Cheetah I

CHEETAH I

Real Name: Priscilla Rich

Class: Human technology-user

Occupation: Supervillain, debutante

Group Affiliation: Vilainy, Inc.

Known Relatives: Deborah Domaine (niece), Claudia Rich (cousin)

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Washington, D.C., 1940s era

First Appearance: Wonder Woman I #6 (Fall, 1943)

Powers: Cheetah had peak human agility and strength and was a ferocious combatant. She worse razor-sharp claws that could cut through steel. She suffered from extreme schizophrenia and alternated between an overwhelming inferiority complex and murderous rages.

History: Debutante Priscilla Rich was mentally ill and suffered from an inferiority complex. At a charity event she threw she became insanely jealous of guest of honor Wonder Woman. She looked in the mirror and saw her evil side personified as a treacherous huntress dressed in a cheetah costume. She made the costume, took the identity of the Cheetah and dedicated herself to killing Wonder Woman.

Wonder Woman brought Cheetah to the Amazons Reform Island in hopes of curing her schizophrenia.

(Flash II #219 (fb, BTS)) - Priscilla came out against Barbara Minerva when she assumed the identity of Cheetah, doing interviews and writing a book bashing Minerva.

(Flash II #219) - The elderly Priscilla was murdered in her home by Cheetah Barbara Minerva. Zoom’d convinced Cheetah she could only achieve her full potential by killing her predecessor.

Comments: Created by William Moulton Marston & Harry G. Peter

Cheetah received a profile in Who’s Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #4.

In the pre-Crisis DC Universe Cheetah lived on Earth-2, and her nemesis was the Earth-2 Wonder WomanDiana, not Hippolyta.