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Real name | Kurt Wagner | ||||||||||||||||||
Alias | Kurt Szardos, Creeper | ||||||||||||||||||
Species | Human Mutant | ||||||||||||||||||
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First appearance | "X-Men #1" |
Kurt Wagner is the son of the shape-shifting mutant Mystique.
Living on the Circus[]
After being abandoned by his mother, Kurt was adopted by the ringmaster of a circus. He grew up performing as an acrobat, and he was accepted for his skin.
X-Men[]
On Kurt's sixteenth birthday, a bald man in a wheel chair approached him with the opportunity of a life-time. Kurt joined this man's team of mutants and became fast friends with the others, quickly claiming the title of practical joker of the team.