History ComicBook / Wolverine1988

* HealingFactor: Logan, in his internal dialogue from the first issue, describes his main mutant ability as "a para-human, super-efficient healing factor that can deal with any illness, or poison, or wound. Makes me way stronger than normal, faster, tougher. Makes my senses keener than any animal's." What makes it significant for this comic's run is the "no adamantium" arc, after Magneto pulled the metal out of his body at the end of the ''ComicBook/{{Fatal Attractions|MarvelComics}}'' arc. The stress of healing such a massive trauma shut the healing factor down for a few months of story time[[note]]and six years of physical comic releases between the X-titles and this comic[[/note]]. When it finally came back, it essentially overclocked because it wasn't having to compensate for the adamantium. While this helped Logan recover from injuries much faster, it made the feral aspects of his mind and personality slowly take over, which gave him a lot of stress and led him to separate himself from the X-Men.

* HealingFactor: As described by Logan in his internal dialogue from the first issue:
-->[...] I'm a mutant, born with a para-human, super-efficient healing factor that can deal with any illness, or poison, or wound. Makes me way stronger than normal, faster, tougher. Makes my senses keener than any animal's.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: After issue #90, Sabretooth has been reduced to an animal- or child-like mentality by Logan putting a claw through his frontal lobe in issue #90, and is being held in the X-Mansion. However, he heals from this rapidly but continues to maintain the facade. Logan knows he's pretending, and this puts him at odds with the rest of the X-Men. [[spoiler:In ''Uncanny X-Men'' #328, Logan will be proven correct, as Sabretooth mocks Xavier, eviscerates Psylocke, and escapes.]]

** Issues #125-128 show Viper brainwashing the female members of the X-Men to drive Logan to her, so that can marry each other.

* CrossThrough: Issue #90 crosses through with ''Legion Quest'', the prequel storyline to ''Age of Apocalypse'': [[spoiler:Wolverine released the middle metal claw directly into Creed's brain, just as reality is rewritten by the M'Kraan Crystal and rebooted as the Age of Apocalypse.]]

* ObfuscatingStupidity: After issue #90, Creed, at this time a prisoner of Xavier, pretends to have regressed to an animal or child mentality. Logan knows his enemy is just pretending, and this puts him at odds with the rest of the X-Men. [[spoiler:In ''Uncanny X-Men'' #328, Logan will be proven correct, since Sabretooth mocks Xavier, eviscerates Psylocke, and escapes.]]

* {{Crossover}}: Issues #115-118 crosses over with ''Operation: Zero Tolerance'' (1997).

** Issues #125-128 shows Viper brainwashing the female members of the X-Men to drive Logan to her, so that can marry each other.

* StoryArc: Issues #93-101 develop a continuous storyline:
** In issues #93-95, Tyler Dayspring (ComicBook/{{Cable}}'s son), also called Genesis, commands the Dark Riders to release Cyber (another of Wolverine's enemies) from a castle in Scotland. This leads to a confrontation against Cyber.
** In issues #96-98, Wolverine is assisted by mysterious expediter Zoe Culloden and goes on a trip to Madripoor, accompanied by Jean Grey. Cannonball also goes after Wolverine in Madripoor.
** In issues #99-101 (also crossing through with ''Uncanny X-Men'' #331), Genesis captures Wolverine and re-implants the adamantium on his bones. However, Wolverine's body rejects the adamantium and he regresses to a feral state. He kills Genesis, and some X-Men go after him in Akkaba (in Morocco).

* MilestoneCelebration:
** Issue #75 introduces Wolverine's bone claws for the first time.
** In issue #100, Wolverine regains his adamantium skeleton coating... and loses his nose in the process, reverting to a feral, animalistic state.

** In issues #93-95, Tyler Dayspring (Cable's son), also called Genesis, commands the Dark Riders to release Cyber (another of Wolverine's enemies) from a castle in Scotland. This leads to a confrontation against Cyber.
** In issues #96-98, Wolverine is assisted by mysrterious expediter Zoe Culloden and goes on a trip to Madripoor, accompanied by Jean Grey. Cannonball also goes after Wolverine in Madripoor.
** In issues #99-101 (also crossing through with ''Uncanny X-Men'' #331), Genesis captures Wolverine and reimplants the adamantium on his bones. Wolverine regresses to a feral state, kills Genesis, and some X-Men go after him in Akkaba (in Morocco).

The series follows Logan's various adventures when he's not with the X-Men, which tends to be darker then than the stories presented in ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'', with a lot more drugs, sex, and violence. It also heavily features his adventures in the country of Madripoor in his "Patch" alias.

The series follows Logan's various adventures when he's not with the X-Men. The series tends to be darker then than the stories presented in ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'', with a lot more drugs, sex, and violence. It also heavily features his adventures in the country of Madripoor in his "Patch" alias.

** The Savage Land story arc (#69-71) has Wolverine, Rogue, and Jubilee go the the Savage Land to investigate rumors of Magneto being there. Separated from the others, Jubilee runs afoul of some native tribes in the Savage Land, and manages to best them in combat. When Logan meets up with her again on the Blackbird, he's informed that the people of the tribe mistook her for a boy and tried to betroth her to one of their princesses.

