[1] 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,[1] which evidently brings her into the eye of Roman Van Drake, the man who destroyed her family.
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 January 1999, a magazine titled The Crow/Razor: Nocturnal Masque, featuring artwork of both characters and quotes attributed to each was released.
Prior to her death, Razor was shown as a capable martial artist and gymnast who usually carried a pair of bladed wrist gauntlets.
[2] With the book's violent content and "pin-up friendly"[3] artistic style, Razor is often considered part of the "bad girl" genre that rose in popularity during the early-mid-1990s.