Catwoman #34

(October 2004)

War Games: Act 1 Part 7 Cold Hard Facts (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

It's been three months since I burned down Mafia Capo Vic Barbarossa's house and reclaimed the streets for my people.

Genre

superhero

Characters

Catwoman [Selina Kyle]; Dr. Leslie Thompkins; Mister Freeze [Victor Fries]; Spoiler [Stephanie Brown]; Holly Robinson

Synopsis

A gang war has escalated quickly and has reached the east end.

Selina learns that a meeting between two gangs is a set-up; she arrives to find all members killed by Mr. Freeze. She stops Freeze, but is distracted when she spots Spoiler on a nearby rooftop.

Spoiler explains that after Batman fired her from being Robin, she decided to prove her worth by implementing a Batman contingency plan to take over the gangs. But the plan failed because "Matches" Malone was a key player in it, and Stephanie hid her actions from Batman; not realizing that Matches was one of Batman's aliases.

Reprints

• in Batman: War Games (DC, 2005 series) #1 - Outbreak ([April] 2005)
• in Batman Sonderheft (Panini Deutschland, 2005 series) #1 (Juni 2005)
• in Batman (Panini Brasil, 2002 series) #34 (setembro de 2005)
• in Batman (Panini France, 2005 series) #7 (décembre 2005)
• in Catwoman (DC, 2012 series) #3 - Under Pressure ([May] 2014)
• in Batman: War Games (DC, 2015 series) #1 ([December] 2015)

Keywords

bat-signal; cold gun; Dr. Thompkins East Side Clinic; East End; gang war; Gotham City

Indexer Notes

War Games crossover continued from Batgirl (DC, 2000 series) #55.
War Games crossover continues in Batman (DC, 1940 series) #631.

DC in Demand 08.04 (Table of Contents: 2)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

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Indexer Notes

DC Bullpen Page with promo texts and news about upcoming projects: Spotlight on GREEN LANTERN: REBIRTH #1, Hot List (BATMAN #631, THE FLASH #213, SUPERMAN #208) plus editorial by "Your Mole At 1700".

[Ads] (Table of Contents: 3)

advertisement / 12 pages (report information)

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Indexer Notes

Total of 12 one-page advertisements for: Clearasil Ultra (acne relief, Boots Healthcare), Urban Pipeline (clothes, Gravity), Bragging Rights'04 (contest, Microsoft, 2 pages), Catwoman (game, EA Games), Zypzyt (acne relief, Waltman Pharmaceuticals), Terminator 3: The Redemption (game, Atari), Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow (contest, Paramount), Chris Sawyer's Locomotion (game, GameSpy), DC Comics Trading Card Game (collectible card game, Upper Deck), Case Closed (dvd, FUNimation), milk (milk, NDF).