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Wolverine: Weapon X

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Explore the Stories Behind the Legends Naked, bloody, and screaming in pain – this is the Wolverine that faced readers in the story arc Weapon X. This was more than just the tale of how Wolverine got his adamantium skeleton and claws. Legendary creator Barry Windsor-Smith... Read More
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More than just Wolverine's origin story, with Weapon X legendary creator Barry Windsor-Smith challenged readers’ expectations of super hero stories and created Marvel’s most brutal and beautiful comic.

More than just Wolverine's origin story, with Weapon X legendary creator Barry Windsor-Smith challenged readers’ expectations of super hero stories and created Marvel’s most brutal and beautiful comic.

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Explore the Stories Behind the Legends

Naked, bloody, and screaming in pain – this is the Wolverine that faced readers in the story arc Weapon X. This was more than just the tale of how Wolverine got his adamantium skeleton and claws. Legendary creator Barry Windsor-Smith challenged fans’ expectations of superhero stories and created Marvel’s most brutal and beautiful comic.

In 1991, when Weapon X was first published, Wolverine was one of Marvel’s most popular superheroes. For Weapon X, creator Windsor-Smith reimagined the superhero origin story as a cyberpunk horror story. A shadowy organisation abducts Wolverine to create “the ultimate killing machine,” and we are plunged into a story of basic, animalistic survival. As Wolverine endures more and more trauma, the lines between reality and consciousness disappear.

Illustrated with full-colour art from this legendary storyline, Jim Rugg’s entry in the Marvel Age of Comics takes a deep dive into one of Marvel’s most experimental and singular comics, and what many consider to be the definitive Wolverine story.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9798765138762

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 June 2026

Country: United States

Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic

Illustration: 25 color illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 192

About the Author

Jim Rugg is an Eisner and Ignatz Award winning cartoonist, designer, zinemaker, and illustrator. His books include Hulk Grand Design (2022), the Street Angel series, the PLAIN Janes (2020), Octobriana 1976 (2020), Supermag (2013), and Afrodisiac (2010). He is the co-creator of YouTube’s Cartoonist Kayfabe channel. His comics are part of the Smithsonian permanent collection and the National Archives and he taught visual storytelling at the School of Visual Arts and the Animation Workshop in Denmark. Rugg lives and draws in Pittsburgh.

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