SEPTEMBER 2000
It was way back in 2000 that Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine first graced our cover, just before the release of the original X-Men film. The landscape for superhero movies was very different back then: we reported that Marvel had been struggling for years to get films made. “Producers seemed to be lining up Marvel’s creations in development hell,” we wrote. (Deadpool was still a way away — though producer Lauren Shuler Donner rather prophetically noted that “there’s a million stories in the X-Men world… we very much see it as a franchise”.)