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Professor Thorton
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Professor Thorton
ProfessorAndre Thorton (real name Truett Hudson; referred to only as the Professor in his initial appearances) had a hand in the origin of Wolverine as part of the Weapon X Project. Thorton first appeared in Marvel Comics Presents #72 (January 1991), and was created by Barry Windsor-Smith. Windsor-Smith intended the Professor to be the head of the Weapon X project, but after he had written and drawn several installments of the "Weapon X" serial in which the Professor first appears, Chris Claremont told him that he had always wanted Apocalypse to be the one responsible for Wolverine's adamantium, so he added scenes where the Professor reports to an unseen superior to the later installments.