With Comic Book Resources releasing advance solicitations of February’s X-Men titles, and specifically the solicit for Wolverine #301, it becomes clear that January’s Wolverine #300 is not a single-issue sales-stunt, like Wolverine #900 and #1000, but an actual move back toward the numbering of, presumably, the Wolverine ongoing launched in 1988. (By sheer coincidence, our most recent Longbox Diving was about that very same title.)
While this breaks with Marvel’s trend of arbitrarily assigning issue numbers to special one-shots (a practice that originally started as a joke, with Deadpool #900 meant to undercut DC’s Action Comics #900’s achievement), it does maintain their committed corporate policy of changing the numbering of titles on a whim — a policy perhaps modeled after a similar one employed by Charlton Comics, whose numbering was in all likelihood the work of actual, genuine lunatics. In any event, Wolverine is expected to continue numbering from #300 until its relaunch as The Man Called Wolverine #1 following Wolverine #310, and return to its original numbering with Wolverine #400 after The Man Called Wolverine #17.
