The iconic adamantium claws of Fantastic Four hero Ben Grimm, aka the Thing. The FF's rocky hero is one of Marvel's strongest and toughest heroes, and has gone toe-to-toe with Wolverine on several noteworthy occasions. However, combining his immense power with Wolverine's brutality and razor-sharp claws is a recipe for death and dismemberment.

Wolverine gains the Thing's powers in art by Giuseppe Camuncoli. The image shows Wolverine shortly after his escape from the villainous Weapon X organization, wandering the Canadian wilderness. However, this time Logan is covered in rocky spikes, adding countless blades to his iconic claws.

The art is part of Marvel's 'The Thing! Variant Covers' initiative, running across November, and will appear on select copies of Wolverine #3, coming November 20 from Saladin Ahmed and Martín Cóccolo.

Wolverine's Thing-themed transformation has similarities to his recent transformation into the Dark Phoenix, with claws emerging all over his body.

Marvel Heroes Are Getting The Thing's Powers This November

Variant Covers Transform Marvel Heroes Including Nightcrawler, Black Panther & Daredevil

To celebrate the MCU's The Fantastic Four: First Steps and a new saga coming to Ryan North and Iban Coello's Fantastic Four, Marvel's new variant covers will transform various heroes, giving them the Thing's cosmic radiation-spawned rocky skin and immense strength. The covers will release as follows:

Wolverine's Thing Transformation Uses the Fantastic Four Hero's Most Powerful Form

A Double Dose of Cosmic Rays Turned Thing into a Hulk-Strength Behemoth

While a lot of heroes are being transformed in Marvel's new cover initiative - including Wolverine's longtime X-Men allies Nightcrawler, Jean Grey and Dazzler - Logan's transformation is particularly special. That's because it uses the Thing's most powerful form, ed for being the version of the Fantastic Four heavyweight that finally out-muscled the Hulk. In Steve Englehart and Keith Pollard's Fantastic Four #311, the Thing receives a second dose of cosmic rays, doubling the mutation that turned him into a rocky monster - including an unbelievable new level of strength.

This period was marked by the Thing's craggy skin taking on a spiky appearance, and included the immense feat of taking down the Hulk (who was in his Joe Fixit form at the time.) Camuncoli has made the fascinating choice to equate the Thing's spikes with Wolverine's claws, actually bringing to mind one of Logan's most powerful transformation. In the recent Jean Grey #2 by Louise Jones Simonson and Bernard Chang, fans saw an alternate timeline where Wolverine became the Phoenix instead of Jean Grey, causing claws to erupt all over his body, able to be fired as projectiles.

Fans of Wolverine's new Fantastic Four look shouldn't despair that this will be the character's only appearance. There's a lot of precedent for particularly cool variant cover concepts being brought into Marvel's official continuity. For example, the New Champions series follows a team of heroes originally designed for variant covers that imagined the Avengers' sidekicks. If fan reaction to the WolverThing is positive enough, fans can expect to see this version of Wolverine again soon, perhaps united with the other variant cover heroes with the powers of Fantastic Four's Thing.

Wolverine #3 is available from Marvel Comics November 20.