Wolverine #10

Aug 1989 · Marvel · 1.50 USD; 2.00 CAD

📊 ~71,395 copies sold its debut month

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“24 Hours”

★ 1st appearance — Silver Fox

About this Issue

Wolverine #10 delivers the first appearance of Silver Fox — a member of the Blackfoot Nation and Logan's great pre-Weapon X love — and simultaneously marks the first time Sabretooth appears in Wolverine's own solo title, making it the issue that formally establishes their deep personal vendetta on the page rather than in crossover appearances. The story, titled '24 Hours,' structured entirely around Logan's birthday as an annual wound inflicted by Sabretooth, gave the Wolverine/Sabretooth rivalry a specific emotional origin that writers and filmmakers have returned to ever since, most visibly in the 2009 film X-Men Origins: Wolverine. As the final Wolverine story written by Chris Claremont — who shepherded the character through his 1982 limited series and the first ten issues of the ongoing — the issue closes a creative chapter and hands Logan's mythology to successors already shaped by the emotional architecture Claremont built here.

writer Chris Claremont · artist John Buscema · inker Bill Sienkiewicz · colorist Mike Rockwitz · letterer Ken Bruzenak · cover Bill Sienkiewicz

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Raw (VF) $4

CGC 9.8 · 1517 in census $81

CGC 9.6 · 1410 in census $41*

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CGC 9.2 · 419 in census $26*

CGC 9.0 · 290 in census $23*

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CGC 3.5 · 1 in census $20*

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CGC 2.0 · 1 in census $20*

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History

Written by Chris Claremont and illustrated by John Buscema with inks by Bill Sienkiewicz, '24 Hours' was published in August 1989 under the editorial guidance of Bob Harras (editor) and Daryl Edelman (assistant editor), with Tom DeFalco as editor-in-chief. The issue marked Claremont's final solo Wolverine script on the ongoing series he had launched the previous year; commentators have noted that the Buscema/Sienkiewicz art combination — grittier and more expressionistic than the cleaner superhero look of earlier issues — was a better stylistic match for the story's raw, violent tone. The cover itself was painted by Bill Sienkiewicz, and a back-cover pin-up was provided by Kent Williams, rounding out an issue with an unusually distinctive visual character.

Trivia · 8 facts

First appearance of Silver Fox, created by Chris Claremont and John Buscema; she is a member of the First Nation Blackfoot Confederacy and was Logan's romantic partner in the Canadian frontier prior to his involvement with the Weapon X Program.
First time Sabretooth (Victor Creed) appears as a character within Wolverine's own solo title, cementing the rivalry that had previously played out in X-Men team books and anthology issues.
Story titled '24 Hours,' structured as a present-day framing sequence set in Madripoor (featuring Patch/Logan, Jessica Drew, Lindsay McCabe, Madame Joy, and Police Chief Tai) surrounding a harrowing flashback in which Sabretooth murders Silver Fox on Logan's birthday and then defeats Logan in hand-to-hand combat.
Chris Claremont's final script on the ongoing Wolverine series; he would depart Marvel's X-titles in 1991 but this issue closed his specific run on this book.
Art by John Buscema (pencils) and Bill Sienkiewicz (inks); cover by Bill Sienkiewicz; back-cover pin-up by Kent Williams — the last back-cover pin-up of the series.
Published August 1989; edited by Bob Harras with Tom DeFalco as editor-in-chief.
Silver Fox's debut in this issue directly informed the 2009 film X-Men Origins: Wolverine, in which the character — renamed Kayla Silverfox and portrayed by Lynn Collins — serves as Logan's central love interest and primary emotional motivation.
The issue has been reprinted numerous times, including in Essential Wolverine Vol. 1 (1996, black and white), Wolverine Classic Vol. 2 (2005), a Marvel Legends standalone reprint (May 2006), Wolverine Omnibus Vol. 1 (2009), Wolverine Epic Collection: Madripoor Nights (2014), and True Believers: Wolverine vs. Sabretooth (July 2018), as well as in Marvel Visionaries: John Buscema (2019).