Reading Room: Return of the OTHER Cat-Man!

The first transvestite super-hero returns...

Beneath that skirt, Tarpe Mills' first comic creation is all MAN!

Apparently she lost his number, since this tale from Amazing-Man Comics #8 was this Cat-Man's last appearance!

The Cat-Man name would be reused for another Golden Age character and Tarpe Mills would go on to create another cat-themed series...Miss Fury!

Curiously, though other characters from Amazing-Man Comics (and the entire Centaur Comics line have re-appeared in Alex Ross' Project SuperPowers, this CatMan has yet to do so!  C'mon, Alex, you can find a place for him...er, her...er, whatever...

The OTHER CatMan!

He's not the Cat-Man we showed you yesterday...

...but, this guy, who appeared in two issues of Amazing-Man Comics (a year before Crash Comics #4), was a super-hero with a difference!

How different?
Read on...

"Criminals are a cowardly, superstitious lot, so my disguise must be able to strike terror into their hearts...I shall become...a little old lady with cats!"
Tarpe Mills, the writer/artist of this titillating tale, later created another, better-known, feline-themed comic character...Miss Fury!

BTW, despite Wikipedia's claim that Madame Fatal was the first transvestite super-hero, this Cat Man predates him/her by several months. (Amazing-Man Comics #5 was cover-dated September, 1939. Crack Comics #1, Madame Fatal's first appearance, was cover-dated May, 1940!)
And yes, we will present the second, and final appearance of this...unique...Cat Man, soon!
Curiously, though other characters from Amazing-Man Comics (and the entire Centaur Comics line have re-appeared in Alex Ross' Project SuperPowers, this CatMan has yet to do so!  C'mon, Alex, you can find a place for him...er, her...er, whatever...