| CATMAN I (Thomas Blake) | CHRONOLOGY |
| Created by Bill Finger and Jim Mooney |
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CHRONOLOGY
Catman first appeared in Detective Comics #311 (January 1963).
Below is the definitive list of appearances of Catman in chronological order. Flashback sequences or story entries will be followed by a [Flashback] note. Stories that for some reason are no longer part of current continuity will have a comment saying this in a note following the entry.
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Catman Chronology
Pre-Flashpoint |
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| Detective Comics #311 (January 1963): "The Challenge of the Cat-Man" |
| Detective Comics #318 (August 1963): "The Cat-Man Strikes Back" |
| Detective Comics #325 (March 1964): "The Strange Lives of the Cat-Man" |
| Freedom Fighters #10 (September-October 1977): "Murder in Miniature" |
| Batman Vol. 1 #322 (April 1980): "Chaos--Coming and Going" [Unrevealed] |
| Batman Vol. 1 #323 (May 1980): "Shadow of the Cat" |
| Batman Vol. 1 #324 (June 1980): "The Cat Who Would Be King" |
| Detective Comics #509 (December 1981): "Nine Lives Has the Cat" |
| Detective Comics #526 (May 1983): "All My Enemies Against Me" |
| Batman Vol. 1 #371 (May 1984): "Nine Cradles of Death" |
| Detective Comics #538 (May 1984): "Clothes Make the Cat(Man)" |
| Crisis on Infinite Earths #9 (December 1985): "War Zone" |
| Batman Vol. 1 #400 (October 1986): "Resurrection Night!" |
| Manhunter Vol. 1 #13 (May 1989): "Trackdown" |
| Detective Comics #612 (March 1990): "Cats" |
| Batman: Shadow of the Bat #7 (December 1992): "The Misfits" |
| Batman: Shadow of the Bat #8 (January 1993): "The Misfits, Part Two" |
| Batman: Shadow of the Bat #9 (February 1993): "The Misfits, Part Three" |
| Batman: Shadow of the Bat #43 (October 1995): "Ratcatcher: The Secret of the Universe, Part One" |
| Catwoman Vol. 2 #26 (November 1995): "The Secret of the Universe Part Two: Rats" |
| Batman: Shadow of the Bat #44 (November 1995): "Cat-Man: The Secret of the Universe, Part Three" |
| Underworld Unleashed #1 (November 1995): "Underworld Unleashed" |
| Batman: Blackgate - Isle of Men #1 (April 1998): "Isle of Men" |
| JSA #28 (November 2001): "Face-Off" |
| Green Arrow Vol. 3 #16 (October 2002): "The Archer's Quest Chapter One: Photograph" |
| Green Arrow Vol. 3 #17 (November 2002): "The Archer's Quest Chapter Two: Grays of Shade" |
| Green Arrow Vol. 3 #20 (March 2003): "The Archer's Quest Chapter Five: Kryptonite" |
| Villains United #1 (July 2005): "Villains United, One: And Empires In Their Purpose" |
| Villains United #2 (August 2005): "Villains United, Two: A Fire in the Steppes" |
| Villains United #3 (September 2005): "Privileged To Spill Her Blood" |
| Villains United #4 (October 2005): "Villains United, Part Four: A Weapon To Unify" |
| Villains United #5 (November 2005): "Villains United, Part Five: Victims of Aggression" |
| Villains United #6 (December 2005): "Villains United, Part Six: At the End of All Things" |
| Villains United: Infinite Crisis Special #1 (June 2006): "A Hero Dies But One" |
| Secret Six Vol. 2 #1 (July 2006): "Six Degrees of Devastation, Part One: Exposed" |
| Secret Six Vol. 2 #2 (August 2006): "Six Degrees of Devastation, Part Two: The First Cut is the Deepest" |
| Secret Six Vol. 2 #3 (September 2006): "Six Degrees of Devastation, Part Three: The Darkest House" |
| Secret Six Vol. 2 #4 (October 2006): "Six Degrees of Devastation, Part Four: Spiders On The Wind" |
| Secret Six Vol. 2 #5 (November 2006): "Six Degrees of Devastation, Part Five: Life As We Know It" |
| Secret Six Vol. 2 #6 (December 2006): "Six Degrees of Devastation, Part Six: Cutting the Cord" |
| Birds of Prey #104 (May 2007): "Whitewater, Part One: Crystal Ascension" |
| Birds of Prey #105 (June 2007): "Whitewater, Part Two: Permafrost" |
| Birds of Prey #106 (July 2007): "Whitewater, Part Three: Storm Front" |
| Birds of Prey #107 (August 2007): "Whitewater, Part Four: A Heart Incased in Glass" |
| Birds of Prey #108 (September 2007): "Whitewater, Epilogue: Swan Song" |
| Salvation Run #3 (March 2008): "All You Need is Hate" |
| Salvation Run #5 (May 2008): "Through a Glass Deadly" |
| Secret Six Vol. 3 #1 (November 2008): "Unhinged, Part One: At the Point of Puncture" |
| Secret Six Vol. 3 #2 (December 2008): "Unhinged, Part Two: The Way of the Traitor" |
