Chris Claremont toyed with the idea of making the Doctor Strange villain Nightmare into Kurt’s dad. But he preferred his second option for Nightcrawler’s origin. His idea was that Mystique had ...

Nightcrawler, whose real name is Kurt Wagner, made his first appearance in Giant-Size X-Men #1 in 1975, created by Len Wein and Dave Cockrum. Born in Germany, Kurt was orphaned and raised in a circus, ...

Kurt Wagner’s relationship with Mystique and Destiny has long been a messy, divisive one–but as the current era of X-Men comics is more explicit about their queer family, this week it righted the ...

Saladin Ahmed is the new writer for Wolverine, with the new series launching as part of the X-Men: From The Ashes relaunch, drawn by Martin Coccolo. Saladin Ahmed has been talking about the character, ...

Marvel Comics has announced X-Men Blue: Origins, a new one-shot that will finally reveal the whole truth regarding famed X-Man Nightcrawler (aka the Uncanny Spider-Man) and his birth mother, Mystique.

When it comes to Marvel Comics, no origin story is safe. One issue and one retcon can change everything we know about a character, and the X-Men are especially vulnerable to such tinkering. The ...

Kurt Wagner fans rejoice; the fuzzy elf returns with an ongoing series from Chris Claremont and Todd Nauck. Apparently this series was originally conceived as the next version of X-Men: Legacy, (hence ...

Superhero costume changes are quintessential to their stories, often allegorical to a larger evolution of the character undergoing the alteration. The X-Men, known for both their uniforms and members' ...

After 40 years, we finally know the original Marvel Comics plan for the connection between X-Men Nightcrawler and Mystique. Marvel Comics has finally made good on an idea that’s over 40 years old. In ...