Wraparounds of old tell the tale of seeing the importance and need of want with issues on the newsstands!
The Wolverine was coming off the heels of Frank Miller and the specialties of the Limited Series. It had been some time and selling on simmer. In walks an ongoing with much delight, to those of a decade plus by 1988 to get some devoted stories of the character. Indeed, I was a kid and got hooked myself to get a personal subscription of newsstands directly after my Amazing Spider-man classics. Something said to us that this is a "developing and fleshing out for Logan as the Wolverine!"
Codename Weapon X, but by his own choosing, Logan chooses the name "Patch!" Hanging out in a place like Madripoor, and while there he is not seeking out the seedy underbelly but instead to become anonymous and still work for the good and the right!
The subtlety of a city named Madripoor!? It has the financial status for most citizens right in the name. Ah, but is all fair in love and war? Or is the financial and or goings on done by choice and or by hook or crook? Logan isn't looking to make any certain participant wealthy, not even himself, but he looks to see the downtrodden and be a sense of encouragement. He himself has been through a lot! What he has endured gives him pause and a cause, that people of pain know their own. He is also trying to make the case that the joy of life abundantly he has also known should be made available. In the same amount or even more for the scales and weights of justice to be rectified. There is no "us" in the Patch persona, and yet there is still a community in Madrepore.
Logan as the Wolverine, is being and becoming himself and not even setting himself up as an "individual as comfortable."
No, he is Patch, and when he enters, all that is known is that it is about to get sorted out until "Logan/Patch" is satisfied. He doesn't want to upset the applecart but is astounded that it does.
