Miss Fury and Catwoman... Collected

I wish there were more collections of Catwoman stores, but lets be thankful for what we have. This storyby Suzette Chan at Sequential Tart, published during Catwoman The Movie, highlights Catwoman's evolution from one note to full character.

I am glad she touched on Miss Fury, the Marvel comics Golden Age 'prototype' for Miller/Jim Balent's look for Selina. I am surprised more is not made of her slinky/cat burglar look, that is closer to the Catwoman we know today - than her 1940's counterpart. And to boot Miss Fury was created, written and illustrated by Tarpe (June) Mills, who reportedly resembled her creation. Amazing.

Catwoman collections:
http://www.sequentialtart.com/archive/oct04/art_1004_1.shtml

Miss Fury
http://themagicrobot.wordpress.com/2008/07/18/miss-fury/
http://livingbetweenwednesdays.com/?p=1738
http://lambiek.net/artists/m/mills_tarpe.htm

Catwoman Art for Sale

Beginning today I will regularly post links to Catwoman art that I found for sale on the web. Of course, I love to collect Catwoman art, but I can't afford all the art out there - and maybe this will come in handy for some other Cat-fans.

Ty Templeton, artist extraordinaire, recently listed some McDonald's art from the 90's including some sweet Catwoman/Batman/Joker pages used for Happy Meal art!

As you may know, Ty wrote and drew for the Batman The Animated Series comic book, in its various incarnations. So its especially cool to see this art.

Link to Ty's Art Sales

Catwoman Highlights

This Catwoman gallery has great examples of Catwoman, including some of my recent favs (Adam Hughes. Alex Ross. Art Adams. Brian Bolland. Darwyn Cooke. etc).

DC Dictionary - Batman and Catwoman

This blog posted Batman Vs Catwoman art by Joe Kubert from the Super Dictionary (Warner, 1978). Its nice to see Kubert's Catwoman!

80's Catwoman in Zellers commercials

Zellers is a Canadian version of Target, but in the 80's was a discount store like Ames or Hills. Ty Templeton animated these commercials and posted a link to the videos on his blog. There are versions with Joker, Riddler, Catwoman and Penguin - where they are overcharging families for toys, before Batman and Robin save the day. 80% of each commercial is reused but the villains portion is original in each version. Take a watch!

Belated... Merry Christmas

Just found this one by Stephen Mooney, had to add it:

Catwoman - music box 1978

Here is a rare item, I've recently encountered, featuring Catwoman in her golden age costume. This was made in Japan by the Price Import Co., from ceramic/porcelain. It measures about 8" tall and the figure appears to be handpainted, while the other graphics are appliques. There is a turn wheel underneath to play the music.

Here is a video of the Batman and Robin video in use

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clO-P_wUxTM

There are atlease these other Superhero and Super Villain Music Boxes:
Catwoman
Batman & Robin
Joker
Penguin
The Ridder
Shazam! (Captain Marvel)
Superman
WonderWoman