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In 2009, Marvel tried to pin Logan down to a timeline in a direct edition they called Wolverine Saga. It's still on the vague side, but here is a barebones brief on the official version to help folks piece together the main happenings in Logan's life. Note-worthy occurances relating to Wolverine are in gold text. Note-worthy people in his life are in green font.

Please note for sanity's sake that this is mainstream Logan only, not any alternate world including the Movie-verse.

James Howlett is born to the household of John Howlett and his wife, Elizabeth. In the comic-verse, James' paternity is not clear.

James grows up a sickly child in the company of Rose (a red-haired Irish orphan brought into the household as a companion for him, approximately 4 years older than James though this is a guess) and 'Dog' Logan (son of the gameskeeper for the Howlett estate, Thomas Logan. Dog is assumed by many to be the one to grow up to be Sabretooth, but this is not currently confirmed in the comic-verse).

Death of John Howlett at the hands of Thomas Logan.

Death of Thomas Logan at the hands of James Howlett. First eruption/use of bone claws, drawing attention of the being known as Romulus.

Death of Elizabeth Howlett - suicide.

Rose and James leave the area. James starts using name of Logan.

Logan gains the nickname of Wolverine due to his short, scrappy nature.

Death of Rose - accidental impalement on Logan's claws.

Logan goes to live with a wolf pack in the Northwestern wilds for undetermined amount of time.

For reasons currently unknown, Logan next surfaces in Asia as an employee for Landau, Luckman and Lake under Chang.

First known visit to Madripoor. Meets and becomes lover to Seraph (another Romulus prodigy).

Logan travels to Japan and works for Hand ninjas.

First meeting with Sabretooth (using that codename - another manipulated by Romulus).

Logan returns to Canada, meeting and become a lover to Silver Fox. The two live as husband and wife in a woodland cabin.

Sabretooth comes after Logan, attacking Silver Fox and leaving her for dead. Both Logan and Sabretooth are convinced Silver Fox is actually dead - possibly due to interference by Romulus.

Logan becomes a member of the Devil's Brigade (secret Canadian unit) after the start of World War I in 1914. Unit is led by Silas Burr aka Cyber (yet another Romulus tool).

In 1915, Logan is in Belgium fighting Lazaer aka Azreal, Angel of Death.

Logan returns to Canadian and falls in love with Janet, another of Burr's operatives.

Death of Janet - killed by Burr.

Logan fights Burr, but loses. Leaves the military.

Logan takes up life as a sailor and appears in Shanghai. First meeting with Ogun.

Logan ends up in front of a Mexican firing squad in 1921 (around the end of the Mexican Revolution). First known meeting with Raven Darkholme aka Mystique.

Heads to Kansas with Mystique and joins her gang of grifters. Logan and Mystique become lovers, but he ends up turning her gang in to the police.

In America during the Depression, Logan had some odd jobs. He smuggled bootleg alcohol and also joined a circus (Maximillian Ernesto Seville Circus) billed as the 'Amazing Immortal Man'.

Another period of unaccounted for time, but in 1932, Logan was in Madripoor again with Seraph, learning more about life and the trade of assassination.

Logan periodically left Seraph for short periods including one trip to Great Britain where he met and saved the life of Eric Brooks aka Blade.

Logan remeets up with Raven Darkholme (unknown if he realised this was Mystique again). Meets Raven's lover, Irene Adler.

Seraph has nothing against Logan's lethal tendancies but advises him to learn to control it. Recalling the earlier offer, Logan goes to Japan to study under Ogun. For currently unknown reasons, he leaves Japan prior to completing samurai training.

Around 1936, Logan turns up again during the Spanish Civil War.

Back after that with Seraph again, she decides he needs a different type of education and, around 1937, she sends him to learn espionage from master spy Taras Romanov.

Logan meets Natasha Romanova, Taras' ward. He becomes her instructor in martial arts. Taras later tries to have Natasha kill Logan, but Logan ends up killing Taras instead.

World War II begins and Logan returns to the Devil's Brigade. Burr is again over him in combat related matters, but Seraph directs him in espionage.

1941 finds Captain America in Madripoor. Logan meets Captain America due to a meeting to merge cooperation between the Hand and the Nazi, Baron Strucker.

Logan meets with young Natasha again.

Logan assassinates the Hand's Jonin.

Cap and Logan connect again before the end of 1941, this time in Tunisia. Logan meets Bucky Barnes, Cap's partner. Although Logan's mission was to either recruit Cap or kill him, Logan instead joins him in fighting Strucker again along with his Hydra proto-terrorists. Logan also meets Sgt Nick Fury for the first time on this mission.

