Trivia / First X-Men

• Neal Adams speaks on where he got the idea for this series in an X-Men Monday panel.
  Well, the idea was to do the X-Men, but with all the X-Men that were around, it occurred to me that it didn’t make sense to me that the X-Men began with Professor X gathering these mutants together into this school if these mutants existed before this. I mean, they were wholly formed and all he did was train them, so why doesn’t it make sense that there was an attempt to form the X-Men before and it failed? And who would form it? Well, who was the oldest X-Man around? Wolverine. Well, he’d be the one to do it. So suddenly you see a side to Wolverine you didn’t necessarily see before–that he actually feels fatherly toward the X-Men, toward mutants and that explains, in a weird way, his truculence and his attitude. No matter what happens to him, he always comes back, always revisits the old home to see how it’s going. So I think that kind of explained Wolverine.