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It’s Kitty’s first day as an official X-Man. That cover is iconic. The “hope you survive the experience” tagline will be used over and over. Both in future X-Men comics and others. Check out the bottom of this post for a few examples.
Also: Wolverine is rude to Professor X.
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And in other Wolverine news…Over a dozen issues ago, we heard Wolverine start to introduce himself to Mariko as “Lo-“–now we learn the rest of his name.
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Claremont and Byrne also change the colors on his costume, without anyone in the comic itself noticing. It’s part of the maturing of the character, but that was a long time to wait for the “Logan.” These stories are marked by patience and long-form storytelling, something we don’t see nearly as much of anymore given how creators move around so much and there are so many #1 issues of everything.
Also, Kitty gets her Sprite codename from Storm, after rejecting Xavier’s suggestion of Ariel.
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All that is enough good stuff, but also in these issues we get the return of Wendigo.
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Wolverine helps Alpha Flight deal with the menace.
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And the cliffhanger has Blob escaping Federal custody, the “Maximum X Security Penitentiary.” I don’t think Marvel did much with this prison–it was a good idea, but like so many of Chris Claremont’s ideas, it kind of just disappeared. He threw so much out there it was simply impossible to keep up.
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Logan’s color change started when the X-Men were fighting the Imperial Guard, and Logan disappeared for most of the fight going one-on-one with “Timber Wolf”, who wore those colors. When Logan returned (and Wolf didn’t), he was wearing what has left of Wolf’s costume, and he kept the colors.