| "Weapon X" | |
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Cover of Marvel Comics Presents vol. 2, 79 (Mar 1991). Art by Barry Windsor-Smith. |
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| Publication date | March – September 1991 |
| Genre | Science fiction, superhero |
| Title(s) | Marvel Comics Presents #72-84 |
| Main character(s) | Wolverine Weapon X |
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| Writer(s) | Barry Windsor-Smith |
| Artist(s) | Barry Windsor-Smith |
| Collected editions | |
| Wolverine: Weapon X | ISBN 978-0785137269 |
"Weapon X" is a comic book story arc written and illustrated by Barry Windsor-Smith and published by Marvel Comics. The story arc appears in Marvel Comics Presents #72-84 and tells the story of Wolverine during his time in Weapon X.[1]
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Logan is captive and prepared for the adamantium bonding process. As he is being prepared, flashbacks show Logan's kidnapping. There are several mentions of his being tough, and the Professor, the director of the Weapon X program, along with his assistants Dr. Cornelius and Miss Hines, wipe his mind and bond him to adamantium, the hardest known substance on Earth, to prepare him to be a killing machine. Prior to Wolverine volume 2, #75, the plot had too much adamantium bond to his forearms, resulting in his claws, leading to the development of tubes in his flesh to keep the skin apart for claw extraction.
Throughout the program, Logan is constantly referred to not as a person but as a subject, and his humanity is almost completely disregarded in the course of the experiments. Logan frequently comes to odds with his mental programming, and the Professor begins to question the program's head (at one time, the being was to be X-Men villain Apocalypse, but that has been retconned out for the time being), and eventually escapes into the wilderness after killing all of the soldiers there (except for one, future Weapon X Director Malcom Colcord) as the Professor, Cornelius, and Hines lock themselves up in a secured room that Logan cannot break into.
A sort of sequel to Weapon X, written by Larry Hama, appeared in Wolverine's first ongoing series starting with issue 48, entitled The Shiva Scenario. The 3 part storyline referenced much of what happened in the Weapon X story. It is collected in Wolverine Visionaries: Marc Silvestri, among other Wolverine stories from the era.
The story has been collected numerous times, first in a 1993 hardcover (ISBN 0871359464) then a 2007 hardcover (ISBN 0-7851-2667-8) which was reprinted in 2009 as a paperback (ISBN 0-7851-3726-2).
Additionally, the story is one of several others in the Best of Wolverine, Volume 1 hardcover, published in 2004 (ISBN 0-7851-1370-3).
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