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Issue: Wolverine 48 Date: Nov-91 Story: Dreams of Gore: Phase 1 (21 pages) Feature Characters: Wolverine Regular Characters: Silver Fox (in flashback) Guest Stars: Villains: the Weapon X Program, Sabretooth (Victor Creed), Mastodon, Andre, Morse, Carlisle (all in flashback) Other Characters: Harry Tabeshaw Credits: Writer: Larry Hama Pencils: Marc Silvestri Inks: Dan Green Letters: Pat Brousseau Colors: Steve Buccellato Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Note: this is Shiva Scenario Part 1. Logan breaks into a nuclear research facility in the wilds of Alberta, Canada. Tabeshaw is the one who tracked down the Hunter for Parvenue (iss. 45), and he says this is its lair, where no other animals go. Jubilee roller blades around while Logan finds his claw marks as though he was trying to get in, but he doesn't remember it. In a garage, they find an old luxury car: his, with Silver Fox's medicine bag hanging from the key chain. He remembers being shot with a stun gun and fighting his attackers until they knocked him out. He finds signs of a battle and remembers himself as Weapon X, berserk and trying to kill a professor. Jubilee finds a gun in the glove compartment, and he remembers working with Creed and Mastodon to arrest rebels; he was shot and sprouted thorns. Silver Fox was one of the rebels, and she held a gun on him. Someone in voice over discusses implants into Logan's memories. Logan says he needs to talk to Xavier. A large machine in the background is marked "Shiva 2." Issue: Wolverine 49 Date: Dec-91 Story: Dreams of Gore: Phase 2 (22 pages) Feature Characters: Wolverine Regular Characters: Silver Fox (as a memory) Guest Stars: Prof. Charles Xavier, Jean Grey Villains: Sabretooth (Victor Creed, alias Julio El Tigre), Mastodon, Jack Ruby, Lee Harvey Oswald (all as memories); Dr. Monica Hines (see iss. 76), the Professor (Dr. Myron MacLain, see iss. -1) Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Larry Hama Pencils: Marc Silvestri Inks: Green, Barta Letters: Pat Brousseau Colors: Steve Buccellato Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Note: this is Shiva Scenario Part 2. Logan goes to Xavier for a mind-probe, as Jean monitors. He has symbolic memories: himself as Weapon X, berserk, killing guards. He comes up to the Shiva door, and Creed tells him JFK was just shot; they are on a mission in Palma Soriano, Cuba, and his codename is Emilio Garra. They see Ruby shoot Oswald on TV, and soldiers try to arrest them as spies. Creed denies being Canadian; Logan gets out the back and finds a door he carved Silver Fox's name on. Memory beyond that is artificially blocked; Jean warns him that trying to break through may damage his mind, reverting him to an animal, but he presses on. He sees Creed and Mastodon confronting Silver Fox (last iss.). He cuddles with her as they remember their cabin (iss. 47), but she pulls a gun on him, and he remembers killing the professor. He sees the cabin as a picture on a calendar; he tears through the walls and finds Silver Fox captive in a wilderness, swallowed by a tree and then turning into a bear, as the professor and Hines discuss manipulating his perceptions. He beheads the bear and pulls off his goggles; he actually beheaded a duplicate of himself and is surrounded by soldiers. The professor was trying to use extreme emotions as an activation mechanism for Weapon X, but it failed. He considers using the woman or the father again. Jean has Xavier bring Logan out of it; he unconsciously trashed the lab. They say he's in danger of becoming an animal, but he denies it, tears off his shirt, and runs away. Hines sees him tear off on his motorcycle and alerts the professor, now in the Pest Control section of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. He says Shiva will kill him. Issue: Wolverine 50 Date: Jan-92 Story: Dreams of Gore: Phase 3 (36 pages) Feature Characters: Wolverine Regular Characters: Jubilee Guest Stars: Forge, SHIELD including Nick Fury; Prof. Charles Xavier, Cyclops (Scott Summers), Jean Grey Villains: Hydra including Parsons, Silver Fox; the professor, Hines, Shiva Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Larry Hama Pencils: Marc Silvestri Inks: Dan Green, Hilary Barta, Tom Palmer Letters: Pat Brousseau Colors: Steve Buccellato Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Note: this is Shiva Scenario Part 3. Logan drives his motorcycle into the Citicorp building and up the elevator: Forge had told