{"id":288306,"date":"2025-06-11T16:06:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T16:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/dig-this-obscure-catwoman-bronze-age-house-ad-and-what-it-led-to\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T16:06:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T16:06:51","slug":"dig-this-obscure-catwoman-bronze-age-house-ad-and-what-it-led-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=288306","title":{"rendered":"Dig This Obscure CATWOMAN Bronze Age House Ad \u2014 And What It Led To"},"content":{"rendered":"


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When Selina Kyle got her first series…<\/em><\/p>\n

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UPDATED 6\/11\/25:<\/strong> Time to dig deep into the cavernous\u00a013th Dimension<\/a> vaults! Every so often I like to reprint a story that was popular the first time around, just for the hell of it. This is one of those, from June 2021. Dig it! \u2014 Dan<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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The other day I posted a piece about a cool ad in Batman #345<\/strong> that showed off a slew of DC back-issue prices in late 1981. You can lose yourself in it, so click here<\/a> to check it out if you want nifty insight into what was driving the market 40 years ago.<\/p>\n

But in the same issue, I also came across a rad full-page ad for a Catwoman back-up series, featuring some now-classic stock art by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez:<\/p>\n

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From Batman #345.<\/strong> Released December 1981. Pub date March 1982.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The layout isn’t the greatest, I admit, but it certainly caught me off guard when I came upon it as part of a lengthy re-read I’m doing. And the most interesting aspect is that it led right into the series’ first story, as opposed to hyping it for a couple of months. (Makes me think that perhaps it was a rush job.)<\/p>\n

DC at the time was trying to figure out Catwoman’s direction. Writer Len Wein a few years before had brought back Selina Kyle as a woman trying to stay on the right side of the law and, naturally, she fell into\u00a0 a serious love affair with Bruce Wayne. This was the first time the two had an extended romance (not counting the alternate-reality Earth-Two versions).<\/p>\n

The tension in the relationship wasn’t a Sam-and-Diane “Will they or won’t they?” It was “Will she or won’t she relapse to a life of crime?” Letter columns were filled with opinions and ultimately, DC kept her on the right side of the law, even as Selina’s relationship with Bruce hit the rocks.<\/p>\n

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But then the natural question was what to do with her next. And so DC took a flyer on a back-up series — her first — written by Bruce Jones with art by Trevor Von Eeden.<\/p>\n

She’d had a back-up story before, but this was really her first test as a solo character — across a handful of issues, she was depicted more as a hard-edged hero than the antihero she would become in future interpretations. The stories are pretty solid but they’re most notable for Von Eeden’s evocative art and offbeat layouts.<\/p>\n

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All in all, it was an interesting experiment before Selina would be completely rewritten in Frank Miller’s Batman: Year One <\/strong>about five years later.<\/p>\n

Either way, I really dig that house ad — though its promise that “YOU CAN DECIDE” makes me wonder whether a phone-in poll would have been more fitting here than when DC killed off Jason Todd years later.<\/p>\n

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MORE<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

— DC Plans New CATWOMAN Retrospective Collection.<\/strong> Click here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

— SUCH A DEAL! Dig This Rad 1981 DC COMICS Back Issue Price List.<\/strong> Click here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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