This is a guy who doesn’t give a damn about anything he just tosses it. One would be a total shithole: clothes on the couch, beer cans wherever. The way I always describe Wolverine is, if you walked into Logan’s room at the X-Mansion, you’d be immediately struck that the room would be split almost literally in half. We wanted to show an aspect of him hadn’t been seen before, and that was built around the relationship between Logan and Mariko. It’s boring, and, frankly, I had no interest in doing that because I was already doing it in The X-Men. Frank had no interest in doing Wolverine just hacking and stabbing. So I did - there were other people in the car, but tough. I had three and a half hours to pitch him. Frank foolishly came with me, and we got stuck in a tailback on I-5. How did the original Wolverine series come about?Īfter the San Diego Comic-Con, I had a rental car, and I was giving people a lift up to Los Angeles. ( Spoilers follow for those who haven’t seen the film.) Sean Howe, author of Marvel Comics: The Untold Story, asked Claremont for his thoughts on the film (for which he had no creative input or financial remuneration), and the character’s general treatment in the Fox X-Men franchise. The new movie, The Wolverine, is based on his 1982 four-issue spinoff series that sent Logan to Japan, for which Claremont drafted then-rising-superstar artist Frank Miller. Claremont drew up a full backstory for the character, and then meted out the slow reveals over the course of a decade and a half: Wolverine’s first name was Logan his skeleton was laced with an indestructible metal he had a mutant healing power he’d fought in World War II his father was the savage assassin Sabretooth. Claremont didn’t technically create Wolverine - that credit goes to writer Len Wein and artist John Romita - but he did, with artists like Dave Cockrum and John Byrne, flesh out a stock tough guy into a contradiction-filled man of mystery. No, it’s Chris Claremont, who wrote the monthly Uncanny X-Men comic (along with many, many spinoffs) from 1975 to 1991. If there’s a prime architect responsible for the success of the X-Men franchise, it’s not Hugh Jackman, whose sixth go-round as the character opened last weekend.

1982’s Wolverine miniseries, by Chris Claremont and Frank Miller

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