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FIRST APPEARANCE SUICIDE SQUAD (1st series) #53 (May 1991)
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STATUS Villain (deceased) REAL NAME Unknown STATUS Hero REAL NAME Mark Armstrong
FIRST APPEARANCE BATMAN: #1 (Spring 1940) SELINA KYLES CHILDHOOD was defined by tragedy. OCCUPATION Yakuza assassin BASE Tokyo, Japan FIRST APPEARANCE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES (4th series) #6 OCCUPATION Adventurer BASE Vancouver Island, British Columbia
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STATUS Unresolved REAL NAME Selina Kyle When Selina was just a girl, her brutalized mother HEIGHT 6ft 1in WEIGHT 195 lbs EYES Brown HAIR Black (April 1990) HEIGHT 5ft 9in WEIGHT 160 lbs EYES Green HAIR Brown
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OCCUPATION Cat burglar/vigilante BASE Gotham Citys East End SPECIAL POWERS/ABILITIES Razor-sharp claws tipped with poison; STATUS Hero REAL NAME Celeste McCauley SPECIAL POWERS/ABILITIES Projects invisible energy force waves in equal
committed suicide and her violent father drank himself
HEIGHT 5ft 7in WEIGHT 133 lbs EYES Blue-green HAIR Black amazing leaping ability; low level super speed. OCCUPATION Private investigator; adventurer BASE Mobile and opposite directions from his body; carries arsenal of small pellets
SPECIAL POWERS/ABILITIES A formidable fighter with expertise in boxing
to death not long after. Separated from her younger HEIGHT 5ft 7in WEIGHT 120 lbs EYES Blue HAIR Brown and other projectiles propelled by force waves.
sister Magdalena and remanded to the Sprang Hall
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and various martial arts disciplines; skintight cat costume features SPECIAL POWERS/ABILITIES Naturally wields the emerald energy
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retractable razor-sharp claws in gloves and spring-action steel Juvenile Detention Centeran abusive state home for His real name and origin remained a mystery, and with employed by the Green Lantern Corps.
climbing pitons in boots; wields a variety of bullwhips and orphaned or delinquent girlsSelina opted instead to good reason. For the ruthless killer known as Catseye was Ambitious advertising
cat-o-nine tails as offensive weapons and gymnastic accoutrements.
take her chances on the mean streets of Gotham City. a bioengineered meta-human agent of the Yakuza crime executive Mark Armstrong
family. He clashed with various members of the SUICIDE In a hypertimeline that retired young and wealthy,
Amid the crime and corruption of the poverty-stricken SQUAD when that covert agency went to Japan on a contains an alternate history leaving him all the time in
East End district, she survived through petty theft. P URPLE mission to recover a stolen cache of Russian weapons, of the LEGION OF SUPER- the world to practice and
KEY STORYLINES Sharp wits and an amazing natural skill as a gymnast led to her PRINCESS known as the Dragons Hoard. Several other rival HEROES, Celeste McCauley left perfect his meta-human
CATWOMAN (1ST SERIES) #1-4 (FEBRUARYMAY becoming the slickest and slipperiest cat burglar the Gotham City Catwoman has clandestine groups came searching for the Dragons Hoard her wealthy family to become a powers. As Centrix, one of
1989) Selina Kyles life on the mean streets of worn a number of as well, including the Russian Red Shadows and the private detective. An encounter Canadas few public super
Police Department had ever had to deal with. different costumes over the years,
Gotham City is recounted. Khymer Rouge. Suicide Squad members MANHUNTER with the remains of a dead heroes, Armstrong put his
DETECTIVE COMICS #759-762 often preferring purple catsuits. and BRONZE TIGER were captured by the Yakuza and GREEN LANTERN on the planet abilities to practical use,
(AUGUSTNOVEMBER 2001) P.I. Slam Bradley is THE FELINE FATALE freed by KATANA from the OUTSIDERS while Twilo exposed her to the amazing solid-light foiling small-time criminals
hired to find the missing and presumed-dead To protect herself from predators, Selina studied martial arts in a backstreet dojo where a Catseye fought the ATOM for control energy used by that intergalactic corps of before he was asked to join
Selina. of the stolen weapons. Later, in the ring-wielders.This energy saved her life the most recent incarnation
Sensei taught her how best to use her claws. Later, ex-heavyweight champ Ted Grant (see
CATWOMAN (3RD SERIES) #1-4 (JANUARYAPRIL forests of southeast Asia, Catseye when she was beaten nearly to death by of the GLOBAL GUARDIANS.