him SHIELD was using it temporarily as a supply site for the helicarrier. He pushes the bike up the stairs and jumps it into the helicarrier to confront Fury. He tells him to call the CIA director and mention Cuba in 1963 (last iss.) and then demands to read his dossier. Pest Control and Hydra both notice the computer activity. Logan goes to Washington, demanding to see the professor, but his secretary disavows all knowledge. Logan shouts that he's going to a warehouse in Windsor, Ontario, and Hines can trail him there. He gets the X-Men to fly him up in the Blackbird. He has his yellow and blue costume on, and Jean is worried he's reverting to his old, feral self. Logan enters the warehouse alone and finds movie sets of his memories, but others he doesn't recognize. He thinks many have been brainwashed there, and he hopes his cabin with Silver Fox was real. The professor and Hines followed to make sure Shiva kills him. In the control room, they watch Logan approach the Weapon X lab door and realize he has the key, from his car's key chain (iss. 48). Logan enters; Shiva attacks; Logan destroys it. The Shiva program learns and creates another killer robot. The X-Men continue to review Logan's CIA file and find the original Weapon X project proposal: super-soldiers who were mind-wiped and hidden in the general population till activated, with age factors suppressed. Silver Fox, now in Hydra, arrives and attacks the professor. She was also brainwashed in the program, and she sees Logan fighting Shiva through the backgrounds of her own memories. The professor is irritated that all his subjects remember the cabin. He jumps Silver Fox, and her gun goes off. Shiva, losing, uses its failsafe and triggers Logan's memories: "every excruciating moment of searing pain in your life... vividly recalled with chilling clarity!" Logan howls like an animal but then asserts his humanity and slices Shiva apart, but the computer program lives on. A woman screams; the X-Men and Logan find Hines. The professor was ripped apart with claws, and his dying effort was to turn Shiva against Creed. The X-Men want to help the rest of the names in the Weapon X program. Logan is coldly dismissive. Note: pin-ups precede and follow the story. Issue: Wolverine 51 Date: Feb-92 Story: Heartbreak Motel! (22 pages) Feature Characters: Wolverine Regular Characters: Jubilee Guest Stars: Forge, Cyclops (Scott Summers), Storm (Ororo Munroe), Prof. Charles Xavier, Jean Grey; Morlocks including Masque Villains: Mystique, Albert, Spiral Other Characters: Elsie-Dee, the Hunter in Darkness Credits: Writer: Larry Hama Pencils: Andy Kubert Inks: Dan Green Letters: Pat Brousseau Colors: Steve Buccellato Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Note: this is The Crunch Conundrum Part 1. Logan is working out in the mansion's Danger Room and not even breaking a sweat. He's wilder since Xavier unblocked his memory (iss. 49), so Xavier has him put on a helmet and recreates Shingen (killed in Wolverine LS) and Ogun (killed in Kitty Pryde & Wolverine LS) to attack him. Logan's brain fills out the hallucination, and it becomes fully interactive. Xavier adds Sabretooth and Deathstrike, pushing Logan into a berserker rage. Cyclops and Storm leave, disgusted, but Xavier continues. Afterwards, Logan motorcycles to the Auger Inn, a local dive. He plays pool and takes a blonde to his hotel room. Jubilee, worried for him, roller blades over, sees Jean coming out of his room, and kicks over Logan's bike. Logan yells at Jean, and she turns into the blonde, then her true self, Mystique, and then Silver Fox. He knew it was Mystique from her scent and sensed she was afraid of someone. Elsie, finally rebuilt, leaves the Morlock tunnels with Albert. They find and befriend the Hunter and then fly off in their rebuilt stealth bomber from under the East River (iss. 40). Jubilee sees the real Jean jogging, realizes she wasn't at the motel, and hugs her. Logan realizes Spiral is after Mystique, and when he says her name, she appears. Issue: Wolverine 52 Date: Mar-92 Story: Citadel at the End of Time (22 pages) Feature Characters: Wolverine Regular Characters: Jubilee Guest Stars: Gateway Villains: Mystique, Spiral, Plasma Wraiths, Albert, Mojo, Abcissa Other Characters: Elsie-Dee, the Hunter in Darkness Credits: Writer: Larry Hama Pencils: Mark Silvestri Inks: Dan Green Letters: Pat Brousseau Colors: Steve Buccellato Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Note: this is The Crunch Conundrum Part 2. Spiral identifies