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Batwoman - real name Kathy Kane - will appear in 52, a year-long DC Comics publication that began this month.
So Selena Kyle's reputation is safe. Ladies an' gents, what we have here is DC Comics' variation of Marvel's 2099 gimmick...with maybe just a smidgen of ArnoStark, Iron Man.
1955 - 1963 The Silver Age: Bathound, Bat-Mite, Batwoman
As the golden age of comics drew to a close, Batman and Robin adopted a dog — and put him in a mask, naming him Ace the Bathound. The silver age was more like a silly age with characters like Bat-Mite, a two-foot-tall tubby alien who was a fervent BatFan, dressing up in his version of a Batsuit and interfering with the Dynamic Duo's crime-fighting work in the usual bumbling sidekick manner for nearly four years.
At least the silver age gave us Batwoman, a former circus performer who inherited a fortune and used it to make herself the X Chromosome Crusader. There really wasn't much romance between her and Batman and her yellow-and-black costume could have just as easily been made for Canary Woman. She publicly retired from crimefighting in 1963 and has been mostly forgotten ever since.
Coolness: 3
Darkness: 1 (unless you include mourning for the Golden Age)
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I don't like the colour scheme of her costume. Frank Miller, In 'Dark Knight...' at least made mention of the fact that Batman had armour under his costume, specifically under the bat symbol. I believe the quote was something like "Why else would I wear a target on my chest." Great, she's a lesbian, it's nice that the mainstream is acknowledging the existence of all sorts of different people: did they have to make them easy to shoot, too?
btw, this is just semi-serious. no pile-ons, k?
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