Catwoman #1

(January 2002)

Anodyne Part One of Four (Table of Contents: 1)

Catwoman / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script

Ed Brubaker (credited)

Pencils

Darwyn Cooke (credited)

Inks

Mike Allred (credited)

Colors

Matt Hollingsworth (credited)

Letters

Sean Konot (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Old Gotham, the East End, far too late...

Genre

superhero

Characters

Clayface [Todd Russell] (as "Brian")(intro); Lisa; Catwoman [Selina Kyle]; Dr. Leslie Thompkins; Riddler [Edward Nigma]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Holly Robinson

Synopsis

On Gotham's East End, a man picks up a sex worker, but then kills her when she is upset by his face.
Selina Kyle, recently returned to Gotham, tries to decide what she's doing with her life. She is reunited with her old friend Holly, who she feels protective of. Holly lets her know that several sex workers have been killed over the past few weeks.

Reprints

• in Catwoman (DC, 2002 series) #[1] - The Dark End of the Street ([October] 2002)
• in Catwoman - Das Dunkle Ende der Straße (Panini Deutschland, 2003 series) ([April] 2003)
• in Catwoman (DC, 2012 series) #1 - Trail of the Catwoman ([March] 2012) [p.17, with additional panels from p.16], #1 - Trail of the Catwoman ([March] 2012) [p.17, panel 1, with additional panels added from p.16], #1 - Trail of the Catwoman ([March] 2012) [p.17, panel 1, with additional panels added from p.16], #1 - Trail of the Catwoman ([March] 2012) [p.17, panel 1, with additional panels added from p.16], #1 - Trail of the Catwoman ([March] 2012), #1 - Trail of the Catwoman ([March] 2012) [p.17, with additional panels from p.16]
• in DC Semanal: Catwoman (Editorial Televisa, 2017 series) #1 (13 de febrero de 2017)
• in Dollar Comics: Catwoman 1 (DC, 2020 series) (June 2020)
• in Catwoman: El Gran Golpe de Selina (ECC Ediciones, 2022 series) (Marzo de 2022)
• in Catwoman of East End Omnibus (DC, 2022 series) ([August] 2022)

Keywords

Dr. Thompkins East Side Clinic; East End; Gotham City; sex worker

Indexer Notes

First issue of a new ongoing series, following the events of the "Trail of the Catwoman" back up stories in Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #759-762 (and, chronologically, the "prequel" story Catwoman: Selina's Big Score (DC, 2002)).

Leslie Thompkins and Holly Robinson are established as supporting characters. Selina operates out of an abandoned tenement house she secretly bought early in her career.

Selina debuts a new costume in this issue, designed by Darwyn Cooke.

First appearance of the seventh Clayface, seen only in shadow and identified only as "Brian".

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

The Scratchin' Post / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Introductory article to the new series by editorial, illustrated with small cover illustration of #2.

[Ads] (Table of Contents: 3)

advertisement / 20 pages (report information)

Pencils

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Inks

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Colors

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Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Total of 18 one-page and 1 two-pages advertisements for: Crash Bandicoot: Wrath of the Cortex (game, Playstation), Starburst (candy, Starburst), Tobacco is whacko (anti-drugs, Lorillard), Mummy Returns (game, Nintendo), Dark Age of Camelot (online game, Mythic), DVD player (DVD player, JVC), Boxing Fever (game, Nintendo), Skittles (candy, Mars), Kinetica (game, Playstation, 2 pages), Dragon Warrior VII (game, Playstation), Family (anti-drugs, NDC), GamePro (magazine, GamePro), Top Gun: Combat Zones (game, Playstation), Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance (game, Playstation), Capri Sun Big Pouch (soft drink, KF Holdings), Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 (music CD, Maverick), Looney Tunes: Sheep Raider (game, Playstation), Mobile Suit Gundam (toys, Bandai), Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee (game, Xbox).