Golden-Age Greats Spotlight #9 - Cat-Man and Kitten
(2012)

AC, 2003 Series
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Volume
9
Price
29.95 USD
Pages
144
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
AC Comics
Brand
?
Editing
Bill Black (credited) (editor); Mark Heike (credited as Mark G. Heike) (associate editor)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Cat-Man / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
L. B. Cole
Inks
L. B. Cole
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
The Cat-Man [David Merrywether]; The Kitten [Katie Rose]
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[Introduction Page] (Table of Contents: 1)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Charles Quinlan Sr.
Inks
Charles Quinlan Sr.
Letters
?

Indexer Notes

Illustrated with a detail from the cover from Cat-Man Comics (Holyoke, 1942 series) #v3#1 (11).

Cat-Man (Table of Contents: 2)

text article / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
L. B. Cole
Inks
L. B. Cole
Letters
?

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Indexer Notes

Listing of Cat-Man's U.S. Golden-Age appearances.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Cat-Man / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Irwin Hasen
Inks
Irwin Hasen
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Out of a world of lust for power many men…
Genre
superhero
Characters
The Cat-Man [David Merryweather] (introduction, origin); William Merrywether (introduction, scientist, David's father, death); David's un-named mother (introduction, death); David's un-named sister (introduction, death); Stella Richards (actress); un-named prison warden; Bull Jackson (villain)
Synopsis
Rescued by a tigress after the death of his family in the jungle, David Merryweather returns to civilization, and, while listening to a radio crime drama, he hears the radio station being invaded by gangsters, and the star, Stella Richards, being kidnapped. Tracking down the kidnappers, Cat-Man is captured but is later able to rescue the girl a second time and put the criminals behind bars.
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Cat-Man / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Irwin Hasen
Inks
Irwin Hasen
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
In a cabin at the edge of a cliff..
Genre
superhero
Characters
The Cat-Man [David Merrywether]; un-named Chief of the Secret Service; Herr Blonker [aka Hans the Tailor] (villain, foreign spy)
Synopsis
David convinces the Chief of the Secret Service to let him handle the recent influx of spys coming into the country on forged passports. To do so, the Cat-Man must successfully live through a series of traps that the spy's have used to kill other agents that have tried to penetrate the spy's stronghold.
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[The Missing Ambassador] (Table of Contents: 5)

Cat-Man / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Charles Quinlan Sr. (signed)
Pencils
Charles Quinlan Sr. (signed)
Inks
Charles Quinlan Sr. (signed)
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
David Merryweather (The Cat-Man) while listening to his radio, suddenly hears a startling announcement...
Genre
superhero
Characters
The Cat-Man [David Merrywether]; Henri Lavarr (Rodalia ambassador); two un-named Rodalian officials (villains)
Synopsis
David overhears two Rodalian officials congratulate each other on the kidnapping of their ambassador, an act which will result in war within 30 hours, and for which, the two officials will be richly rewarded by the Axis powers. Learning that the ambassador is being held on Clearrock Island under heavy guard, the Cat-Man heads out to rescue him and avoid a war.
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

Cat-Man / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Charles Quinlan Sr. (signed)
Inks
Charles Quinlan Sr. (signed)
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Along the lonely Rio Grande, Pvt. Gregg of the U.S. Cavalry, quietly rides his post!
Genre
superhero
Characters
Cat-Man [Lt. David Merrywether]; The Kitten [Katie Conn]; Private Gregg; Private Smith; Sergeant Brown; Private Benson; Mako Saki (villain); un-named Japanese (villain); un-named Nazi Captain (villain); Otto (villain)
Synopsis
After the disappearance of Private Benson, Lt. Merrywether and Sgt. Brown follow a suspicious couple and discover they are disguised Japanese who are working with Nazi soldiers to transport explosives through a cleverly disguised tunnel in order to sabotage U.S. war efforts.
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Larceny in Liquid! (Table of Contents: 7)

Cat-Man and Kitten / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Charles Quinlan Sr. (signed)
Inks
Charles Quinlan Sr. (signed)
Letters
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
The Cat-Man [David Merrywether]; The Kitten [Katie Conn]; Mr. Peccary (villain, introduction); Jake (villain)
Synopsis
The Cat-Man and Kitten must stop a nefarious plot by Japanese in America to disrupt the Allied supply lines by wrecking the Owadi Dam.
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8)

Cat-Man and Kitten / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Don Rico (signed)
Inks
Don Rico (signed)
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Down through the ages have come the dreaded ravages of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse...
Genre
superhero
Characters
The Cat-Man [David Merrywether]; The Kitten [Katie Conn]; Colonel Barnes; Adolf Hitler (villain); Dr. Grotz (villain, scientist); The Four Horsemen of Doom [war; famine; death; pestilence] (villains, all die); the Nazis (villain)
Synopsis
Captain Merrywether volunteers to go into the occupied nations to battle the Four Horsemen of Doom, sent there by Adolf Hitler in order to ravage, murder, loot and destroy, all to let the peasant swine know the real glory of the New Order.
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The Eyes of Justice! (Table of Contents: 9)

