Selina during her early days as Catwoman.
CATWOMAN ACTRESS PROFESSIONAL
Selina enjoyed this experience so much she decided to become a professional costumed cat burglar, and thus began a career that would repeatedly lead to her encountering the Batman.
However, her husband had kept her jewelry in his private vault, and she had to break into it to retrieve the jewelry. It was revealed that Selina Kyle had been the wife of an abusive man, and eventually decided to leave her husband. In The Brave and the Bold #197, the Golden Age origin of Catwoman given in Batman #62 is elaborated on, after Selina revealed that she never actually had amnesia.
CATWOMAN ACTRESS SERIES
In the 1970s comics, a series of stories taking place on Earth-Two (the parallel Earth that was retroactively declared as the home of DC's Golden Age characters) reveal that on that world, Selina reformed in the 1950s (after the events of Batman #69) and had married Bruce Wayne soon afterwards, she gave birth to the couple's only child, Helena Wayne (the Huntress). Selina appears again as a criminal in Batman #84 and Detective Comics #211, her final appearance for many years (until 1966). She winds up reforming and stays on the straight and narrow for several years, helping out Batman in Batman #65 and #69, until Selina decides to return to a life of crime in Detective Comics #203. Golden Age first appearance of "The Cat".īatman #62 revealed that Catwoman (after a blow to the head jogged her memory) is an amnesiac flight attendant who had turned to crime after suffering a prior blow to the head during a plane crash she survived (although in the final issue of The Brave and the Bold, she admits that she made up the amnesia story because she wanted a way out of the past life of crime). There have been many versions of Catwoman's origins and back story seen in the comic books over the decades. Catwoman is #51 on Wizard magazine's "100 Greatest Villains of All Time" list, #11 on IGN's "Top 100 Comic Book Villains of All Time" list, and #20 on IGN's "Top 100 Comic Book Heroes". Anne Hathaway portrayed the character in the third installment of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises. Halle Berry starred in a stand-alone Catwoman film in 2004, though the film features a title character bearing little resemblance to the comic book character. Michelle Pfeiffer portrayed the character in 1992's popular film Batman Returns. Actresses Julie Newmar, Lee Meriwether, and Eartha Kitt introduced her to a large audience on the 1960s Batman television series. The character has been one of Batman's most enduring love interests.Ī popular figure, Catwoman has been featured in most media adaptations related to Batman. Since the 1990s, Catwoman has been featured in an eponymous series that cast her as an anti-heroine rather than a supervillainess. Modern writers have attributed her activities and costumed identity as a response to a history of abuse. As an adversary of Batman, she was a whip-carrying burglar with a taste for high stake thefts. The original and most widely known Catwoman, Selina Kyle, first appeared in Batman #1 (Spring 1940) in which she was known as The Cat. She regularly eludes capture by the Dark Knight and maintains a complicated, adversarial relationship with Batman that frequently turns flirtatious and occasionally, legitimately romantic. Her criminal activities are often tempered by a reluctant altruism, making her an inconstant villain and occasional ally to Batman. but determined to do it in style, she learned martial arts and trained extensively to perfect her skills in cat burglary. Currently portrayed as an orphan who learned to survive on Gotham's streets, Selina took to thievery to survive. Selina Kyle, also known as Catwoman, is a jewel thief from Gotham City and one Batman's major girlfriends and a recuring foe of his.
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