Recap / Cat Tales

A recap of the Cat Tales series (not counting spinoffs).

• Note: Fics #1-63 are available on both Fanfiction.Net and the official Cat Tales website. Fics 64 and beyond are only available on the official Cat Tales website.

Book 1

• 01. A Girl's Gotta Protect Her Reputation
  • Selina Kyle is tired of the stories about her in the Gotham Post, so she starts her own one-woman theater show to get the truth out there.

• 02. Normal
  • Bruce & Selina try to make sense out of their relationship.
• 03. Heard the Latest?
  • Bruce & Selina aren't the only Gothamites with private lives between the panels.
• 04. Catfight
  • You know what a catfight is, right?
• 05. Such an Idiot
  • It was only a matter of time before Batman realized the implications of his new girlfriend's criminal connections.
• 06. Domestic Affairs
  • Man does not live by crimefighting alone .
• 07. Fun 'n' Games
  • Bruce Wayne's Catwoman fantasy comes to life because Giovanni D'Annunzio is a snob, the Velkstad Ballet is a bore, and Joker is downright insane.
• 08. Plan 9 from the Demon's Head
  • Smart Demon, Foolish Choices.
• 09. Satori
  • A romance begins with fun and thrills, even for Batman and Catwoman. It can't last, even for Batman and Catwoman. Time for angst.
• 10. The R-Word
  • If a certain Gothamite has really reformed, there's bound to be fallout.

• 11. Watering Hole
  • The Gotham Rogues, and even some of the heroes who oppose them, have a source for their gear. So when Kittlemeier goes missing, a handful must find out what's happened to him.
• 12. We Gather Together
  • It's Thanksgiving at Wayne Manor, and the Bat-Family, Jim Gordon and Lucius Fox and his family are in attendance.
• 13. Knight Before Christmas
  • While Bruce and Selina attend Harley Quinn's Christmas get-together for the Rogues, Dick proposes to Barbara.

• 14. Times Gone By
  • After New Year's, Selina unknowingly experiences her first Hell Month and gets kidnapped by Ra's al Ghul.

Book 2

• 15. Something Old
  • Joker has been released from Arkham and tries to prove to the world that the Gotham Post is wrong - he's not actually dead. Meanwhile, the Finn family next door is hosting delegates for an international food and wine festival, and asks Bruce to host the actual seminars, leading to Bruce meeting a surprise visitor from Selina's past - her ex, Comte François de Poulignac.

• 16. Something New
  • Joker in Arkham doesn't necessarily mean Joker's out of the game.
• 17. Something Borrowed
  • Borrowed like borrowed, or borrowed like STOLEN? This isn't a Martha Stewart Wedding.
• 18. Something Blue
  • Blue - (1) a primary color (2) off-color, suggestive or lewd

• 19. Dearly Beloved
  • Dick and Barbara are finally getting married.

• 20. KnightLife
  • An ordinary night in the life of Batman... before complications set in.
• 21. What's New Pussycat
  • Heard the Latest? The Gotham Rumor mill is a force of nature.

• 22. Pussywhipped
  • F. Miller, author of Catwoman: an Unauthorized Biography, is in town. Selina is not happy, and decides to take matters into her own hands.
• 23. Loose Ends
  • Dick decides that if he's going to stay in Gotham, he needs to take down Roland Desmond, the lead crime boss of Bludhaven, once and for all. But to do that, he needs help from Batman, Catwoman and Oracle.
• 24. Trick or Treat
  • Bruce and Selina attend a Halloween party at an Exhibit celebrating the Mystery Whodunit, only for it to take an unexpected turn courtesy of Scarecrow, who feels snubbed when Bruce doesn't prioritize the Rogues' annual Halloween party instead, and doses him with fear toxin in retaliation.

