Wolverine: The Origin

In 2002, Marvel finally answered a decades-old question with this prestige-format miniseries, written by Bill Jemas, Joe Quesada, and Paul Jenkins with art by Andy Kubert. It reimagined Wolverine’s early years, revealing the boy named James Howlett before the adamantium and the amnesia, set against a harsh 19th-century Canadian backdrop. A landmark retcon that humanized the feral mutant, it remains the definitive origin story for one of Marvel’s most iconic characters.