Catwoman (comic book)

Catwoman is an American comic book series featuring the DC Comics character Catwoman as its protagonist. The title was first released in 1989 as a limited series written by Mindy Newell. Newell expanded on Selina's past and origin as a former prostitute in Gotham City's East End region as established in Batman: Year One, and introduced her sister Maggie and her training with the superhero Wildcat. Catwoman was since published as an ongoing series starting in 1993 with its second volume, which featured Catwoman's international heists and adventures. With its third volume first published in 2002, writer Ed Brubaker redefined the character as the antihero protector of the East End, and artist Darwyn Cooke redesigned her previously flamboyant costume to be black and practical, which has since been the basis for her modern design.

2011's New 52 reboot deaged DC's characters and replaced their backstories with new ones; the series' fourth volume first written by Judd Winick was dark, violent, and focused on Catwoman's sex appeal, and was criticized for its sexual objectification. The fourth volume saw a steady drop in sales. Continuing from Batman Eternal's depiction of Catwoman being the daughter of a mob boss, Genevieve Valentine wrote her as the head of the Calabrese crime family. Valentine also established the character's bisexuality.

In the series' fifth volume first published in 2018, Joëlle Jones explored her journey after Catwoman and Batman's failed wedding in the Batman ongoing series. Following the DC Rebirth relaunch in 2016 that restored aspects of the previous DC continuity the New 52 erased, Jones restored the character's family to the Kyles: her sister Maggie, her alcoholic father, and her mother who died by suicide.

Catwoman has been nominated for the Eisner Awards for Brubaker's writing and Matt Hollingsworth's coloring, and won the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book for its depiction of a lesbian couple under Brubaker's pen.