| Slot: |
NYX 1 |
| Item: |
NYX #1 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.8 |
| Cert #: |
0285370027
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Owner Comments
NYX 1 12/03 (Self Submission) "Wannabe, Part One"
Cover Price: US $2.99
Writer(s): Joe Quesada
Penciller(s): Jean-Francois Beaulieu, Joshua Middleton - 'Josh'
Inker(s): Jean-Francois Beaulieu, Joshua Middleton - 'Josh'
Colorist(s): Joshua Middleton - 'Josh'
Letterer(s): Chris Eliopoulos - '(principally a letterer)'
Editor(s): C.B. Cebulski, MacKenzie Cadenhead, Joe Quesada
Cover Artist(s): Joshua Middleton - 'Josh'
Synopsis: The story begins with the introduction of Kiden’s family. Her mom, two twin younger brother and her older brother Ty. Kiden is approximately 4 at the beginning of this story. Her mom drops her of at the police station to spend time with her dad so the rest of the family can buy a cake and get his birthday party ready. Since his shift has only a few minutes to go, he punches out and takes Kiden to the local park. He buys her an ice cream on the way. From the way they talk it is clear that she is Daddy’s little girl and he is her favorite parent. As they are getting ready to cross the street to the park a car comes speeding down the street, stops in front and Kiden is pushed away by her dad but, she sees him get shot several times. Years later, teenage Kiden spends school nights out with her friend dancing and doing drugs. Kiden’s mom has never remarried and has done her best to raise the four kids by herself. Kiden thinks nothing of pilfering cigarettes from her mom’s purse or her neighborhood store. Her neighborhood is an inner city one rife with gangs and drug dealers.
Kiden gets on the wrong side of one of the local gangsters at school. He misses a handball that hits her as she is sitting and talking with Kara before school. He slaps her to get the ball back and she pulls out his golden earring. He goes to the nurse’s office and she goes to the guidance counselor. Kiden returns to class later that afternoon only to be told by Kara that the gang kids are going to be after them as soon as the bell rings.
Kiden and Kara are caught in the hall after school before they can leave. Kara is getting badly beaten by Hector’s gang girls while Hector attempts to deal with Kiden. It is during this fight when, Kiden is experiencing a berserker rage, as her mutant power manifests itself.
Kiden finds she is the only one able to move while the rest of the kids and teachers in the hall are frozen in place. She even tries to talk to Kara with no results. She touches Hector’s arm and is surprised as it snaps in two. Reality returns to its normally maddening pace as Hector screams. Kiden has no idea how this has happened.
Characters: Elizabeth Nixon (Marvel)
Kiden Nixon (Marvel)
Nick Nixon (Marvel)
Tyler Nixon (Marvel)
Cameron Palmer (Marvel)
Zebra Daddy (Marvel)
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| Slot: |
NYX 2 |
| Item: |
NYX #2 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.8 |
| Cert #: |
0285370030
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Owner Comments
NYX 2 01/04 (Self Submission) "Wannabe, Part Two"
Cover Price: US $2.99
Writer(s): Joe Quesada
Penciller(s): Jean-Francois Beaulieu, Joshua Middleton - 'Josh'
Inker(s): Jean-Francois Beaulieu, Joshua Middleton - 'Josh'
Colorist(s): Joshua Middleton - 'Josh'
Letterer(s): Chris Eliopoulos - '(principally a letterer)'
Editor(s): MacKenzie Cadenhead, C.B. Cebulski, Joe Quesada
Cover Artist(s): Joshua Middleton - 'Josh'
Synopsis: At Kiden’s house, their mom has found Ty’s drugs. Mrs. Nixon flushes the small packet of white powder down the toiler much to the dismay of her oldest son. A fight breaks out between mom, Ty, and the twin boys down the hall by the bathroom. Kiden angrily leaves for school.
Things don’t go any better for her at school. As soon as she arrives, Ms. Palmer pulls her into the principal's office. While she is there, Hector arrives at school and slips the security officer operating the metal detector a twenty dollar bill to ignore a sealed brown bag he has carefully hidden underneath his coat.
