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Wolverine is older then captain America' isn't he?

Wolverine was legally born James Howlett, the second son of wealthy landowner, John Howlett and his wife Elizabeth Howlett of Alberta, Canada. He was born around 1870. Steve Rogers was born in the early part of the 20th Century, so yes: Wolverine is about 30-40 years older than Steve, but Steve spent a good portion of time in suspended animation, and Logan only remembered the majority of his life after the events of House of M took place.

Logan was legally born as the second son of John Howlett, but he was most likely the child of Thomas Logan (John Howlett’s alcoholic grounds keeper) and Elizabeth Howlett, who was having an affair with Thomas Logan.

Thomas drank - in part - because of his jealous hatred of John Howlett. James Howlett was sickly, small, and frail. On or around his 12th or 13th birthday, Thomas Logan stormed the Howlett’s Home in a drunken rage, armed with a double barreled shotgun. Thomas shot and killed John Howlett in front of James Howlett, and the trauma of seeing the only father he had ever known get violently murdered in his family’s foyer caused James Howlett to go berserk and pop his claws for the first time. James Howlett than rammed his bone claws into Thomas Logan’s chest, killing him almost instantly.

Elizabeth Howlett watched her second son manifest a mutation, and she watched as her second son murdered her lover, right after her lover had murdered her husband. It was implied that Elizabeth’s first child was also a mutant, because she had scars on her side that suggested her first born had a mutation similar to James’ claws. Regardless, the shock of seeing all of this unfold caused Elizabeth to reject and condemn young James, and she called him an abomination. She threw him out of the house and then turned the shotgun on herself. James Howlett awoke in the care of his tutor, a young red haired Irish girl that was hired as his tutor named Rose. James had no memory of the incident, and Rose gave him the name “Logan” as an alias to avoid the authorities.