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I fashioned a whip out of string and a cardboard tube, and attached twisty ties to my fingers as claws. I never stopped to question why I enjoyed playing Catwoman so much — all I knew is that these short bursts of escapism really did make me feel so much yummier. This did present a very particular dilemma.

A Brief History of Dick

She even had her own Batcave, hidden in an abandoned mine under her estate. But while Batwoman served her purpose—to straighten up Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson—she was perhaps more transgressive than Batman and Robin ever were. By , though, National phased Kathy Kane out of Gotham.

Fear of a Gay Batman Brought Batwoman to Life

He needed a Dr. Watson to his Sherlock Holmes. In the model of dime novel sporting hero Frank Merriwell , whose sidekick and ward was his younger half-brother Dick, the writers decided to give Batman a junior Watson to talk to. Batman and Robin. A wealthy bachelor living with a young boy.

Gay Batman

Poet Chris Tse looks into the hidden and not-so-hidden subtexts of comic books, and shares the role superheroes — particularly Catwoman in Batman Returns — played in his own journey. When I was a young boy, my pulse quickened every time I came across a naked male torso in a magazine, on greeting cards in the mall gift shop, or on TV.