Classic Wolverine Covers: X-Men #112
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X-Men #112, from August 1978, features one of the earliest of the truly classic Wolverine covers. For years, I assumed it was by John Byrne, but recently I realized it was, in fact, by George Perez (pencils) and Bob Layton (inks). D’oh!
Next up is my favorite panel from the issue by Chris Claremont, John Byrne and Terry Austin, wherein the entire X-Men team holds Wolverine back, trying desperately to stop him from eviscerating Magneto…
I always thought they should have let Wolverine go…
Since there aren’t a lot of extras this time around, I thought we should show a little love to the previous month’s cover, X-Men #111 by Dave Cockrum and Terry Austin depicting “Wolverine: Killer beast in human form!” Jon Bogdanove and Terry Austin did the honors for the reprint in Classic X-Men #17…
Last but not least is the humorous frontispiece by Jon Bogdanove and Terry Austin from the same issue…
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This was one of my favorite issues as a kid. Everyone, Byrne and Clairmont, were at the top of their game. I only noticed the cover was not Byrne because at the same time I was a drooling Perez fan.
Just a great issue overall and really made you respect Magneto as a villian (I think he was a baby before this, stupppid)