| Secret Six Vol. 3 #3 (January 2009): "Unhinged, Part Three: A Run of Misfortune" |
| Secret Six Vol. 3 #4 (February 2009): "Unhinged, Part Four: Money for Murder" |
| Secret Six Vol. 3 #5 (March 2009): "Unhinged, Part Five: Twilight of Sorrow" |
| Secret Six Vol. 3 #6 (April 2009): "Unhinged, Part Six: Compound Fracture" |
| Secret Six Vol. 3 #7 (May 2009): "Unhinged, Finale: Revelations" |
| Secret Six Vol. 3 #8 (June 2009): "Double Date" |
| Secret Six Vol. 3 #9 (July 2009): "A Debt of Significant Blood" |
| Secret Six Vol. 3 #10 (August 2009): "Depths, Part One: The Measure of a People" |
| Secret Six Vol. 3 #11 (September 2009): "Depths, Part Two: Amazons Unleashed" |
| Secret Six Vol. 3 #12 (October 2009): "Depths, Part Three: Inferno" |
| Secret Six Vol. 3 #13 (November 2009): "Depths, Part Four: Fit For a King" |
| Secret Six Vol. 3 #14 (December 2009): "Depths, Part Five: Early Release" |
| Secret Six Vol. 3 #16 (February 2010): "The Rabbit & The Grave" |
| Suicide Squad Vol. 1 #67 (March 2010): "Dance Macabre, Part 1" |
| Secret Six Vol. 3 #17 (March 2010): "Danse Macabre, Part 2" |
| Secret Six Vol. 3 #18 (April 2010): "Danse Macabre, Part 3" |
| Secret Six Vol. 3 #19 (May 2010): "Cats in the Cradle, Part One: Misconcieved" |
| Secret Six Vol. 3 #20 (June 2010): "Cats in the Cradle, Part Two: Fear of a World to Come" |
| Secret Six Vol. 3 #21 (July 2010): "Cats in the Cradle, Part Three: The Precipice" |
| Secret Six Vol. 3 #22 (August 2010): "Cats in the Cradle, Part Four" |
| Secret Six Vol. 3 #23 (September 2010): "Predators" |
| Secret Six Vol. 3 #25 (November 2010): "The Reptile Brain, Part One: "Blood Calls to Blood" |
| Secret Six Vol. 3 #26 (December 2010): "The Reptile Brain, Part Two: Forced Merger" |
| Secret Six Vol. 3 #27 (January 2011): "The Reptile Brain, Part Three: Masked and Masked Again" |
| Secret Six Vol. 3 #28 (February 2011): "The Reptile Brain, Part Four: The Skull Just Beneath the Flesh" |
| Action Comics #895 (January 2011): "The Black Ring, Part Six" |
| Action Comics #896 (February 2011): "The Black Ring, Part Seven" |
| Secret Six Vol. 3 #29 (March 2011): "What Luthor Has Wrought" |
| Secret Six Vol. 3 #30 (April 2011): "Suicide Roulette, Part One of Two: Like a Star on the Horizon" |
| Secret Six Vol. 3 #31 (May 2011): "The Darkest House, Part One of Three: In Every Dream a Nightmare" |
| Secret Six Vol. 3 #32 (June 2011): "The Darkest House, Part Two of Three" |
| Secret Six Vol. 3 #33 (July 2011): "The Darkest House, Part Three of Three: The Infernal Finale" |
Post-Flashpoint |
| Secret Six Vol. 4 #1 (February 2015): "One Less Mouth to Feed" |
| Secret Six Vol. 4 #2 (April 2015): "Down the Rabbit Hole" |
| Convergence: Wonder Woman #2/2 (July 2015): "Divergence: Secret Six" |
| Secret Six Vol. 4 #3 (August 2015): "The Nine Levels of Suburbia" |
| Secret Six Vol. 4 #4 (September 2015): "Friends in Low Places" |
| Secret Six Vol. 4 #5 (October 2015): "Block Party" |
| Secret Six Vol. 4 #6 (November 2015): "Whippings & Apologies" |
| Secret Six Vol. 4 #7 (December 2015): "There's Something at the Door,Darling" |
| Secret Six Vol. 4 #8 (January 2016): "House of Strangers, Part 2: Atlantis Confides" |
| Secret Six Vol. 4 #9 (February 2016): "The White Gate,the Black Sun" |
| Secret Six Vol. 4 #10 (March 2016): "Watch a Yellow Sun Fade" |
| Plastic Man Vol. 5 #4 (November 2018): "Revenge of the Curse of the Horror of the Creature" |
| Flash Vol. 5 #61 (March 2019): "Force Quest, Part Four" |
| Justice League Vol. 4 #35 (January 2020): "Justice/Doom War, Part 6" |
| Justice League: Endless Winter #1 (February 2021): "Endless Winter, Chapter 1" |
| Flash Vol. 1 #767 (February 2021): "Endless Winter, Chapter 2: Lightning Strikes" |
| Justice League Vol. 4 #58 (February 2021): "Endless Winter, Chapter 5" |
| Black Adam: Endless Winter Special #1 (February 2021): "Endless Winter, Chapter 8" |
| Justice League: Endless Winter #2 (February 2021): "Endless Winter, Finale" |
| Joker 2021 Annual #1 (January 2022): "El Mal Duerme Bien" |
Chronology UncertainIt is currently uncertain where these stories fit into the character's internal chronology. |
| Trinity #34/2 (March 2009 [January 21]): "Not Much of a Soldier" |
| Trinity #39 (April 2009 [February 25]): "Metropolis" |
| Trinity #40 (May 2009 [March 4]): "Returned" |
| Trinity #41 (May 2009 [March 11]): "Our Rightful Realm" |