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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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