1942 finds Logan not only in Poland, but imprisoned in the Sobibor Death Camp.

He was on the loose and around Berline in 1943 with a new lover, Catharina, a resistance fighter. Their relationship ended when she betrayed him for her family's sake.

The next spot he resurfaces briefly is in Arnhem Land, Australia.

A questionable part of his history follows as he seems to be the only one that remembers it (which may mean it was another memory implant especially as the actions are wholely out of character for him). At any rate, it occurs at an internment camp in Newell, California where following experimentation on some of the prisoners by Romulus' scientists, he killed both the prisoners and personnel.

Winter of 1943 finds Logan back with military forces in Europe with both a stint in Italy and a roaming assignment teaching combat techniques to resistance fighters including some in Greece.

When the First Canadian Parachute Battalion jumped behind enemy lines during the Battle of Normandy in June 1944, Logan was among the jumpers.

Sometime are Normandy, Logan ended up in the Asian theatre again and was captured by the Japanese briefly in 1945. After his escape, he had a short love affair with a woman named Atsuko that ended when the US bombed Japan and ended the war.

After the war, Logan was sick and tired of being a soldier and, at Ogun's advice, traveled to Jasmine Falls to study under Bando Suburo.

Logan meets and marries Itsu.

As with his time with Silver Fox, Logan's time with Itsu ends in 1946 when Romulus sends an assassin to kill Itsu. Logan leaves believing both Itsu and their unborn child to be dead. However, the child (Daken) survived and was taken away.

The swordsmith Muramasa uses Logan's rage to forge a mystic sword that is supposed to be able to disable healing factors.

Logan ends up in Madripoor again working as a mercenary under Chang. During this period, Logan also did a number of freelance assignments for a variety of intelligence agencies. It was during this period as well that he became friends with the sage Black Crane and gained an extradimensionl being named Kimora as an enemy.

During a trip back to Canada, Logan takes another lover in the form of Mary McKenna, an archaelogist that he traveled with on an international adventure. 1948 and Logan is in Asia again, this time in conflict with Korean pirates.

Logan takes another LL&L assignment to act as a bodyguard for one of their scientists, Michael Carling.

Another period of 'who the heck knows?'

Under mind control in 1953, Logan is used by Romulus again, this time to make a young Frank Simpson into an orphan.

We don't hear from him again until 1958 when we find him in Venezuela where another merc Eugene Judd aka Puck - the two of them don't cross paths however.

In the same year, he travels to Cuba where he meets Jimmy Woo and his G-Men aka Agents of Atlas. Together, they disrupt an infestation of mind-controlling insects.

On the road again, Logan turns up next in San Francisco's Chinatown and kills triad master Black Dragon. Chaos among the triad follows when Logan refuses to succeed him.

Sometime around 1961, Logan joins the Weapon X project, becoming a member of Team X. Team X consists of Logan (who takes his old nickname of Wolverine as his team codename), Sabretooth (both apparently currently ignorant of their prior dealings), Silver Fox (all concerned also memory-blocked as to her former life with Logan and her apparent death), Maverick (David North), Halcon (John Wraith), Mastedon (Unknown) and others.

Team X travels to Cuba in 1963 and is betrayed to the enemy soldiers by Silver Fox who becomes a part of Hydra.

Project X experiments with various false memory implants on the team members - including on Silver Fox, so her actions in Cuba may have been a ruse to get her accepted into Hydra ranks.

On assignment with Sabretooth and Maverick in Berlin, Logan first encounters Soviet super-agent Omega Red. Double agent Janice Hollenbeck is killed by Sabretooth as they escape, causing Logan to resign from Team X.

Within weeks, Logan is again under the control of Romulus who uses Logan to work on turning Frank Simpson (now a US Marine) into a killing machine.

Logan joins a Canadian secret intelligence agency called Department K. Partnered with another mutant, Neil Langram, Logan spent several years with this agency.

Logan ends up in Vietnam again for a brief time.

Sometime in this time frame, Logan became friends with Doop, a Cold War construct who was, in Logan's words "an amorphous green blob of dubious sexual and moral proclivity".

Logan first encounts the mercenary Terror, Inc

Back in Canada, Logan meets and occassionally partners with bar owner Cracklin' Rosa.

Also in Canada, Logan encountered a sorcerer named Abdul Alhazred, who overpowered him by use of magic.

It is believed that it was during these years that he first encountered ex-Nazi geneticist Arnim Zola.