Logan's room in the Cloud 9 hotel as the intersection of 5 timelines. It can be traced, and, sure enough, a Plasma Wraith emerges from the velvet painting. It's a sentient energy field, and Logan and Spiral slice it into oblivion. Elsie senses something in the motel till Spiral erects a cloaking field, and she directs Albert northward to Canada. Spiral uses her sword to show herself in many timelines, all dancing toward convergence in the Crunch, the far-future opposite of the Big Bang, along with other time-trippers such as Gateway. A beam from the future traces her sword; Spiral avoids it by taking everyone to a place where time folds itself. After the whirlwind, Jubilee reenters the hotel to investigate and finds Mojo. Spiral, Mystique, Logan, and his bike liquefy and congeal an hour before the Crunch. A Plasma Wraith speaking movie jargon attacks; Mystique guesses Mojo is behind this, and she impersonates him and distracts the Wraith so Logan and Spiral can kill it. Spiral says they must hide in the Citadel at the End of Time: it's planet-sized, and they're standing on it. Mojo sics Abcissa on Jubilee; they chain her and take her to the future. Elsie finds a government facility (iss. 48) next to an Indian burial ground, and the Hunter is interested in the pile of bones. Albert and Hunter dig and find a skeleton with adamantium claws. Issue: Wolverine 53 Date: Apr-92 Story: The Chimerical Mystery Tour (22 pages) Feature Characters: Wolverine Regular Characters: Jubilee Guest Stars: Gateway, Nick Fury, Beast (Hank McCoy), Gambit (Remy LeBeau), Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards), the Thing (Ben Grimm) Villains: Mystique, Spiral, Mojo, Abcissa, Plasma Wraiths, Albert Other Characters: Elsie-Dee, the Hunter in Darkness Credits: Writer: Larry Hama Pencils: Mark Silvestri Inks: Dan Green, Barta, Janson Letters: Pat Brousseau Colors: Rosas, Tinsley, Javins Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Note: this is The Crunch Conundrum Part 3. Logan gets Mystique and Spiral on his bike and spirals down into the citadel to find Mojo, who projects himself on a giant TV. Plasma Wraiths attack. Albert analyzes the skeleton and says it's Logan, dead 200 years. Mojo demands Jubilee's submission for Logan's life; she refuses; he shows her that Abcissa is her. Spiral says Mojo wants to delay the Crunch so he can get more footage, but this would negate the whole universe. Gateway appears, and his bullroarer is Albert's bomber, bearing an anti-matter missile. Spiral takes Mystique back in time to find it. Elsie agrees to let them have it, if Spiral sends her back in time to resolve the mystery of Logan's skeleton (a relic of an alternate timeline, says Spiral). She and Logan ride the missile, playing chicken with Mojo. Jubilee kicks Mojo and takes Logan on his bike through Spiral's vortex back to their timeline. Abcissa and her timeline disappear. Spiral and Mystique lose their knowledge of the future, and Logan's skeleton disappears. The missile heads toward Mojo, ready to explode and initiate the Crunch. Logan is suddenly playing poker at 4 Freedoms Plaza and owes Gambit $5000. Jubilee calls from Tokyo: she's under arrest for violating customs with Logan's Harley. They've both had memory lapses. Issue: Wolverine 54 Date: May-92 Story: Station Identification (22 pages) Feature Characters: Wolverine Regular Characters: Guest Stars: a Morlock, Shatterstar, Cannonball (Sam Guthrie), Rogue Villains: Vidkids including Link, Cueball Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Fabian Nicieza Pencils: Darick Robertson Inks: Don Hudson Letters: Pat Brousseau, Heisler Colors: Kelly Corvese Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: A Morlock is chased, beaten, and killed by the anti-mutant Vidkids, who videotape it all. Shatterstar sees them on the TV news and empathizes with their Mojo-like ethos. Logan and Rogue work out in the Danger Room; she hesitates when a faux Magneto attacks her, confused by her feelings for him. Logan hunts the Vidkids and assumes Shatterstar is one of them. They fight; Logan traps his head with two claws and threatens with the third. Shatterstar genuflects to the legendary Wolverine, who realizes he's part of X-Force. The Vidkids chase a homeless woman into the subways, where Logan and Shatterstar attack them. Shatterstar realizes their killings were not for honor but just for fun. Logan destroys the cameras, and police arrest the Vidkids. Issue: Wolverine 55 Date: Jun-92 Story: Thirty Slashes over Tokyo (22 