[ID: A picture of a Cat-Man comic, with a yellow background, showing Cat-Man, a buff man with red boots and a red and orange leotard, with a red cape, and a red mask that covers all but his nose and mouth. There is other text that is hard to read in such small, low quality print. End ID.]
Today's Public Domain Character: Cat-Man
Cat-Man is a character that was sort of popular in the 1940s, an obvious attempt to capture the same feeling as Bat-Man. Cat-Man was raised by a Tiger and therefore has some abnormal abilities like climbing, leaping great lengths, seeing in the dark and also he has 9 lives like all cats. The spirit of his mother can revive him.
His civilian persona of David Merryweather is a private detective and he goes into his Cat-Man persona when things get too heated. He had a kid sidekick, a young girl named Katie Conn who went by the name The Kitten. Eventually the company Holyoke went bankrupt and the character has since gone into the public domain.
There was a truly baffling run by AC Comics in the 1980s which had a gross premise of Katie getting one of his lives but as a result her body becoming an adult but her mind is that of an 11 year old but eventually she ages mentally and then her and Cat-Man marry,its gross and like really uncomfortable and has not aged well at all.
DC Comics has used Cat-Man in some of their Bat-Man stories and he is sometimes used as a stand-in parody for Bat-Man such as in the Fairly Godparents. I think Cat-Man would make a good substitute if you want to publish Bat-Man type stories or just explore a really neat comic book character.
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Vintage Comic - Captain Aero Comics #07
Pencils: Charles M. Quinlan
Inks: Charles M. Quinlan
Holyoke (July1942)
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you know if you take an old comic book hero and readapt them for 2023 you are in fact required to get rid of the racism unless you want to announce to everyone that you're super racist and are fine with bringing more racism into the modern world.
Oh, your superhero / detective has gotten a case to find a diamond that was stolen from some rich lady's house, that was originally stolen from "one of the countries the United States invaded??????
And the person who just stole the diamond from the rich white lady is trying to return it to the original country????
Zyg, your fucking superhero is morally fucking obligated to fucking help get it back to its original owners, and tell the rich white lady to go fuck herself! Or at least pretend to go along and pretend like you're helping her but oh nooo sooo tragic, these theives are just too good for me oh well. Here's my bill for all the hours I spent on this."
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Cat-Man
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THE SENSATIONAL CAT-MAN (Pilot)
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The Cat-Man
Creator(s): Charles M. Quinlan
Alias(es): David Merryweather
1st Issue w/Uniform: Cat-Man Comics #5
Year/Month of Publication: 1941/12
pdsh.fandom.com/wiki/Cat-Man_(Holyoke)
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Mike Murdock vs. the Daredevil Baddies
THE GAME: Every 24 hours, our hapless hero Mike Murdock will face off against a different Daredevil villain. If he wins, he lives to fight another day. If he loses, the game ends and his poor brother Matt will (probably?) cry about it. This will continue for as long as Mike lasts, until he beats all of the bad guys, or until I decide to pull the plug.
Round 1: Mike Murdock vs. The Matador
WINNER: Mike Murdock
Round 2:
THE COMBATANTS:
Michael Matthew "Badboy" Murdock: The Murdock family pussycat! The black sheep! Occupation: criminal! Style icon! Home-wrecker! Smarmy rascal! Certified Real Boy(TM)! The only person on the planet who would choose to alter the fabric of reality in order to make themselves related to Matt Murdock.
Abilities: Punching, gun stuff, existential crises, style
The Ani-Men: There was a dream. A dream to bring together a team of guys in animal-themed costumes to commit crimes. And thus were born the Ani-Men! While normal (though skilled) human criminals, Cat-Man, Ape-Man, Bird-Man, and Frog-Man (NOT Leap-Frog, this is a different guy) wear suits that mechanically give them the attributes of their namesake animals.
Abilities: The general abilities of, respectively, a cat, an ape, a bird, and a frog, the magic of teamwork
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Golden Age Greats Volume One (1994) cover by Bill Black and Mark Heike.
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fionna and cake but simon drops increasingly wild anecdotes about his life
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Reasons why Jon Archivist is truly a character of all time:
Had the police called on him several times when he was a young child
Keeps his rib and the ashes of the season one antagonist next to his stationary drawer
Promised he wouldn’t get lost in tunnels and then immediately got lost in aforementioned tunnels
Has no clue what a joke is
Learned how remarkably easy it is to buy an ax in central London
Had to have two separate interventions
Told people his place of employment before traumatising them for life
The first character he ever said ‘I love you’ to is a cat
Allegedly participated in amdram
Watches documentaries and collects some kind of weird shit (my headcanon is Soviet Union postcards) when he’s not being a paranoid mess
Canonically looks like he hasn’t slept in weeks
Knows nothing about library science
Fell head over heels for a man that he hated until he learned he lied on his resumé
Has been referred to as Jesus or Jesus-adjacent at least twice
Asexual icon
Knows what a meme is and said “LOL” in the first episode
Rode on a merry-go-round sometime during his university days because he was in a weird place emotionally
Died for our Jonathan Sins
Is probably a computer now playing minesweeper with his boyfriend and evil 200+ year old boss
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Daredevil #10 - "While the City Sleeps!" (August 1965)
Written by Wally Wood
Art by Bob Powell (pencils), Wally Wood (pencils, inks)
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Catman Comics: Buy War Bonds
Art by Charles Quinlan
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I turned The Cat-Man as seen on the first page of his first comic into transparent art.
You can download the HD version here from the web archive, Cat-Man is public domain, and I hate capitalism, so all art I make of him will also be public domain! The link also has all the other variations of this I made in the process (Currently 23 files total lol)
And you can buy it from my Threadless store.
In the original comic panel the blue part of his outfit are like, pale blue, but in the rest of the panel its dark teal, so I made it teal to match. also I had to fix his other foot since it was cut off partly in the original image.
(Edit: Actually, it's possible the blue is meant to be black? in the second story in his first comic, they're using blue in place of black...)
The Cat-Man is public domain, and you can read his comics for free here! If anyone buys the design from my Threadless store, I'll donate part of the money to the website so they can afford to keep hosting the comics :)
[ID: A tranparent image of The Cat-Man with a thick white outline. The Cat-Man is a vintage superhero with a long-sleeved leotard with an orange torso and red gloves, a red belt with a yellow buckle with a black cat face on it, and a dark teal bottom section that ends at the upper thighs, with matching teal boots.
He has a teal mask that covers his face except for his mouth and nose, with pointed ears, and a teal and red cape. On his chest is a ceam colored letter C with a black cat head inside it.
Behind him is bold block text that says, "The Cat-Man".
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sketch feat. the tweets that inspired it
tell me you guys get it tho like why is he built
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The Cat-Man
Creator(s): Charles M. Quinlan
Alias(es): David Merryweather
1st Issue w/Uniform: Cat-Man Comics #11
Year/Month of Publication: 1942/06
pdsh.fandom.com/wiki/Cat-Man_(Holyoke)
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