Razor and blades model the disposable safety razor and founder of Gillette Safety Razor Company, Gillette did not originate this model. The urban legend about Gillette is that he realized that a disposable razor blade would not only be convenient, but also generate a continuous revenue stream. To foster that stream, he sold razors at an artificially low price to create the market for the blades. But Gillette razors were expensive when they were first introduced and the price only went down after his patents expired: it was his competitors who invented the razors-and-blades model. This model has been used in several businesses for
Steppin' Razor (comics) of Cththon in exchange for membership in that house. This plan fails when a friend of Blade's finds and frees him. Blade then kills all of the Bad Bloods except Steppin' Razor who escapes. Days later Steppin' Razor hunts down and kills a police officer name Flannigan and then nearly kills a nurse name Viola. Flashbacks reveal both people helped care for Blade when he was a boy. Steppin' Razor's next target is the man who raised Blade as a child, the man Blade identifies as his father. Blade tracks Steppin' Razor to Blade's boyhood home, and finds Steppin' Razor