pages) Feature Characters: Wolverine Regular Characters: Jubilee, Yukio, Mariko Yashida Guest Stars: Gambit (Remy LeBeau), Sunfire (Shiro Yoshida, here called Shuro) Villains: Tsurayaba Matsuo and the Hand, Reiko, Cylla Other Characters: Eddie; Jotaro Isuzu, Honda, Suzuki Credits: Writer: Larry Hama Pencils: Marc Silvestri Inks: Dan Green Letters: Pat Brousseau Colors: Steve Buccellato Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Logan triggers the metal detector at LAX, eventually in his skivvies and calling on Nick Fury to get through. That call triggers Cylla, Pierce's premier cyborg, in storage; he himself is dead (UXM 281-282). In Tokyo, a taxi driver detours Logan and Gambit into an ambush. Gambit blows them off with the roof; the driver meekly takes them to Ropongi Police Station. Mariko calls Matsuo, assuring him she has nothing to do with Logan's arrival. She resists his efforts to control her still shameful family. Customs shows Logan a crate sent to him containing an illegal cyborg. She bursts out. Sunfire arrives, wanting to help the X-Men, just as the Hand attacks. Jubilee is transferred to a juvenile facility. Matsuo removed Reiko's corneas (payback for iss. 33), which will be restored only if she poisons Jubilee. They fight until Reiko realizes Wolverine is Patch. She lets her go, and Yukio finds her on the street. Issue: Wolverine 56 Date: early Jul-92 Story: We Got Cylla, Can Mothra Be Far Behind? (22 pages) Feature Characters: Wolverine Regular Characters: Jubilee, Yukio, Mariko Yashida Guest Stars: Gambit (Remy LeBeau), Sunfire (Shiro Yoshida), the Silver Samurai (Kenuichio Harada) Villains: Tsurayaba Matsuo and the Hand, Reiko, Cylla, Kojiro, Hydra including Silver Fox Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Larry Hama Pencils: Marc Silvestri Inks: Dan Green Letters: Pat Brousseau Colors: Steve Buccellato Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Cylla battles Logan, fulfilling her programming. Sunfire is insulted that the Hand are after Logan and not him; Gambit helps him fight them off without destroying the police station. Well, at least he tried. The building collapses, and Cylla and the Hand retreat. Yukio takes Jubilee back to her place, a dump. They watch cops racing toward the station, see Matsuo there, and trail him. Reiko tries to smuggle herself out of Japan, but Kojiro turns her over to Hydra and Silver Fox. Mariko meets with her family, who want to compromise with the Hand. The Silver Samurai appears and proposes she turn the clan over to him. Logan appears; Mariko stops him from fighting the Samurai; Matsuo has the Hand surround the house and demands her submission; Jubilee is surprised Logan has a true love. Issue: Wolverine 57 Date: late Jul-92 Story: Death in the Family! (22 pages) Feature Characters: Wolverine Regular Characters: Jubilee, Yukio, Mariko Yashida Guest Stars: Gambit (Remy LeBeau), the Silver Samurai (Kenuichio Harada) Villains: Tsurayaba Matsuo and the Hand, Reiko, Cylla, Kojiro, Hydra including Silver Fox Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Larry Hama Pencils: Marc Silvestri Inks: Dan Green, Al Milgrom, Joe Rubinstein Letters: Pat Brousseau Colors: Steve Buccellato Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Melee, and even Mariko pitches in with the honor sword of the Yashida Clan. They retreat into the booby-trapped house, and Mariko has a private chat with Logan. She says she hasn't cleaned up her family yet and gives him his old yellow and brown costume to use while saving her family's honor. Silver Fox approaches Matsuo, who uses his cybernetic hand to attack Reiko, but Kojiro intervenes and gets it in the neck. Yukio takes Jubilee hand-over-hand along the power line to the Yoshida citadel. And Cylla is back. Gambit gives Logan a kinetically-enhanced boost to the roof to keep her away from the girls. Together, they knock her off and electrocute her. She limps away. Silver Fox and Matsuo send Reiko to offer Mariko a buy-out deal that will save her family honor. In return, she must cut off a finger, Yakuza fashion. Reiko cuts herself, to prove the blade isn't poisoned. But when Mariko pricks herself, she feels the poison. Reiko realizes Mariko is Logan's beloved and kills herself on the Samurai's blade. Mariko professes her love for Logan and asks him to end her agony with his claws. A tear, and then snikt. Issue: Wolverine 58 Date: early Aug-92 Story: Monkeywrenching (22 pages) Feature Characters: Wolverine Regular Characters: Jubilee Guest Stars: