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Issue: Catwoman #[nn]
Publication Date: January 2003
 
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Title: Crooked Little Town
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics
On Sale Date: 11/26/2003
Volume:
Pages: 172
ISBN: 1401200087
UPC/EAN: 76194123700800111
Price: $22.95 CAD
$14.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 26 (8 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Collects Catwoman (DC, 2002 Series) #s 5-10 (May-October 2002); Catwoman Secret Files and Origins (DC, 2002 Series) #1 (October 2002)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
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Binding: trade paperback
Publishing Format: collected editions
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18 Content Items from other Issues reprinted as/in this Issue:
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Crooked Little Town

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Catwoman [Selina Kyle]
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Blank Page

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Inside front cover.
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Half-Title #1

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Catwoman [Selina Kyle]
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Title only, with illustration from issue #1, page 8.
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Title Page

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Catwoman [Selina Kyle]
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Title; credits; DC publisher credits; indicia; illustrations.
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Half-Title #2

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Catwoman [Selina Kyle]
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Title, with illustration of Catwoman from issue #5, page 2.
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Catwoman #5

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Catwoman [Selina Kyle]
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Trickle Down Theory

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Catwoman [Selina Kyle]; Holly Robinson; Brendan Skinner; Dexter Garcia; Slam Bradley; Xavier Dylan; Sergeant MacNalty (intro); Officer Rickett (intro)
Okay, let's run through this one more time...
Selina learns of a drug smuggling operation that uses kids from the East End as cover. She targets Dexter Garcia, a low level dealer who's running the kids, convincing him to give up his boss, Xavier Dylan. Garcia takes it upon himself to kidnap Dylan and beat him before turning him into the police. Unknown to Selina or Garcia, the sergeant and officer interrogating the dealer are dirty and work for Dylan.
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MacNalty's name is spelled "MacNaulty" in this issue, but is more often spelled "MacNalty" in subsequent issues. Rickett is not named in this issue.
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Catwoman #6

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Catwoman [Selina Kyle]; Holly Robinson
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Disguises Part One of Four

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Holly Robinson; Catwoman [Selina Kyle]; Karon (intro); Jenni; David G.; Sergeant MacNalty; Officer Rickett; Officer Farley
Subject: Try This. It really works.
Holly is investigating David G., a new drug dealer in the East End and realizes he's an undercover cop. She follows him to a warehouse where he meets Sgt. MacNalty, Detective Farley, and Detective Rickett. When David G. refuses to cooperate with MacNalty, MacNalty has Farley kill him. When Holly gasps, Rickett and Farley give chase to Holly and shoot her in the shoulder.
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Catwoman #7

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Catwoman [Selina Kyle]; Holly Robinson
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Disguises Part Two of Four

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Officer Rickett; Officer Farley; Holly Robinson; Catwoman [Selina Kyle]; Dr. Leslie Thompkins; Sergeant MacNalty; Detective Crispus Allen; Slam Bradley; Detective Farruci; Lt. Matthews
Just what the hell d'you think you're doin'?
Selina rescues Holly from Rickett and Farley and takes her to Leslie Thompkins to be treated. Crispus Allen is assigned to oversee the investigation of the murder of the undercover cop, which displeases MacNalty and Lt. Matthews. Detective Farrucci tells Selina and Slam Bradley off the record that he had heard that dirty cops have taken over the East End drug trade, and someone high up the ladder is covering for them. MacNalty, Rickett, and Farley claim Holly killed the undercover cop and issue a police artist's sketch of her to the media.
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Catwoman #8

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Catwoman [Selina Kyle]
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Disguises Part Three of Four

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Karon; Holly Robinson; Slam Bradley; Catwoman [Selina Kyle]; Sergeant MacNalty; Officer Rickett; Officer Farley; Detective Crispus Allen; Jeffo; Xavier Dylan
... probably heard about it.
Crispus Allen continues to investigate the death of the undercover cop, while MacNalty, Rickett, and Farley continue to try to find Holly, the only witness who can identify them as the killers. Selina visits a fence to get some information about where a big drop involving the dirty cops is occurring. He request a favor in return. Selina sticks a tracer on a GCPD armored vehicle and follows it to a parking garage. She detonates it during the handoff, destroying the drugs it was carrying, then in the confusion steals the payment--millions in uncut diamonds.
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Catwoman #9

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Catwoman [Selina Kyle]
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Disguises Part Four of Four

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Sergeant MacNalty; Detective Farruci; Catwoman; Officer Rickett; Slam Bradley; Xavier Dylan; Karon; Holly Robinson; Black Mask; Detective Crispus Allen; Lt. Matthews; Jeffo
-- yeah, I know it's the middle of the damn night, Renee...
Selina approaches Crispus Allen and offers him a deal. She'll give him MacNalty and a bunch of bad cops, if he promises to help clear Holly Robinson's name. Selina offers Xavier Dylan the option to pay money to get his diamonds back. She fakes evidence that Officer Rickett is working for a rival mob. MacNalty is sent after Slam Bradley; whose office is bugged by Bradley, Selina, and Allen. They get MacNalty to admit on tape that he shot the narc. Selina busts into the room as things start to get out of hand and MacNaulty is shot. Dylan is revealed to be working for Black Mask.
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Catwoman #10

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Catwoman [Selina Kyle]; Rebecca Robinson
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Joy Ride

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Slam Bradley; Rebecca Robinson; Catwoman [Selina Kyle]; Holly Robinson; Batman [Bruce Wayne]
Rebecca Robinson is on trial for a crime she pleads innocent to. She recalls being caught in a car accident that killed the driver. Rebecca didn't know there was also a body in the trunk; when she woke in the hospital she had been charged with murder as an accomplice. Selina breaks her out of custody when she's being transported by armored vehicle. She gives her a passport and hair dye for her to get out of the country. She reveals herself to be Selina Kyle. Rebecca remembers saving Selina from being attacked by two boys when they were younger.
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Catwoman Secret Files and Origins #1

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Catwoman [Selina Kyle]; Slam Bradley
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The Many Lives of Selina Kyle

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Catwoman [Selina Kyle]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Holly Robinson; Karon; Bald Louie
My entire crew just got taken down
Several mobsters discuss Catwoman. One thinks she's a crimefighter, one thinks she's Batman's lover, and one thinks she's a crook. Holly and Karon discuss Catwoman. Holly thinks she's a savior, among other things. The story ends with Catwoman busting-up the mobsters. She tells them to tell their boss, Junior Galante, the head of Gotham's Mafia, that the price of doing business in Gotham's East End just went up.
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Catwoman

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Catwoman [Selina Kyle]
The oldest of two sisters from a fractured family, Selina Kyle had one of the toughest childhoods one could imagine.
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Holly

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Holly Robinson
Running from a bad home at an early age, Holly ended up on the streets of Gotham's East End, doing whatever she had to do to survive.
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Slam Bradley

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Slam Bradley
Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, "Slam" earned his lifelong nickname on that city's harsh streets at the age of 12 when he took on the local bully
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Why Holly Isn't Dead

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Catwoman [Selina Kyle]; Holly Robinson
That's what I'd like to know.
Holly takes a bath and complains about how they relaunch comic books and retcons characters while Selina Kyle changes between several different Catwoman outfits in front of her.
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Batman

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The quest for justice continues in these books from DC:
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Extensive list of Batman-related books.
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Inside back cover.
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Catwoman [Selina Kyle]
Catwoman is back with a new lease on life!
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Blurbs; illustration; price; barcode; ISBN.
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