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Catwoman
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Real Name
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Selina Kyle-Wayne
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First Appearance
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Batman #1 (April, 1940)
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Creator
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Bob Kane, Bill Finger
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Team Affiliation
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Batman Family
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Aliases
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The Cat, Selina Wayne, Linda Page
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Base of Operations
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Gotham City
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Powers
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None
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Skills and Abilities
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Skilled Martial Artist, Acrobat Level Agility, Whip Mastery, Master Thief
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Tools and Weapons
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Whip, Clawed Gloves
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Catwoman (Selina Kyle-Wayne) is a supervillain-turned-superheroine in the DC Multiverse. She is the wife of Batman and the mother of Huntress.
Origin[]
Catwoman's origins remain largely unknown.
History[]
Little is known of the past of Selina Kyle. Her birth year is 1920 but her parentage or specifics about her past life are unknown. At one point it is stated that she was a former flight attendant who suffered from amnesia after a blow to the back of her head during a plane crash that changed her personality, but later revealed this was a lie.
What is certain is that in 1938, Selina began her career in costumed crime as "The Cat" , a thief who crossed paths with Batman on more than one occasions but found herself unable to defeat him. In their first meeting, the Cat was seeking to steal an heiress' neckless, which was similarly sought by other criminal gangs. Batman intervened and the Cat, seeing Batman's potential, tried to tempt him into a life of crime. Though Batman refused, he could not deny their mutual attraction and even allowed her to escape after thwarting her and her competitors.
The next time they met, she started going by Cat-Woman but after being caught again, she was able to use her knowledge of the whereabouts of the villain The Joker to help gain leniency.
Later, after deciding to get out of a life of crime and hoping that Batman would go easy on her with a sob story, she lied and told Batman that her life of crime was started by a head injury . Catwoman even ends up becoming an ally of Batman, sparking a romantic chemistry between the two. Eventually the two married, and she gave birth to their daughter Helena Wayne.