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C DC C (1st series) #53 (May 1991) C ELESTE FIRST APPEARANCE QUARTERLY #17 (Winter 1994) STATUS Villain (deceased) REAL NAME Unknown STATUS Hero REAL NAME Mark Armstrong FIRST APPEARANCE : #1 (Spring 1940) SELINA KYLE’S 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 OMICS OMICS 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 OCCUPATION Cat burglar/ BASE ’s East End committed suicide and her violent father drank himself 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 HEIGHT 5ft 7in WEIGHT 133 lbs EYES Blue-green HAIR Black to death not long after. Separated from her younger 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 HEIGHT 5ft 7in WEIGHT 120 lbs EYES Blue HAIR Brown and other projectiles propelled by force waves. E sister Magdalena and remanded to the Sprang Hall E NCYCLOPEDIA and various martial arts disciplines; skintight cat costume features SPECIAL POWERS/ABILITIES Naturally wields the emerald energy NCYCLOPEDIA retractable razor-sharp claws in gloves and spring-action steel Juvenile Detention Center—an abusive state home for His real name and origin remained a mystery, and with employed by the Corps. climbing pitons in boots; wields a variety of bullwhips and orphaned or delinquent girls—Selina 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. PURPLE mission to recover a stolen cache of Russian weapons, of the LEGION OF SUPER- the world to practice and STORYLINES Sharp wits and an amazing natural skill as a gymnast led to her PRINCESS known as the Dragon’s Hoard. Several other rival HEROES, Celeste McCauley left perfect his meta-human • (1ST SERIES) #1-4 (FEBRUARY–MAY becoming the slickest and slipperiest cat burglar the Gotham City Catwoman has clandestine groups came searching for the Dragon’s Hoard her wealthy family to become a powers.As Centrix, one of worn a number of 1989) Selina Kyle’s life on the mean streets of Police Department had ever had to deal with. as well, including the Russian Red Shadows and the private detective.An encounter Canada’s few public super Gotham City is recounted. different costumes over the years, Khymer Rouge. Suicide Squad members with the remains of a dead heroes,Armstrong put his • #759-762 often preferring purple catsuits. and were captured by the Yakuza and GREEN LANTERN on the planet abilities to practical use, (AUGUST–NOVEMBER 2001) P.I. is THE FELINE FATALE freed by KATANA from the 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 for control energy used by that intergalactic corps of before he was asked to join Selina. Sensei taught her how best to use her claws. Later, ex-heavyweight champ Ted Grant (see of the stolen weapons. Later, in the ring-wielders.This energy saved her life the most recent incarnation • CATWOMAN (3RD SERIES) #1-4 (JANUARY–APRIL forests of southeast Asia, Catseye when she was beaten nearly to death by of the GLOBAL GUARDIANS. ILDCAT 2002) Catwoman stalks and defeats a W 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 Gotham’s 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 Robinson, whom Selina befriended and Catseye's body was incinerated Glorith the sorceress, Celeste became a practitioner of New Age in an explosion caused by being of pure energy.Adopting the name philosophies, mixing them watched over like the little sister she . 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 HAIN L IGHTNING Spying the Caped Crusader from her pp. 320-1) erased Celeste’s known history 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 C ELSIUS OCCUPATION Criminal BASE Mobile HEIGHT 5ft 4in inspired to take up her own costume when 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 Selina’s 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 Amy’s 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 the chance to change her spots. Sometimes he even asked the Princess SPECIAL POWERS/ABILITIES Could project rays of intense her with a bodysuit containing containment circuitry. 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 TOP THIEF Few cat personality disorder.The dominant personality is Amy, 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. Kyle’s nimble-fingered Arani Desai’s 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, eventually returned to the city’s East End, where Catwoman now defends the defenseless. the cause of death by her father, however, are not so benign.Amber is scientist Ashok Desai,Arani was angry, aggressive, and very Catwoman learned Batman’s 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 Selina’s she was rescued by Niles Caulder, others.Together, they are known heart would always belong to Batman. the CHIEF of the DOOM PATROL, as Chain Lightning, and at who later married her. Soon after, different times Amy’s powers Catwoman continues to enjoy Arani discovered her amazing appear as four distinct adventures on the “other” side metagene powers. electrical beings. Shazam’s of the fence now, stealing only Separated from Caulder for magic bolt when necessary and usually if several years,Arani learned that he accidentally gave all four the loot will ultimately do had died at the hands of GENERAL personalities physical 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 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