Wolverine co-creator Roy Thomas returns to the character for X-Men Legends relaunch
Stan Lee's immediate successor as writer of the X-Men, Roy Thomas, returns to the franchise in May to launch a new volume of X-Men Legends, Marvel's title in which classic X-Men creators tell tales set in their contemporary eras. In X-Men Legends #1, Thomas teams up with artist Dave Wachter to tell a Wolverine story set in the era of Logan's debut.
Though Wolverine's first appearance in Incredible Hulk #181 was scripted by writer Len Wein, Thomas helped co-create the character as editor - and now, he says he's getting a version of his longtime wish to be the one to write Wolverine's debut by returning to his earliest days.
"You could've knocked me over with one of the Angel's wing-feathers when editor Mark Basso invited me to scribe a two-part X-Men Legends story set back in the general period of the X-Men book during the period when I was originally writing it (as Stan's successor) in the latter 1960s," Thomas states in the announcement.
"After some thought, it occurred to me that what would really be fun would be to write a story that took place right after the crashing of Wolverine into the Marvel Universe in ‘1974’ - since, after conceiving the character in broad outline (and some specifics), I turned him over to the considerable writing skills of Len Wein," Thomas continues.
"But I have long kinda wished that I had scripted that story myself. This is the closest I'm gonna get - so I'm having a ball with it! (Artwork's pretty great, too!)"
Thomas wrote Uncanny X-Men #20-44, as well as #55-64 and #66. The title then began to feature reprints of older X-Men stories from issues #67-93, at which point the team was revised with a new roster and creative team in the legendary Giant-Size X-Men #1, featuring who else but
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