Marvel RARE:Complete series -"Before Wolverine there was Weapon X" #72 - #84

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Before Wolverine, there was Weapon X. This is a real find! The complete series all-in-one go stretching over 13 issues from the first number 0 of #72, through to the final issue number 12 of #84. All bagged and boarded and in like new condition. Synopsis: The origins of the clandestine Weapon X Program date back to 1845 when a civilian advisor to the American military named Thorton investigated a liberated concentration camp and discovered the hidden laboratory of the enigmatic geneticist Mister Sinister. Using Sinister’s research as the basis for his own work, Thorton, also known simply as the Professor, formed the Weapon Plus Program at the behest of the U.S. government. Absorbing the resources of earlier government projects such as Operation: Rebirth, which was retroactively designated Weapon I, Weapon Plus was dedicated to the creation of super-soldiers. Over the next decade and a half, the Program went through various stages of development. The Weapon II and III Programs used animals as test subjects, while Weapons IV, V, and VI experimented upon various ethnic minorities. Beginning with Weapon VII, superhuman mutants became the preferred test subjects, a trend which continued from Weapon VIII through Weapon IX. The Professor remained active as a scientist throughout these incarnations of Weapon Plus, only to be repeatedly read more