Wolverine
#17
[Newsstand]
(Late November 1989)
Marvel,
1988 Series
- Price
- 1.50 USD; 2.00 CAD; 0.60 GBP
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly except fortnightly in June, July and August
- On-sale Date
- 1989
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics
- Brand
-
Marvel [standalone or inside vertical box]
- Barcode
- 071486022541 15
- Editing
- Bob Harras (editor); Daryl Edelman (assistant editor); Tom DeFalco (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
This issue is a variant of Wolverine (Marvel, 1988 series) #17 [Direct].
[no title indexed]
Wolverine / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- John Byrne (signed as John Never Say Never Again Byrne)
- Inks
- John Byrne (signed as John Never Say Never Again Byrne)
- Colors
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Wolverine [Logan]
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
-
in Ryhmä-X (Semic, 1984 series) #5/1991 -
in Wolverine (Misurind, 1989 ? series) #9 -
in Wolverine (Play Press, 1989 series) #17 -
in Wolverine Classic (Marvel, 2005 series) #4 -
in Serval-Wolverine (Semic S.A., 1989 series) #9 (mars 1991) -
in Wolverine (Editora Abril, 1992 series) #1 (março de 1992) - in Essential Wolverine (Marvel, 1996 series) #1 (October 1996) [black and white]
- in Essential Wolverine (Marvel, 1996 series) #1 [Second Edition] (August 2005) [Recolored] which is reprinted
- in Marvel Universe by John Byrne Omnibus (Marvel, 2016 series) #[1] (2016), #[1] (2016) [Wolverine figure]
- in Wolverine Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #2 - Back to Basics (2019)
- in Wolverine Omnibus (Marvel, 2009 series) #2 (2021)
- in Wolverine Omnibus (Marvel, 2009 series) #2 [John Byrne cover] (2021) which is reprinted
-
![Cover Thumbnail for Wolverine (Marvel, 1988 series) #17 [Newsstand]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/908/w200/908052.jpg?7410575798589442572)
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Basics!
Wolverine / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Archie Goodwin (credited)
- Pencils
- John Byrne (credited) (breakdowns); Klaus Janson (credited) (finishes)
- Inks
- Klaus Janson (credited) (finishes)
- Colors
- Glynis Oliver (credited)
- Letters
- Jim Novak (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Prologue: the not so distant past... long before I hear his approach,
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Prince Baran (villain); Bloodscream (villain); Archie Corrigan (guest); General Nguyen Ngoc Coy (villain); Daredevil [Matt Murdock] (guest, flashback); Gateway (guest, flashback); Nikolaus Geist (villain); Lord Shingen Harada (flashback); Noburu Hideki; O'Donnell (guest); Patch [Logan]; Roughouse (villain); Storm [Ororo Munroe] (guest, flashback); Police Chief Tai (guest); Tyger Tiger [Jessán Hoan] (guest); Wolverine [Logan] (also in flashback); Mariko Yashida (cameo flashback); Hammer Cody (also in flashback, death)
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Synopsis
- General Coy sells Roughouse to Geist, who performs drug experiments on him. Wolverine decides to help out an old foe.
- Reprints
- in Wolverine Classic (Marvel, 2005 series) #4
- in Serval-Wolverine (Semic S.A., 1989 series) #9 (mars 1991)
- in Essential Wolverine (Marvel, 1996 series) #1 (October 1996) [black and white]
- in Marvel Universe by John Byrne Omnibus (Marvel, 2016 series) #[1] (2016)
- in Wolverine Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #2 - Back to Basics (2019)
- in Wolverine Omnibus (Marvel, 2009 series) #2 (2021)
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[no title indexed]
Cutting Edge / letters page / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- So far I have Wolverine #1 through #13, and they are all just great.
Indexer Notes
Letters from: Matt Brant, Jason McVay, Bryon Grenfell, Paul Dube, and Craig Bridger.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Wolverine -
1.
Basics!
Wolverine -
2.
["So far I have Wolverine #1 through #13, and they are all just great."]
Cutting Edge
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