Real Name:
"Dog" Logan (real first name unknown, but went by Dog)DOG
Real Name:
"Dog" Logan (real first name unknown, but went by Dog)
Identity/Class: Normal Human
Occupation: Unknown
Affiliations: Cookie
Enemies: James Howlett, John Howlett, Rose
Known Relatives: Thomas Logan (father)
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Alberta, Canada
Appearances: Wolverine: The Origin#1 (November, 2001)
Powers/Abilities: Good fighter, and very strong, although not superhumanly so
History: (Wolverine: The Origin#1-3) - Dog's father, Thomas, was a gardener at the Howlett estate in Alberta, Canada in the late 1800's. His father drank a lot and beat him often. His father also told him never to mix with rich folk like the people he worked for, and beat him as punishment when he did mix with them.
He developed a small crush on Rose, who was the companion to James Howlett (a young boy who would grow up to be Wolverine). He, James, and Rose became best friends very quickly and had a lot of fun together. At one point, James fell into a river, and Dog rescued him. Upon learning that his boy was playing with James at all, Thomas beat up Dog, and then gave him some booze to drink.
After that, Dog didn't play with Rose and James anymore, and came to resent them for being so rich while he was poor, just like his father taught him to. One Christmas however, Dog peeked through the window of the Howlett estate, and upon being seen, John Howlett gave him a toy train as a present. When Dog showed his father, his father beat him unmercifully.
A while later, as a teenager, Dog sexually assaulted Rose, and when James told his father of Dog's actions, Dog took vengeance upon James by killing his pet dog right in front of his eyes. At that, Dog's father was fired, and he decided to take money from the Howlett estate, as well as John Howlett's wife, and leave. Dog accompanied him and they went to the estate, but were found by John Howlett, whom Thomas then killed. James freaked upon seeing his father killed, and manifested his powers for the first time, drawing his claws and killing Thomas, and slashing Dog across the face, leaving scars. After James and Rose fled, Dog was captured and told the authorities that Rose had committed the murder.
(Wolverine: The Origin#5,6) - Years later, as a young man, James' grandfather asked Dog to find James for him. Dog set out to find James, with the intention of killing him. He tracked James to a quarry in British Columbia, Canada. A man named Cookie was set to fight James, and Dog slipped Cookie some brass knuckles to use in his fight against him. Cookie was defeated anyway, and afterward, Dog himself confronted James. He started to beat up James, who was already tired from fighting Cookie, and other guys before him. Eventually, when Dog kept bringing up killing James' father, James went ape and knocked Dog unconscious. Before he could kill him however, Rose ran in James' way, and was accidentally impaled on his claws. What became of Dog is uncertain.
Comments: Created by Paul Jenkins and Andy Kubert.
Dog was created by Jenkins to fill a certain
role in Wolverine's childhood, and I cannot imagine him filling
that role any better.
Origin was masterfully told. I was certainly fooled into
thinking that Dog was actually the young Wolverine in the first
and second issue, right until James popped his claws. There
is some speculation that Dog is actually Sabretooth, but this
remains unconfirmed.
--Snood
It seems to me like something was going on
between Elizabeth Howlett and Thomas Logan, possibly an affair,
because when both Thomas and John lay dead, she grieved that
Thomas had died, while not even acknowledging her dead husband.
That seems unlikely because she was a high-class woman and he was
a drunk, but it's the only explanation I can think of.
Let me clear that up. They were definitely
having an affair. She likely saw a raw passion or something in
Thomas Logan that her reserved and proper husband could not give
her.
When I read ORIGIN, I had assumed that, not only were the writers implying that Thomas Logan and Elizabeth Howlett had an affair, but also that James Howlett was the result of that affair. C'mon, look at that picture of Thomas Logan -- quite a striking family resemblance, no? And that would make Wolverine and Sabretooth half-brothers (if Dog does actually turn out to be Victor Creed, that is). Sabretooth was originally created to be Wolverine's father after all, wasn't he?And that would also mean that "Logan" is Wolverine's proper name (even though he might not be aware of it) rather than just an alias he adopted to escape detection--Skullogeist.
I'd buy all of that, except for one peripheral comment. Sabretooth didn't initially have anything to do with Wolverine. He started out as an Iron Fist foe. It wasn't until the "Mutant Massacre" that he got invovled with the X-Men and Wolvie in particular, and then the rest of their shared history was all ret-conned in--Snood.
After fleeing from the slaughter in issue#3, James changed his name in order to better hide. That's when he first took his new name: Logan.
PROFILE BY STUNNER
CLARIFICATIONS: Not to be confused with:
Thomas Logan was the father of Dog. He worked as help at the Howlett estate, and held a deep resentment of the Howletts for being so rich while he was so poor. He was also a heavy drinker and beat his son often, especially after learning that his son was mixing with rich folk, thus leading to his son sharing his resentment of rich people. Eventually, after being fired from the estate due to his son's violent actions, he decided to take John Howlett's wife, whom he had apparently been having an affair with, as well as money from him, and leave the village. John discovered him in the middle of the act, and Thomas shot John dead. James freaked at seeing his father killed and manifested his powers for the first time, and used his claws to kill Thomas Logan.
--Wolverine: The Origin#1 (2
Last updated: 11/01/03
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