Catwoman Gets a Makeover

December 17th: Eight days and counting…

Yes, we just had Catwoman ready for the tree a couple days ago, but this is The New Batman Adventures Catwoman.

And, a new addition to my super hero tree.

Complete with makeover for the new series that ran on Kids‘ WB from Sept. 13, 1997 to Jan. 16, 1999. TNBA was the successor to Batman the Animated Series which had just finished its 1992-95 run.

The New Batman Adventures were streamlined to easier facilitate animation and mimic Superman: the Animated Series which began airing a year earlier. In 1996 through 2000 the two partnered for become The New Batman/Superman Adventures.

While the series was curtailed before the new millennium, it did serve as a template for the 2001 and 2003 video games, Batman: Vengeance and Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu, respectively.

Catwoman was revamped with an all-black bodysuit similar to the one to be used in Batman Returns. Most of the other rogues gallery received an upgrade as well.

Appropriately enough, the new series kicked off with Holiday Knights, three holiday-themed vignettes beginning December 22 with Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy, followed by Batgirl and a straight out brawler between Batman and Robin and the Joker on New Year’s Eve.