DAILY BEAST FACTS

Hank built the cure, read the warning label, and shelved it — Colossus read the same label and called it a fair price.

Hank traded ape for lion, fingers for paws, and his girlfriend for a tabloid headline — secondary mutation is a rough interior decorator.

One touch from Pestilence put Hank's genius on a pay-per-punch plan — and the cure arrived as a kiss meant for somebody else.

For weeks the X-Men took orders, jokes and lab results from an impostor — while the real Hank sat restrained behind brick, kept alive as a reference book.

Logan's famous cowl started life hiding a hypnotized Hank McCoy — Wolverine just never gave it back.

He saved a kid, the crowd attacked him for it, so he quit superheroing for the squared circle. His comeback match was rigged by physics.

He drank the serum to stop a thief, missed the antidote window, and then the printers made it permanent.