Marvel has revealed important information to us about the origin of the mythical mask that Wolverine wears.
Without a doubt, one of the most iconic characters of all marvel universeand belonging to the X Menit’s wolverine. This superhero was introduced in the comic The Incredible Hulk #181and since then, he has starred in all kinds of adventures both alone and in the company of the mutant group.
Wolverines is a character with so many enigmas and nuances, who has gone through much suffering throughout his life. However, this hero is very loved by readers and is considered the favorite of many. Recently, Marvel gave us information related to the origin of the mask that takes our hero to the missions. Next, we tell you everything.
What was the origin of Wolverine’s mask?
As we already told you, Wolverine was a character that was introduced in the comics starring the Hulkbut who quickly became a recurring hero until having his own adventures, missions and development.
wolverine is a hero whose development was a bit improvised; that is, the creators were not very clear about what kind of character they wanted or their background or anything like that. In fact, Editor-in-Chief Roy Thomas, I didn’t know anything about this heroexcept that he was Canadian.
Thomas also hadn’t fully fleshed out the character’s traits and abilities. Later, during its official creation, for the hulk comic, John Romita was in charge of designing and drawing Logan. This, taking a little ideas from Thomas, created a cat-style mask.
This would be Logan’s first design and his costume, with a mask that, although it was not very different from what we see today, it could be differentiated. In this way, Wolverine debuted in The Incredible Hulk Comic #181 and we would not see it again until the publication of the Giant-Size X-Men Comic #1.
In this comic, we could see that a change was made to Wolverine’s mask, since the artist in charge of drawing it was Gil Kane and not John Romita. Therefore, he took the time to slightly modify the design lines that Romita had createdaltering the mask to the one the character currently wears.
Arguably, the legendary mask we all know Wolverine wears, It was the product of an accident that went well.
How was Wolverine created?
When the company was trying to reach an international audience, back in the 70s, Roy Thomas came to the conclusion that the way to achieve it was by having heroes of different nationalities. That is how he had the first idea of what Wolverine would bea Canadian superhero.
The name of “Wolverines” occurred to him because this is an animal from Canada, but as we mentioned before, he had not fully developed the concept of the character. In fact, initially this had the idea that Logan’s mythical claws came out of his gloves and not that it would be a mutant with this ability.
Thomas has openly confessed that, in his childhood, he was an animal lover. So, from these, he was inspired to create the one would be one of the most popular and beloved characters in the entire marvel universe. He eventually put pieces of the puzzle together until he defined the Wolverine we know today, with his abilities and his history.
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