Prof. Charles Xavier Villains: the NDL (Nature Defense League) including Jacob Grenfire, Johnny Bloodcede (Monkeywrench), Lance, Pick Axis, Paul, Bunyan; Terror Other Characters: Barton Hoff Credits: Writer: D.G. Chichester Pencils: Darick Robertson Inks: Joe Rubinstein Letters: Pat Brousseau Colors: Ariane Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Mariko is dead and Logan is back at the X-mansion. He overhears Xavier talking to his friend Barton, who owns a logging company and whose daughter Alice was kidnapped by eco-terrorists, the NDL. Xavier bites his tongue about the X-Men and says he can't help. Logan takes on the job himself, with Jubilee along (to be less conspicuous!). They find the bad guys and attack Lance while he unpacks grenades. Boom. Lance suicides rather than squealing. Logan goes to the morgue for help: Terror, a green, spined mercenary who can attach and gain information from other peoples' body parts. He takes Lance's eye and says Bloodcede, now Monkeywrench, has the girl captive and is preaching environmentalism like a cult. The NDL attack. Terror is cut in half: he gets himself a new pair of legs from the recently deceased. Monkeywrench takes Lance's body, to return to the earth, and when Logan interferes, pounds an explosive pike into his chest. Issue: Wolverine 59 Date: late Aug-92 Story: Unnatural Resources (22 pages) Feature Characters: Wolverine Regular Characters: Jubilee Guest Stars: Villains: the NDL (Nature Defense League) including Jacob Grenfire, Johnny Bloodcede (Monkeywrench), Pick Axis, Paul, Bunyan; Terror Other Characters: Barton Hoff, Alice Hoff Credits: Writer: D.G. Chichester Pencils: Darick Robertson Inks: Joe Rubinstein Letters: Pat Brousseau Colors: Ariane Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Logan has Terror lower him into freezing water and remove the explosive pike. The explosion is thereby delayed, somehow. Alice joined the NDL to illegally protest logging, but now she's a captive of maniacs who say humanity is the enemy. Monkeywrench's faction attacks Grenfire, and one of his protestors joins the violent side: actually Logan with a crew cut for a disguise. He picks up Alice's scent and immediately blows his cover: she is tied to the top of a tree about to be felled by her father's company. He scales it and unties her as Monkeywrench explodes one of his pikes, felling the tree. Logan takes the brunt of the fall on himself and then tracks and catches Monkeywrench. Barton calls off his loggers; Logan returns Alice to daddy and threatens to keep an eye on his business practices. Issue: Wolverine 60 Date: early Sep-92 Story: Counting Coup (22 pages) Feature Characters: Wolverine Regular Characters: Jubilee, Yukio; Mariko Yashida, Silver Fox (both as visions) Guest Stars: Gambit (Remy LeBeau), Sunfire (Shiro Yoshida), Maverick (David North, in flashback), John Wraith Villains: Sabretooth (Victor Creed), Shiva, Tsurayaba Matsuo and the Hand; a Plasma Wraith (in flashback) Other Characters: Janice Hollenbeck (in flashback) Credits: Writer: Larry Hama Pencils: Dave Hoover Inks: Keith Williams Letters: Pat Brousseau Colors: Kevin Tinsley Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Note: this takes place before iss. 58. Logan mourns before Mariko's grave and has disturbing visions of her and Silver Fox and of himself as Weapon X going feral. Yukio leaves, not wanting Logan on the rebound. Sunfire arrives and says the Japanese government doesn't want Logan going vigilante on Matsuo. Shiva finds Creed watching a wresting match in New York. The audience enjoys their match. A black man in the subway in Western wear intimidates white punks into not mugging him or each other, and then disappears. Matsuo confronts Logan, saying Mariko's death is payback for losing his hand. He has a new one made by the Mandarin's armorer, and he vivisects Logan with it: it's just a Logan manikin. Logan remembers Creed, Maverick, and Janice (see X-Men II:6); Wraith was sent to help them escape. Creed takes Shiva apart, so it triggers his most horrible memory (see iss. 50): beating a young Logan, who was shirking his chores to spend time with Silver Fox, and who denied Creed was his father. Wraith, the man from the subway, breaks him out of it, since another Shiva robot has arrived. Wraith explodes it and extracts Creed. Sunfire has his limo take Logan to the airport, but en route he sniffs Matsuo and attack him in his penthouse garden, making short work of his ninjas and bionic hand. He decides not to kill him, but to