Marvel Platinum: The Definitive Wolverine Reloaded

Uncanny X-Men (1963) #172-173, 256-258, Annual #11

by Chris Claremont, Peter David, Larry Hama

Wolverine - he's the best there is at what he does! He's also the world's most popular mutant super hero and this summer he stars in his very own Marvel movie! Marvel Plantinum: The Definitive Wolverine brings together the very best tales from the characters' 30-year history, including covering some of his greatest and most pivotal moments.

Collects: Uncanny X-Men #172-173 and 256-258, Uncanny X-Men Annual #11, Wolverine volume 2 #s 10 and 57, Wolverine Origins #5, Wolverine volume 3 #61 and Uncanny X-Force #34

Paperback

First published June 3, 2013

About the author

Chris Claremont is a writer of American comic books, best known for his 16-year (1975-1991) stint on Uncanny X-Men, during which the series became one of the comic book industry's most successful properties.

Claremont has written many stories for other publishers including the Star Trek Debt of Honor graphic novel, his creator-owned Sovereign Seven for DC Comics and Aliens vs Predator for Dark Horse Comics. He also wrote a few issues of the series WildC.A.T.s (volume 1, issues #10-13) at Image Comics, which introduced his creator-owned character, Huntsman.

Outside of comics, Claremont co-wrote the Chronicles of the Shadow War trilogy, Shadow Moon (1995), Shadow Dawn (1996), and Shadow Star (1999), with George Lucas. This trilogy continues the story of Elora Danan from the movie Willow. In the 1980s, he also wrote a science fiction trilogy about female starship pilot Nicole Shea, consisting of First Flight (1987), Grounded! (1991), and Sundowner (1994). Claremont was also a contributor to the Wild Cards anthology series.

Reviews

[Ari Lola · Rating 3 out of 5]

I hoped for this to kind of be like a summary of the stories you need to have read to get into the Wolverine comics, but eventhough some of the stories I guess had some key moments, I had no clue what was going on in half of them as they were taken right out the middle of a run of comics.
Bit inconvenient.

[Jane · Rating 4 out of 5]

This collection of Wolverine comics is beautifully drawn (with the exception of a couple of the more recent ones near the end) and with great plots, however even though it is still action packed it focuses more on the human side of the character. This accumulation of stories primarily seems to revolve around Logan's often tragic love life. Other X-Men that appear are mainly Jubilee, Storm and Psylocke (no complaints there) but you do see Gambit, Rogue and afew others also including Daken.