5 Things You Don’t Know About Wolverine

1. He’s short.
Wolverine is 5’3″ making him one of Marvel’s shorter superheroes. Based on this, former Monkee Davy Jones would be a better fit to play Wolverine instead of 6’2½” Hugh Jackman.

2. He’s heavy.
That cool unbreakable Adamantium skeleton puts Wolverine around the 300 lb. mark.

3. He was a member of the Fantastic Four.
Wolverine, Ghost Rider, Spider-Man, and the Hulk became the New Fantastic Four for a 3-issue run (FF 347-349) back in 1990. The arc is too complex to explain, but it involved Skrulls, Mole Man, and The Punisher.

4. He fought alongside Captain America in WWII.
Logan, pre-Adamantium and pre-Wolverine, teamed up with Cap to fight ninjas. It’s the first time the two heroes met and they saved the life of a very young Black Widow (UXM 268).

5. He’s met Captain Kirk and Captain Picard.
A 1996 one-shot brings the X-men to Kirk’s Enterprise (where Spock neck pinches Wolverine) and 1998′s Planet X was a novel set in the Next Generation Era (Wolverine hangs out with Worf).

We have many Wolverine and X-men graphic novels in the system. Check them out.

Covered

I’ve been following Covered for a few weeks now and while it was initially disappointing, some of the newer posts have been really impressive.

The idea behind Covered is that indie artists are covering classic comic covers. At first it was a little too faithful, but Renee French rocked Havok and Wolverine: Meltdown and Richard Sala’s take on Batman 197 made me happy that we own so many cool Richard Sala books.

One of the newer posts, is Jeffrey Brown’s version of Uncanny X-Men 211 — which reminded me that Jeffrey Brown doesn’t get enough love.

We own 2 Jeffrey Brown books. Incredible Change-Bots – which seems to parody the Transformers until you realize that it’s actually a sweet story.

We also own Bighead which is absolutely hilarious and everyone should read.

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