


To her shock, the Penguin had engineered the Ice Princess to fall off the building while making it look as if Batman pushed her. As Bruce excused himself in order to suit up, Selina left and gets into her costume to carry out their planĬatwoman and Batman arrived at the same time and briefly fought before Catwoman forcibly dragged the Ice Princess to the building's roof. Just then, they saw a news bulletin about the Ice Princess's kidnapping with Batman the apparent culprit. Their attempts to become more intimate resulted in almost exposing the other's injury and they abruptly stop. Once Bruce makes it clear that he and Vicki were finished, Selina leapt on him and the two started kissing passionately. Over dinner, Selina and Bruce spoke about Bruce's personal life, and Bruce revealed that he had trouble with his previous girlfriend, Vicki Vale, over his apparent difficulty with duality. Meanwhile, whilst in the city, Selina came across Bruce and the two talked for a while before Bruce invited her for an early dinner at his house. In response, Catwoman joined forces with The Penguin to destroy Batman, and the two came up with a plan to frame him for kidnapping the Ice Princess and killing him by turning his Batmobile into a bomb. In the ensuing fight, Catwoman stabbed Batman in the abdomen (not severely), while Batman napalmed Catwoman's arm and knocked her into the back of a truck hauling sand, narrowly escaping death a second time. Selina feigned amnesia and an instant attraction developed between herself and Bruce.Ī few days later, during an attack on the city by the Red Triangle Gang, Catwoman blew up the bottom floor of Shreck's store, bringing her into conflict with Batman. The next day, Selina appeared in Shreck's office while he was speaking with Bruce Wayne, covered in bandages and sporting a more confident and assertive attitude, somewhat impressing Shreck. Calling herself Catwoman, Selina became a vigilante in her own right on her first night, she brutally beat a mugger for trying to rape a helpless woman, but then chastised the woman for being unable to defend herself. When her answering machine gave an advert on a perfume sold by Shreck, Selina appeared to suffer a psychotic break: ransacking her apartment, destroying her possessions, and sewing a homemade cat costume in preparation for her revenge on Shreck. She was mysteriously awakened by alley cats and returned home in a daze. Selina fell through several red awnings on the side of the building, suffering only a mild concussion when she finally hit the street. Shreck himself appeared and confronted her about this information, and though Selina swore that she would not let it slip, Shreck pushed her out of the window to silence her. Selina listened to unpleasant messages on her answering machine: the first from her parents, who express disappointment at Selina not going home for Christmas the second from her boyfriend, who had decided to go on a Christmas holiday on his own on advice from his psychologist and the third from herself, reminding her that she has to go back to work and prepare documents for Shreck's meeting with Bruce Wayne, something she herself had anticipated she would forget.Īs she went through the files, Selina inadvertently discovered that Shreck's proposed Power Plant would suck power from Gotham City and store it, effectively bringing Gotham under control of the Shreck family. She took her defeated clown captor's taser home as a self-defense weapon.Īt her flat, things were no better. Selina instantly became fascinated with Batman, who took his leave. Batman intervened and saved her by knocking the clown out. On Christmas Eve, Shreck forgot his speech and Selina tried to take it to him, but the city came under attack by the Red Triangle Gang and she herself was taken hostage by one of the clowns. Despite being a secretary, Selina fancied herself as more as an executive assistant, since she helped out in more ways than a mere secretary.

Selina Kyle worked as a secretary for the powerful and ruthless Max Shreck, owner of a business empire and the department store Shreck's.
