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Gabriel Zero May 30 2009, 10:13 PM Post #11
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Mar 18 2009, 09:37 AM
When was Wolverine's missing memories first highlighted, and who came up with the concept?
Alpha Flight #33 1985

Writer : Bill Mantlo

Page 20. (Talking to Heather) Logan says he remembers serving in the Devil's Brigade and how he went freelance. He remembered he healed fast and thought of it as a gift. (or miracle?) However he didn't know for a long time that it was because he was a mutant.

He remarks that he never felt as much pain or hurt, then when they put the adamantium in his body. He says the doesn't even know if they let him lose or if he escaped them. Then on the third panel he says "It's all Blank. I don't know who changed me. Or why. Or how I got away."

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It's interesting that he says he remembered WW2 but not who put the adamantium in his body.
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Templedog May 31 2009, 03:54 AM Post #12
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Mar 22 2009, 03:15 PM
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...the Heroes for Hope section written by Harlan Ellison (with input, undoubtedly by Frank Miller) first plants the seeds that Logan does not remember his entire past - Dec. 1985.

Oh, right. I had no idea that's when it was first mentioned. Ha! Seems I was off with my prediction.

Thanks for the great answer. I'd like to raise a of point that may or may not be of interest:

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#72-84: Weapon X by Barry Windsor-Smith where Logan doesn't remember who is mother was before the mind-altering experiments of Weapon X (early 1991)

In 'Weapon X', Logan says "As if I knew who ma was...". Just the phrasing of that suggests to me he never knew who she was, not that he forgot who she was. Granted that's just what I took from that and there may have been another reference in there that I've simply forgotten that shows differently.
It could also refer to the idea that Logan never really had a child/ parent connection with her. In Origins Elizabeth Howlett secludes herself in the upper rooms of the mansion (ala Yellow Wallpaper style). My impression is that Elizabeth wished to have little or no contact with the other members of the Howlett household, and that is possibly one reason that Rose was brought to the mansion.
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Ize19 Jun 1 2009, 02:47 AM Post #13
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 in the opening page of issue 34 of Wolverine's first ongoing, Wolverine states: "Nothin' cleanses the soul like getting back to your roots. Especially my roots. Mainly cause I can't remember half of them." When asked if he's a blackfoot, Wolverine responds: "Huh, wish I knew." He also struggles to remember the exact circumstances of his first meeting with the hunter in the darkness, wondering: "What really happened in that fuzzy time?" This story was written in December of 1990, by Larry Hama.
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chilled0ut Apr 16 2012, 09:39 PM Post #14
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 I always assumed that the only memory Logan had lost (before Hama came around) was the time specifically around when he got his adamantium, because that was too painful a memory. I was always kind of under the impression that Hama was the one that introduced him having amnesia in general.

Also, he does remember his past in Peter David's story with Cyber, because he explicitly states that the visions he (and we) are seeing aren't how the events actually happened. This means he has to actually remember how they happened.
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