Summary
- Celebrate Wolverine's 50th anniversary with a ranking of YOUR favorite comic book stories, packed with dynamic characters and intense action.
- Jason Aaron and Ron Garney chronicle Wolverine’s brutal fight against super soldiers in a high-stakes plan to protect the secrets of Weapon X.
- Immerse yourself in Wolverine’s world of secrets and revenge as he battles the Red Right Hand and uncovers his dark past in a thrilling twist.
We're celebrating Wolverine's 50th anniversary by counting down YOUR picks for the greatest Wolverine comics stories ever told! You all voted, I added up your votes, and now I'm counting your votes, five stories a day for as long as it takes to get to #1!
These Wolverine stories will be drawn from his solo series, as well as notable collaborations with other superheroes, as well as issues of The X-Men where he was the main character of the story (this was especially common in the time before he got his own solo series, of course).
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30. “The Adamantium Men” (Wolverine: Weapon X #1-5)
The end of the third volume of Glutton It was a little weird, as there wasn't a solid creative team for the book, but Jason Aaron and Ron Garney had a great arc in the series that highlighted the relationship between Wolverine and Mystique. Aaron was then able to close out the series with a two-part story (which has already appeared on this list). Aaron then wrote a Wolverine: Manifest Destiny miniseries that tied into the main X-Men storyline (which saw the team relocate to San Francisco and then to the island of Utopia off the coast of San Francisco). It was time, then, for Wolverine to have a new series, and Aaron and Garney were the creative team on Wolverine: Weapon X.
In the opening storyline, Wolverine's old friend and colleague Maverick lets him know that a private mercenary company has purchased stolen information from the Weapon X archives and used it to create super soldiers with adamantium skeletons like Wolverine, healing powers, and laser claws in place of his adamantium claws.
Wolverine encounters two of the super-soldiers and has a tough fight with them: they are obviously highly trained agents, but Wolverine thinks he can barely take down the two soldiers after a few hours (the action scenes are excellent, with Garney doing some of the best work of his career in this series), but then he is shocked to discover that the two super-soldiers are not alone, but an entire STRIKEFORCE X!!
It's a great part that follows, where Wolverine realizes that discretion was the better part of valor, and decides to run away after that scene, shocking the members of Strikeforce X. The rest of the storyline sees Wolverine determine that he must kill all the members of Strikeforce X to ensure that the secrets of Weapon X remain secret.
During all this, a San Francisco reporter, Melita Garner, also investigated Blackguard (the company), and she and Wolverine became close (eventually they began a romantic relationship). This was an excellent start to this series, which later led to a fourth volume of Glutton.
29. “The Brotherhood” (Wolverine v3 #1-5)
In the opening volume of the third Wolverine volume, Greg Rucka and Darick Roberrtson saw Wolverine being dragged into a cult that preyed on young women. This drove Wolverine a little crazy.
28. “Death in the Family” (Wolverine v2 #55-57)
In the final plot of the period by Marc Silvestri and Dan Green on Glutton with writer Larry Hama, Wolverine's love interest Mariko Yashida plans to break her clan out of organized crime, but is instead fatally poisoned. Wolverine must kill her out of mercy…
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27. Spider-Man vs. Wolverine (Spider-Man vs. Wolverine #1)
In this significant one-shot by Christopher Priest, Mark Bright, and Al Williamson, Wolverine and Spider-Man both head to Germany when the KGB is on the trail of a mysterious agent known as “Charlie.” Charlie turns out to be Charlemagne, a longtime agent who has had a long history with Wolverine. She wants him to kill her, but Spider-Man tries to stop Wolverine from doing so.
26. “Wolverine's Revenge” (Wolverine v4 #10-14)
In the opening of the fourth volume of GluttonJason Aaron and artists Renato Guedes, Jose W. Magalhaes, and Matthew Wilson, Wolverine was sent to Hell by the evil organization known as The Red Right Hand. Well, once Wolverine got out of Hell, he was out for revenge. He hunted down the Red Right Hand, and in the process, had to fight their agents, known as the Mongrels, but after Wolverine killed them all, the Red Right Hand revealed that they were specifically recruited from among the various children Wolverine had fathered over the years!