Initial inspiration for Wolverine? Beast?

[CheeseFrog]

I recently finished reading my X-Men run up to issue 143, and just tonight decided to re-read Amazing Adventures, issues 11 and 12. Plenty of recent exposure to early Wolverine, and Beast...

 

After coming off of X-Men, and seeing how the newly furry Beast is portrayed in Amazing Adventures, I can't help but wonder if the initial inspiration for Wolverine came from those very pages?

 

- They both fight like uncaged animals.

 

- They both remark on the bloodlust which drives them into an uncontrollable battle frenzy.

 

- They have the same funky hair-do.

 

- They both have a regenerative healing factor.

 

 

The characters seem very similar to me. These issues of Amazing Adventures came out a couple/few years before IH 181. Maybe that's a bit obtuse, however Wolverine was all I could think of while going through those Amazing Adventures issues.

 

Anyhow, back to reading...

 

 

[vaillant]

I don’t think so, as Englehart poetic at the time was pretty different than Len Wein's but I can be wrong…

[johnenock]

Timberwolf? from LOSH coulda had a little bit to do with Wolvie. Don't know but they look fairly similar with similar animalistic traits.