Catwoman
The original and most widely known Catwoman, Selina Kyle, first appears in Batman #1 in 1940, in which she is known as The Cat. As an adversary of Batman, she was a whip-carrying burglar with a taste for high-stake thefts. For many years Catwoman thrived but from September 1954 to November 1966 she took an extended hiatus due to the newly developing Comics Code Authority. These issues involved the rules regarding the development and portrayal of female characters that were in violation with the Comic Code.
Since the 1990s, Catwoman has been featured in an eponymous series that cast her as an antihero rather than a supervillain. The character has been one of Batmans most enduring love interests, and is almost always depicted as his one true love. Many modern writers have also interpreted her activities and costumed identity as a response to a history of abuse.
