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Batman Post-Crisis #94
Batman/Wildcat (Batman/Wildcat
The fight of the century is on! In one corner, Justice Society of America member Wildcat, the greatest bare-knuckle scrapper on the planet. In the other corner, the Dark Knight himself, Batman! Who will win when two of the greatest fighters go toe to toe? It'll take more than muscle if these two heroes want to try and shut down a secret superhuman fighting ring that's killing their combatants...and that’s if they don’t kill each other first!
Written by critically acclaimed author Chuck Dixon, this graphic novel pits Wildcat against two Gotham City greats--Batman and Catwoman! Collects the full BATMAN/WILDCAT and CATWOMAN/WILDCAT miniseries as well as five additional classic Wildcat team-ups from THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD.
Written by critically acclaimed author Chuck Dixon, this graphic novel pits Wildcat against two Gotham City greats--Batman and Catwoman! Collects the full BATMAN/WILDCAT and CATWOMAN/WILDCAT miniseries as well as five additional classic Wildcat team-ups from THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD.
276 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 30, 2017
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Chuck Dixon
3,426 books1,029 followersCharles "Chuck" Dixon is an American comic book writer, perhaps best-known for long runs on Batman titles in the 1990s.
His earliest comics work was writing Evangeline first for Comico Comics in 1984 (then later for First Comics, who published the on-going series), on which he worked with his then-wife, the artist Judith Hunt. His big break came one year later, when editor Larry Hama hired him to write back-up stories for Marvel Comics' The Savage Sword of Conan.
In 1986, he began working for Eclipse Comics, writing Airboy with artist Tim Truman. Continuing to write for both Marvel and (mainly) Eclipse on these titles, as well as launching Strike! with artist Tom Lyle in August 1987 and Valkyrie with artist Paul Gulacy in October 1987, he began work on Carl Potts' Alien Legion series for Marvel's Epic Comics imprint, under editor Archie Goodwin. He also produced a three-issue adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit for Eclipse with artist David Wenzel between 1989 and 1990, and began writing Marc Spector: Moon Knight in June 1989.
His Punisher OGN Kingdom Gone (August, 1990) led to him working on the monthly The Punisher War Journal (and later, more monthly and occasional Punisher titles), and also brought him to the attention of DC Comics editor Denny O'Neil, who asked him to produce a Robin mini-series. The mini proved popular enough to spawn two sequels - The Joker's Wild (1991) and Cry of the Huntress (1992) - which led to both an ongoing monthly series (which Dixon wrote for 100 issues before leaving to work with CrossGen Comics), and to Dixon working on Detective Comics from #644-738 through the major Batman stories KnightFall & KnightsEnd (for which he helped create the key character of Bane), DC One Million , Contagion , Legacy , Cataclysm and No Man's Land . Much of his run was illustrated by Graham Nolan.
He was DC's most prolific Batman-writer in the mid-1990s (rivalled perhaps in history by Bill Finger and Dennis O'Neil) - in addition to writing Detective Comics he pioneered the individual series for Robin , Nightwing (which he wrote for 70 issues, and returned to briefly with 2005's #101) and Batgirl , as well as creating the team and book Birds of Prey .
While writing multiple Punisher and Batman comics (and October 1994's Punisher/Batman crossover), he also found time to launch Team 7 for Jim Lee's WildStorm/Image and Prophet for Rob Liefeld's Extreme Studios. He also wrote many issues of Catwoman and Green Arrow , regularly having about seven titles out each and every month between the years 1993 and 1998.
In March, 2002, Dixon turned his attention to CrossGen's output, salthough he co-wrote with Scott Beatty the origin of Barbara Gordon's Batgirl in 2003's Batgirl: Year One. For CrossGen he took over some of the comics of the out-going Mark Waid, taking over Sigil from #21, and Crux with #13. He launched Way of the Rat in June 2002, Brath (March '03), The Silken Ghost (June '03) and the pirate comic El Cazador (Oct '03), as well as editing Robert Rodi's non-Sigilverse The Crossovers. He also wrote the Ruse spin-off Archard's Agents one-shots in January and November '03 and April '04, the last released shortly before CrossGen's complete collapse forced the cancellation of all of its comics, before which Dixon wrote a single issue of Sojourn (May '04). Dixon's Way of the Rat #24, Brath #14 and El Cazador #6 were among the last comics released from the then-bankrupt publisher.
On June 10, 2008, Dixon announced on his forum that he was no longer "employed by DC Comics in any capacity."
