Wolverine: Origins #50
Wolverine: Origins #50 is the concluding chapter of Daniel Way's four-year, 50-issue exploration of Logan's restored memories — a saga that began as a direct consequence of the 2005 House of M event. As a series finale, the issue functions as a formal thematic bookend: Logan stops being defined by a century of manipulation and conditioning and consciously chooses to look toward his future rather than his blood-soaked past. The series' most durable contribution to the Marvel universe was the introduction of Daken, Wolverine's son, who by the time this issue shipped had already earned his own ongoing title — making this finale the closing bracket around one of the most character-expanding runs in Wolverine publishing history. Critically, the issue received mixed-to-negative notices at the time, with reviewers broadly agreeing that the backup feature — a quiet, antagonistic exchange between Logan and Hope Summers — was more emotionally effective than the sprawling main story, a consensus that itself says something meaningful about how difficult it proved to wrap up a macro-conspiracy arc of this scale.
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Wolverine: Origins launched in June 2006 under writer Daniel Way as a companion series to the core Wolverine ongoing, spun directly out of the 'Origins and Endings' arc in Wolverine (vol. 3) #36–40 and the memory-restoration premise of House of M. Steve Dillon drew the first 25 issues before a rotation of artists took over; Will Conrad handled the main story of this finale while Antonio Fuso drew the backup strip. The series ran for exactly 50 issues plus one annual under the editorial oversight of Jeanine Schaefer (editor), Axel Alonso (group editor), and Joe Quesada (editor-in-chief), crossing over with the Dark Reign event during issues #33–36 and tying into the Dark Wolverine title for its final arc before concluding on July 28, 2010.
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- Final issue (#50) of the Wolverine: Origins ongoing series, which ran 50 issues plus one annual from June 2006 to July 28, 2010.
- Written by Daniel Way; main story art by Will Conrad (colors by Andy Troy); backup story art by Antonio Fuso (colors by Sotocolor's C. Garcia); cover by Simone Bianchi and Simone Peruzzi.
- Main story ('What I Do: Conclusion') resolves Logan's internal reckoning with a century of Romulus-engineered conditioning, set in British Columbia with Nick Fury as the only other speaking character.
- Ghostly/hallucinatory appearances by key women from Logan's past — Seraph, Rose O'Hara, Itsu, Silver Fox, Mariko Yashida, Janice Hollenbeck, and Janet — serve as the emotional centerpiece of Logan's decision to move on.
- Backup story ('And the End is Always Near') features a scene between Logan and Hope Summers in a San Francisco alleyway, with Cable's recent death referenced; critics widely regarded this shorter strip as the stronger of the two stories in the issue.
- Wolverine: Origins is the first Marvel series to introduce Daken (Akihiro), Wolverine's son — the character's debut earlier in the run led directly to Daken receiving his own ongoing series, which launched the same month this issue shipped (September 2010 cover date).
- The series crossed over with the Dark Reign storyline and the Dark Wolverine title during its final arc (issues #46–50 collected alongside Dark Wolverine #85–87 in the 'The Reckoning' trade paperback).
- Marvel Database records three reprints of this issue, and it is available in digital form via the Marvel Comics app and Marvel Unlimited.
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