When was catwoman made

They buy it wholeheartedly Though she seems to be in league with him at first, it turns out she just wants to nudge him towards reform. As anyone might've guessed, this spell of law-abiding comes to an end. Not even fans of the '50s wanted a Selina Kyle who goes to bed by 9 PM. So, 's Detective Comics sees Selina grow frustrated by the press' coverage of her past crimes and the taunts of small-time crooks who'd never have dared to razz her in her villainous prime. And so she returns to the wrong side of the law, right where she belongs.

A self-contained story told from the perspective of an aged Bruce Wayne, 's The Brave and the Bold takes Selina's flight attendant origin in a completely different direction. A brutal attack from the Scarecrow brings Selina and Bruce together after years apart, and this Selina has been repenting in prison, having not returned to villainy as she did in Detective Comics Selina lets slip that she consciously chose to become Catwoman, rather than being forced into it by amnesia.

Bruce, ever the detective, pushes her to tell the truth. It comes out in a great, emotional rush. She had married very young to a wealthy man who turned out to be an abusive monster. When he used his connections to ruin her life after she escaped him, she decided to strike back in the only way that mattered to him. She broke into the home they once shared and robbed him blind.

As she tells it, the thieving felt so good — especially after years of cruelty and deprivation — that she couldn't stop from making it into a full-time job. This honesty spurs Bruce into revealing his own past. From the far-off future, Bruce recounts that he and Selina married soon after this encounter, and they enjoyed a warm and wonderful marriage. It might not be the dominant canon, nor would this Selina origin endure forever, but hey, it sure is nice to see these crazy kids work it out for once.

Dozens of parallel universes existed, upon which hundreds of variations of classic DC heroes lived. Earth-Two was the universe of the Golden Age, and Catwoman's life played out quite a bit differently there. In this version of her story, she retains her escaping-an-abusive-husband origin, her brother Karl, and her pet shop. However, nothing detours her from the path of sweetness and light in this world. In fact, she follows it down the aisle and becomes Mrs. Selina Wayne.

A handful of issues from the s and s explore this version of Selina. For example, 's Superman Family celebrates their marriage, while 's All-Star Comics 69 reveals their daughter, Helena Wayne, stalks the night as the heroic Huntress. Not everything works out well for Earth-Two Selina, however.

In 's DC Super-Stars 17, on the stands around the same time as the All-Star Comics issue that introduces her daughter, sees her blackmailed into a scheme that ultimately leads to her death.

Her daughter, like her father before her, swears to avenge her by putting on a mask and bringing criminals to justice. Huntress would go on to have a glittering career as a DC superheroine, albeit one shorn of her Earth-Two ties to the Wayne family. Today, most fans know her as Helena Bertinelli, daughter of one of Gotham's most powerful crime families.

In 's landmark series, Batman: Year One revises Selina's origin entirely, setting the tone for nearly every rendition of the character following its release. Here, Selina is a sex worker who specializes in domination.

Her life is a wasteland of cynicism and cigarettes, save for two bright points — her beloved cats and Holly Robinson, a young girl with whom she shares a pimp. Selina tries to shelter Holly from the cruelest excesses of their life, but she can't actually do much more than keep an eye out for flagrant abuse. When a disguised Bruce Wayne passes Holly on the street, he interrupts Stan, their pimp, training the girl to emphasize her juvenile nature, which is something Selina can't do anything about, lest she incur a beating.

This Selina is significantly less glamorous than her predecessors. She sports a buzz cut, leather pants, and an utterly unsentimental attitude. Yet underneath her stony exterior, the old Catwoman lurks. She still spoils her cats, still loves those chosen few who are special to her, and still enjoys the finer things in life. Thus, Catwoman enters a new age in combat boots and a black bustier, spoiling for a fight with a world that keeps her in the gutter.

Batman: Year One charts Batman's earliest days as Gotham's Dark Knight — days that Selina Kyle, along with the rest of the seedy city, watches with eagerness.

So inspired is she by his audacity that she tells Holly they're leaving their old life behind. She gets her hands on a costume, throws herself into the night, and discovers she's pretty darn good at robbing Gotham's elite blind.

