Issue(s): Marvel Comics Presents #98 (Werewolf By Night story only)
Cover Date: 1992
Title: "Wild at heart"
Credits:
Len Kaminski - Writer
S. Clarke Hawbaker - Penciler
Mark McKenna - Inker
Mark Powers - Assistant Editor
Terry Kavanagh - Editor

Review/plot:
Len Kaminski wrote the six part Werewolf By Night story in Marvel Comics Presents #54-59 where Jack Russell gained the ability to control his transformations into Werewolf mode, and Kaminski will return to the character a few times in this series. After the story in #54-59, Werewolf By Night appeared in Doctor Strange #26-27 and it was said in a lettercol that a solo series was being considered. I'm sure that the short stories that appear in this series weren't meant for a regular series, but i'd guess that Kaminski would have been the writer, or maybe editor, for the series (a lot of the times when characters with regular series appear in this book, they are written by the editors or assistant editors of the regular series; maybe it's a way for the editor to lay out the direction that they think the book should go in).

This story is illustrated by S. Clarke Hawbaker and Mark McKenna, the regular Nomad art team, and boy, if Jack Monroe ever cut his hair, i might not be able to tell the two Jacks apart.

Jack goes to a strip club and notices Sabretooth.

Jack's narration talks about Sabretooth like they're of the same kind.

Jack confronts Sabretooth.

They fight for a bit...

...but the Werewolf is driven off by hunters that assume that Sabretooth, since he's more human looking, is the good guy. Jack says that the hunters' bullets can't actually kill him, but he says that they do hurt. Jack says the humans and Sabretooth deserve each other, so he just leaves the area.

I guess i bring baggage from other werewolf stories with me whenever i read a werewolf story in the Marvel universe. Sabretooth just doesn't seem like a good challenge for Werewolf By Night, because the Werewolf can only be killed by silver, so Sabretooth can't win the fight. It's not just a question of who's the more ferocious fighter or more of a monster. Werewolf By Night is supernatural. Granted, the point of this story isn't Whoodwin, and it is demonstrated that Jack can at least be hurt by normal means, if not killed.

Quality Rating: C-

Historical Significance Rating: 1

Chronological Placement Considerations: N/A

References:

• Jack merged with this Werewolf form in Marvel Comics Presents #58.

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: N/A