Continuing our celebration of 77 years of Batman (Vol 1), our next story debuts the character titled ‘The Cat’ (Catwoman), written by Bill Finger and illustrated by Bob Kane and Jerry Robinson. Dick Grayson, also known as Robin the Boy Wonder, is a steward Mrs. John Travers’ yacht to watch out for any crooks after her priceless necklace. Grayson knows the possible suspects to be Travers’ nephew Denny, who is escorting an elderly women named Miss Peggs, the gambler Doctor Wallace and Travers’ brother Roger. On the yacht, Dick sees Denny try to throw over a piece of paper. Dick retrieving it, he sees it’s a note signed by “The Cat” saying stay away from his aunt’s room. Right as he makes it to the room, the necklace has vanished. Suddenly, a group of rogue criminals climb on board the ship, having everyone hostage. Once they try to steal everyone’s valuables, Dick steps in and has a hand to hand with the crooks. When they begin shooting, he dives into the ocean. The gangsters go back to their boat with their new loot when the Batman jumps on board along with the Boy Wonder in costume. The next two pages illustrate Batman and Robin beating up all the crooks, calling them yellow and cowards for using guns and not their pen strength. Once they retrieve the jewels they speed back to the yacht with Robin catching up Batman about the suspects. As the Dark Avenger enters the costume party, although he is awarded with the best costume, a sudden fire alarm goes off and the “elderly” Miss Peggs goes off running. Seeing this, the Dynamic Duo captures her and reveals she was in disguise and is in fact a beautiful young woman, The Cat. In the end, Denny comes to try to take the necklace The Cat stole and is knocked out by Batman. The Cat then tries to sway Batman into partnering up with him, but even tempted he declines her offer. As Batman and Robin take The Cat on their boat, she jumps overboard with little to no tries to stop her by Batman, who says she’s a lovely girl with lovely eyes, but remembers that he is engaged to Julie Madison. Robin seems worried about his mentor’s infatuation. ✌🏼💙🦇🎉