His earliest comics work was writing Evangeline first for Comico Comics in 1984 (then later for First Comics, who published the on-going series), on which he worked with his then-wife, the artist Judith Hunt. His big break came one year later, when editor Larry Hama hired him to write back-up stories for Marvel Comics' The Savage Sword of Conan.
In 1986, he began working for Eclipse Comics, writing Airboy with artist Tim Truman. Continuing to write for both Marvel and (mainly) Eclipse on these titles, as well as launching Strike! with artist Tom Lyle in August 1987 and Valkyrie with artist Paul Gulacy in October 1987, he began work on Carl Potts' Alien Legion series for Marvel's Epic Comics imprint, under editor Archie Goodwin. He also produced a three-issue adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit for Eclipse with artist David Wenzel between 1989 and 1990, and began writing Marc Spector: Moon Knight in June 1989.
His Punisher OGN Kingdom Gone (August, 1990) led to him working on the monthly The Punisher War Journal (and later, more monthly and occasional Punisher titles), and also brought him to the attention of DC Comics editor Denny O'Neil, who asked him to produce a Robin mini-series. The mini proved popular enough to spawn two sequels - The Joker's Wild (1991) and Cry of the Huntress (1992) - which led to both an ongoing monthly series (which Dixon wrote for 100 issues before leaving to work with CrossGen Comics), and to Dixon working on Detective Comics from #644-738 through the major Batman stories KnightFall & KnightsEnd (for which he helped create the key character of Bane), DC One Million , Contagion , Legacy , Cataclysm and No Man's Land . Much of his run was illustrated by Graham Nolan.
He was DC's most prolific Batman-writer in the mid-1990s (rivalled perhaps in history by Bill Finger and Dennis O'Neil) - in addition to writing Detective Comics he pioneered the individual series for Robin , Nightwing (which he wrote for 70 issues, and returned to briefly with 2005's #101) and Batgirl , as well as creating the team and book Birds of Prey .
While writing multiple Punisher and Batman comics (and October 1994's Punisher/Batman crossover), he also found time to launch Team 7 for Jim Lee's WildStorm/Image and Prophet for Rob Liefeld's Extreme Studios. He also wrote many issues of Catwoman and Green Arrow , regularly having about seven titles out each and every month between the years 1993 and 1998.
In March, 2002, Dixon turned his attention to CrossGen's output, salthough he co-wrote with Scott Beatty the origin of Barbara Gordon's Batgirl in 2003's Batgirl: Year One. For CrossGen he took over some of the comics of the out-going Mark Waid, taking over Sigil from #21, and Crux with #13. He launched Way of the Rat in June 2002, Brath (March '03), The Silken Ghost (June '03) and the pirate comic El Cazador (Oct '03), as well as editing Robert Rodi's non-Sigilverse The Crossovers. He also wrote the Ruse spin-off Archard's Agents one-shots in January and November '03 and April '04, the last released shortly before CrossGen's complete collapse forced the cancellation of all of its comics, before which Dixon wrote a single issue of Sojourn (May '04). Dixon's Way of the Rat #24, Brath #14 and El Cazador #6 were among the last comics released from the then-bankrupt publisher.
On June 10, 2008, Dixon announced on his forum that he was no longer "employed by DC Comics in any capacity."
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December 10, 2017
The first two miniseries by Chuck Dixon and Beau Smith are pretty terrible. They have minimal story and some awful art by Sergio Cariello. The bright spot were all of the old Batman / Wildcat team-ups from the 70's in the Brave and the Bold by Bob Haney.
August 28, 2017
The two Chuck Dixon mini series that begin this collection are mostly 1990's dumbness and bad art. Even the strangely great chemistry Dixon creates between Catwoman and Wildcat can't elevate most of this collection above its lazy art. But then a funny thing happens. For some strange and wonderful reasons the editors of this collection decided to five bronze age, Bob Haney written, Brave and the Bold issues that feature Batman and Wildcat and magic happens. Haney is such a odd duck and having two of the stories set in Mexico let's him write in his and only his best 1970's spanglish. The results of those and really all five issues are a delight that turned this collection from a chore into a guilty pleasure.
November 16, 2025
Batman/Wildcat collects the three-issue limited series published in 1997, written by Chuck Dixon and Beau Smith and illustrated by Sergio Cariello, where Batman and Wildcat work together to uncover an underground fight club. As events spiral, Batman and Wildcat eventually find themselves pitted against one another.
