Wein went home and researched wolverines, which he discovered are "short, really hairy, feisty animals with razor-sharp claws who are utterly fearless," much like Logan himself. I have the name.' The name was Wolverine." "He said, 'I'd love to see how you would write a Canadian accent. "He said, 'No, seriously, you write these great accents and I can't do accents,'" Wein recalled. He was birthed from a challenge issued by editor-in-chief Roy Thomas. Besides, Wein's pointed out, Wolverine wasn't created to flesh out the X-Men's roster. So when Len Wein, John Romita, and Herb Trimpe created Wolverine in 1974 as a foil for the Hulk, he couldn't join the X-Men-there were no X-Men to join. But the original Steve Rogers? That was Simon and Kirby all the way. Captain America's revival as a modern superhero, which began in Avengers #4 when Cap was found frozen in a block of ice, was a Stan Lee joint. His first credited writing gig was a story in Captain America Comics #3, which sees Cap throw his shield like a boomerang for the very first time. Of course, over time, Lee did contribute quite a bit to the Captain America mythos. On the cover of Captain America Comics #1, Captain America punches Hitler right in the face-a bold move, given that America wouldn't formally enter World War II for another year. "World events gave us the perfect comic-book villain, Adolf Hitler, with his ranting, goose-stepping and ridiculous mustache," Simon said, and ol' winghead was originally designed to be Hitler's arch-nemesis. We knew what was going on over in Europe," Simon explained, and neither he nor Kirby were going to sit idly by as fascism spread across the continent.
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