Cat-Man and Kitten / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Charles Quinlan Sr. (signed)
Inks
Charles Quinlan Sr. (signed)
Letters
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
The Ca-Man [Captain David Merrywether]; The Kitten [Katie Conn]; Mike (court guard); Moroni [aka Tony; Looey; Toni] (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis
A jury acquits Moroni despite the evidence, but David Merrywether tells him outside the courthouse that he's marked, and the Cat-Man and Kitten make good on that threat.
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10)

Little Leaders / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Rudy Palais (signed)
Inks
Rudy Palais (signed)
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Keep off the city streets...
Genre
superhero
Characters
Mickey Matthews (The Deacon's boy sidekick); The Kitten [Katie Conn] (in costume); Cat-Man [Lt. David Merrywether]; The Deacon [Dean Denton]; Brad Gregan (villain); Johnny Mead (villain); Greco (villain, numbers racketeer)
Synopsis
When Katioe and Mickey run into a few of their school chums, now dressed and acting like gangsters, Lt. Merrywether sends the two out to discover what is happening with the youth in the town.
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The Death of a Swordsman (Table of Contents: 11)

Little Leaders / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Lou Ferstadt (signed)
Inks
Lou Ferstadt (signed)
Letters
?

Genre
adventure
Characters
Mickey Matthews [aka Mickie]; The Kitten [Katie Conn]; Mel Parker; Ray (worker in the Palace of Sweets); Paula (workwer in the Palace of Sweets); Mr. Arnold (high school principal); Police Lieutenant Colson; Mr. Schaeffer [Gary Loder] (villain, introduction, jewel thief, death)
Synopsis
Mickey, Katie and other students join the fencing club run by new teacher Mr. Schaeffer, but he turns out to be a jewel thief hiding out from his fellow criminals.
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[The Story of Rosetta!] (Table of Contents: 12)

Cat-Man and Kitten / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Bob Fujitani (signed)
Inks
Bob Fujitani (signed)
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
From out of the jungle comes a wild collection of tales…
Genre
superhero
Characters
Cat-Man [Captain David Merryweather] (origin re-told in flashback); The Kitten [Katie Rose, aka Rosetta] (origin); The Deacon [Dean Denton]; Mickey Matthews; Antoinette Burotte (Dave's mother, flashback, death); Zeealia (mother leopard); Tamara (leopard); Antoinette's murderer (villain, circus animal keeper, death)
Synopsis
The origin of Cat-Man and Kitten is re-told and the story of how David Merrywether's mother's killer was brought to justice.
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The Man Who Conquered Death! (Table of Contents: 13)

Cat-Man and Kitten / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Bob Fujitani (signed)
Inks
Bob Fujitani (signed)
Letters
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
The Cat-Man [Captain David Merrywether]; The Kitten [Katie Rose]; Inspector Jenkins; un-named scientist (inventor of the Z-Ray, death); Dr. Macabre (villain)
Synopsis
After murdering a scientist to get his famed "Z-Ray", Dr. Macabre learns that it has given a deadly gift: death by touch! And the Cat-Man and Kitten must stop him from getting the antidote!
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 14)

Cat-Man and Kitten / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
George Gregg (signed)
Inks
George Gregg (signed)
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Yes, history is right about the two old women
Genre
superhero
Characters
The Cat-Man [Captain David Merrywether]; The Kitten [Katie Rose]; Emil Kraus (millionaire miser, death?); two un-named Aunts of Dr. Macabre (villains, both die); a gorilla (villain, Dr. Macabre's pet, death); Dr. Macabre (villain); Professor Spellman (unwilling villain, scientist, inventor of the hypnotic serum, death)
Synopsis
After Dr. Macabre's pet gorilla throws his two Aunts to their deaths, and he kills the gorilla, the evil doctor assumes another identity and visits Professor Spellman to secure his hypnotic serum, which puts anyone it is used on under his power, including the Kitten.
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 15)

Cat-Man / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Max Elkan (signed)
Inks
Max Elkan (signed)
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
With Dr. Macabre mortally wounded...
Genre
superhero
Characters
The Cat-Man [Captain David Merrywether]; The Kitten [Katie Rose]; Melvin Jonas (fisheries expert); Captain Ridley (death); Dr. Macabre (villain); Lenore (villain, Dr. Macabre's daughter); Drake D'Arcy (villain)
Synopsis
Dr. Macabre gets wind of pearls being engineered in an oyster bed and plans to steal them, but Cat-Man and Kitten foil his plans. The last panel shows Dr. Macabre in a broken bathysphere in shark-infested waters. Is this his end?
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The Phantom Mummy (Table of Contents: 16)

Cat-Man / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
John Dixon
Inks
John Dixon
Letters
?

Genre
superhero
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 17)

Cat-Man / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
?
Inks
?
Letters
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
The Cat-Man [David Merrywether]
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 18)

Cat-Man / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Rudy Palais
Inks
Rudy Palais

Genre
superhero
Characters
The Cat-Man [David Merrywether]; The Kitten [Katie Conn]
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 19)

Cat-Man / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Charles Quinlan Sr.
Inks
Charles Quinlan Sr.
Letters
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
The Cat-Man [David Merrywether]; The Kitten [Katie Conn]
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 20)

Cat-Man / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Charles Quinlan Sr.
Inks
Charles Quinlan Sr.
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
Cat-Man [David Merrywether]; Adolf Hitler; Josef Stalin; Benito Mussolini
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Back cover.