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It's funny -- or is that sad? -- that after more than thirty years I still get a kind of slow burn going in my head, when I ink the hair on Wolverine's arms.Dave Cockrum had not drawn Logan with hairy arms, when in costume. The guy looked like a bearskin rug when he took his shirt off, but the hair disappeared when he donned his costume. (I used to wonder if the arms indeed had sleeves, but flesh colored, like Burt Ward's Robin tights.) When I came on the book I was told I must follow Dave's model (it had not occurred to me to do otherwise!), and draw Wolverine with no hair on his arms. Then came issue 112, with a cover by George Perez. I was in New York, for a Con, when the issue came out. And there, front and center, was Wolverine with hairy arms. George had drawn the character as he should have looked all along, and nobody had "fixed" it (probably because they didn't want to hurt George's feelings!). Well, as far as I was concerned, the gloves (or more correctly, the flesh colored sleeves!) were off! In the next issue I drew -- 115 -- I gave Wolverine some arm hair. Not as much as he has these days, but it was a beginning. But still frustrating to look back at being forbidden to do so from the start, all because of those arbitrary "rules" that sneak into comics from time to time.
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