Wolverine 66 NM Old Man Logan Millar Steve McNiven 1st print Deadpool Movie

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Wolverine #66.
Cover by STEVE MCNIVEN
Old Man Logan: Part 1 of 8
Writer MARK MILLAR
Pencils STEVE MCNIVEN

MARK MILLAR and STEVE MCNIVEN-who last teamed for the monumental CIVIL WAR-bring us the most important WOLVERINE story of the 21st Century. Nobody knows what happened on the night the heroes fell. All we know is that they disappeared and evil triumphed and the bad guys have been calling the shots ever since. What happened to Wolverine is the biggest mystery of all.

For 50 years, no one has heard hide nor hair from him…and in his place stands an old man called Logan. A man concerned only about his family. A man pushed to the brink by the HULK GANG. A man forced to help an old friend-the blind archer, HAWKEYE-to drive three thousand miles to secure his family’s safety. Get ready for the ride of your life, Logan.

32 PGS. NOTE: This story plus Fantastic Four (1998- 3rd Series) #558-561 and Marvel 1985 (2008) #1-5 are all part of an epic past, present, and future storyline written by Mark Millar that all ties in together.

Old Man Logan is an alternative version of Wolverine. This character is an aged version of Wolverine set in an alternate future universe designated Earth-807128, where the supervillains overthrew the superheroes. Introduced as a self-contained story arc within the Wolverine ongoing series by writer Mark Millar and artist Steve McNiven, the character became popular with fans. After the death of Wolverine, Laura Kinney took the Wolverine mantle but an Old Man Logan from the similar Earth-21923 was brought in to serve as an X-Man and featured in his own ongoing series.

Old Man Logan was a principal inspiration for the 2017 film Logan, starring Hugh Jackman as the title character.

Old Man Logan debuted as a character in Mark Millar’s run on Fantastic Four, which featured characters who are heavily implied to be the aged Wolverine and Bruce Banner Jr. as an adult. Wolverine: Old Man Logan started as an eight-issue storyline from the third volume of Wolverine ongoing series by writer Mark Millar and artist Steve McNiven. The series ran through Wolverine #66–72 (June 2008 – June 2009) and ended in Wolverine Giant-Size Old Man Logan #1 on September 9, 2009.

The upcoming Deadpool and Wolverine may very well be remixing one of Logan’s most popular comic inspirations 7 years after the movie’s release.

There are several elements seen in Deadpool & Wolverine’s new trailer that look to be pulled directly from Millar and McNiven’s Old Man Logan. This includes the desert wasteland with various elements from the MCU scattered around throughout the Void at the End of Time. Similarly, Old Man Logan debuted an alternate universe where several supervillains team up and take over the country in the far future, the result being the Wasteland with only a few remnants to be found of the Marvel Universe that was.

For example, the massive remains of Giant-Man become a grim landmark in Old Man Logan’s Wasteland. Likewise, the large skull and remains of Scott Lang’s Giant-Man have become the base of operations for Deadpool & Wolverine’s new villain Cassandra Nova (Emma Corrin). Featuring multiple mutant villains from past films, it looks as though Wolverine and Deadpool will find a car and go on a road trip of sorts through the Void, much like how Logan and a blind Hawkeye get in a Spidey-Mobile and travel across the country in the comics’ Old Man Logan.

It’s also confirmed by the TVA’s Mister Paradox that the movie’s Wolverine somehow failed his world (again, just like Old Man Logan who was manipulated into killing his fellow X-Men). Keeping that in mind, it truly looks as though Deadpool & Wolverine will be adapting a lot more of Old Man Logan than 2017’s Logan did. That’s certainly saying something considering just how good Hugh Jackman’s last appearance as Wolverine truly was.

Near mint, 1st print.