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Post by mikelmidnight on Sept 14, 2017 11:31:34 GMT -5
There was an additional issue written and pencilled, which has never been published. I keep hoping for a collection including a completed version of the final story.
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Post by MDG on Sept 14, 2017 11:46:18 GMT -5
The Cat #3
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Well despite the not so great cover, the interior art was great! Layouts by Patty Greer and inks by Everett…and for me it works. The characters looks great and the detail on things like the boat Cat is driving on the first page really appealed to me. ...
(I'm drawing on 40-year-old memories here, but...) Around the time this came out, Patty Greer (I think just using the name "Paty" at the time) wrote an article for CPL about women in comics and how the companies were difficult to work for. In the case of this issue, because she was new, Marvel asked her just to do "bare breakdowns" so they could review it before she completed the job. After she dropped the pages off (with some mumbled complaints by the editor that is "lacked detail"), she waited to hear back but never did. When the book came out she was surprised to see that they just inked what she handed in. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2017 11:49:19 GMT -5
Very interesting thread and learning a lot about this character too.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Sept 14, 2017 12:08:28 GMT -5
Well since it's a comic my imagination gets more of a kick outta the idea of it swimming up through the falls. The Master, one of Alpha Flight's villains, also had a sub in Lake Ontario... Perhaps there's some kind of freshwater submarine industry we rarely hear about? (Unbeatable prices! Order yours now!) |
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Post by chaykinstevens on Sept 14, 2017 12:14:27 GMT -5
The Cover
So far, this is the worst cover. The villain just looks like Inigo Montoya mixed with Hook mixed with one of the three muskateers…a three pronged hook hand? Who is this Kraken joke? Why use him? He takes up 75% of the drawing and there is nothing special to see. I get the feeling this issue is where the book starts to nose-dive. Credits say it was Rich Buckler on the cover and for me, he can be hit and miss. Definite miss here. However, I found this with Romita's name on it so I don't know if he had a hand in it or not
GCD credits the cover to Buckler and Frank Giacoia, with amendments by Romita. |
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Post by badwolf on Sept 14, 2017 12:24:09 GMT -5
Several years later J.M.DeMatteis wrote a follow-up to The Cat #1.  It's a pretty touching story and a good portrayal of Greer. |
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Sept 14, 2017 15:59:38 GMT -5
In terms of a reading order for Greer and her transition from Cat into Tigra, does anyone know where to go once I finish this series?
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Post by Crimebuster on Sept 14, 2017 17:47:49 GMT -5
I think her only appearance before she becomes tigra is mtu #8. Not positive.
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Sept 14, 2017 18:12:12 GMT -5
That's what I assumed because she becomes Tigra in a giant size chillers I believe. The shows up in other issues from that series. How does Hellcat adapt or take the same costume? She appears in avengers 144 I think and I don't know where that falls in relation to Cat changing into Tigra.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2017 18:19:56 GMT -5
I know a couple of things about Tigra. I did not know that Cat became Tigra and I was surprised by all this. Interesting ...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2017 22:44:01 GMT -5
I know a couple of things about Tigra. I did not know that Cat became Tigra and I was surprised by all this. Interesting ... Me too. I was intrigued by this thread & did a little research. I did not know that The Cat became Tigra & that Hell Cat used The Cat costume later. I thought that The Cat & Hell Cat were the same character. |
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Post by mikelmidnight on Sept 15, 2017 12:01:43 GMT -5
Hellcat was the old romance character Patsy Walker. She was tagging along with the Avengers and found Grer's costume in a warehouse.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2017 12:42:27 GMT -5
Hellcat was the old romance character Patsy Walker. She was tagging along with the Avengers and found Grer's costume in a warehouse. And she was the characters in Defenders? |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Sept 15, 2017 12:50:09 GMT -5
Yes; in the '70s and '80s (don't know about later), when the character is called Hellcat, that means she's Patsy Walker. When simply called the Cat, then she's Greer Nelson, who later became Tigra.
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Post by chaykinstevens on Sept 15, 2017 16:28:47 GMT -5
That's what I assumed because she becomes Tigra in a giant size chillers I believe. The shows up in other issues from that series. How does Hellcat adapt or take the same costume? She appears in avengers 144 I think and I don't know where that falls in relation to Cat changing into Tigra. Greer Nelson becomes Tigra in Giant-Size Creatures #1, cover dated July 1974. Patsy Walker became Hellcat later in Avengers #144, cover dated February 1976, when she found a costume similar to Nelson's. The Marvel Chronology Project lists a story in Spider-Man Family v2 #1 as fitting in between the Cat #4 and MTU #8, but I've not seen that issue. link |
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