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    Character » Wolverine appears in 16062 issues.

    A long-lived mutant with the rage of a beast and the soul of a Samurai, James "Logan" Howlett's once mysterious past is filled with blood, war, and betrayal. Possessing an accelerated healing factor, keenly enhanced senses, and bone claws in each hand (along with his skeleton) that are coated in adamantium; Wolverine is, without question, the ultimate weapon.

    Marvel To Lose Rights to Wolverine

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    #1  Edited By Logan_Snikt
    The full article

    [quote]At issue is a contract between Marvel Comics, the current publisher of Wolverine, and Twentieth Century Fox, a subsidiary of News Corporation and producer of the big budget ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’ movie.

    According to legal experts, News Corporation lawyers added a clause giving Twentieth Century Fox complete rights to Wolverine upon release of the movie, as well as complete rights to all other Marvel Comics’ characters appearing in the movie.[/quote]

    Holy cow.  I mean really, why didn't Marvel notice that in the contract?  

    If 20th Century Fox wins in this, I really wonder where the development of Wolverine will go down the line.  How sad to have a character that they created and have worked on for years be taken away!

    Edit: http://www.typingmonkeys.com/wolverine/
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    #2  Edited By No_Name_

    Wow, I don't believe that....that's crazy...
    . I haven't seen this on the Marvel site, maybe I missed it! I'll keep an eye out, thanks for the heads up!

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    #3  Edited By No_Name_

    I can't believe that all that Bendis had to say was, "Is this a sad day for Marvel? It is, it really is."

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    #4  Edited By Precise

    Well since it's April 1... :p

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    #5  Edited By AtPhantom

    Is this for real? I was unable to find information on in anywhere in the net but on that one site. I would assume that this rather big news would spread like wildfire through the forums.....

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    #6  Edited By Logan_Snikt
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    #7  Edited By No_Name_
    Precise said:
    "Well since it's April 1... :p"
    OMG IT IS ISN'T IT? LMAO I fell for that one.

    AtPhantom said:
    "Is this for real? I was unable to find information on in anywhere in the net but on that one site. I would assume that this rather big news would spread like wildfire through the forums....."

    Yup> He got me, too.
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    #8  Edited By AtPhantom
    Precise said:
    "Well since it's April 1... :p"
    Yeah, it's totally a hoax.
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    #9  Edited By DEGRAAF
    Precise said:
    "Well since it's April 1... :p"

    this was my first thought too. im believing very little today
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    #10  Edited By Methos

    it's a soddin' april fools joke... check the last quote...

    If this eventuality does comes to pass, the final Wolverine story, the final appearance of the character in the Marvel universe, will reportedly be entitled ‘Wolverine: Prima Aprilus’

    do i have to spell it out for people?

    Wolverine: Prima Aprilus

    Wolverine: First April

    April fool...

    jesus... it's not even a good one that would have sucked me in lol

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    #11  Edited By weaponxx

    not another legal issue.... marvel is stupid if this is true. they should really keep an eye out for this thing.

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    #12  Edited By Methos
    *methos starts banging his head against the wall*

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    #13  Edited By SUNMAN

    April Fools!!!!

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    #14  Edited By inferiorego  Staff

    ugh....

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    #15  Edited By Adam Michaels
    That's bad news man. 20th Century Fox is doing what's best for business, but still. As a fan, I want the rights to belong to Marvel.

    My ultimate wish is for Marvel to entirely own their films. After watching what they did with Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk (especially linking them together), the first thing I wanted was for Marvel to make all their movies. No Sony, no Universal, no Fox to add their visions in there, just Marvel Studios. The fact that Marvel runs the show means the characters will be much better presented to us with regards to their comics.

    I would even be patient enough to have them reboot established franchises like Spider-Man and X-Men. I wouldn't redo the origins, but play off them. Exactly how The Incredible Hulk did it. There is just soooo much that can be done with the deep rooted history of all the characters. And my personal opinion is that if Marvel Studios self-produces them all, we have a much better chance that the films and storylines will be much closer to the classic storylines of the comics.

    Sony adds in their ideas for Spider-Man, which may not always be bad ideas, but I think in general, they deviate away from the true nature of the character. Same goes for Fox with Fantastic Four, X-Men, Daredevil, and any other character they might have somewhat tarnished because they have a different vision for them.
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    #16  Edited By Methos
    *starts headbutting the wall*

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    #17  Edited By inferiorego  Staff

    It's such a B.S. article too. Full of holes if you know anything about copyrights.

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    #18  Edited By gunswordfist
    Methos said:
    "*starts headbutting the wall*
    M"
    Exactly.

    Anyway, the OP had me going I was ready to boycott. lol You'd think you could see past all the jokes today but it isn't that easy. I already got fooled 3 times today and 2 were Marvel jokes...
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    #19  Edited By inferiorego  Staff
    gunswordfist said:
    "Methos said:
    "*starts headbutting the wall*
    M"
    Exactly.Anyway, the OP had me going I was ready to boycott. lol You'd think you could see past all the jokes today but it isn't that easy. I already got fooled 3 times today and 2 were Marvel jokes..."
    I'm literally on fire





    april fools
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    #20  Edited By Slinger

    I haven't read any other posts in this thread, so I have no idea what it's about, but if this happened it would b devastating to Marvel's sales. Everybody knows that a comic's sales is directly linked to the number of times Wolverine appears in it.

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    #21  Edited By gunswordfist
    Slinger said:
    "I haven't read any other posts in this thread, so I have no idea what it's about, but if this happened it would b devastating to Marvel's sales. Everybody knows that a comic's sales is directly linked to the number of times Wolverine appears in it."
    HAHAHAHAHA!
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    #22  Edited By geraldthesloth

    Lmaooooooooo

    good one

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    #23  Edited By jesrour

    Who the Hell allowed Fox to get the Rights to all the Marvel Characters?!?

    Wolverine
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    #24  Edited By vance_astro  Moderator
    jesrour said:
    "Who the Hell allowed Fox to get the Rights to all the Marvel Characters?!?

    Wolverine
    Wolverine
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    Will you stop posting these monkey ass pictures everywhere!
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    #25  Edited By Methos

    for f##ks sake people

    it was an APRIL FOOLS JOKE

    get over it...

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