Despite Ms. Palmer’s urging, Kiden does not tell the principal anything about the incident of the day before. She is eventually dismissed and goes into the hall of the school with the intention of getting outside to smoke. Kara catches up to her and wants to know what happened as well. Kiden has no explanation for either herself or her best friend. Kiden sees Hector approaching and does her best to avoid him in the crowded hall of teenagers. Eventually they meet and Hector says he has a surprise for her. He pulls a gun. Ms. Palmer sees Kiden talking to Hector and decides to get her attention for a more personal conversation. Hector pulls the trigger. When Kiden opens her eyes the bullet is stopped in mid air just inches from her forehead. Kiden soon discovers that the kids in front of her and behind are frozen in place.. She skips joyously over to where Hector is holding the gun. As she is making a threat to Hector reality comes crashing down once again with a deafening sound from the gun. She turns to see Kara holding their teachers’ body and blood running from the teacher onto the school hallway floor.
Flash-forward to 6 months later, Principal Weisman is visiting Cameron Palmer at home. He is doing his best to get her to return to work but she refuses. He tells her that no one has heard from Kiden since the shooting. A few hours later on the same day Cameron Palmer has another visitor. Kiden who finds her former teacher has tried to commit suicide.
Characters: Elizabeth Nixon (Marvel)
Kiden Nixon (Marvel)
Tyler Nixon (Marvel)
Cameron Palmer (Marvel)
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| Slot: |
NYX 3 |
| Item: |
NYX #3 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.8 |
| Cert #: |
1206498005
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Owner Comments
NYX 3 02/04 "Wannabe, Part Three"
Cover Price: US $2.99
Writer(s): Joe Quesada
Penciller(s): Joshua Middleton - 'Josh'
Inker(s): Joshua Middleton - 'Josh'
Colorist(s): Joshua Middleton - 'Josh', Jean-Francois Beaulieu
Letterer(s): Randy Gentile, Chris Eliopoulos - '(principally a letterer)'
Editor(s): C.B. Cebulski, MacKenzie Cadenhead
Cover Artist(s): Joshua Middleton - 'Josh'
Synopsis: A teenage darkhaired girl is with a man in a motel room. The man gets dressed and leaves some money on the bed. Scratch marks are seen on his back.
The girl is in a bar visiting a well dressed gentleman who is setting her up with another money making opportunity. She goes to a different hotel room to discover the same man. This man has brought a surprise along, a knife.
Kiden waits for the paramedics and rides to the hospital in the ambulance with Ms. Palmer. Kiden stays on a 24-hour vigil at Ms. Palmer’s side until she regains consciousness. When Ms. Palmer is released to go home, Kiden accompanies her.
Ms. Palmer presses Kiden to return to her family and to end her life as a run away. Kiden tells her former teacher she is a mutant but Ms. Palmer believes it’s a game and encourages Kiden to return home a second time. Ms. Palmer promises to called Child Protective Services and Kiden agrees to leave the next morning. However, that night she dreams of seeing her father covered in blood. Her father gives her an address of a hotel to go to. Kiden wakes, writes it down and leaves in a hurry. Ms. Palmer hears her leave and goes to the front room to check. She finds an indent on the notepad of the address that Kiden has gone too. Ms. Palmer decides to follow her former student.
Kiden arrives at the hotel first, climbs the stairs, and sees a door to a room ajar. She enters and sees the darkhaired girl on the bed over the man covered in blood. The girl has two metal claws extending from her left hand. Ms. Palmer joins Kiden in standing in the doorway and staring at this horrific scene.
Characters: Kiden Nixon (Marvel)
Nick Nixon (Marvel)
Cameron Palmer (Marvel)
X-23 (Marvel)
Zebra Daddy (Marvel)
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| Slot: |
NYX 4 |
| Item: |
NYX #4 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.8 |
| Cert #: |
0278702003
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Owner Comments
NYX 4 07/04 "Wannabe, Part Four"
Cover Price: US $2.99
Writer(s): Joe Quesada
Penciller(s): Joshua Middleton - 'Josh'
Inker(s): Joshua Middleton - 'Josh'
Colorist(s): Joshua Middleton - 'Josh', Jean-Francois Beaulieu
Letterer(s): Chris Eliopoulos - '(principally a letterer)'
Editor(s): C.B. Cebulski, MacKenzie Cadenhead
Cover Artist(s): Joshua Middleton - 'Josh'
Synopsis: Kiden tells her teacher what happened when she ran away after the shooting at the school. Kiden ran off on her own to a life on the street. When three men threatened to rape her she used her unique talent to stop time and get away from them. She wandered for four months while only three days crawled by in real time. She eventually touched a boy (Alex) on a street corner begging for money to feed his dog. Kiden spent the happiest five months of her life with him and the group of homeless teenagers he is a part of. Alex got homesick and returned home. Kiden thought of her family and spent two days hitchhiking her way back to Alphabet City. She arrived home only to have her brother Ty tell her that their family life was lots better off without her. Kiden changed her mind and returned to sleeping on the street. That night, Kiden had a vision of her father who told her where to go to help someone in need. That someone turned out to be Cameron in the bathtub. Kiden relates all this to Miss Palmer and the prostitute over lunch in a restaurant. Cameron clearly does not believe Kiden’s story and wants to return her home. However, just before they leave the girl they saved speaks and tells them that she did not kill the john in her hotel room. In Cameron’s apartment Jade tells how the john showed up with the knife. He left a message with her for his wife and kids before he stabbed himself to death. Cameron is getting her coat on when she and Jade notice Kiden staring at the couch next to Jade. Kiden is once again looking at her father in his bloodied police uniform.
