The Cat-Man

Cat-Man is a Golden Age costumed hero originally published by Holyoke, created by Chas. M. Quinlan, who starred in his own self-titled series during the wartime comics era of the early 1940s.

Few Golden Age heroes carry a title as boldly their own as The Cat-Man — this Holyoke creation debuted in 1942 courtesy of Chas. M. Quinlan, landing right in the thick of comics' first great era with a self-titled series that bore his name on the masthead. With 37 catalogued appearances stretching from those wartime newsprint pages all the way to 2017, he's a remarkable survivor of the Golden Age, outlasting countless contemporaries across roughly 75 years of publication history. His adventures put him in colorful company — sharing pages with The Kitten, Katie Conn, Ms. Victory, and the cosmic oddity Stardust — and his footprint extends into FemForce, the beloved independent anthology that became a sanctuary for exactly this kind of classic heroic legacy. With a key issue among his appearances, The Cat-Man is a genuine collector's discovery: a character who embodies the pulpy, anything-goes energy of 1942 and somehow never stopped prowling the panels.