true identity and
memories proved fruitless.
During an encounter with the mutant Magneto on his
space station called Avalon, Wolverine attempted to
defeat Magneto using the claws presumably given to him
by the Weapon X project. Magneto retaliated, using his
powers of the magnetic field to tear the adamantium out
of Wolverine's skeleton, causing extensive injuries.
These injuries shorted out Wolverine's healing factor for
a time, and Logan also discovered that the claws that he
believed a result of the Weapon X project were in fact a
natural mutation. The claws he possessed were bone,
and a natural part of his skeletal structure.
As a result of his injuries, Logan left the X-Men for a
time, returning after he was asked by Xavier, who also
asked the mutant Cable, to rescue the X-Men in Tibet,
where they were captured during the Phalanx invasion.
Logan was later kidnapped by Tyler Dayspring,
calling himself Genesis, who wanted to make Wolverine
one of his new Horsemen. Genesis had acquired
adamantium by destroying the body of the mercenary
known as Cyber, and had planned to recreate the
bonding process used on Logan years ago. This time,
however, Logan's body rejected the adamantium, and
he regressed for a time to a feral-like state.
Logan regained his lucidity, rejoined the X-Men, and
then supervised the team while Cyclops and Phoenix
were on leave.
During a mission to space, Logan was kidnapped by
Apocalypse and replaced by a skrull. After the death of
the Skrull Wolverine, to which his teamates belived was
the real Wolveirne, his assasin, the Horseman known as
Death was reviled to be in fact, the real Logan,
brainwashed by Apocalypse who had also restored his
adamantium skeleton by removing ithe adamantium from
Sabertooth.
Logan eventually returned to his normal self and re-joined the team, with his adamantuim skeleton returned.