The Bronx, NYC. Tatiana is a young teenager working three part time jobs to be able to feed her animals. She has some strays in a vacant lot in addition to her animals that live in her house with her sister and their mom.
Characters: Catiana (Marvel)
Kiden Nixon (Marvel)
Nick Nixon (Marvel)
Tyler Nixon (Marvel)
Cameron Palmer (Marvel)
X-23 (Marvel)
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| Slot: |
NYX 5 |
| Item: |
NYX #5 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.8 |
| Cert #: |
0607233009
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Owner Comments
NYX 5 09/04 "Wannabe, Part Five"
Cover Price: US $2.99
Writer(s): Joe Quesada
Penciller(s): Robert Teranishi
Inker(s): Nelson
Colorist(s): Sotocolor, Felix Serrano
Letterer(s): Chris Eliopoulos - '(principally a letterer)'
Editor(s): Joe Quesada, C.B. Cebulski, MacKenzie Cadenhead
Cover Artist(s): Joshua Middleton - 'Josh'
Synopsis: Kiden and Cameron go to the address that Kiden’s father has given them to find a dead john and a scared X-23. They take X-23 back to Cameron’s apartment. But another working girl has reported their location to Daddy. Kiden has another vision of her father and is told to leave the apartment. The trio makes their way down the fire escape as Daddy and some of his muscle arrive and shoot up the place. The trio find an alleyway to rest in.
Tatiana is on her way to school when she sees a small brown and white dog get hit by a car. The car stops and the driver loans her his tie to stop the bleeding from the animal’s leg. The man then drives them to the local animal hospital where Tatiana volunteers. This makes Tatiana very late for class. This same morning finds Kiden scrounging for food in a dumpster. She sees her dead father and he gives her yet another mission. The trio catches a ride on a train car in search of the street her father told her about. Meanwhile at school, things are not going well for Tatiana. There is a bad smell in the classroom and she starts to hear what the other students think of her in her head. She gets sick and falls from her desk to the floor and begins to vomit. As the teacher turns from the board to see what is going on, she transforms in a half-human/ half-k-9 creature in front of all of them.
The students react with anger, fear and outrage and chase her from the school and through the streets. A gang armed with baseball bats joins on the chase. The chase goes down the street Kiden, Cameron and X-23 are on after they leave the train. Toward the end of the chase the creature transforms back into Tatiana. She is frightened and heads down a dead end alleyway. She is cornered there by the angry mob. The trio rush to help but arrive on the scene as the angry mob leaves, running for their very lives. At the end of the alleyway is a large black feline creature. X-23 calms the scared mutant down and leads Tatiana away from the small dead body of the black cat in the alleyway.
Characters: Catiana (Marvel)
Kiden Nixon (Marvel)
Nick Nixon (Marvel)
Cameron Palmer (Marvel)
X-23 (Marvel)
Zebra Daddy (Marvel)
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| Slot: |
NYX 6 |
| Item: |
NYX #6 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.8 |
| Cert #: |
0003333069
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Owner Comments
NYX 6 09/05 "Wannabe, Part Six"
Cover Price: US $2.99
Writer(s): Joe Quesada
Penciller(s): Robert Teranishi
Inker(s): Chris Sotomayor - 'Soto'
Colorist(s): Felix Serrano
Letterer(s): Chris Eliopoulos - '(principally a letterer)'
Editor(s): Warren Simons, C.B. Cebulski, MacKenzie Cadenhead
Cover Artist(s): Joshua Middleton - 'Josh'
Synopsis: Zebra Daddy hires a mutant called Felon to find X-23. Felon reluctantly agrees to do the job since he will earn enough to move him and his physically challenged little brother to Vegas. Kiden, X-23, Mrs. Palmer and Tatiana are currently using an abandoned warehouse in Manhattan for a base of operations. Tatiana leaves the group and returns home briefly to discover the animals that were once her friends have now turned against her. Felon gets the address to Mrs. Palmer’s apartments and relays the information to Zebra Daddy who gets a few of his men to go over and wreck the apartment. Mrs. Palmer reveals to Kiden that she blames Kiden for her current living conditions. Kiden finds a day planner in a dumpster which contains drugs and an envelope clipped to the inside cover. Based on Felon’s advice Zebra Daddy stations two of his men at Mrs. Palmer’s apartment in case the girls return there.
