Created by the writer Chris Claremont and artist Bob McLeod, Wolfsbane first appeared in The New Mutants (September 1982), part of the line Marvel Graphic Novel.

Her father was the local Presbyterian minister, Reverend Craig, who raised Rahne as an orphan without revealing that she was his child from an illicit relationship.

Although she was a shy, emotionally repressed girl, Rahne managed to build a strong friendship with Danielle Moonstar and harbor a crush on Sam Guthrie.

During the 1990 "X-Tinction Agenda" storyline, Rahne is mentally bonded to Havok against her will by the scientists who genetically engineer mutant slaves in the nation of Genosha.

[10] She is subsequently manipulated by the Shadow King,[volume & issue needed] into joining X-Factor as a United States government special operative.

She stays in half-wolf forms for this time because turning completely human causes her to revert to the slave identity that the Genoshans had created for her.

[13] Sometime after her mental damage from the Genoshan bonding process was undone, she returned to MacTaggert's base on Muir Island and joined Excalibur.

[volume & issue needed] She helps rescue new teammate Layla Miller from the orphanage where (X-Factor has been led to believe) she was being abused.

[31] Rahne is later distressed by a vision, implanted by Tryp, of a possible future where she murders Jamie Madrox and a grown-up Layla Miller on their wedding day.

[34] Later in the series, Rahne attempts to comfort Rictor, who is distressed about the loss of his powers again, which results in a burgeoning romance between the two,[35] this concludes when she leaves X-Factor to join X-Force.

Reverend Craig condemns Wolfsbane again, which triggers her to knock him into the ground, stating that she only wanted to save him but after everything that's happened, she doesn't care for him any longer and walks away, turning her back on him.

Her teammates find her at the epilogue of the battle in her human form, praying and surrounded by blood and clothes, but no corpse of her father is found.

[54] After Madrox asked about whether she wants to cover her body while still in bed, she stated that she will do it to protect his sensibilities and that she has been running around naked so often lately that she had lost her blushes.

[55] Later on, when Rictor (believing himself to be the father) accompanied Rahne to a physician specialized in 'super-types', it was revealed that although the heartbeat could clearly be heard, the ultrasound examination did not show any picture on the screen.

The physician, who at first had trouble believing Rictor to be the father, stated that not even ultrasound can get into Rahne's womb and that this seemed to be a kind of protective function, a mystical one rather than biological.

[59] Feral is revealed to have arrived as a tether to the world of the living for various canine and feline gods and demons which want Rahne's baby; as more powerful assailants pour in, the pair attempt to regroup at X-Factor headquarters.

Though shocked, Father John counsels her to let go of her self-pity and judgmental attitude, in lieu of a more positive outlook, which prompts Rahne to resolve to search for her son.

[63] Rahne, Rictor and Shatterstar find her son, Tier, and decide to leave X-Factor Investigations to live safely with him and Jack Russell, Werewolf by Night.

[73] The Shadow King later took advantage of her grief to get close to her and then controlled her, using her to bring her student Gabrielle Kinney Scout to him so he could kill her to stop her from interfering with his mentorship of her friends.

[74] The next day she saw No-Girl trying to control The Five into resurrecting Gabby and after revealing she had no memory of the conversation they'd recently had, realised the Shadow King manipulated her.

[75] After getting Gabby revived, Rahne and the New Mutants went to confront the Shadow King who trapped them in the Astral Plane, after being rescued by their protégé's The Lost Club.

[76] Rahne and Dani objected to Magik planning to hand over rulership of Limbo to Madelyne Pryor, so Illyana offered to take them with her to witness the handover.

[78] Finding themselves in a fairytale world based on Alice in Wonderland, they were ambushed by guards of the Red King (Balisco) and separated from Magik.

[79] After months of waiting in a cave while Magik continues training Madelyne, They stage an assault on the castle hoping to take Limbo back from S'ym.

The main Illyana allows her doppelganger to think she has the upper hand then Madelyne killed her, causing the two to merge making Magik once again powerful enough to send them home.

In either form, Wolfsbane has enhanced senses of hearing, sight, and smell (similar to those of a wolf's, but also superior to them); animal-like strength, agility, and reflexes; razor-sharp talons and fangs; and bestial instincts.

Wolfsbane's human form is normal in appearance, originally with the exception that her hair never grew more than a few centimeters long; this limitation has since been removed by a temporary biological change into a "mutate" by the Genengineer on the island of Genosha during the X-Tinction Agenda storyline.

[83] While a member of the second X-Factor team, Rahne wears a special uniform made of "unstable molecules" that converts to a collar in her non-human forms.

[volume & issue needed] In the alternate timeline of the 1995–1996 "Age of Apocalypse" storyline, Rahne finds herself stuck in her lupine form and is a companion to the Dark Beast.

She is seen on a viewscreen in her human form and receives passing mention in Ultimate X-Men #43, during the selection process for Emma Frost's Academy of Tomorrow, in which the President of the United States says "No to the wolf girl."