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CAT WOMAN

Real Name: Unrevealed

Identity/Class: Normal human (WWII era)

Occupation: Thief

Group Membership: Leader of her small gang

Affiliations: Her gang

Enemies: Bucky (James Barnes), Captain America (Steve Rogers)

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Unrevealed city in Virginia, USA

First Appearance: Captain America Comics I#45/5 (March, 1945)

Powers/Abilities: Cat Woman is a 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. She also has excellent aim with a small handgun.

Height: 5'7"
Weight: 125 lbs.
Eyes: Unrevealed
Hair: Black

History:

(Captain America Comics I#45/5 (fb) - BTS) - The athletic woman who came to be known as Cat Woman robbed an apartment. She shot and killed the resident to get to the cash.

(Captain America Comics I#45/5) - Coincidentally nearby, Steve Rogers and James Barnes (secretly the heroic Captain America and Bucky) heard the gunfire and rushed in. After a brief but intense scuffle, Cat Woman escaped to the roof and, to the heroes' surprise, she leaped from the roof and used the building's flagpole to swing inside an open window several floors below. Matching her skills, Captain America followed. Cat Woman fled into a waiting cab but one of Cat Woman's violent thugs delayed the heroes by pretending to be a pedestrian. The thug quickly left when Captain America retaliated. The heroes clung to the thug's cab as it went to Cat Woman's hideout where she intended to divide the loot, but Cap and Bucky broke through the window and knocked out her thugs. Cat Woman tried to stab Captain America 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 the heroic duo pursued rather than get caught. Cap and Bucky then left her corpse there to quickly return to their military camp.

Comments: Created by uncredited writer.

This story (on sale Jan. 10, 1945) is almost identical to that in Marvel Mystery Comics I#63/6 (cover dated April, 1945, on sale Feb. 22, 1945), except that it's the Angel (Halloway) fighting Catwoman (one word) with the Angel's foe in a cat-themed costume. Even some 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.

The story title also dubs her "the Human Beast!"

Thanks to Grand Comics Database for issue information.

Profile by Grendel Prime.

CLARIFICATIONS :
Cat Woman has no known connections to:

images: (without ads)
Captain America Comics I#45/5, p2, pan4 (main image)
   p7, pan4 (headshot)
   p3, pan5 (leaping)

Appearances:
Captain America Comics I#45/5 (March, 1945) - uncredited writer, Vince Alascia (pencils), Allen Bellman (inks), Vince Fago (editor)

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

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