*Much of Nightcrawler's early history remains unknown, even to the German-born mutant himself! Raised by members of a traveling Bavarian circus, Kurt Wagner doesn't know who his parents were or what became of them... or even why he was born with his remarkable mutant abilities and freakish appearance! The evil mutant Mystique once claimed that Nightcrawler's foster mother, the sorceress Margali Szardos, held the truth about their shared past, but her account may have been pure fabrication... and the real story may never be known! *Source: Back of Card