Catman
Catman is a comic book character that first appeared in Detective Comics #311
A renowned hunter turned bumbling villain, Tom Blake lived with a lion pride in the wild to rediscover himself. Now more deadly and resourceful, Catman has become one of the world's premier tracker and hunter.
History
Tom Blake on the hunt
Failures and defeats
Years later, Thomas was hired by the Shade, a friend from baccarat games, to attend the funeral of Oliver Queen to ensure certain funeral instructions were carried out as the request of the departed. This led to Thomas being tracked down by the recently resurrected Ollie due to pictures surfacing of his presence at the funeral. Thomas was interrogated by Ollie and Roy Harper for the reasons why until the Shade appeared to explain.
This last humiliation was the final straw. He returned to Africa to regain his confidence and pride by living among a pride of lions. Living like this put him back in prime physical shape and reawakened the formidable abilities he had let wane. He would have gladly spent his entire life living in the jungle amongst his feline family, but Dr. Psycho and Talia al Ghul found him with an offer of membership to the Secret Society. He turned them down. For the insult of that, he became their enemy. He found his pride of lions dead four days later.
The best of friendsSecret Six
When Scandal and Deadshot came to him wih an offer to join a group opposing the Secret Society, Thomas readily accepted. He was after vengeance now, and the Secret Six could deliver that to him. He didn't care about much else, though he was suspicious of their mysterious benefactor, Mockingbird. He participated in the missions the Secret Six were given and surprised everyone by proving to be more capable and dangerous than he had ever been before. During all this, he mistook Cheshire's advances and after sleeping with her, discovered what she really wanted was for him to impregnate her. She did give him something in return, and that was the secret that it was really Deadshot who killed his lions. Catman nearly killed Deadshot for this, only to be interrupted by the Secret Society's attack and Cheshire's betrayal.
The best of friends
Catman survived the assault and stuck with the remaining members of the Secret Six, who decided to continue on as mercenaries. They were given one more opportunity to cause problems for the Secret Society by taking part in the Battle of Metropolis. One look at the carnage happening there was all it took for Catman to pass on it. The fight didn't involve them, and they weren't going to help clean up the Justice League's mess.
A way with the ladies
Later, while working a protection job for a general in Azerbaijani, Thomas met and developed an attraction to Helena Bertinelli. However, the Secret Six and the Birds of Prey would come down on opposite sides of the general's plans. This led to Catman and Huntress fighting it out, and Huntress stabbing him in the leg. There were still no hard feelings, even after the Secret Six's job went south and they didn't get paid.
After murdering some poachers in Africa, Catman came back to the Secret Six feeling unsettled with how much killing and hurting people didn't bother him. The Secret Six had been hired to retrieve a stolen item along with the thief, Tarantula, and bring both to Gotham City. Just before taking the job, Catman was called by Huntress, who warned that the job was a trap meant to set them all up for death. He didn't take her warning and came to Gotham City to confront Batman about it. This confrontation was really a distraction for Batman while the rest of the Secret Six proceeded with the first part of their job. He fought well against Batman and left, having made his point that Batman and everyone else is wrong to worry about him. But he soon finds out the danger was very real when they all discovered that what had been stolen was a Get Out of Hell Free card created by Neron. Like everyone else, Catman was tempted to have the card for himself, since he was so sure he was bound for Hell himself. This issue was put to rest when the card was seemingly destroyed along with Tarantula and Junior in a big battle on the bridge leading into Gotham City.
He was last seen defending Gotham city against evildoers together with Ragdoll and Bane. He and the rest seemed surprised when the civillians reffered to them as heroes.
Powers and Abilities
Holding his own against Batman
Catman's former life as a game hunter and his life in the wild have made him into an exceptional tracker. Even without metahuman senses, he is able to follow and identify scents. He is also a very capable fighter with a preference for using bladed weapons like knives or these specialty blades he holds like claws.
In other media
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He appears(without costume) in batman the animated series. He battles Batman and Catwoman but he is defeated.
He appears on Batman the Brave and the Bold episode "Legend of the Drak-Mite" where he is temting to sell a rare tiger but is foiled by Batman and Ace the bathound.He acts as he did in the silver age..
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| Super Name: | Catman |
| Real Name: | Thomas Blake |
| Aliases: |
Thomas Blake Tom Blake King of Cats Cat-Man Catman |
| Publisher: | DC Comics |
| Gender: | Male |
| Character Type: | Human |
| 1st Appearance: | Detective Comics #311 |
| Appears in: | 63 issues |
| Birthday: | |
| Died: |
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