Characters: Catiana (Marvel)
Felon (Marvel)
Lil' Bro (Marvel)
Kiden Nixon (Marvel)
Nick Nixon (Marvel)
Tyler Nixon (Marvel)
Cameron Palmer (Marvel)
X-23 (Marvel)
Zebra Daddy (Marvel)
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| Slot: |
NYX 7 |
| Item: |
NYX #7 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.8 |
| Cert #: |
1212541005
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Owner Comments
NYX 7
10/05 "Wannabe, Part Seven"
Cover Price: US $3.99
Writer(s): Joe Quesada
Penciller(s): Robert Teranishi
Inker(s): Chris Sotomayor - 'Soto', Nelson
Colorist(s): Felix Serrano
Letterer(s): Chris Eliopoulos - '(principally a letterer)'
Editor(s): Warren Simons, C.B. Cebulski, MacKenzie Cadenhead
Cover Artist(s): Joshua Middleton - 'Josh'
Synopsis: Kiden’s dead father appears to Bobby (AKA Felon) and tells him that he has put four innocent lives in danger and he must correct this problem. Bobby leaves his little brother alone to solve the problem he helped create. Tatiana, Ms. Palmer, Kiden and X-23 are now living on the street and dumpster diving for food. Tatiana is trying to come to terms with her self-realization that she is a mutant. Zebra Daddy arranged to have two teams stake out different places the girls could go. One of those places is Ms. Palmer’s apartment. Ms. Palmer decides to return to her apartment for food, cash and her credit cards. She leaves the girls behind some cardboard boxes before going to the front of her apartment building. She is spotted by a team leader who follows her in and grabs her before she can give the all clear signal. Kiden’s father appears to her in the alleyway and tells her and the girls they must run for their lives. Tatiana changes into Cataina and X-23 takes care of the second team which has now surrounded them. During the fight Bobby arrives at the same time as Zebra Daddy and reminds him that he promised no one would be hurt. Zebra Daddy is injured in the ensuing fight. Cataina climbs the outside of the apartment building intent upon saving Ms. Palmer as the girls can hear her screams through her kitchen window above them. Once the fight is over, one of Zebra Daddy’s men find him and gives him a gun. Ms. Palmer falls through the kitchen window and is caught by Cataina. X-23 finds Zebra Daddy, who puts the gun to her head and pulls the trigger. Seeing her friend shot gives Kiden flashbacks to the day her father was shot. She remembers the look on the shooter’s face and knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that Zebra Daddy is responsible for her father’s death. Cataina loses her grip on Ms. Palmer, who is now falling toward the alleyways ground. Kiden becomes angry and instantly freezes time. She thinks of all the things she could do to Zebra Daddy and chooses instead to place a mattress below Ms. Palmer to cushion her fall. When time returns to normal, X-23 arises from the where she fell without a scratch on her and Ms. Palmer lands on the soft mattress. Kiden’s dead father appears to her and urges her to go with Bobby who claims he can help the girls. Police sirens are heard in the distance as they all leave together for his apartment in District X Vol 1. Kiden’s mom has moved on with her life. She is now with another man and they are planning to move the family away from the neighborhood where Ty has become a drug dealer. Kiden’s mom is reluctant to leave her runaway daughter behind but knows she must move to a better neighborhood for the sake of the twins. As Mrs. Nixon and her family pull away from their old address, the mailman, letter in hand peruses their station wagon but they never notice him. He eventually stops in the middle of the street and notices that the letter is from Kiden to her mom.
Characters: Beast (Marvel)(Henry McCoy)
Catiana (Marvel)
Felon (Marvel)
Lil' Bro (Marvel)
Elizabeth Nixon (Marvel)
Kiden Nixon (Marvel)
Nick Nixon (Marvel)
Tyler Nixon (Marvel)
Cameron Palmer (Marvel)
Wolverine (Marvel)(01 - James 'Logan' Howlett)
X-23 (Marvel)
Zebra Daddy (Marvel)
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