The following year, the same creative team released a four-issue Catwoman/Wildcat limited series, which is also collected in this book. Ted Grant (Wildcat) trained Selina Kyle (Catwoman) when she was young, so it was nice to see the two reunited. This story also reveals that Selina had a crush on Ted when she was younger. Will she act on it now that she’s older?
I like Cariello’s art. However, if you’re not into 90s storytelling or 90s art, this book also collects five Bronze Age Brave and the Bold issues featuring Wildcat, illustrated by Jim Aparo, Irv Novick and Bob Brown. I’m really glad DC collected these issues in this book.
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The following year, the same creative team released a four-issue Catwoman/Wildcat limited series, which is also collected in this book. Ted Grant (Wildcat) trained Selina Kyle (Catwoman) when she was young, so it was nice to see the two reunited. This story also reveals that Selina had a crush on Ted when she was younger. Will she act on it now that she’s older?
I like Cariello’s art. However, if you’re not into 90s storytelling or 90s art, this book also collects five Bronze Age Brave and the Bold issues featuring Wildcat, illustrated by Jim Aparo, Irv Novick and Bob Brown. I’m really glad DC collected these issues in this book.
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June 24, 2018
Took me a while to come to the end but yeey, here we are. When I'm buying books, first I look always on pieces with Batman I do not own yet. So, as always, I chose to buy this (expecting nothing of it) over 3 other (maybe better) ones. Anyway, I jumped again into lazy artwork of 90's which I love. It was fun read, great teamups and fights and fights and fights.. Wildcat's amazing as always, superpowers no needed to kick some villains.
November 9, 2025
This collects the Batman/Wildcat and Catwoman/Wildcat mini-series from the late 90s (the former is better than that latter, but both have their charms) as well as a handful of Batman/Wildcat team-ups from The Brave and the Bold. Those tales are a mixed bag, depending on your tolerance for zany Haney, but the last 3 have artwork from Jim Aparo to sweeten the deal. I'm rounding up from an overall 3.5 stars.
December 24, 2017
The first miniseries was decent, but nothing special. The Catwoman team up was just had and she was grossly over sexualized. The retro teamups were cool to see, but none werr very good. I'd say skip this one.
June 20, 2022
Great read. Art is a bit uneven for me but decent overall. Wildcat was always one of the characters I wanted to see more of and in this collection we get some of his adventures with Batman and even quite a long story with Catwoman. Worth your time Bat fans!
June 1, 2017
First story was good. Rest was not. Lots of old reprints after that.
July 18, 2017
A fun read. Batman and Wildcat, then Wildcat and Catwoman along with some old Brave and Bold Batman/Wildcat Team Ups.
When they get together there is going to be a fight! Lots of them!
When they get together there is going to be a fight! Lots of them!
July 24, 2020
I normally really like Dixon as a writer but I didn’t connect to this story. I’m not a huge Wildcat fan so that might be part of it.
May 2, 2022
This was pretty fun. I like how it never took itself seriously, and overall was just a fun book.
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May 21, 2022
First few stories were good but the last one was so racist I'm honestly disgusted
January 14, 2024
A combination of hot 90’s garbage and weird 70s fun.
August 6, 2024
Bit of a mixed bag, Dixon affiliated issues are the best in the collection. Liked the Catwoman arc better than Batman.
March 16, 2025
Bangers and Mash - a character I've never read - Wildcat
May 18, 2025
Very boring stories, and the artwork at times is very bad, don't buy it, not enjoyable at all.
July 9, 2025
huh. i read this.
March 4, 2025
Bloodsport Arena, Las Vegas heist gone bad, multiple Silver Age goodness. This is Wildcat (Fomrer Heavyweight Champ Ted Grant) in a huge range of stories that showcase not just his character, but also what makes him far more than just 'Batman without a utility belt'.
First up is one of Wildcat's first stories after the death of Yolanda Montez, the young woman who took over for Ted after he was paralyzed near the end of Crisis on Infinite Earths. A boxing protege of Ted's found his costume and began going out under his alter-ego. Soon, he was captured by Lock-up (a Batman villain) and forced into a series of illegal fights where he was eventually murdered by Killer Croc.
To make a three-issue mini-series short, Ted meets up with Batman, they fight in true four-color tradition, and then bring down the whole fight club around the bad guys' ears. At the end, Bats and Robin (Tim Drake) convince Ted to stay in the game. Thank goodness!
Our next tale is Wildcat taking on the crooked boxing game in Las Vegas. He crosses paths with Catwoman (superbly drawn and inked by Sergio Cariello and Tom Palmer.) This four-issue mini-series is even more brutal than the team-up with Batman. Seriously, you will wince and cringe in the second two issues so often, that you may worry you have an involuntary tic by the last page.