2002) Catwoman stalks and defeats a
WILDCAT I) taught Selina the sweet science of boxing. For a time, Selina was the most attacked the Squad again, this time Roxxas the Butcher. She worked with the Armstrong still operates as
shape-changing serial killer who is accomplished thief nobody knew. She was also one of the most generous, spreading her in an ancient temple, and was Legion of Super-Heroes and helped Centrix from his home in
hunting Gothams ladies of ill-gotten gains around the downtrodden and destitute of the East End, scraped by his own poison claws evacuate Earth before its destruction in a Ladysmith, on Vancouver
the evening. including the young prostitute Holly Gonightly while battling Bronze Tiger. catastrophic accident. During a fight with Island. Centrix is a
Catseye's body was incinerated Glorith the sorceress, Celeste became a practitioner of New Age
Robinson, whom Selina befriended and
in an explosion caused by being of pure energy. Adopting the name philosophies, mixing them
watched over like the little sister she DEADSHOT. PJ Neon, she adjusted to her new life until with his millions as a financier
believed she no longer had. temporal anomalies transformed her for the Global Guardians. SB
Selina would have continued to rob into a member of the DARKSTARS.The
with impunity if not for the BATMAN. events of Zero Hour (see Great Battles, C H A I N L I G H T N I N G
pp. 320-1) erased Celestes known history
Spying the Caped Crusader from her
from the primary timeline of Earth. DW FIRST APPEARANCE POWER OF SHAZAM! #14 (April 1996)
window on one of his first outings, Selina STATUS Villain REAL NAME Amy
watched him in action and was suitably OCCUPATION Criminal BASE Mobile HEIGHT 5ft 4in
inspired to take up her own costume when
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WEIGHT 121 lbs EYES Blue HAIR Platinum blonde
prowling the Gotham night. In a tight FIRST APPEARANCE SHOWCASE #94 SPECIAL POWERS/ABILITIES A multiple personality, she absorbs electrical
(September 1977) current but cannot control it without artificial help.
ALLEY CAT Often, the alley cats leather catsuit, Catwoman marked the city STATUS Hero (deceased)
of Gotham were Selinas only as her territory. However, she never killed, REAL NAME Arani Desai Caulder
friends, especially after she was and she only stole from the wealthiest or OCCUPATION Adventurer BASE Kansas City Amys metagene kicked in some time during her early
once beaten and left for dead. the well-insured. For these reasons, Batman HEIGHT 5ft 4in WEIGHT 124 lbs teens, allowing her to absorb electrical energy, but she
pursued other costumed criminals more relentlessly and gave Catwoman EYES Brown HAIR Black lacked a way to control it. An unknown person provided
SPECIAL POWERS/ABILITIES Could project rays of intense her with a bodysuit containing containment circuitry.
the chance to change her spots. Sometimes he even asked the Princess
heat or cold from her hands. Unfortunately, Amy also began suffering from multiple
of Plunder to use her skills for the betterment of Gotham. Perhaps his personality disorder.The dominant personality is Amy,
TOP THIEF Few cat
altruism attracted her, because Selina ultimately did decide to make burglars can rival Selina who tried to commit suicide in New York, but was
Catwoman more than just a thief in the night. Kyles nimble-fingered Arani Desais mother died rescued by CAPTAIN MARVEL JR., earning her sincere
After faking her own demise, Selina left Gotham for a time, but thieving skills. during childbirth. Blamed as affection. Her other three personalities,
the cause of death by her father, however, are not so benign. Amber is
eventually returned to the citys East End, where Catwoman now defends the defenseless.
scientist Ashok Desai, Arani was angry, aggressive, and very
Catwoman learned Batmans best-kept secret when the Dark Knight took her to his raised by servants and nannies until destructive.The Inner Child is
Batcave and revealed his identity to her.They finally admitted their feelings for each other she ran away. For years, Arani lived a hulking form, while Id is a
but then parted because Catwoman did not believe that Batman trusted her. Selina began a life of poverty in Calcutta until small girl trapped inside the
seeing private detective Slam Bradley (see BRADLEY, SLAM), but Slam realized that Selinas she was rescued by Niles Caulder, others.Together, they are known
the CHIEF of the DOOM PATROL, as Chain Lightning, and at
heart would always belong to Batman.
who later married her. Soon after, different times Amys powers
Catwoman continues to enjoy Arani discovered her amazing appear as four distinct
adventures on the other side metagene powers. electrical beings. Shazams
of the fence now, stealing only Separated from Caulder for magic lightning bolt
when necessary and usually if several years, Arani learned that he accidentally gave all four
had died at the hands of GENERAL personalities physical
the loot will ultimately do
IMMORTUS. Obsessed with the idea that form, and it took the
someone other than herself the Chief was still alive, Arani assembled combined efforts of Captain
a bit of good. SB a new Doom Patrol to find him. Marvel Jr. and MISTER SCARLET
Tragically, Celsius died during a massive alien invasion of to subdue them before Fawcett
WHIP SMART Her evil ways (mostly) CATSEYE STRIKES Catseye attacked Nightshade, a member of the Earth.The devious Caulder turned up alive, claiming that City was reduced to rubble. Amy
behind her, Catwoman now fights for Suicide Squad, with his poison-tipped claws. But Nightshade was Arani had never been married to him, and that she was a is now back at S.T.A.R. Labs,
the downtrodden of Gotham. able to deflect the strike with her own unique martial arts skills, poor, deluded woman unable to cope with reality even where she has undergone
causing the assassin to flee into the night. after he treated her, as a physician. PJ frequent treatment. RG