keep coming back, amputating another body part each time. Issue: Wolverine 61 Date: late Sep-92 Story: Nightmare Quest! (22 pages) Feature Characters: Wolverine Regular Characters: Jubilee Guest Stars: John Wraith (a.k.a. Carlisle, Halcon, Kestrel), Elefante (a.k.a. Mastodon), SHIELD including Nick Fury; Maverick (David North, in flashback) Villains: Omega Red (Arkady Gregorivich Rossovich), Sabretooth (Victor Creed), Silver Fox (all in flashback) Other Characters: Janice Hollenbeck (both in flashback) Credits: Writer: Larry Hama Pencils & Inks: Mark Texeira Letters: Pat Brousseau Colors: Steve Buccellato Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Logan confronts Silver Fox, Creed and Wraith in the woods. Others fire at them, and Logan isn't sure what side he's on. He wakes from the dream: Jubilee says their flight from Tokyo was diverted to the SHIELD helicarrier. Fury sends him on a secret government mission, and Jubilee insists on going along. They are dropped off in a devastated wasteland and meet Wraith (Carlisle from Logan's implanted memories, iss. 48). He holds a gun on Jubilee, and Logan remembers a similar scene in Southeast Asia, where Wraith was unwilling to kill a captive. He also remembers Wraith disappearing when attacked by Omega Red (X-Men II:5), evidently his mutant power. Wraith says he's codename Kestrel on the Weapon X list and hands Logan a Shiva head. It triggers his worst memories, including Cuba in 1963 (iss. 49-50). He, Creed, and Wraith were sent to destroy a Russian missile. Silver Fox directed a tentacled monster against them. Jubilee takes the head away; Logan attacks Wraith, who disappears. He calls them up to his house: they've been in Los Angeles all this time. There are intruders, and Logan attacks. Wraith stops him: they're just kids with machine guns, trying to rob the place. Mastodon is there, old and feeble: his Weapon X age suppressants suddenly wore off. Wraith, trying to reassemble the team, located Silver Fox and has Creed in the basement with an explosive stuck to his chest. Issue: Wolverine 62 Date: Oct-92 Story: Reunion! (22 pages) Feature Characters: Wolverine Regular Characters: Jubilee Guest Stars: John Wraith, Mastodon, Maverick (David North) Villains: Sabretooth (Victor Creed), Silver Fox and Hydra, Hines, Aldo Ferro (a.k.a. the Sicilian Mouse) Other Characters: Mrs. Higgenbotham and Ornette Credits: Writer: Larry Hama Pencils & Inks: Mark Texeira Letters: Pat Brousseau Colors: Marie Javins Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Creed breaks his restraints, daring Wraith to set off the explosive. The inevitable duel; Silver Fox, now of Hydra, interrupts, zapping Creed for trying to kill her. She calls a truce so they don't all wind up like Mastodon. She shows Logan her medicine bag (iss. 48), and he remembers her giving it to him when they were children, and his "Pa," Creed, disciplining him. Silver Fox tracked down Hines, their last surviving link to the Weapon X project, but Logan and Wraith don't want to torture her for information. Just then, Mastodon melts to mush in Jubilee's hands, and Hines, appalled, decides to help, first by taking Jubilee next door for a shower. Mrs. Higgenbotham's son is a computer hacker, so they get NSA data, including unknown Weapon X subjects Vole and Wildcat, and participant Ferro. He kicks Silver Fox out of his room when she pulls a gun: he was paralyzed in a drive-by. Silver Fox has Hydra's jet fly them to Ferro's private island near Seattle: he was a Mafia crime lord in Cuba, long thought dead. His defense systems shoot them out of the sky; they fight past his guards and find him young and working out in a gym, with Maverick as his bodyguard. Issue: Wolverine 63 Date: Nov-92 Story: Bastions of Glory! (22 pages) Feature Characters: Wolverine Regular Characters: Jubilee Guest Stars: John Wraith, Maverick (David North), Jean Grey, Prof. Charles Xavier Villains: Sabretooth (Victor Creed), Silver Fox, Aldo Ferro, Hines; Professor, Cornelius (both in flashback) Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Larry Hama Pencils & Inks: Mark Texeira Letters: Pat Brousseau Colors: Marie Javins Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Ferro is under government protection, with Maverick as guard. He makes Logan remember being tortured in a horrific, spiked environment, along with the others in Weapon X. He is a psi, and the Professor used his talents in the project even though he was a criminal. He has all the Weapon X'ers under his control, till Hines