Yeah, DC put out a special collected edition of the story which was rare for back then. It was the only superhero comic in my town's library.
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It's the early 90's: Which comic book event was talked about more; The Death of Superman (92) or Wolverine having his Adamantium ripped out (93).
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Yeah, DC put out a special collected edition of the story which was rare for back then. It was the only superhero comic in my town's library.
This is like asking what was a bigger deal; the Death of Superman, or Tony Stark turning into a pubescent.
I'm shocked this is even a question. They're not even in the same stratosphere.
I mean, there are other 90s stories that would make much more sense in the poll like Knightfall and The Clone Saga and those still would come nowhere close to Death of Superman.
I mean, there are other 90s stories that would make much more sense in the poll like Knightfall and The Clone Saga and those still would come nowhere close to Death of Superman.
I wasn't a Superboy fan, but you have my sword on this too out of respect.
You've always been with me on Wally too.
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DoS it's not even close. I remember it selling out absolutely everywhere. People that didn't even read comics knew about it
Fuck Romulus. Trash ass character.Nerd, explain how the thumb claw works
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I am actually really surprised at the poll results.
Sure, Death of Superman made the news, but I wasnt watching the news at 13 years old. I was talking about video games and comics and stuff with my friends. We all thought Superman was wicked lame, and X-Men was cool, and Wolverine was the coolest.
Sure, Death of Superman made the news, but I wasnt watching the news at 13 years old. I was talking about video games and comics and stuff with my friends. We all thought Superman was wicked lame, and X-Men was cool, and Wolverine was the coolest.
The better question is what was more culturally significant, the death of Supes or the the breaking of Batman's back. DC owned owned the market on bullshit, attention-grabbing mega-events at the time.
Wasn't Red Lotus that fake ass Mr. X?
Wait, is Mr. X a fake ass Red Lotus?
They kinda still own it now, given the recent state of their DCEU films...
Sure, but certainly you can acknowledge that outside of you child-hood circle, the Death of Superman had far great cultural reach and impact than Wolverine being slightly inconvenienced in a niche comic book enthusiast story?
I don't even know what his powers were suppose to be, he just showed up on Xtreme team one day. Rogue was flexing so awesomely that i just ignored him
By your own admission, Death of Superman made the nightly news. You wouldn't see another nerd medium that broke into the mainstream like that until Episode I was about to be released in theaters a few years later. Meanwhile, Wolverine didn't matter to anyone outside of kids and nerds reading comics at the time.
I miss red jumpsuit Rogue back when she wore the ruby quartz goggles cuz her powers were out of whack.
Is the DCEU still doubling down on the idea of a universe-rebooting Flashpoint movie?
Yeah the Xtreme uniforms were fire. Should have kept themI miss red jumpsuit Rogue back when she wore the ruby quartz goggles cuz her powers were out of whack.
No, they never touched it. That comic arc hit at like peak cartoon popularity though.
In fact I bet there's a lot of people from that era who remember Wolverine getting his adamantium ripped out but couldn't tell you how or when it came back.
I would definitely be among those people. I definitely remember when he go the adamantium removed and a period afterwards where he had bone claws.....but I have no idea when he was restored to 100%.
And honestly, who outside of hardcore nerds even cared about any of the post-adamantium Wolverine stuff? All that nose-lacking goofy bull-shit? Superman's death lead to to the Return of Superman storyline, and the multiple Supermen, which was a huge deal amongst my comic-reading friends at the time.
Yes indeed. Kyle and Wally forever.
Legit bullshit retcon trash.
I had a pet theory when I was a kid, which solved the "bone claws" retcon.
Excalibur once fought a villain who could transmute anything into anything. He turned some people into gold. He ended up having to go to medical school to try to find a way to change them back, because "people" are complex organisms and he has no way of knowing what something's original state was (good luck putting the solid-gold brain back to normal and having it still be the original person).
Wolverine tried to kill him. He defended himself by turning Wolverine's claws into rubber. After things settled down, he did Wolverine the courtesy of turning his rubber claws back into adamantium.
Therefore, it doesn't matter what Wolverine's claws were made of before he met this guy. He turned Wolvie's [whatever] claws into rubber, and then he turned Wolvie's rubber claws into adamantium-coated bone, because he just assumed that Wolverine was a weirdo mutant who had bone claws that were coated with adamantium. The state of Wolverine's claws shortly before the adamantium removal was entirely based on the random guess of a guy who didn't know what he was doing.
This is the greatest issue of Wolverine ever made and Wolverine didn't have claws.
The defense rests. Bone claws suck. If anyone needs me I'll be at the bar.
Is this when Sabertooth was still his dad?This is the greatest issue of Wolverine ever made and Wolverine didn't have claws.
The defense rests. Bone claws suck. If anyone needs me I'll be at the bar.
You should have compared Wolverine losing his Adamantium to Hal Jordon going insane and becoming Parallax. Both relatively unknown and stuck in the 1990s.
Member when DC Comics killed Robin by having a phone in hotline to let fans vote (pre-internet days), lol.
IIRC it was just hinted at back then. There was still some mystery left, and honestly, that's the way it should've stayed. Wolverine has never been as cool as he was back when we were all guessing.
He jumped the shark in the 90's then stuck a bone claw in it.
Oddly enough, Magneto became mostly an allied character by the time of the run that starts with Giant Size X-Men #1, which introduced many iconic characters to the team like Wolverine and Storm, as well as Magneto's concentration camp survivor backstory. So, during the 80s, they barely actually clashed as enemies. Magneto returned to being an antagonist by the 90s though, so they actually pulled the adamantium removal fairly quickly once Magneto was a constant enemy again.
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Speaking from New Zealand (lol), Death of Superman was a big enough event that I actually heard about it, whereas I didn't find out about the Wolverine's adamantium thing until I was a teenager.
Say what now? The very first time the new team runs into Mags he tosses Wolverine around like a rag doll. The Magneto anti-hero stuff was later.
Wow, huh....I never knew that Magneto spent much time as an ally of the X-Men. I only read comic in the 90's though, but always remember him as a mortal enemy.
Fatal Attractions was bigger among my friends (mainly for the hologram covers), but Death of Superman by far. Was the first "death" comic book story to break into the mainstream consciousness.
Wolverine #75 also laid the groundwork for Onslaught, so there's that too.
Wolverine #75 also laid the groundwork for Onslaught, so there's that too.