The
original and most widely known Catwoman, Selina Kyle, first appeared in
Batman #1 (Spring 1940) in which she was known as The Cat. As an adversary
of Batman, she was a whip-carrying burglar with a taste for high stake
thefts. Modern writers have attributed her activities and costumed identity
as a response to a history of abuse. Since
the 1990s, Catwoman has been featured in an eponymous series that cast
her as an anti-heroine rather than a supervillainess. The character has
been one of Batman's most enduring love interests,
and has occasionally been depicted as his one true love.
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