Originally posted by Bentley
Hulk didn't have one?
Nope. They made his skin impenetrable, before the famous rematch with Wolverine in the 1987 Peter David-Todd McFarlane issue, where Logan did cut him open, but found Hulk had a healing factor that worked faster when he got madder. A retcon after all the previous years, sure...but no one had gone after Hulk with sharpened adamantium all those years in between either.
Originally posted by jalek moye
when did wolverine even get one? i dont think he had one at first
It was revealed slowly, along with many aspects of his character, when he joined the X-Men in (comic year)1975, after his debut the year before.
It was only coming on the debut of the Phoenix force in 1976, that we saw Wolverine's claws were a part of his unbreakable bones (the team didn't know that beforehand.)
It was during the early days of Chris Claremont & John Bryne, that Logan reveled off-hand in Japan that he spoke Japanese. It was during the same time that he reveled his name as Logan to Mariko; the rest of the team wouldn't know that until after the Dark Phoenix Saga ended around 1980. His response to these surprise revelations was often a terse "You never asked." The healing factor was confirmed pretty early.
Originally posted by jalek moye
when did wolverine even get one? i dont think he had one at first
Uncanny X-Men #142. When he healed from Pyro's flames.
We've been given a strong hint earlier though, in issue 116. A dinosaur bit Logan in the arm and he said to Storm not to worry 'cause he heals real fast.
Re: Most original powers
Originally posted by YoBro
Which powers in comics do you consider to be very original and unique? I think Wolverine's mix of healing, adamantium skeleton and claws is very cool and unique.
It's not very original though, it's basically a variant of Timberwolf's power set (healing, claws, and toughness/strength).
Re: Re: Most original powers
Originally posted by Q99
It's not very original though, it's basically a variant of Timberwolf's power set (healing, claws, and toughness/strength).
Except Timberwolf didn't have a healing factor or claws when he was created, that only became part of his power set long after Wolverine rose to popularity.
Ambrose Chase;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Chase
The Engineer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineer_%28comics%29
The Drummer;
Originally posted by roughrider
It was revealed slowly, along with many aspects of his character, when he joined the X-Men in (comic year)1975, after his debut the year before.It was only coming on the debut of the Phoenix force in 1976, that we saw Wolverine's claws were a part of his unbreakable bones (the team didn't know that beforehand.)
It was during the early days of Chris Claremont & John Bryne, that Logan reveled off-hand in Japan that he spoke Japanese. It was during the same time that he reveled his name as Logan to Mariko; the rest of the team wouldn't know that until after the Dark Phoenix Saga ended around 1980. His response to these surprise revelations was often a terse "You never asked." The healing factor was confirmed pretty early.
Yeah, originally Claremont considered the claws just being housed in his gloves and was going to have Logan be a teenager or a young man of the X-men's age (after all in his first few appearences, we don't get to see him unmasked) when Logan's face was finally settled upon, he was drawn to look much older.