Initially a victim of both of her father and her sister's deaths, the young Nicole Mitchell vowed to clean up the scum of Chinatown by herself as the superheroine Razor, named for the blades she wears on her arms, which evidently brings her into the eye of Roman Van Drake, the man who destroyed her family. In a twist of fate, it is revealed that not only is Nicole's sister, in fact, alive, but also she is Drake's favorite assassin, Stryke. In a play of power, Drake sends Stryke after Razor, who in the following battle comes to the conclusion that Razor is her sister. Angered at Drake's treachery, Stryke kills him, hoping to reconnect with her sister. But when Nicole shuns her like a stranger, Stryke kills her out of anger. Eventually resurrected by her descendant Poizon, Razor is called upon once again to battle with the newly resurrected Drake, alongside her sister Stryke, and Poizon, herself. In a four-issue series, published from April to September 1998, Razor teamed with
James O'Barr's Eric Draven character from
The Crow in
The Crow/Razor: Kill the Pain. In October, a #0 issue followed. In January 1999, a magazine titled
The Crow/Razor: Nocturnal Masque, featuring artwork of both characters and quotes attributed to each was released. In the following month, two additional issues titled,
The Crow/Razor: Kill the Pain: Finale and
The Crow/Razor: The Lost Chapter were published. ==Powers and abilities==