hits him in the head with a brick. She says he's a sadist and a psi-borg, but he interrupts her by exploding. An illusion, but enough to literally scare Hines to death. In Westchester, Cerebro noticed the psi activity, but it is quickly masked again. Logan wants to track down Ferro, to find out which of his memories are real. They blast through the floor and scout past Ferro's computer array, which they realize are all working to decode Logan's DNA. Logan realizes that's too easy an answer, and the computer is an illusion: Ferro turns into a tree, grabs Silver Fox, and then turns back into a computer. Logan has tears in his eyes, frustrated that everything could be an illusion. Just then Jean and Xavier arrive, but they aren't real, either. Issue: Wolverine 64 Date: Dec-92 Story: What Goes Around... (22 pages) Feature Characters: Wolverine Regular Characters: Jubilee Guest Stars: John Wraith, Maverick (David North) Villains: Sabretooth (Victor Creed), Silver Fox, Aldo Ferro (a.k.a. Vole), Shiva Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Larry Hama Pencils: Mark Pacella Inks: Dan Panosian Art Assist: Scott Hanna Letters: Pat Brousseau Colors: Marie Javins, Kevin Tinsley Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Logan, Creed, Wraith, and Maverick destroy the computer complex. False Jean and Xavier grow thorns, and Ferro shows himself, angry that they're destroying his life's work. He's part mechanical, a psi-borg, able to withstand Maverick's bullets. He psi-blasts Logan and gets him into an elevator, but he cuts the cables, and they drop to the bottom. They all find themselves at Logan's cabin in Canada, where Creed killed Silver Fox. But she wasn't really killed, so Ferro takes her medicine pouch from Logan to show him what trauma they really used to condition him: a tooth. Silver Fox had rejected him and knocked out his tooth. Ferro fells everyone with bad memories. He had been promised age suppressants but was cheated. He made all the Weapon X subjects search for him, so he could get tissue samples. He puts Logan in an illusion with Silver Fox; Logan knows it but doesn't care. Ferro admits Silver Fox and Logan were really in love and then realizes the suppressants didn't work on him because he himself had no trauma to trigger adrenaline. He brings Creed into the cabin. Another Shiva shows up, targeting Vole (Ferro). Jubilee directs it to him with a swift kick. Creed accosts Silver Fox, but she resists him and knocks out his tooth; he kills her. Shiva blasts into Ferro, knocking everyone loose of his grip. Logan knocks Creed away from Silver Fox; Ferro calls Creed to him, becomes a tree and swallows him, then shrinks down to a twig with a pod, which Maverick crushes. Issue: Wolverine 65 Date: Jan-93 Story: State of Grace! (23 pages) Feature Characters: Wolverine Regular Characters: Jubilee, Silver Fox (as a hologram) Guest Stars: Prof. Charles Xavier, Jean Grey, Cyclops (Scott Summers), Nick Fury, John Wraith Villains: Sabretooth (Victor Creed, as a hologram) Other Characters: Sean (in flashback) Credits: Writer: Larry Hama Pencils & Inks: Mark Texeira Art Assist: Steve Biasi Letters: Pat Brousseau Colors: Marie Javins Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Note: this occurs before the X-Cutioner's Song crossover, UXM 294. Logan uses a virtual reality helmet, since the Danger Room isn't enough of a kick. Xavier doesn't want him using it for revenge fantasies, but Jubilee says he needs to vent. Logan battles Creed in the cabin, when he's just killed Silver Fox. The program extrapolates dialogue, and Creed says he's unwilling to remember his mission to kill Terry Adams. In a bar, Logan wins at billiards and fights the loser, taking a massive blow to the head, which scares the guy off. Jean finds him and admonishes him for this juvenile behavior. He says his healing factor doesn't help him emotionally. Next morning, Silver Fox's funeral has been co-opted by Fury, and Logan is furious. Fury is too, forced to bury a member of Hydra, but Wraith arranged to take her to the cabin. He lets Logan come, blindfolded for security reasons. He's pleased to find his graffiti. He digs the hole himself and promises to return every spring. Issue: Wolverine 66 Date: Feb-93 Story: Prophecy (22 pages) Feature Characters: Wolverine Regular Characters: Jubilee Guest Stars: Prof. Charles Xavier, Jean Grey, Cyclops (Scott Summers), Colossus (Piotr Rasputin), Storm (Ororo Munroe); John Wraith Villains: Yuri, Ahmed Other Characters: a wino (from Marvel