** The Big Crunch story arc (#51-53) starts with Logan picking up a woman at a local bar. Jubilee follows him and finds him at a motel...and is shocked to find ''Jean Grey'' coming out of the motel room. She returns to the Westchester mansion, dejected, until she sees ''Jean Grey'' jogging around the mansion, doing her morning workout. Jubilee is ecastatic, embracing Jean, realizing that whoever Logan was with it was someone she could "punch in the nose". [[note]] It was Mystique. [[/note]]

* SeriousWorkComedicScene: This comic book is usually very serious and often grim, with more than a few grisly moments to its story arcs, but that's not to say that it's without humor.
** The Big Crunch story arc (issues #51-53) starts with Logan picking up a woman at a local bar. Jubilee follows him and finds him at a motel...and is shocked to find ''Jean Grey'' coming out of the motel room. She returns to the Westchester mansion, dejected, until she sees Jean jogging around the mansion, doing her morning workout. Jubilee is ecstatic, embracing Jean, realizing that whoever Logan was with it was someone she could "punch in the nose". [[note]]It was Mystique.[[/note]]
** Wolverine, Rogue, and Jubilee go to the Savage Land to investigate rumors of Magneto being there. Separated from the others, Jubilee runs afoul of some native tribes in the Savage Land, and manages to best them in combat. When Logan meets up with her again on the Blackbird, he's informed that the people of the tribe mistook her for a boy and tried to betroth her to one of their princesses.

-->'''Logan''': Lastly, I have claws. Six of 'em, three in each hand, extending from bionic implants housed in my forearms. The blades are pure adamantium...honed so keen they'll cut through anything.

* ImmuneToBullets: Wolverine lampshades this in his internal monologue from the first issue, after taking several bullets through the gut from an AK-47:

* SeriousWorkComedicScene: This comic book is a very serious and often grim story with more than a few grisly moments to it, but that's not to say that it's without humor.

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The series follows Logan's various adventures when he's not with the X-Men. The series tends to be darker then than the stories presented in ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'', with a lot more drugs, sex, and violence.

* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Wolverine's claws. In the first issue of his 1988 solo series, long before the bone claw reveal, Logan's inner dialogue notes "The blades are pure adamantium...honed so keen they'll cut through anything"
* AwkwardStoplightMoment: Issue #47 of his 1988 solo title revolves around a drug user who snaps and goes on a killing spree, with Logan as more of a background character for most of it. Near the climax, as Logan is on his motorcycle at a stop light, the killer pulls up beside him in his car. Already drunk and ramped up on adrenaline from his previous kills, as well as armed and with stolen money in the seat beside him, the killer starts freaking out as he looks at Logan, seeing that [[BadassBiker he's not someone to mess with]] and wondering if he's a cop.
* BodyHorror: [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/feralwolvie.png Wolverine's "feral" form]] that he devolved into in ''Wolverine'' #100 after his body rejected a second adamantium infusion, which had elongated, barbed claws, a warped face with the nose shrunken to little more than slits, diminished height, bulging muscles, exaggeratedly hairy arms, hunched back, and Sabretooth-like clawed fingernails and fang-like canines. Picture Wolverine as somewhere between a troll and a caveman, and you have the basic idea.
* HauntingTheGuilty: Alluded to when Jubilee has Reno and Molochai, the hitmen who'd killed her parents, at her mercy. Wolverine tells her that one "paff" [[note]]The sound-effect/name of Jubilee's plasma fireworks [[/note]] to the brain stem and they'd be dead and it would seem like a regular heart attack, aside from two fairly healthy men experiencing it at the same time. Jubilee protests.
--> '''Jubilee:''' You've killed people. You've killed so many, and...
--> '''Wolverine:''' Yeah. You wanna sit up some night and help me talk to all of 'em?
--> '''Jubilee:''' Oh. (Settles for a GroinAttack on both men.)

* LifeOrLimbDecision: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in one issue from the 1988 solo series. Logan ended up captured and with one arm in a huge manacle that he couldn't easily cut through...so he pulled his arm out of the manacle, basically skinning it in the process.

* OffWithHisHead: Subverted in the first issue. During the brawl with the slavers, one actually lands a neck cut with a sword, but it shatters on Wolverine's spine and he gets skewered promptly.

* RecklessGunUsage: During the fight with the pirate slavers, one opens up on him with an AK-47 in a crowded room, and Logan notes that the guy doesn't care a whit if he hits anyone else (which he does) as long as he hits Logan (which he also does, and which makes Logan go berserk).
* RiggedSpectacleFight: His 1988 solo series' first issue opens with a fight between the leader of a pirate gang and the captain of a plane that the pirates have captured, with the other pirates and the surviving passengers watching. It's immediately obvious that the fight is meant to be bloodsport, as the pirate is wielding a machete while the captain's arms have been tied behind his back. The captain manages to put up enough of a fight to impress some of the other pirates, but he's eventually overpowered and decapitated by the pirate leader, who makes it clear to some of the female captives that this was done as an example of what could happen [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty if they displease him]].

** The Big Crunch story arc (Vol. 2 #51-3) starts with Logan picking up a woman at a local bar. Jubilee follows him and finds him at a motel...and is shocked to find ''Jean Grey'' coming out of the motel room. She returns to the Westchester mansion, dejected, until she sees ''Jean Grey'' jogging around the mansion, doing her morning workout. Jubilee is ecstatic, embracing Jean, realizing that whoever Logan was with it was someone she could "punch in the nose". [[note]]It was Mystique.[[/note]]

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