A mutant swashbuckler returns with the help writer Chris Claremont and artist Todd Nauck.

When Nightcrawler sacrificed his life to protect mutantkind, a hole was left in the X-Men’s ranks that have never been filled. With his recent resurrection in the pages of Amazing X-Men, Kurt Wagner has returned to a world far different from the one he left behind. Charles Xavier is dead. Scott Summers is on the run. Even Wolverine, his closest friend, has changed, becoming the headmaster of the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning. And though a deep schism divides the X-Men, Kurt Wagner isn’t going to waste one minute of his new lease on life.

“He’s smart, tough, creative and daring, with an instinctive understanding of people and situations. He has a wicked sense of humour and a devastating charm,” stated Claremont, in an interview with Marvel.com. “His ‘normal’ is revolutionary to most people; throw him a problem, he’ll find a way to solve it that’s unique to him. He quite simply is the kind of man others trust; to know him is to have faith in him.”

Nightcrawler #1 which features a cover by Chris Samnee and variants by Samnee and Humberto Ramos arrives on April 9, 2014.