CATWOMAN

Real Name: Unrevealed

Identity/Class: Normal human (WWII era)

Occupation: Thief

Group Membership: Leader of her small gang

Affiliations: Her gang

Enemies: Angel (Thomas Halloway)

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: "She-Cat"

Base of Operations: Philadelphia, PA, USA (see comments)

First Appearance: Marvel Mystery Comics I#63/6 (April, 1945)

Powers/Abilities: Catwoman is a ruthless jewel thief and gang leader who is willing to murder to gain more ill-gotten wealth. She has athletic fitness, strength and agility, and is an exceptional acrobat with parkour skills plus a flair for the dramatic. She also has excellent aim with a small handgun.

Height: 5'6"
Weight: 125 lbs.
Eyes: Unrevealed
Hair: Unrevealed

History:

(Marvel Mystery Comics I#63/6 (fb) - BTS) - The athletic woman who took on the moniker Catwoman targeted Jewelers' Row to steal a large amount of highly valuable jewellery at night. She shot and killed a worker to get to the safe.

(Marvel Mystery Comics I#63/6) - Coincidentally nearby, Thomas Halloway (the heroic vigilante Angel) heard the gunfire and rushed in. After a brief but intense scuffle, Catwoman escaped to the roof and to the Angel's surprise, she leaped from the roof and used the building's flagpole to swing inside an open window several floors below. Matching her skills, the Angel followed. Catwoman fled into a waiting cab but the Angel was stopped by one of Catwoman's thugs pretending to be a pedestrian. The thug quickly left when the Angel retaliated. The hero clung to the thug's cab as it went to Catwoman's hideout where she intended to divide the loot, but the Angel broke through the window and knocked out her four thugs. Catwoman tried to stab the Angel but was blocked and the knife killed a thug, so she threw furniture to get away. Fearing trial, she took to her car and fled, but then chose to kill herself in a crash when the Angel pursued rather than get caught. The Angel took her body and any lost jewels back to Catwoman's hideout and called the police for them to sort out.

Comments: Created by uncredited writer & Jimmy Thompson.

The Angel finds Catwoman in "Jewelers' Row", which refers to jewelry districts, most notably in Philadelphia and Chicago. With Philadelphia being apparently the largest, I'll place this adventure there.

This story (on sale Feb. 22, 1945) is almost identical to that in Captain America Comics I#45/5 (cover dated March, 1945, on sale Jan. 10, 1945), except that it's Captain America & Bucky fighting the Cat Woman (two words), although the Angel's foe has a cat-themed costume. Even a lot of the dialog is the same. Had they run out of scripts and quickly modified a recently used one? And which was completed first -- sure, the Cap story was published first, but the Angel had limited exposure and perhaps more completed stories? Was it a way to compare two artists' design interpretation of a female "Cat" thief? Whichever, let's put it down to bizarre coincidence that there were two sassy female thieves with the same skills who perished the same way at the same time. Personally, I like the idea that Cap's foe survived the car crash and amped up her gimmick in another city, only to be stopped by another patriot hero, but this time her failure to reform led to her being unable to escape death and she died in her next car crash.

She's once named Cat-Woman (with hyphen) late in the story and once later Cat-Girl in the narrator text boxes. Angel calls her a "murderous She-Cat" and his handbook entry lists her under that name when mentioning their encounter, so I guess it's an alias of sorts. - Loki

Thanks to Grand Comics Database for issue information.

Profile by Grendel Prime.

CLARIFICATIONS :
Catwoman has no known connections to:

• BLACK CAT (Felicia Hardy) - cat burglar, dated Spider-Man, briefly ran gang & used whip--Amazing Spider-Man I#194
• CAT - cat burglar, stole costume of Brown, ally of Belladonna, betrayed by her, defeated by Spider-Man--Amazing Spider-Man I#30
• CAT (Shirlee Bryant) - predecessor to Greer Nelson, mind-controlled, costume enhanced physical attributes, passed on to Nelson and later Hellcat--Claws of the Cat#1
• CAT (Edward Lavender) - partner of Mouse, agent of Shroud, former agent of the Crooked Man, former cat burglar--Marvel Preview I#21
• CAT (Shen Kui) - martial arts master, based in Hong Kong, frequent ally and enemy of Shang-Chi, helped train the Agent (Rick Mason)--Master of Kung Fu I#38
• CAT (Emma Malone) - S.T.O.R.M., Gene Dogs, team leader; telepath, skilled combatant--Gene Dogs#1
  
• CAT - demon, encountered and defeated by Hawkeye, allegedly encountered past incarnations of him; may be the Native American trickster god--Marvel Fanfare I#39
• CATBEAST (aka Ogeode) - former powerful sorcerer, ally of Crystar, later transformed into animal form on Weirdworld--Marvel Age I#1
  
• CAT BURGLAR - 1950s era thief with a prehensile tail he would use to pick up items--Astonishing I#18/4
• CATSEYE (Sharon Smith) - Hellion, feline appearance, raised by cats until discovered by Emma Frost, killed by Fitzroy--New Mutants I#16
  
• CAT WOMAN - criminal with acrobatic agility who ran a small criminal gang, died in car crash eluding capture by Captain America--Captain America Comics#45/5
• CAT'S PAW - assassin hired by Nazi to kill US industrialists, led criminal gang, stopped by Angel (Halloway)--Marvel Mystery Comics I#18/8
  
• MISS FURY (aka BLACK FURY; Marla Drake) - ca. 1941, socialite & athlete, wore supposedly magical panther skin costume--Miss Fury Sunday newspaper feature
• NIGHT CAT - singer, brief heroic career, mutated by experimental drug by Dr. Ecstacy, superhuman agility and leaping ability--Nightcat#1
• or any other "Cat-" or "Woman" characters or cat-themed villains (but just a little similar to DC's Batman foe Catwoman (first named ~March, 1943) but not until 1966's TV show with a catsuit).

images: (without ads)
Marvel Mystery Comics I#63/6, p1, pan1 (main image)
   p2, pan3 (headshot)
   p3, pan5 (leaping)

Appearances:
Marvel Mystery Comics I#63/6 (April, 1945) - uncredited writer, Jimmy Thompson (art), Vince Fago (editor)

First posted: 11/17/2025
Last updated: 11/17/2025

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