10 Things DC Comics Wants You To Forget About Catwoman
6. Her Dumb Origin
Like a lot of characters, Catwoman's origin story has changed over the years. Usually it revolves around Selina turning to a life of crime to escape a childhood of poverty and abuse, but her original origin was far dumber.
After making numerous appearances throughout the early issues of Batman, Batman #62 in 1950 finally gave us Catwoman's origin story. Selina Kyle was actually an amnesiac flight attendant who had lost her memory in a plane crash.
She remembered all of this after being hit on the head by rubble while saving Batman from a collapsing building. Why amnesia turned her into a criminal or how more brain trauma counteracted the earlier brain trauma is anyone's guess, but it's probably best to just leave it. Trying to argue with 50's comic book logic is a path down which lies only madness.
This origin would be retconned a year later anyway when Catwoman revealed that she'd lied about her past to temporarily retire from crime. It would be a long time before we would learn her real origin though, as the Comics Code of Authority banned the use of the seductive femme fatale for over a decade.