Description

Batman Annual 1993                                       Imported Hardcover 
Writers: Bill Finger & Alan Grant
Artists: Dick Sprang & Norm Breyfogle
Letter: Todd Klein
Inkers: Charles Paris, Tim Sale & Steve Mitchell
Colorist: Adrienne Roy
Editors: Jack Schiff & Dennis O’Neil

A DC Comics hardcover annual featuring the DC Superheroes; Batman & Robin and Batman’s enemy and sometimes lover; Catwoman!

Story/Spoilers
First in part #1, Catwoman interrupts a mugging, quickly taking out the muggers, but when the potential victims believe, she is going to hurt them, she becomes angry and tells them to take a cab next time. The female victim wants to know why they can’t walk at night in their own city, to which Catwoman replies, “Not my problem–Take it up with the mayor!” before swinging off. The male victim is ashamed to be rescued by a woman, but he cheers up when he finds a bag of loot that Catwoman dropped. Batman, however, emerges from the shadows to take the bag from him and summons the police. Sarah Essen is bewildered by Catwoman’s behavior, and she is upset by Batman’s presence (and accepted position as a vigilante) and her boyfriend Jim Gordon’s recent bad health. Batman compliments her police work before leaving for a meeting with Joe Potato about the white slave trade. Catwoman returns to her apartment in Brideshead where her roommate Arizona greets her. Arizona can’t understand why Selina would let her move in rent-free, and Selina tells her that she reminds her of someone else. Selina then notices that she dropped her loot. Batman and Potato go to investigate the Ellis Agency. Potato believes they are a front for the white slave trade, but Batman finds no evidence. Potato was hired by her parents to find a girl who went missing after the Ellis Agency hired her as a “dancer,” though, and he’s tracked down three other families whose children have gone missing too. Batman believes him, but what are they going to do about it? On the news, reporter Andy Webber claims that Catwoman attacked the mugging victims she rescued, and he asks psychologist Bill Perkins to psychoanalyze her. Sarah visits Jim Gordon in his hospital room, and he warns her to stay away from Catwoman because she’s dangerous. Selina and Arizona are watching the news broadcast too. Selina is furious. Bruce Wayne goes to meet Vicki Vale outside the Gotham Daily News. She is triumphant over the success of her recent photo feature on Gotham’s homeless population, and her editor has given her a new assignment–Catwoman. Bruce thinks it’s foolish of her to risk her life by accepting the job, but Vicki is unconcerned. Selina takes Arizona to the Gotham Gallery to check out their Egyptian exhibit. Bruce and Vicki are also there, and Bruce expresses his concern about the Karnak Cat display after Webber and Perkins practically dared Catwoman to steal it. The curator Leo Londis reassures him by explaining the security measures in place, not knowing that Selina is listening in. That night, Batman goes to investigate the Ellis Agency while Sarah stakes out the Gotham Gallery. Vicki is also there to catch a photo of Catwoman, which she manages as Catwoman runs across the rooftops above her. Leo Londis receives a phone call telling him that Catwoman will be here soon. The Karnak Cat is a trap. Londis wants to capture Catwoman and plans to leave with her within the hour.

Finally in part #2, Catwoman breaks into the Gotham Gallery, knocking out Sarah Essen’s police officers, as Vicki Vale gets it all on film. Batman and Joe Potato are staking out the Ellis Agency, waiting for evidence of their human trafficking before they strike. Vicki follows a mysterious figure that she thinks might be another thief around the building when Sarah pulls a gun on her. Vicki informs her that Catwoman is already there, and Sarah runs off to find her with Vicki close behind. Catwoman reaches the gallery where she takes out the two guards. She begins to take care of the security measures on the Karnak Cat. Men from the Ellis Agency begin to usher young women into a bus, but Batman stands in front of the women and warns them that, though he has no proof, he has suspicions that the agency is not all that it seems. The women become suspicious that the agency made all the travel arrangements itself and collected their passports, and they demand them back. The men try to push the women into the bus, but Batman fights them off. The leader of the men tries to escape, but he is stopped by Joe Potato, who intimidates him into revealing that his Gotham contact is Leo Londis. Batman races off in the Batmobile. Catwoman successfully steals the Karnak Cat, but she does not get far before she is stopped by Leo Londis and his guards. Londis tells her that a client of his has purchased her, and his guards go to grab her. She uses the Karnak Cat to knock out one. Catwoman tries the door, but neither she nor Sarah on the other side can open it. Catwoman looks through the peephole to see Sarah and Vicki, and she leaps over the guards to escape out through the roof. Sarah is there waiting for her, but Vicki’s arrival distracts Sarah and Catwoman whips her gun out of her hands. The three women tussles, and their fight is broken up when Londis and his men arrive and hold them at gunpoint, forcing them to walk back downstairs. Vicki pulls her camera on Londis and his guards, stunning them with the flash, which allows Catwoman and Essen to disarm them. Londis tries to escape the gallery, but when he opens the door, an army of stray cat’s rush in. Catwoman summoned them somehow, calling it a “little trick [she] picked up from a friend of mine.” She runs away with the Karnak Cat, escaping off the roof while Sarah yells for her to come back. Batman arrives afterwards, and he wonders if he missed something. In their apartment, Selina and Arizona watch the news. Andy Webber says that Sergeant Essen has contacted Interpol to find the other victims of the trafficking ring and that Vicki Vale took photographs of the action. He concludes by noting that the Karnak Cat could not be sold on open auction, so Catwoman will likely sell it to a private collector for several million dollars. Selina smiles as she pets the statue’s head.

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First Printing
Publisher: DC Comics
Publication Date: 1992
Format: FC, 62 pages, HC, 10.75″ x 7.75″
ISBN-10: 1853863009
ISBN-13: 9781853863004

Collectible Entertainment note: Hardcover in Good condition.  (bumped corners, shelf wear. Inside pages are intact & unmarked)  Otherwise… Nice Reading Copy!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Batman collector and/or enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Recommended.

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