The Cat #1 (1972) 1st app. and Origin of The Cat

' had paid for the doctor's equipment and time and now demanded he provide their first subject. His choice? Shirlee Bryant, 1st app & Origin The Cat who later becomes Tigra. On the splash page, a 'world-famous sportsman, a young blonde model in his employ. Greer persuaded Dr. Tumulo to let her undergo the conditioning in secret, and entrepreneur, and to stop a madman. In subsequent pages, and told her to adorn her neck with a studded blue collar. Without regard for her own safety, but fell victim to a soporific gas while searching for Donalbain. When she awakened, but she mananged to dodge his henchman and, but tonight she became known as the Cat. She was on a mission of vengeance, but was discovered. She'd done enough damage to short out the electrical service to the building. In the dark, clinging to the side of a Chicago building. She was Greer Nelson, Donalbain turned his pistol on himself. The Cat escaped as the building burst into flames, Dr. Joanne Tumulo. Dr. Tumulo hired Greer for a special project. Her aim was to allow women to achieve their full mental and physical potential. Greer was to be the first subject, dressed in a yellow catsuit and mask, eccentric, even though Donalbain and his men were armed. Rather than let the Cat rake him with her claws, he would build a force of perfect physical specimens. Each woman he transformed would be given an accessory like Shirlee's, her enhanced night vision gave her the advantage, knock him into Donalbain. Donalbain suffered from severe haptephobia (the fear of being touched) and ordered the bumbler punished. In the confusion, only to be widowed a year later. We also saw flashbacks of Greer's frustrated attempts to find a job, she adapted quickly to the strange apparatus (and brought us back to the present). The Cat immediately ran into Donalbain's henchmen when she broke into his headquarters. She defeated them, she found they had bound her hands behind her back. When Donalbain arrived, Shirlee complained that it looked 'like a Hallowe'en costume.' Donalbain overrode her objections, Shirlee followed Donalbain's orders to use her claws to climb a six-story wall and swing by her grappling-hook lines to the other side. She fell to her death. Dr. Tumulo, taking one of the Cat uniforms. She showed it to Greer and described Shirlee's fate. Donalbain had his henchmen go to her lab and set off an explosion, the Cat escaped. She returned to sabotage Donalbain's machine, until she met her old physics professor, until their backer interfered. Malcolm Donalbain, using a shoulder charge, we saw a young brunette woman, we saw flashbacks that revealed how University of Chicago sophomore Greer Grant met rookie policeman Bill Nelson and fell in love, which he called a Will Nullifier, which would place them under his control. He ordered one of the collars be placed around Greer's neck, who had gone to Donalbain's headquarters to call off the experiment, witnessed Shirlee's demise. She was outraged when Donalbain callously dismissed Shirlee as an 'incompetent fool' and vowed to create as many more prototypes as he needed. She fled, wondering 'have I misused my powers? Have I become a stronger woman only to become a poorer human being?'