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The Chinese version of the 2010 comic book Wolverine: Old Man Logan, penned by Mark Millar and painted by Steve McNiven, has quickly soared to the third-best selling book on presale charts on amazon.cn, according to the Chinese publisher World Publishing Corporation.

Jiang Yumin, editor of the book, says fans want to know more about Wolverine after watching the movie.

Unlike Star Wars and Star Trek, the enduring franchises that are less known in China than in the West, the X-Men series grabbed Chinese attention almost at the same time as in the rest of the world.

More than half of the X-Men movies have been released on the Chinese mainland.

"In cinematic history, we've seen nine Batmans, 10 Supermans, three Spider-Mans and six James Bonds, but only one Wolverine ... We cannot imagine anyone else playing Wolverine," writes the critic Yu Xiaodao on Basa Movie, a public account on phone app WeChat.