Not that it goes all that smoothly, at first. Her inaugural robbery leaves with her a wealth of pop memorabilia she has no idea how to fence. As she grouses to Holly, she thought she'd end up with paintings and jewels, not Micky Mouse tchotchkes. It's not a mistake she makes again. Batman, who runs into her briefly, seems to approve of her escapades. He even helps her out of a tight spot with a gaggle of mobsters.

When the press attributes her burglaries to Batman, however, she's none too pleased, and she resolves to scratch her victims as a calling card. This is a dark and tragic period which culminates with Selina's former pimp Stan abducting and violently abusing her sister Maggie. Selina kills Stan to save her sister, and is able to do so with impunity.

Catwoman also appears in the Knightfall saga, where she is approached by Bane 's henchmen while robbing a house. Bane asks her to work for him, but she refuses, giving as her reason that Bane broke Batman. Later in the story, she boards a plane with Bruce Wayne to fly to Santa Prisca. She next appears in the KnightQuest saga. Batman: Dark Victory, the sequel to The Long Halloween, implies that Catwoman suspects she is the long-lost illegitimate daughter of Carmine Falcone , although she finds no definitive proof of this.

Selina's connection to the Falcone family is further explored in the miniseries Catwoman: When in Rome. Though more circumstantial evidence is added to the theory of Selina's Falcone heritage, no definitive proof is provided. It has been implied that Her Sister's Keeper was rendered non-canonical by the events of Zero Hour, and subsequent writers have rejected Miller's choice to make the post-Crisis Catwoman a prostitute.

In an attempt to harmonize the various versions, some writers have posited that Catwoman, early in her career, pretended to be a prostitute in order to scam lonely men and rob them. However, characters associated with Catwoman's past as a prostitute have remained a part of her supporting cast. Selina is the older of two sisters Maggie being the younger born to Brian and Maria Kyle.

Catwoman v. Maria Kyle was a distant parent who preferred to spend her time with cats, and committed suicide when Selina was very young. Brian Kyle, a drunken layabout angry at his wife for killing herself, disliked Selina for resembling her mother and eventually drank himself to death. Selina took to the streets for a time before being caught and sent first to an orphanage, then Juvenile Hall Catwoman v.

Maggie's fate at this point in the time-line is not alluded to. However, when Ed Brubaker re-introduced her into the comic, he implied that Maggie may have directly entered an orphanage and promptly been adopted. When she was thirteen, Selina discovered that the Hall's administrator was embezzling funds and confronted her. In an attempt to cover up the illegal activities, the administrator put Selina in a bag and dropped her in a river to drown like a cat.

Selina was able to escape Catwoman v. She also took the opportunity to steal enough money to live on before going back to the streets. When the money she stole from the corrupt orphanage administrator ran out, Selina found herself in "Alleytown - a network of cobblestone streets that form a small borough between the East End and Old Gotham" Catwoman v. Selina was taken in by "Mama Fortuna", the elderly leader of a gang of young thieves, and was taught how to steal.

Fortuna treated her students like slaves, keeping their earnings for herself. Selina eventually ran away, accompanied by her friend Sylvia. However, the two had difficulty surviving on their own, and in desperation tried to support themselves by working as child prostitutes.

Sylvia attracted at least one client; Selina apparently never did. The two drifted apart afterwards, with Sylvia blaming Selina for her negative experiences; she hated Selina for not inquiring about what had happened to her at the hands of her abusive first client.

Following a disastrous burglary, however, she accepted an offer to "lay low" by posing as a dominatrix in the employ of a pimp named Stan. Their plan was to trick men into divulging information that might be used in future crimes. According to this storyline, Selina trained under the Armless Master of Gotham, receiving education in martial arts and culture.

During this time, Catwoman was given her trademark cat-o-nine tails whip by a client, which Selina kept as a trophy of her time posing as a hooker. This series, written by an assortment of writers but primarily penciled by Jim Balent, generally depicted the character as an international thief and occasional bounty hunter with an ambiguous moral code.