In the end however, Wildcat is on a helicopter with Catwoman, trying to decide if Paris is nice enough for their second date. Lucky !@#$%^&. Both of these series are co-written by Chuck Dixon and Beau Smith, so they are not for the faint of heart, snowflakes, SJWs, and anyone else who thinks a micro-aggression is a real thing. If you don't like that sentence, this probably isn't a book for you.
The TPB is rounded out with the first five Batman/Wildcat team-ups from the old Brave and Bold title. Each one a solid tale, with Ted getting his feet wet in the mystery-men pool after at least a decade out of it. These start just as the JLA/JSA team-ups were getting into full-swing, but these tales take place on Earth-B, where Wildcat and the SA Batman are on the same world. For the most part, they do not fit into the continuity of Earth-1 or -2, but they are still an incredible amount of fun.
If you haven't guessed by now, Wildcat is a favorite of mine. I became a fan way back with a copy of JLA that reprinted the first JLA/JSA crossover. Included in that same issue was a previously unpublished story of Wildcat from the Golden Age. The art was a big step above the average issue back then and the story was as well. The only problem was obsessively collecting every appearance of Wildcat since then. Thank goodness for the DC Archives!
Needless to say,
FIND IT! BUY IT! READ IT!
First up is one of Wildcat's first stories after the death of Yolanda Montez, the young woman who took over for Ted after he was paralyzed near the end of Crisis on Infinite Earths. A boxing protege of Ted's found his costume and began going out under his alter-ego. Soon, he was captured by Lock-up (a Batman villain) and forced into a series of illegal fights where he was eventually murdered by Killer Croc.
To make a three-issue mini-series short, Ted meets up with Batman, they fight in true four-color tradition, and then bring down the whole fight club around the bad guys' ears. At the end, Bats and Robin (Tim Drake) convince Ted to stay in the game. Thank goodness!
Our next tale is Wildcat taking on the crooked boxing game in Las Vegas. He crosses paths with Catwoman (superbly drawn and inked by Sergio Cariello and Tom Palmer.) This four-issue mini-series is even more brutal than the team-up with Batman. Seriously, you will wince and cringe in the second two issues so often, that you may worry you have an involuntary tic by the last page.
In the end however, Wildcat is on a helicopter with Catwoman, trying to decide if Paris is nice enough for their second date. Lucky !@#$%^&. Both of these series are co-written by Chuck Dixon and Beau Smith, so they are not for the faint of heart, snowflakes, SJWs, and anyone else who thinks a micro-aggression is a real thing. If you don't like that sentence, this probably isn't a book for you.
The TPB is rounded out with the first five Batman/Wildcat team-ups from the old Brave and Bold title. Each one a solid tale, with Ted getting his feet wet in the mystery-men pool after at least a decade out of it. These start just as the JLA/JSA team-ups were getting into full-swing, but these tales take place on Earth-B, where Wildcat and the SA Batman are on the same world. For the most part, they do not fit into the continuity of Earth-1 or -2, but they are still an incredible amount of fun.
If you haven't guessed by now, Wildcat is a favorite of mine. I became a fan way back with a copy of JLA that reprinted the first JLA/JSA crossover. Included in that same issue was a previously unpublished story of Wildcat from the Golden Age. The art was a big step above the average issue back then and the story was as well. The only problem was obsessively collecting every appearance of Wildcat since then. Thank goodness for the DC Archives!
Needless to say,
FIND IT! BUY IT! READ IT!
June 30, 2024
(20 September, 2023)
The stories in this compilation are not ordered chronologically but seem to be so in quality. The first Batman/Wildcat is fine, with some food for thought toward the end, with both chatting about how to live with the memories of deceased protégés. Then it's the Catwoman/Wildcat team-up with plenty of action and some talk of what it takes to be considered a loyal friend (and maybe more?). After that it's back to Batman and Wildcat: old, dated and very simple adventures with a bit of action, little intrigue and so-so art (with a terrible looking Wildcat). That's it.
The stories in this compilation are not ordered chronologically but seem to be so in quality. The first Batman/Wildcat is fine, with some food for thought toward the end, with both chatting about how to live with the memories of deceased protégés. Then it's the Catwoman/Wildcat team-up with plenty of action and some talk of what it takes to be considered a loyal friend (and maybe more?). After that it's back to Batman and Wildcat: old, dated and very simple adventures with a bit of action, little intrigue and so-so art (with a terrible looking Wildcat). That's it.
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