Wolverine: Madripoor Knights #3
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeWolverine: Madripoor Knights #3 is the narrative midpoint of Chris Claremont's long-promised in-continuity sequel to Uncanny X-Men #268, the celebrated 1990 Jim Lee-drawn issue that wove together Wolverine's WWII past with his Madripoor present. This issue escalates the series' central spy-thriller conceit by putting Black Widow front and center — operating under the alias 'Tsarina' — as Claremont's primary agent of the chapter subtitled 'Spy!', a deliberate spotlight on a character whose Madripoor connections Claremont himself helped establish decades earlier. It also marks the reintegration of Bloodscream and Roughouse, two classic Claremont-era Madripoor villains, into the book's present-day continuity thread, deepening the series' project of closing narrative gaps left open since the early 1990s. As the issue where the trio's undercover gambit in Hightown reaches its breaking point against the Hand and the Prince of Madripoor, it represents Claremont's most ambitious attempt to honor — and extend — the layered continuity he built for Logan in the late Bronze and early Modern ages.
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The miniseries was conceived as a direct sequel to Uncanny X-Men #268, a 1990 issue written by Claremont and drawn by Jim Lee that has long occupied a central place in Wolverine lore for its dual-timeline structure linking Logan's wartime past to his Madripoor alias 'Patch.' Claremont — who defined Wolverine's solo adventures across the original Wolverine Vol. 2 run and co-created Madripoor as a setting — returned to Marvel to write this five-issue limited series, with Edgar Salazar on interior art and Philip Tan on covers, under editor Mark Basso and editor-in-chief C.B. Cebulski. The collected edition reprints the original Uncanny X-Men #268 alongside the five new issues, framing Madripoor Knights explicitly as its sequel and making the creative lineage of the project transparent on the page.
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- Written by Chris Claremont with interior art by Edgar Salazar and cover art by Philip Tan; released April 24, 2024 (cover date: June 2024).
- The issue's in-series title is 'Spy!' — the third chapter of the five-issue limited series Wolverine: Madripoor Knights (2024).
- Serves as a direct, in-continuity sequel to Uncanny X-Men #268 (1990); the Marvel Chronology Project places the entire miniseries in the timeline slot immediately following that classic issue.
- Featured antagonists in this issue include Bloodscream, Roughouse, Sapphire Styx, General Nguyen Ngoc Coy, and the Hand — characters rooted in Claremont's original Wolverine solo run of the late 1980s.
- Black Widow, operating under the alias 'Tsarina,' takes a starring tactical role in this chapter as the trio adopts a subterfuge approach to intercept a deadly weapon before it reaches auction in Madripoor.
- Supporting cast includes Tyger Tiger (Jessán Hoan) and Prince Baran, both recurring figures from Claremont's foundational Madripoor stories.
- The issue shipped with multiple variant covers, including a 1:25 retailer incentive by Chris Samnee, a Nic Klein Stormbreakers variant, and a Sam De La Rosa variant.
- The full miniseries (issues 1–5) was later collected in a trade paperback that also reprints Uncanny X-Men #268, published by Marvel/Penguin Random House (ISBN 9781302952242).
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Reprinted in Wolverine: Madripoor Knights #[nn] (2024)
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