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Catwoman bondage cover, 1st app. of King of Cats (Karl Kyle); Walter B. Gibson stories


Batman #69 is one of the most beloved Catwoman comics from the book's early run, featuring Selina Kyle during her very brief stint as a reformed criminal. Things certainly look bad when a Gotham City criminal known as the King of the Cats tries to recruit the former Catwoman into joining him as the King and Queen of Crime. Selina even knocks out Batman and Robin when they attempt to apprehend the King. But it's soon revealed that the former Catwoman is still trying to go straight, and ultimately assist the Dynamic Duo in arresting the King of the Cats — who turns out to be Selina's brother Karl.

The story still gets Selina back into a classic Catwoman costume, which fans would only see a few more times before the Comics Code had DC retiring the character for a long stretch. There's more pre-Code action with the issue's other stories, both written by Shadow creator Walter B. Gibson. "The Buttons of Doom!" is a brutal tale featuring a blowtorch-carrying murderer pursuing a strange vendetta, while "The Batman Exposé!" is an infamously bizarre tale of Bruce Wayne infiltrating the set of a Batman movie that's been targeted by criminals.
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Artists Information

A celebrity comic artist of the Golden Age, co-created Batman and Robin with Bill Finger, as his brainchild became more in demand he hired an army of ghost artists to illustrate the dearth of Batman features on the market, but all were credited to Kane. His other achievements include the creation of Catwoman, Two-Face and cartoon character Courageous Cat. Kane was the object of some controversy for taking credit for the art and inspiration of others, but he was also undoubtedly an important figure in the history of comics. He published an updated version of his autobiography "Batman and Me: The Saga Continues" shortly before his death in 1998. He got his start at the Eisner/Iger studio and was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.

Win Mortimer is a Canadian comic strip/ book artist who worked for the big publishing houses during both the golden and silver age era of comics. Win mostly worked with DC but later freelanced for Marvel comics, where his most notable works include Action comics and Spidey Super Stories.