Storylines included her adoption of teenage runaway, and erstwhile sidekick, Arizona ; aiding the criminal Bane whom she later betrayed to Azrael ; fighting and being hunted Christina Chiles a. Cyber Cat ; and a stint as a reluctant government operative.

The series also fleshed out more of her origin, revealing her beginnings as a young thief, her difficult period in juvenile incarceration, and the training she received from superhero Ted Wildcat Grant. Her plans to use this position to run for mayor are ruined when the Trickster inadvertently connected Kyle to her Catwoman alter ego.

Selina then returns to Gotham City , which at this time is in the midst of the No Man's Land storyline. As Catwoman, she assists Batman against Lex Luthor in the reconstruction of the city. After being arrested by Commissioner Gordon , she escapes from prison. Later that year during the Officer Down storyline in the Batman titles, Catwoman is initially the chief suspect.

Although later cleared, she displays increasingly erratic behavior throughout the story. Soon afterwards she disappears and is believed to have been killed by the assassin Deathstroke , ending her series at Catwoman then appears in a series of backup stories in Detective Comics - This storyline leads in to the newest Catwoman series in late written by Brubaker initially with Cooke, later joined by artist Cameron Stewart.

This series met with critical and fan acclaim, especially for its first 25 issues. During the Hush storyline Batman , Batman and Catwoman briefly work together and had a romantic relationship, during which he reveals his true identity to her. At the end, he breaks off their relationship when he suspects it has been manipulated by the villain Hush.

This was the second time that Batman's true identity was shown to be known to her. In an early 80's story line Selina and Bruce had developed a relationship. The concluding story featured a closing panel in which she refers to Batman as "Bruce.

When Catwoman appeared again, no mention whatsoever was ever made of the notion that she had apparently figured out who Batman actually is. She is part of a group sent to rescue a U. Catwoman appears to be completely reformed, and her love for Batman true although brash and unpredictable. However, she has learned her reformation was the result of a mindwipe by Zatanna , a procedure known to deeply affect and, in at least one case, physically incapacitate its victims.

Zatanna gives no reason for her actions, but in a flashback it is shown that she had acted with the consent and aid of five of the seven JLA members who had helped her mindwipe Dr. Light and Batman. Catwoman's response to this revelation is unequivocal: she pitched Zatanna out a window Zatanna survives the fall.

Afterwards, she is seen covering her bed with past versions of her Catwoman costume. Still unbalanced and uncertain of herself in issue 52 the last issue before the jump to One Year Later , Selina is forced to decide whether to kill a supervillain. The Black Mask , in an attempt to "improve himself," threatens the most important people in Selina's life, from Slam Bradley to Holly. The criminal had learned Selina's identity through his earlier alliance with Selina's childhood friend Sylvia, who still harbored a grudge against Selina.

Still thinking that Selina adheres to a strict no-kill rule, Black Mask is caught by surprise when Selina shoots him in the head. Catwoman often pictures a possible marriage between Batman and herself, such as in this scene Nightwing 52 , shown in one of Catwoman's romantic daydreams. However, a normal life with Batman is out of the question as long as he is fighting crime.

Their relationship is also strained by the fact that they sometimes find themselves on opposite sides of the law. Holly Robinson takes over as the new Catwoman while Selina, living under the alias Irena Dubrovna, turns her attention to caring for her daughter Selina's alias was inspired by the name of the main character in the film Cat People. Though she takes her role as a new mother quite seriously, Selina dons the costume for a run through the East End some days after Helena's birth.

Having understandably gained a few pounds, Selina finds that her costume is now a tighter fit. In addition, she is easily distracted by a common criminal. Although the situation is defused through Holly's opportune arrival, the sight of two Catwomen active simultaneously in the city is caught on video. Selina returns home from her adventure to find that the mysterious movie aficionado Film Freak has deduced her alias, joined with Angle Man , and grabbed Helena.

The Joker. Harley Quinn. Poison Ivy. Mister Freeze. Black Mask. Victor Zsasz. Killer Croc. Carmine Falcone. Powers: exceptional martial artist , gymnastic ability , combat skill , master thief and cat burglar , customized weapons. Base of Operations: Gotham City. Real Name. Selina Kyle. The Batman It's not just a call It's a warning.