Catwoman #25 [Newsstand]

(January 2004)

Fire with Fire (Table of Contents: 1)

Catwoman / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script

Ed Brubaker (credited)

Pencils

Paul Gulacy (credited)

Inks

Jimmy Palmiotti (credited)

Colors

Laurie Kronenberg (credited)

Letters

Clem Robins (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

I'm afraid Mr. Galante is less than thrilled...

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Penguin [Oswald Cobblepot]; Catwoman [Selina Kyle]; Slam Bradley; Holly Robinson; Philo Zeiss; Jack Dillon (flashback; dies); Matilda Dillon; Denny Dillon

Synopsis

A local store owner, Jackie Dillon, is beaten to death with a baseball bat by the new mob. He had tried to prevent his son Denny from becoming a drug dealer, and wasn't paying protection money.

Selina learns that the Galante mob is involved and steals some of their money from a drop truck and burns the rest, hoping to make it too expensive for the mob to do business in the East End.

The Penguin tell a Galante lieutenant that taking the East End won't be east with Catwoman claiming it. He is informed that Galante is bringing in a specialist.

Zeiss "escapes" police custody.

Reprints

• in Catwoman: The Movie & Other Cat Tales (DC, 2004 series) ([September] 2004) [pp. 2-19 only]
• in Catwoman (DC, 2012 series) #3 - Under Pressure ([May] 2014)
• in Catwoman of East End Omnibus (DC, 2022 series) ([August] 2022)

Keywords

drug dealing; East End; extortion; Gotham City; murder; organized crime; protection racket

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