Wolverine#66

Wolverine #66

Aug 2008 · Marvel

📊 ~97,989 copies sold its debut month

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About this Issue

Wolverine #66 marks the debut of Old Man Logan — an aged, pacifist version of Logan set in an alternate dystopian future (Earth-807128) where supervillains have conquered and divided America — and in doing so fundamentally expanded what a Wolverine story could be, moving the character away from action-hero tropes and toward guilt-driven, consequence-heavy drama. The arc introduced a framework — broken hero, villain-ruled wasteland, road-trip redemption — that proved enormously generative, spawning multiple ongoing series, a prominent role in Marvel's 2015 'Secret Wars' event, and a direct creative influence on the 2017 Fox film Logan. By grounding an iconic superhero in the emotional registers of revisionist Westerns rather than superhero spectacle, Millar and McNiven helped legitimize a more literary mode of Marvel storytelling that subsequent creators actively built upon.

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History

Mark Millar and Steve McNiven reunited for 'Old Man Logan' directly off the back of their 2006–2007 Civil War crossover, bringing the same blockbuster creative partnership to a self-contained dystopian yarn on the Wolverine ongoing title. Millar drew explicit inspiration from Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven and the Mad Max film franchise — the retired, guilt-haunted gunslinger forced back into violence maps closely onto Logan's own arc of pacifism broken by circumstance. The issue shipped on June 18, 2008 (cover-dated August 2008) under editor Joe Quesada as Editor-in-Chief, with John Barber and Michael Horwitz as issue editors, Dexter Vines on inks, and Morry Hollowell handling colors.

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First appearance of Old Man Logan (James Howlett of Earth-807128), the aged, pacifist alternate-universe Wolverine who becomes a standalone character in Marvel's publishing line.
First appearances of the entire Earth-807128 supporting cast introduced in this issue: Maureen Logan, Scotty Logan, Jade Logan, the Hulk Gang (Miss Banner, Otis, Charlie, Little Bruce), and the blind Hawkeye of that alternate future.
Written by Mark Millar, penciled by Steve McNiven, inked by Dexter Vines, colored by Morry Hollowell — the same core team that produced Civil War (2006–2007).
Part 1 of an eight-chapter arc running through Wolverine (Vol. 3) #66–72 and concluding in Wolverine Giant-Size Old Man Logan #1 (September 2009).
The story arc was consciously modeled on Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven and the Mad Max franchise, making it one of the earliest mainstream Marvel stories to openly position itself as revisionist Western rather than superhero adventure.
The issue was released with multiple cover variants at launch: a standard Steve McNiven cover, a Michael Turner 1:50 retailer incentive colored variant, a Michael Turner 1:100 sketch variant, and a Dynamic Forces variant by Herb Trimpe.
The 2017 20th Century Fox film Logan takes thematic and narrative inspiration from the Old Man Logan storyline, featuring an aging, diminished Wolverine on a protective cross-country journey.
Old Man Logan was later developed into his own ongoing solo series — first in the 2015 Secret Wars event written by Brian Michael Bendis with art by Andrea Sorrentino, then in a 2016 ongoing written by Jeff Lemire, establishing the character as a lasting fixture of the X-Men line.