cat womanof DC ComicsY black catof marvel comics, are very similar characters, with similarities that have even confused more than one comic reader. Nevertheless, these antiheroines have certain differences that were explained by the house of ideas.
The website of His house details several differences between the so-called Gatubela and Gata Negra, each one with its past, its origin and its history of how they became what they are.
Historically, Marvel and DC have had similar characters, between accusations of one and the other blaming someone who copied whom. Certainly, Catwoman is a much older name, with a distant first appearance in 1940’s Batman #1..
Black Cat, meanwhile, was created by writer Marv Wolfman and artist Keith Pollard and debuted on Amazing Spider-Man #194, July 1979that is, 39 years later.
Similarities and differences between the characters
Interestingly, Catwoman and Black Cat share trades. Both are very talented thieves, they are anti-heroines, they dress in black and have the name Gato or Cat in their nicknames.. In addition, both have romances with the superheroes who persecute them: Catwoman with Batman, Black Cat with Spider-Man.
Despite these similarities, Marvel clarifies that they are purely superficial and that there are big differences between the characters. The main, the reason for each one of being a thief.
Felicia Hardy grew up under the protection of a world famous thief known as the Black Fox. She was always surrounded by riches, so he didn’t need to steal to survive: She did it for fun and became Black Cat for the adrenaline rush.
For her part, Selina Kyle had a more difficult life. He grew up poor and stole only for the money, to survive. She did not grow up surrounded by fortune or luxury, rather she was on the side of the oppressed, of the low-income people of the place where she lived. She became Catwoman for survival.