The Cat Girl (comics)
The Cat Girl is a British comic character who has appeared in eponymous strips published by IPC Magazines and Rebellion Developments. The character, a girl called Cathy Carter who finds a suit that gives her the attributes of a cat and becomes a crimefighter, first appeared in the launch issue of weekly girls' comic Sally on 14 June 1969. Creation In 1969 Fleetway Publications and Odhams Press had been merged to form IPC Magazines under the ownership of the Mirror Group and Reed International. The company's sheaf of successful juvenile titles were a major attraction, and thus IPC would launch a succession of new comics with newly appointed managing editor John Sanders charged with devising them. The first of these was the girls' weekly Sally in June 1969. Compared to many other girls' titles covering "struggling orphans, wandering waifs, and fish-out-of-water stories", the new title featured an unusual amount of adventure strips, including "Legion of the Super-Slaves", "Tiny Tania in Space", "The Girl from Tomorrow", "The Justice of Justine" and "The Cat Girl". "The Cat Girl" was drawn by Giorgio Giorgetti, an artist born in Italy who had been running a studio in Margate since 1950, and had worked on