Another globe-trotting mission takes Logan to Russia to rescue a defector, Viktoria Suhkarov. To keep her safe, he has to fight one of the top Soviet assassins, Volk.

On another mission that turned out considerably less well, Logan is stranded in a frozen wasteland and is forced to survive by cannabalising his own flesh.

Logan turns up next working with the CIA and Nick Fury. In the course of one mission, he is captured by the ever-annoying Baron Strucker and gotten out by a married pair of Fury's agents - Richard and Mary Parker.

Globe-trotting time again and Logan ends up in Brazil where as a cover, he works as a bouncer at the Devil's Grill in Rio de Janeiro for the owner, Antonio Vargas.

Next jump and Logan is in Afghanistan working with Mordad, a supposed freedom fighter.

Next it's back to Southeast Asia and he has his first encounter with Charles Xavier. Although Charles is already a formidable telepath, neither notes that the other is a mutant.

Back in the States, Logan's partner Neil Langram is slain. Logan teams up with a young, up-and-coming spy named Carol Danvers to investigate - the trail leading to the Hellfire Club and their security force, Sabretooth. Both Logan and Danvers survive, but Logan is fired from Department K not long following that mission.

It has now been a few years since Logan walked out on Team X and the Weapon X project has changed, the scientists in charge now looking at mutants as objects, not employees as in the past. Logan is himself in a bad spot after being fired from Department K, basically drinking and staying to himself. This unfortunately plays into the Project's plans as Logan is brutally abducted by Weapon X without anyone even being aware that he is missing.

Logan is subjected to countless experiments that come close to destroying his mind. These experiments culminate in the painful bonding of adamantium to his bones.

Near-mindless, Logan is outfitted with a helmet that is supposed to allow his 'handlers' to control his actions. They send him to the small town of Roanoke and use him to slaughter every inhabitant. Plans went awry though as control failed - possibly due to Logan's healing factor fighting back against the control device's effects. Going into a beserk fury, he turns on the handlers and kills not only them, but nearly everyone else at the facility before escaping in the wilds of the Canadian Rockies. From this point, he goes with Wolverine as his primary name with Logan being known by very close friends.

For several months, Wolverine lives a purely feral life. During this time, he encounters Hunter In Darkness and a Lakota chief who is able to slightly calm his rages.

Wolverine's feral stint in the woods ends with his encounter with James and Heather Hudson. The encounter leaves Wolverine wounded, but ends with the Hudsons bringing him back to civilization - specifically, to Department H.

Back to rational thought but still without his memories, Wolverine goes looking for answers from the supposed inventor of adamantium, Dr. Myron MacLain, who is unable to tell him anything about Weapon X. Sabretooth attacks but Wolverine is helped out by old friends that he no longer remembers: Nick Fury, Carol Danvers and Natasha Romanova aka Black Widow. Unseen but watching is Silver Fox who is still with Hydra.

Wolverine retakes up his old profession as spy and also does some work with James Hudson's Department H including helping hi, defeat Chinook, a maddened wartime hero.

Globe-trotting again, Wolverine accompanies US troops to a US embassy in Iraq being held by mercenaries. Wolverine comes across one hostage, a dying Canadian nun, who he promises to avenge in accordance with her last wish.

Next mission finds him on a Russian mission with Carol Danvers and Ben Grimm during which he once again encounters Black Widow.

Wolverine makes the Western Pacific his primary area of operation.

In Japan, meets and befriends Kenichiro, a mystic scholar.

Travels to Hong Kong, fighting Triad corruption. Meets and becomes a drinking buddy with an assassin named McLeish aka the White Ghost.

Back in Canada, meets and becomes friends with a Canadian Mountie named Lightfoot.

Ever since the public debut of the Fantastic Four, James Hudson had been working on the formation of a Canadian super-group. Slotting Wolverine in for team captain despite Wolverine's qualms, he begins to outfit and fill out the group he calls The Flight.

Wolverine heads back to Madripoor to visit Seraph and is introduced to Viper, a mercenary who is her newest protege. The three went on a mission together that went south fast when Sabretooth comes in. Seraph takes on Sabretooth to protect Wolverine and ends up losing her life after getting his promise to aid Viper in the future.

Mutant genius Leader attempts to make use of Wolverine, Hercules and Karkas the Deviant against the Hulk. Things don't work out and his prisoners escape.

Wolverine comes across a Wendigo battling the Hulk and jumps into the fray. The Wendigo goes down followed by Wolverine, who was pretty soundly beaten by the Hulk.

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