Marvel Comics Presents Wolverine: Weapon X (1991)

Collects "Weapon X” story in ’Marvel Comics Presents #72 to #84 (February to September 1991).
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Prologue

Logan is dismissed from the army for wounding someone there at a shooting range. His drinking had led his hands to shake. He drinks at a bar called the Prophecy, passing the nights away, and at night he has the same dreams as always. They’re filled with pain, spikes, bones and blood. Meanwhile, a man known as the Professor employs a disgraced doctor named Abraham Cornelius and a former NASA clerk called Carol Hines. They join Experiment X, and they set up their equipment prior to the arrival of their subject. Logan wants to get away from it all. He decides on the Klondike and, after tying up a few loose ends, he sets off in his Lotus Seven sports car. On his way there, he stops at a bar where he is watched, unseen, by agents from Experiment X.
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Chapter 1

Logan is taken down outside a bar on the way to the Klondike by three agents of Experiment X. He is taken to the complex and placed in a tank filled with red liquid. Cables and needles are inserted into his body at numerous points and his vitals are monitored by Carol Hines and two technicians. Carol notices that his hair has already grown back after being shaved. Logan appears to be more than human. His body has sustained damage in the past that simply doesn’t show up any more. His body is draining more adamantium than expected, and the Professor calls for the reserve to be switched on, just in case.
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Chapter 2

Logan is unconscious as he is experimented upon. The Professor wonders why his superiors failed to inform him that Logan appears to be a mutant with some kind of superhuman power to regenerate damaged tissue. He wonders what else he doesn’t know about Experiment X. Carol Hines monitors a leakage at Logan’s wrists, but everything seems normal. Later, a lab technician informs the Professor that their subject has spikes coming out of his wrists. There’s blood everywhere. After ensuring that Logan cannot escape, the Professor asks the technician to enter the room. By the time Dr. Cornelius and his security staff arrive, the technician is dead on the floor under Logan. The Professor who is monitoring events from afar smiles. He is impressed with what he sees.
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Chapter 3

Dr. Cornelius explains to the Professor how he and two guards narrowly escaped being slaughtered by Logan when he crashed into the observation booth after murdering a young technician. Luckily for them, Logan passed out before any real danger arose. The Professor offers to induct Dr Cornelius further into the program. The doctor accepts the offer, and the Professor explains that Logan is Homo superior. With the intervention of Experiment X, he has become the most formidable tactical weapon ever conceived. Logan wakes and begins to tear at his bindings, but a burst of gas knocks him unconscious once again. The Professor explains that Logan needs restructuring, trainjng and then programming, a job Cornelius is ideally suited for.
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Chapter 4

Due to the adamantium bonding process, Logan’s brutish impulses have been greatly exaggerated. The Professor wonders what the use of a weapon is if they can’t control it. As more experiments take place, Logan begins to wake and he grabs Hines around the throat as he sits up. Images from Logan’s subconscious appear on screen. He is in great pain, and doesn’t know why they’re doing this to him. The Professor orders him to release Hines, and he does, only to grab the Professor instead. Security rushes in and sedates Logan. As Logan sleeps, his subconscious meets out his revenge on screen for all to see.
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Chapter 5

Logan is going to undergo field tests. He is covered with sheep’s blood to attract hungry wolves. All his actions are monitored by Doctor Cornelius and Carol Hines, and filmed by cameras stationed in the forest. As the wolves approach, Logan doesn’t move a muscle, and his adrenaline doesn’t rise. As he is attacked by the wolves,, his epinephrine suddenly rises, and his claws extend from his body. He starts to fight back, much to the Professor’s delight. Logan kills all the wolves, and then lets out a bestial roar. With the test over, his feeds are cut and he falls unconscious to the forest floor. The Professor has him lay there overnight in sub-zero conditions to toughen him up and then has the wranglers collect him in the morning.
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Chapter 6