Comics Presents 72), Janice Hollenbeck (as a delusion) Credits: Writer: Larry Hama Pencils & Inks: Mark Texeira Art Assist: Steve Biasi Letters: Pat Brousseau Colors: Steve Buccellato Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Logan goes to the Prophecy House in Ottawa and remembers his last time there, in 1967. He goes to his old room, (23, as in the psalm), and pries up the floorboards, all the while seeing delusions of old TV characters and of Janice. In the mansion, the X-Men see that he trashed his room; Xavier says it's his fault for agreeing to remove the memory blocks (iss. 49). Logan went to the Auger Inn when the delusions started, devils in the pinball machine and an angel on his shoulder telling him to settle up with Terry Adams. Logan finds his stash of spy stuff: fake IDs, money and guns. He wakes in the mansion, fixated on his mission to kill Adams. Storm goes to Wraith, asking help to locate Adams and stop Logan. All he knows is that Creed and Maverick were involved, but the mission was scrubbed. The X-Men track Logan to Pakistan. He is on a train, which is boarded by thieves claiming to be KGB border guards. They shoot everyone, including Logan, and take his clothes and money. They discard his costume. Issue: Wolverine 67 Date: Mar-93 Story: Valley o' Death (23 pages) Feature Characters: Wolverine Regular Characters: Jubilee Guest Stars: Prof. Charles Xavier, Colossus (Piotr Rasputin), Psylocke (Betsy Braddock), Cyclops (Scott Summers), Iceman (Bobby Drake); Maverick (David North) Villains: Yuri, Ahmed Other Characters: Elena Ivanovna (see next iss.) Credits: Writer: Larry Hama Pencils: Mark Texeira Inks: Mark Texeira, Palmiotti Letters: Pat Brousseau Colors: Steve Buccellato Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Logan wakes and slashes wolves trying to eat his corpse. Delusional and dehydrated, he walks the desert, thinking it's 1967 and talking to an angel. He kills vultures for sustenance. The X-Men track Maverick to an Upper East Side penthouse and find a strangled young woman, suspended in mid-air by the residue of her own telekinesis. Maverick is there, tracking a serial killer who targets mutants. He says Terry Adams is Tyuratam, the name of the former Soviet Space Center. He looks at satellite photos and sees evidence of recent activity: a minelayer. Logan's killers (last iss.) find out the Hand put a bounty on his head, so they return for him. They catch up to him on the edge of the mine field (he smelled it); he rips them apart and takes their Russian tank. He gets through the gate using fake ID. He finds Elena, who looks like his angel. She directs him to her father, Epsilon Red, the "Soviet Super Astronaut" (and therefore a cosmonaut), and then realizes he (Logan) is the one who tried to kill him before. Issue: Wolverine 68 Date: Apr-93 Story: Epsilon Red (22 pages) Feature Characters: Wolverine Regular Characters: Jubilee, Silver Fox (in flashback) Guest Stars: Prof. Charles Xavier, Colossus (Piotr Rasputin), Psylocke (Betsy Braddock), Cyclops (Scott Summers), Iceman (Robert Drake) Villains: Epsilon Red; Sabretooth (Victor Creed, in flashback) Other Characters: Elena Ivanovna Credits: Writer: Larry Hama Pencils & Inks: Mark Texeira Backgrounds: Steve Biasi Letters: Pat Brousseau Colors: Steve Buccellato Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Epsilon Red bursts his bonds, sees Logan, and runs. Logan gives chase and attacks, confusing now with 1968, when he accidentally wounded Red's wife. He had been engineered to live in the vacuum of space. When Logan damaged his containment suit, he began bloating under atmospheric pressure and asked Logan to end his awful existence. Red realizes Logan's memories were tampered with and offers to help: he's a psi, too. He says Logan's mission was to forestall a Soviet moon launch, till Creed busted in to call off the mission. Logan has Red remove the rest of the artificial blocks (some are his own subconscious, to prevent insanity). His mind burns, till everything is clear. The X-Men are on their way in the Blackbird, and they see preparations for a launch. Security detects movement and surrounds Logan. He slices all their rifles. To repay Red, he mounts him on the Soviet shuttle, so he can live in space. The X-Men retrieve Logan and head for Siberia (X-Men II:17). Elena was actually the psi, and she didn't let Logan remember Creed killing her mother for fun. She gathered information from Logan and plans revenge.
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