Cat-Man (Marvel Comics)
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Cat-Man is the name of two fictional characters in the Marvel Universe.
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[edit] Towshend Horgan
| Cat-Man I | |
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Daredevil #10 (Oct 1965) |
| Created by | Wally Wood and Bob Powell |
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| Alter ego | Towshend Horgan |
| Team affiliations | Ani-Men, Unholy Three |
| Abilities | (briefly) natural razor-sharp claws |
Along with Ape-Man, Bird-Man, and Frog-Man, Towshend Horgan by a man named the Organizer to form the Ani-Men. Horgan had what was described as "feline agility". The Organizer was secretly Abner Jonas, a candidate for mayor of New York City, who sent the Ani-Men on missions to undermine the current administration. Daredevil defeated them and the Ani-Men and Organizer all went to prison.[1] Later, Ape-Man, Bird-Man, and Cat-Man formed a team called the "Unholy Three" with the Exterminator, and fought Daredevil again.[2] The Unholy Three, as a team of independent thieves, fought Daredevil and Spider-Man and were defeated.[3]
Ape-Man, Bird-Man, and Cat-Man later rejoined the Ani-Men, and the Ani-Men went to work for Count Nefaria. Nefaria's scientists submitted the unwitting Ani-Men to processes that gave them superhuman powers and animal-like forms. The Ani-Men invaded the Cheyenne Mountain missile base for Count Nefaria, and fought the X-Men.[4]
The Ani-Men lost their superhuman powers and reverted back to normal. Nefaria sent the four original Ani-Men to kill Tony Stark, however the Spymaster detonated a bomb with which he had intended to kill Stark, and the resulting explosion killed the Ani-Men instead.[5]
[edit] Powers and abilities
Originally, Horgan had no superhuman powers. He was an athletic man with considerable agility and reflexes, and extraordinary acrobatic skills.
While employed by the Exterminator, Horgan wielded a "time-displacement ray" ("T-ray") gun that fired a ray which projected its victim into a limbo-like inter-dimensional void. The gun could thus "displace" a victim for a limited period of time, such as 30 minutes. A ray blast of sufficient intensity could exile a victim to the inter-dimensional void permanently.
Horgan was later subjected to an unknown mutagenic process administered by Count Nefaria's scientists which temporarily gave him razor-sharp claws that were actually part of his body, and gave him superhuman agility.
[edit] Sebastian Patane
| Cat-Man II | |
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Daredevil #157 (Mar 1979) |
| Created by | Roger McKenzie, Mary Jo Duffy, and Gene Colan |
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| Alter ego | Sebastian Patane |
| Team affiliations | Ani-Men |
After the deaths of the original Ani-Men, the Death-Stalker recruited a new team of Ani-Men, with a new Ape-Man, Bird-Man, and Cat-Man. He sent the new Ani-Men to capture Matt Murdock. The Death-Stalker murdered Ape-Man and Cat-Man by electrocution upon the completion of their mission.[6]
[edit] Powers and abilities
Patane possessed the same abilities as the first Cat-Man, including cat-like claws on his costume, and extraordinary acrobatic skills.
