X-Men 133 Pg 2 The Legendary Wolverine Sequence

Great page from this classic issue.

wow, stunning. huge congrats! per your For Sale Status, I am sure there are now a plethora of collectors making plans to mine Adamantium until they can fill the right sized vault to tempt this page away from your grasps! :)

Thank you and You have your vault commentary exactly right.. otherwise it shant' be clawed from my grasp. I have a scale designed to exactly weigh and test the purity of any adamantium offerings..SNIKT

An imaginary scale for imaginary metal? How appropriate.

An amzing piece, from an incredible issue, by an iconic team of artists! Congrats on this addition to your collection. 

Thx Jason I appreciate it..

Unleashed this thing on a random Tuesday afternoon huh. I like your style! Panels 3 & 4 could easily be variant covers on their own. Thanks for sharing this beauty.

Unleashing yes...Random no..Tuesday comes from TIW the Norse god of War..and ultimately a God of War kind of Moment for Wolverine and so showcasing what he does best on the day that fits best what he is...A warrior born and made... Thx for the sharp appreciation of the page as I agree about panel 3 and 4 such Killer shots 

Hard to imagine anyone letting this go.  A truly defining moment in the character.

Cash or eye watering trade springs to mind.

Not enough.

100% agree with you. 

My word! Did you have your own meteor from Nigeria to give up for the move to acquire this? Thanks for posting it!

I had some Vibranium in my vault...

Adamantium > Adam Ant 

Adams real. Adamantium ain't.

WOW! As far as A+ pages go: sometimes you get a memorable moment, and sometimes you get a wicked page.... in this instance you got both!

Now that BUB..Tru'er words could hardly be said about the page..Thx

That's a great page from a historic run.

Neat! How was the lettering done?

I assume later attached to an overlay..the art itself as you see doesnt have words.

I do have pages from this era where the text was on a vellum overlay. However in that case usually there would be registration marks (a circle with a cross through it) taped to both the art page and the vellum page, so they could be lined up properly for reproduction. You can see an example here in the additional images, with Chris Claremont holding up the art and text pages separately, with the registration mark at the bottom of each.

I asked Tom Orzechowski how the text was added to the pages of X-Men 133 during production. He replied: "Most likely, the lettering, on vellum, was pasted onto photostats. As more and more books began to push the schedules, the practice moved to glueing directly onto the art. This allowed them to skip the step (and expense!) of making stats. How nice, meanwhile, that the art exists with all of Terry's background inks on display!"

And really, the art tells the story well enough that the text is superfluous. It is fun to see the marginal comments though.

Very interesting background info. Indeed it is preferred that none of the imagery is inf act covered directly by a balloon, for while the words on the page are excellent. Getting to see the pure image especially on a page that the story is in the image 100%..and I agree getting to see the comments on the margin are a special treat we get with the OA..

Dude!  How many A++ pages do you have tucked away!

A few more..A few more..I have a portal to an art dimension where I keep my best material safely placed. 

I will truly never understand why this page, one of the best to ever hit the open secondary market, has had so many different owners since it first appeared. It's mind boggling. I hope that it stays with you for many years to come, Phoenix!

Ruben..For sure this one will remain with me for some time..It's one of those really special kinds of pages so iconic to Wolverine really would have to be as I said vault of Adamantium otherwise one I intend to keep for a long time.  I simply prefer to own it..as it is the best Byrne wolvie page I've seen come avail..and well as far as the diff owners, sometimes we simply do not know the circumstances behind the scenes why sales happen..In my case..This piece is with the Phoenix..

Perfection! Congrats!

This may also be the birth page of the Reavers...Cole, Macon, reese..rip.

Another amazing , next level grail page. Congrats bub

Beautiful!

I have a vault full of adamantium. It's imaginary, like adamantium and small metal skeletoned canadians. You can collect it from my house in an imaginative manner of your choosing. Please forward on this page to me at your convenience. .

I'll send you an imaginary fedex with an imaginary panel page to go with it...I'll even send an imaginary frame to put it in. 

Make sure to include a tracking number! Lol.

How wonderful that this remarkable page is not spoiled by yellowing balloons,  captions and editorial coffee stains.

Indeed Yellowing coffee stain Balloons being abscent is a major ad value factor...lol

The main reason I never got that much into older artwork is that I am not a fan of yellowing glue stains and artwork being covered up by captions and word balloons, so this would for me be a perfect example of Byrne X-Men, even if it was not the perfect page that it is. Look after this treasure.

Legendary

Wow man what a SNIKT!!! That's insane. The whole page... but that forth panel it is simply a GEM! A++++

The beginning of the Dirty Harry sequence, legendary, congrats!

Wow, Logans real first name is revealed!! I expect he was dirty after falling into the sewer in the previous issue! Does he alternate between claws and a .44 magnum? Makes sense. I can remember his monologue about his gun being maybe empty of bullets. The gun has 6 bullets and he has 6 claws!! The claws are the backup! Claws being no use at distance. Its amazing how he could juggle two careers at the same time, as a police inspector and angry small canadian.

It's not my guess, Claremont used this reference to describe the sequence in the first draft of the Dark Phoenix Saga plots.

Amazing page.  Congrats!

I might have a few ounces of adamantium shavings...care to trade? Killer page!

Thx Bub! ........Ounces! Shavings! lol

This is the stuff of legends! Decades have come and gone, but this is still a major landmark in Comic history... and great fun to read!

If only I had that Vault to trade you- a very memorable and epic page to say the least!!

Good grief, man, why did you buy this??  This isn't just a Grail.  It is THE Grail!  The Grail other Grails wish they could be!  And since you can't get a better page than this, you have to stop collecting!  All kidding aside, legandary Byrne Wolvie page.  Congrats and glad it ended up with you.

I like the enthusiastic respoinse! The grail with the Adamantium nails. 

Definitely an iconic page that has been referenced for lots of material.  Cheers on this great history page. 

Mic Drop!! Wowza!

No words or sound effects needed for this Grail page. Congrats

Wow, just wow!

Pretty epic page!!  Congrats!!

Oh Crap Now Thats A Page How Long You Had This ?

A couple years...But to this iimmortal mutant what is time anyhow...

A vault full of Edamame you say? I'll see what I can do..

Hey Bub, I had enough Edamame when I was in Japan...SNIKT...

Legendary page! Well done

Wow, seeing this page reminded me of reading the legendary Byrne/Austin X-Men run in real time, and then getting to this, I mean Wolverine wasn't whiffing thru Magneto's cape, this was Conan-level carnage, and everything a growing boy needs!  Huge congrats!!

Absolutely one of the most memorable Byrne X-Men pages and a grail for Wolverine fans!  

This is the issue where Byrne & Co. showed that Wolverine is the best there is at what he does, and, man is this page pretty.

Thx Steve..Yea no homage..here...and no Mercy!

The best at what he does. Xmen page is nice too!

Fantastic page congrats!

You're absolutely spot on with your description of this page.  It defined the character of Wolverine.  I distinctly remember reading this issue when it came out.  I was a military brat living in Germany in the 80s and my brother bought the comic at the Star & Stripes bookstore in Frankfurt.  It's still as impactful now as it was then.  Congrats!

The best page in the book I think. Congrats Phoenix!!!!

I've got some adamantium, if you're ever interested just let me know🫡

As a kid, this page and this story is what solidified Wolverine as my favorite character to read. Fantastic!