What Wolverine owes to the Summer of '75?

[bronze johnny]

So Byrne gets the credit for bringing Wolverine to major character status among the X-Men?

[shadroch]

I'd go along with that.

[Logan510]

So Byrne gets the credit for bringing Wolverine to major character status among the X-Men?

 

If it weren't for him, Wolverine would've been written out of the book and probably relegated to B or C list status.

[shadroch]

I don't know about that. He was an importantl part of the X-Men for almost two years before Byrne showed up.

Its not like he was Sun-Fire or Thunderbird.

[Logan510]

I don't know about that. He was an importantl part of the X-Men for almost two years before Byrne showed up.

Its not like he was Sun-Fire or Thunderbird.

 

Fan mail was overwhelmingly negative towards the character. Byrne says that Claremont told him right before he joined the book that he was planning on writing him out because he and Cockrum "could never figure out what to do with him". Byrne has repeated the tale several times of wrapping himself in the Canadian flag ( metaphorically ) and demanding Claremont not get rid of the only Canadian character in the book.

[bronze johnny]

So is there a evidence of point in time where the fan mail became positive towards Wolverine?

[shadroch]

I recently sold my X-Men Omnis, but anyone that has a copy can run down the published letter s pretty easily.

[Mephisto]

So Byrne gets the credit for bringing Wolverine to major character status among the X-Men?

 

If it weren't for him, Wolverine would've been written out of the book and probably relegated to B or C list status.

 

 

I agree Wolverine could easily have wound up like a character from the 70's such as The Constrictor.

 

I also agree that Wolverine really exploded come X-Men 132-133. Thanks to Byrne he had slowly been building up to the character people grew to love but he was not an immediate success in that book. It was more of the new team. X-Men 129 has one of my favorite Wolverine moments, reading porn in the malt shop without buying. Many older fans also reference 132/133 as when Wolverine became the very best at what he does.

 

I mean look how the old X-Men characters failed in their series. If they were so damn good they also would not have had to break X-Factor apart about 5 more issues longer than the original X-Men series. They could have still had the original X-Factor along with all those other X titles that died out with in a decade but once again those sad sacks known as the X-Men were paired up with the Storms, Colossus, and Wolverines of the world. For that reason I also agree that Wolverine has transcended the X-Men and the two are synonymous with Wolverine making them who they are today and the past 25 or so years.