Christoph Nord

Christoph Nord, known as David North and the mercenary Maverick, is a mutant ex-operative who served during the Cold War as part of the covert Weapon X program alongside Wolverine and Sabretooth. His past as a black-ops agent shapes his morally complex career as a gun-for-hire.

Christoph Nord stepped onto the Marvel stage in 1993's X-Men Unlimited #3, the creation of Fabian Nicieza and Mike McKone, arriving in that fertile Copper/Modern Age when Marvel was pushing its mutant universe into thrilling new corners. Over more than three decades of publication history — stretching all the way to 2024 — he's proven himself a quietly enduring figure, most at home in the gritty, morally complex world of Wolverine, where he shares the page with the likes of Wolverine himself, Beast, and Maverick. With 48 catalog appearances, a key issue to his name, and a presence that reaches into recent runs like Reign of X and Benjamin Percy's Wolverine, Nord is exactly the kind of deep-cut Marvel character that rewards the dedicated collector who loves discovering the shadows lurking at the edges of the X-Men's world.