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Marville #5 (Mar 2003)
Writer: Bill Jemas; Penciler: Mark Bright; Inker Rodney Ramos
In the year 100,000 B.C., time travelers from 5002 A.D. meet the first human, and he looks surprising like Wolverine. An individual similar to God declares to the time travelers, “After millions of years of genetic diversification, the perfectly matched male and female Neanderthal partners got together and produced the first human son – Wolverine. The human race started as one solitary fertilized egg, with a brand-new chromosome pattern. …Out comes Wolverine. He mates with dozens of Neanderthal women and they have hundreds of kids – all with Wolverine’s basic genetic code…” When the time travelers fast forward to 50,000 B.C., they again encounter Wolverine. Mickey, one of the time travelers, states that Wolverine “…is immortal, but not because of the healing factor – that’s just a metaphor. He’s immortal because he was the first human, and his basic genetic code lives in all of us.”