(New Avengers#1-3 - BTS) - Razor-Fist was one of many villains incarcerated at the Raft penitentiary who were released by Electro during a mass breakout. Despite the efforts of heroes such as Spider-Man, Iron Man, Captain America, Luke Cage, Daredevil, Sentry and Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew), Razor-Fist escaped the island prison.

(Toxin#1) - Needing a new home in New York, Razor-Fist had a homeless man bring him to an abandoned building, where he quickly slew the squatters who tried to defend their space.

(Toxin#2) - Razor-Fist began drawing followers to him, attracting people who cut themselves such as a young student named Anton, and put them to work feeding and cleaning him while teaching them how to master pain. When Anton was given some of Razor-Fist's bandages to clean, he was tracked down by the symbiote Toxin, who was hunting Razor-Fist by scent. Anton brought Toxin to Razor-Fist's lair in the sewers, where Toxin fell into a pit where Razor-Fist tested himself on cornered animals. Toxin's symbiote half refused to aid its human half for the fight, assuming a weak form that it called "Larry" instead of its battle form.

(Toxin#3) - Razor-Fist toyed with Toxin until it finally assume its battle form, and Razor-Fist ran away, slicing a follower of his named Lulu on the way out, which forced Toxin to stop and help her to a hospital. One of Razor-Fist's followers, a police officer named Perkins, informed Razor-Fist that Toxin was tracking him by scent, so he had his followers bathe him in perfume to mask his smell.

(Toxin#5 (fb)) - Razor-Fist led his followers to an Italian restaurant, where they massacred all of the patrons, then stole the security camera so that he could use it for training purposes.

(Toxin#5) - As Razor-Fist began to plot his ambitious "Slasherday," blackmailing New York with the claim that he would start a massacre unless money was donated to his bank account, he still worried that Toxin might interfere, when Perkins informed him that one of his colleagues, Eddie Meadows, claimed to know Toxin. Razor-Fist captured Meadows and tortured him until he revealed that Toxin was Pat Mulligan. He then turned Meadows over to his youngest followers, the "Piranha Tots." Razor-Fist then tracked down Toxin's father, Jim Mulligan.

(Toxin#6) - The elder Mulligan fought back, but Razor-Fist dealt him a fatal stab wound just as Toxin appeared on the scene. They fought for a moment, but Toxin ended the fight to check on his father, allowing Razor-Fist to escape. Finding that his "Slasherday" fund had drawn a measely $35.10, Razor-Fist prepared to start the bloodbath, but one follower named Samantha, a film student, tried to convince him that they could find satisfaction in filming fake murders rather than actually committing them. Razor-Fist was unconvinced, and was about to stab Samantha when Toxin arrived, and Toxin tore both of his blades off his arms, then knocked him out, and turned him over to the authorities. Razor-Fist was fitted with prosthetic arms and returned to Ryker's, but some of his followers avoided capture.

(Daughters of the Dragon#2 (fb) - BTS) - Now operating with only one blade Razor-Fist was hired by Ricadonna to retrieve a computer chip that was stolen by a few lower-tier criminals. His first target was Freezer Burn.

(Daughters of the Dragon#1) - On his search for the chip Razor-Fist killed Freezer Burn, who wasn't very cooperative, and his girlfriend Heather McDermott. When Colleen arrived she found Razor-Fist standing over Freezer Burn's corpse and he threatened to kill Heather's baby too if Colleen made one move.

(Daughters of the Dragon#2) - Colleen attacked Razor-Fist and he dropped the baby, which was caught by Misty Knight and brought to safety. Meanwhile the fight between Razor-Fist and Colleen continued. It ended when Colleen cut off his blade. She immediately took care of the wound to prevent that Razor-Fist bleeded to death.

(Civil War: Front Line#9/2) - Back in the Raft Razor-Fist, Grim Reaper and Justine Hammer attempted a breakout during Robbie Baldwin's arrival at the Raft. Grim Reaper provoked Baldwin to get him near Razor-Fist, who grabbed him with his hooks and threatened to kill him if the guards didn't back off. Meanwhile Justine teleported to the surveilance room and opened the cells. Outside his cell Razor-Fist used Baldwin as a shield. He pushed him forwards and hurt Baldwin so badly that his powers manifested explosively. Razor-Fist and all the other prisoners present were knocked out.

(New Avengers#35) - Razor-Fist  was one of a large number of super-villains who met with the Hood, hearing and apparently accepting his position as the new Kingpin of super-villain crime. For his attendance, he was given $25,000.

(New Avengers Annual#2) - Razor-Fist  was part of the Hood's super-villain army that ambushed the "New" Avengers' base at Dr. Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum. He was incapacitated by the Zom-powered Dr. Strange and then taken into custody by SHIELD.

Comments: Created by Doug Moench and Gene Day.

Razor-Fist has been the butt of many joke by fans over the years because of his lack of hands, rendering him unable to dress, bathe or eat. The bionic hands he was granted in Peter Parker: Spider-Man I#81 would have made up for this, but they didn't last.

Of course, it's no wonder that the bionic hands didn't last-- the costume Romita Jr. designed to go with them is pretty dull-- it looks like a mis-colored HYDRA uniform!

Shockwave and Razor-Fist's employer in Peter Parker: Spider-Man I#81 was unrevealed, but I would assume it to be either Hydra or the Maggia, since they had been making the rounds in Mackie's Spider-Man at the time.

His real name was revealed in the New Avengers: Most Wanted Files.

A Razor-Fist was seen in JLA/Avengers#4, but since the characters in this story were pulled forward from different times, it could've been one of the others.

Two servants of the House of Razor, one a former homecoming queen, the other the daughter of a diplomat, attended to Razor-Fist as he prepared to make an attempt on Elektra's life. Upon his failure, they informed Elektra that they would return him to the House of Razor.

The servants were presumably responsible for dressing, feeding, and cleaning Razor-Fist.

--Elektra I#5-6

Images taken from:
Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Master Edition entry
Peter Parker: Spider-Man I#81, page 15, panel 1
Elektra I#5, page 8, panel 1

Last updated: 02/11/08

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