Logan is back in the lab. His body is now fitted with sensor grafts that can control his actions. One of the other doctors tries to show the Professor how to use a modified control box, but the Professor feels that as he designed it, he should know how it works. He tries to have Logan walk, but he topples over as the Professor grapples with the controls. The doctors laugh at him, and Cornelius asks them to leave. Cornelius leaves the Professor with Logan, assuring him that while he’s switched off, he is just dead meat. The Professor pours hot coffee onto Logan’s face just to make sure.
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Chapter 7

Logan is being further field tested. Cameras watch him as he confronts a large Grizzly Bear. Logan quickly dispatches it with his claws, and the Professor is impressed. Logan is returned to the complex by two wranglers. The Professor tells Cornelius that Logan is ready, despite the doctor’s protestations. He now wants to pit Logan against another human. After he leaves, Cornelius monologues about how he doesn’t feel cut out for all this. Suddenly, the alarms sound and on the monitor, they see Logan kill the two wranglers. Cornelius calls the Professor, as Logan tears his way out of the lab.
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Chapter 8

Logan is free, seemingly moving under his own volition. He makes short shrift of the wranglers sent in to stop him, despite them pumping his body full of sedatives. The Professor tries to use his console to gain control over Logan, but finds that nothing is working. Cornelius tries to get through to the Professor, but he is busy speaking with his superiors. They inform him that they are in control of Logan. Soon, Logan is smashing his way into the Professor’s laboratory. Security breaks in and pump Logan full of lead, but it’s too late to save the Professor’s hand, which has been severed from his body. The Professor orders them to kill Weapon X.
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Chapter 9

Logan makes short work of the security guards that rescue the Professor. Once he’s killed them, he heads for the Professor once again. The Professor, Hines, and Cornelius head to the adamantium reactor, where the Professor hopes they will be safe. Hines grabs a gun from a dead guard when they arrive, and passes it to Cornelius. He is asked to try shooting the harness off Logan, which should shut him down. The Professor contacts his superiors on the main computer, but doesn’t receive an answer as he begs for mercy. Logan cuts the power lines, and makes his way inside the reactor.
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Chapter 10

Logan confronts the Professor, Doctor Cornelius and Carol Hines. The Professor hits Cornelius, and his rifle lets off several rounds into Logan. Cornelius then approaches him to check on his condition. Logan thrusts his adamantium claws into his stomach, killing him. The Professor and Hines run for the reactor. Once there, the Professor hurls Hines into the pit and heads for the control room. As the computer begins the purge sequence, Logan appears at the edge of the pit and Carol screams.
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Chapter 11

Logan is lured to the adamantium reactor’s exhaust-pit by the Professor. Once he’s inside, the Professor purges the reactor, flooding the pit with heat. Logan’s body burns, and the Professor contacts his superiors to gloat that he’s killed their experiment. He turns to see Logan standing behind him, his body burning. Logan crashes through the window and attacks him. Logan then cuts off the Professor’s other left hand, before killing him.
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Chapter 12

Logan carries the dead body of the Professor to the exhaust-pit inside the adamantium reactor and tosses it in. He falls asleep and awakens later to the sound of the Professor’s, Hines’, and Cornelius’ voices. He discovers the Professor’s severed hand on a control panel, finds the eviscerated doctor, and then begins to question whether he is the one that carried out this massacre. Logan figures he’s got to get out of there. He begins to run and eventually makes it outside, only to come face to face with a Siberian tiger. He attacks it and soon defeats the tiger. It is shown that the Professor, Cornelius, and Hines are all alive and well. Logan’s recent experiments have been undertaken using a virtual reality helmet. Cornelius congratulates the Professor on his success in creating his weapon, and in using the idea that he answers to a higher body to enhance the ruse. What he doesn’t suspect is that the Professor actually does answer to superiors. Wranglers go outside to collect Logan, but he slashes them with his claws. He then proceeds to return to the complex and rips his way into the Professor’s lab, confronting the three scientists. What transpires isn’t shown. Later, he leaves the compound and heads into the snowy wilderness.

Jan 2009

Marvel

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2009

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Weapon X

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