Huntress I

HUNTRESS I

Real Name: Paula Brooks

Class: Human

Occupation: Criminal, formerly adventurer

Group Affiliation: formerly Young All-Stars, Injustice Society of the World

Known Relatives: Artemis Crock (Artemis / Tigress, daughter), Lawrence "Crusher" Crock (Sportsmaster, husband)

Aliases: Tigress

Base of Operations: New York City, New York

First Appearance: (Tigress) Young All-Stars #6 (November, 1987), (Huntress) Sensation Comics I #68 (August, 1947)

Powers: Huntress was a skilled hand-to-hand combatant with remarkable agility. She was a master huntress and tracker. She was skilled at taming and training wild animals, and was often armed with a "crossbow-gun," equipped with either regular or poison coated darts.

History: Tigress was a heroine who idolized the Manhunter, and managed to convince the All-Stra Squadron to accept her as one of their own. She later turned evil, and as a thief who resented how the law hunted crooks she adopted the predatory persona of the Huntress to hunt down the law, coming into conflict with Wildcat.

(Sensation Comics I #69) - Huntress had her gang murder the only man who knew her secret identity, but he’d already sent a letter to Washington detailing what e knew about the Huntress. She held up a mail truck, but realized the mail had gone out on an earlier delivery. She retrieved the letter from a railroad car, but was opposed by Wildcat. After an inconclusive fight she disappeared, seemingly falling over a cliff.

(Sensation Comics I #73) - Huntress invited Wildcat to her jungle lair, telling him she’d surrender to the authorities if he unmasked her. He failed because she was in a hall of mirrors, and then Huntress lured him into a quicksand trap. Wildcat escaped, and foiled her gang’s attempt to rob a masquerade ball. He then confronted Huntress in her jungle lair and locked her in one of her own holding cells.

(Sensation Comics I #75) - Huntress and socialite hunter Clyde Mason had an imposter Wildcat box the Congo Kid in a charity bout aboard Mason’s yacht. Wildcat exposed the imposter, but then Huntress captured him. Mason and Huntress knew an imposter would draw in Wildcat, and they robbed the socialites who attended the “charity” event. Mason double-crossed Huntress, and Wildcat got free, but Huntress escaped after destroying Mason’s island with high-powered explosives.

Comments: Tigress created by Roy Thomas, Dann Thomas & Brian Murray. Huntress created by an unnamed writer & Mort Meskin.

Tigress received a profile in Who's Who Update '88 #3. Tigress received a profile in Who's Who Update '87 under the All-Star Squadron entry. Huntress received a profile in Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #10. She received a profiles in Golden Age Secret Files #1 and Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #11 under the Injustice Society of the World entry.

Huntress had cameos in Faces of Evil: Prometheus #1 and Martian Manhunter II #36.