Catwoman; The Life and Times of a Feline Fatale

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2003. First Printing [Stated]. Leather-like binding. Good. Nina Rich (Author photograph) and Marc Witz (Photo. The format is approximately 7 inches by 8.5 inches. Various paginations (approximately 144 pages). Illustrated covers. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated in the manner of a graphic novel or comic book/novel. The cover has some wear and soiling. Black mark on bottom edge. Introduction by Adam West! Suzan Colón is a former Senior Editor of O, the Oprah Magazine. Suzan Colón is the author of the inspirational memoir Cherries in Winter: My Family's Recipe for Hope in Hard Times (Doubleday); the nonfiction book Yoga Mind: Journey Beyond the Physical (Scribner); Beach Glass, a novel; and three original novels based on the hit TV show Smallville. Suzan's writing has also been featured in the Oprah Magazine, three Best of Oprah collections, Oprah, Jane, Details, Latina, Harper's Bazaar, and Rolling Stone, the Huffington Post, and other websites. She has appeared on The Today Show, the Early Show, NPR, and other media. Suzan's artwork has been featured in Mayim Bialik's GrokNation, and The Beautiful Book of Exquisite Corpses (Penguin). A short graphic memoir was included in This Is Real: Stories Drawn With Strangers, an anthology by a collective of women graphic artists. Suzan is currently working on a graphic novel about her time as a pop music journalist in the 1980s, as well as a multi-media project about pop idols in the 1970s. Learn how to crack a whip with feline ferocity! Uncover the secrets of the all-leather wardrobe! Study the sizzling one-liners that keep Batman aching for more! Chock-full of insightful feline fatale tips, this illustrated tell-all delivers the searing details of Catwoman's kitschy career. Sleek and sexy, the greatest cat burglar of all time sank her claws into the Caped Crusader back in 1940 and hasn't let go since. Part homage, part how-to, this handsome treatise divulges Catwoman's stellar techniques at everything from scaling walls to tickling a gentleman's fancy without mercy. With a brief history of her many incarnations over the years, loads of terrific vintage illustrations, sections on fashion and romance, and personal tips on getting ahead, this spunky vinyl-covered volume (oooh! purple PVC!) will attract both new fans of the slinky girl kitty and time-tested aficionados. It's the purr-fect ode to The Feline Felon, The Mistress of Malevolence, The Princess of Plunder...a.k.a. Catwoman. Catwoman is a character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane, she debuted as "the Cat" in Batman #1 (spring 1940). She has become one of the superhero Batman's most prominent enemies, belonging to the collective of adversaries that make up his rogues gallery, as well as Batman's best known and most enduring love interest, with many stories depicting their complex love-hate relationship. Since 1993, Catwoman has had her own ongoing series, Catwoman. Catwoman is the alter ego of Selina Kyle, a burglar in Gotham City who usually wears a skintight bodysuit and uses a bullwhip for a weapon. She was originally characterized as a supervillain and adversary of Batman, but has been featured in an eponymous series since the 1990s that portrays her as an antiheroine, often with a utilitarian moral philosophy. The character thrived in her earliest appearances, but she took an extended hiatus from September 1954 to November 1966 due to the developing Comics Code Authority in 1954. These issues involved the rules regarding the development and portrayal of female characters that were in violation of the Comics Code, a code which is no longer in use. In the comics, Holly Robinson and Eiko Hasigawa have both adopted the Catwoman identity, apart from Selina Kyle. Catwoman has been adapted in various media incarnations, having been portrayed in film by Lee Meriwether in Batman (1966), Michelle Pfeiffer in Batman Returns (1992), Halle Berry in Catwoman (2004), Anne Hathaway in The Dark Knight Rises (2012), and Zoë Kravitz in The Batman (2022). On television, she has been played by Julie Newmar and Eartha Kitt in Batman, where the name Selina Kyle was never used; and Camren Bicondova and Lili Simmons in Gotham. Catwoman was ranked 11th on IGN's list of the "Top 100 Comic Book Villains of All Time", and 51st on Wizard magazine's "100 Greatest Villains of All Time" list. Conversely, she was ranked 20th on IGN's "Top 100 Comic Book Heroes of All Time" list.