Wolverine #3
Wolverine Vol. 5 #3 (2013) is the third chapter of the 'Hunting Season' arc — the opening story of the Marvel NOW! fifth volume that Paul Cornell and Alan Davis built as a deliberate bridge to the eventual 'Death of Wolverine' event. The issue advances a cosmically-scaled threat by picking up the Watcher's ominous appearance from the previous issue and using it as the story's dramatic engine, pushing a street-level Logan into a threat of universe-sized consequence. It also introduces two minor but catalogue-worthy first appearances — the fiction writer Marcus H. Harold and the engineer Robert Templeton — while continuing to establish the Guernica Bar as a recurring setting that Cornell used to flesh out the superhero support ecosystem around Logan. As part of Volume 5 as a whole, the 'Hunting Season' arc represents a meaningful creative pivot: Cornell consciously explored a more self-restrained, humanity-seeking Wolverine fresh off the Avengers vs. X-Men fallout, a characterization experiment that set the table for stripping Logan of his healing factor in the subsequent 'Killable' arc.
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The fifth Wolverine ongoing launched in March 2013 as part of Marvel's Marvel NOW! initiative, which cancelled the Jason Aaron-written Volume 4 at issue #317 and handed the title to writer Paul Cornell and penciler Alan Davis. Cornell, known for his work on Captain Britain and MI:13 and Doctor Who, brought a British sensibility to Logan's world, while Davis — a veteran of Excalibur and Uncanny X-Men — supplied clean, expressive linework. The series was edited by Jeanine Schaefer, with Nick Lowe as group editor and Axel Alonso as Editor-in-Chief. Issue #3 shipped on May 8, 2013, carrying a July 2013 cover date, with inks by Mark Farmer, colors by Matt Hollingsworth, and lettering by Cory Petit.
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- Story title: 'Hunting Season: Part 3 of 4' — the third chapter of the opening arc of Wolverine Vol. 5 (2013), part of the Marvel NOW! publishing initiative.
- Written by Paul Cornell; pencils by Alan Davis; inks by Mark Farmer; colors by Matt Hollingsworth; letters by Cory Petit; edited by Jeanine Schaefer.
- Featured characters: Wolverine (Logan) and Nick Fury Jr. — the issue continues the team-up between the two that began in earlier issues of the arc.
- First appearance of Robert Templeton, a minor supporting character introduced at the Guernica Bar, a superhero-trade watering hole on West Fourth Street in New York.
- First appearance of Marcus H. Harold, a fiction writer who frequents the Guernica Bar; sources note he bears a similar name to Harold H. Harold of Tomb of Dracula but is explicitly not the same character.
- The Watcher (Uatu) factors into the issue's dramatic stakes — Wolverine attempts to convey to Nick Fury Jr. the seriousness of the Watcher's prior appearance, signaling the threat is of cosmic significance.
- Logan and Nick Fury Jr. track a smart-bullet/alien weapon to Blenkin Pharmaceuticals, where Wolverine confronts guards in Mandroid armor; the issue ties into a larger Microverse-originated alien-invasion plot.
- This issue was collected in the Wolverine: Hunting Season trade paperback (Marvel, September 2013), which reprints Wolverine (2013) #1–6; the full Volume 5 run of 13 issues also serves as a prelude to the 'Death of Wolverine' storyline.
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Reprinted in Wolverine #1 (2013), Wolverine #2 (2013), Wolverine #1 (2015), Death of Wolverine Omnibus #[nn] (2024)
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