1) He Was Almost Written Out For Not Being Exciting Enough
As we’ve previously said, Wolverine has been one of Marvel’s most popular characters for decades. That success could have been curtailed, however, if the company’s execs had followed through with their plan to write Logan out back in his early days.
In 1975, Wolverine had yet to be fully explored as a character – with his personality and fascinating backstory still to come, he was a minor member of the X-Men at best. As such, Marvel bosses thought about cutting their losses with this dead-end character and remove him from the book.
Thankfully, artist/writer John Byrne stepped in. As a Canadian himself, Byrne didn’t want one of Marvel’s few Canadian heroes to be tossed on the scrap heap before he had really made his mark. After Byrne ensured the character was kept on the team, Frank Miller and Chris Claremont soon came along to turn him into the Wolverine we all know and love.