Weapon X: The Return Omnibus

Background. The Weapon X program created Wolverine — bonding adamantium to his skeleton, wiping his memories, turning a man into a weapon. Barry Windsor-Smith told that origin story in the legendary 1991 Marvel Comics Presents serial. Years later, the program returned: new directors, new victims, a new mandate. The Return collects both the foundational Windsor-Smith Weapon X story and the subsequent Weapon X series that expanded the mythology into a full ongoing conspiracy.

What's inside. The complete Barry Windsor-Smith Weapon X serial from Marvel Comics Presents #72–84, plus Weapon X vol. 2 #1–28 by Frank Tieri and Tom Ritter. The complete mythology of the program that made Wolverine from origin through its modern expansion. ISBN 978-1-302-91182-9.

Why it's worth reading. The Windsor-Smith Weapon X chapters are genuinely among the finest Marvel Comics ever published — visceral, painterly, psychologically devastating. The horror of watching a man's humanity stripped away while his body is transformed into a killing machine is rendered with an expressionist intensity that no other Marvel artist has matched. The Return series builds on that mythology effectively, expanding what Weapon X did to Wolverine into a broader picture of institutionalized violence against mutants. Essential for any Wolverine collector.

Edition details. Hardcover omnibus, approx. 700 pages. ISBN 978-1-302-91182-9. Original English edition (VO).