Priscilla Rich

A wealthy socialite consumed by jealousy toward Wonder Woman, Priscilla Rich developed a split personality — her darker self manifesting as the villainous Cheetah — and became one of Wonder Woman's earliest and most iconic adversaries.

Few Golden Age villains have left claw marks as deep as Priscilla Rich, who first stalked the pages of Wonder Woman #6 in 1943 — brought to life by the remarkable creative pairing of Alice Marble and Sheldon Moldoff. A DC original born in the heart of comics' earliest era, she has endured across an impressive seven-plus decades, surfacing in titles like Wonder Woman, Wednesday Comics, and DC Universe: Legacies, and sharing the page with the very pillars of the DC universe — Wonder Woman, Batman, The Flash, and Green Lantern among them. With a key-issue debut and appearances stretching all the way to 2016, Priscilla Rich is a testament to the staying power of Golden Age villainy, a character whose shadow falls long across DC history and whose debut issue is well worth hunting down.