• 25. Torches
  • Vignettes of unrequited love, Country Music, and Bao Tu Jambon.
• 26. Blonde Jokes
  • Joker's telling blonde jokes instead of killing people - and that's not even the weird part.
• 27. Secrets
  • Houdini's Tome of Secrets is up for sale in Gotham. Riddler wants it, curses be damned, and so does Zatanna.

• 28. Awkward Pauses
  • When Sly moves to Key West to open his own bar, four of the Gotham City Rogues decide to take a roadtrip in order to bring him home. Meanwhile, at Bruce's insistence, Selina spends her second Hell Month in Paris, only to return early, and Cassie falls for a former Joker henchman turned interim bartender at the Iceberg.

Book 3

• 29. Highland Games
  • Life goes on after Hell Month: but if Selina DID move in with Bruce Wayne, what would become of her rent controlled penthouse on the park?
• 30. Splitzville
  • Joker and Harley have split... Meanwhile, far from Gotham...
• 31. An Arkham Tale
  • Life is never dull in Dr. Jerry's House-o-Fun.
• 32. Women Lacking Complexity
  • The Women of Gotham... and the men they confuse.

• 33. Cattitude
  • Selina finally cleans out her closet full of odds and ends, while recalling her personal history.

• 34. An Iceberg Tale
  • Making your way in Gotham today takes everything you got...
• 35. Go Rin No Sho
  • The Book of Five Rings: Samurai Manual of Combat Strategy. The problem? How can Bruce Wayne be a playboy with a live-in girlfriend?
• 36. World's Finest: Red Cape, Big City
  • Magic, Madness and Murder, three things Batman hates most. They arrive in a single night, and Clark Kent is coming into Gotham Tomorrow. This cannot end well.
• 37. Strange Bedfellows
  • Developments in Washington are about to impact Gotham.
• 38. Fool
  • In Shakespeare only the Fool can mock the king. In Gotham... It's Harley's birthday.

• 39. Polishing Silver
  • Gotham through the eyes of Alfred Pennyworth, in the events before and after the death of Stephanie Brown.

• 40. Perennials
  • No Two-Face? No Harley Quinn? Poison Ivy is not happy, and when Gaia's Chosen isn't happy...
• 41. Identity Element
  • A Hell-Month like never before as fallout from Identity Crisis reaches Gotham.

Book 4

• 42. Deja Vu All Over Again
  • Ever have that strange feeling this has all happened before?

• 43. Napoleon's Plan
  • Ra's al Ghul goes through his latest rejuvenation, Harvey has lunch with Bruce and Selina (which Ra's interrupts), and Oswald, after being the victim of an unintentional Paranoia Gambit, discovers March of the Penguins. Meanwhile, Talia finally decides to follow her heart and begin a new life with Greg Brady, as the two permanently leave town together.
• 44. String Theory
  • In the aftermath of "Identity Crisis", a number of alternate Batmen are using seeing rituals to try and find if Selina's change in attitude was caused by Zatanna's magic, culminating in Wayne Manor becoming a nexus where these alternate dimensions meet... and now Selina must travel between these dimensions in order to set things right, all so she can access one particular world and achieve the ultimate goal of the Crisis: the permanent removal of Zatanna's magic from existence.

• 45. Fortune Cookies
  • After the Crisis Catverse, there's a lot of Gothamites to catch up with.
• 46. The Gotham Post
  • Once a tabloid went too far, Catwoman responded, and Gotham has never been the same. Wait til you see what happens this time...
• 47. Blueprints
  • After the Gotham After Dark Fundraiser, every rogue in Gotham is up the river. That must be good news for Batman, right? RIGHT?
• 48. amuse bouche
  • \a-'myuz bush\ [Fr.] to amuse the mouth, a small bite before the meal begins.
• 49. The New Black
  • Could it be the new society trend? Have rogues become "the new black"?

• 50. 00000-001
  • Life in Gotham takes an unexpected turn when Bruce gets a clue that could lead him to the man who killed his parents.

Book 5

• 51. Riddle Me-Tropolis
  • Edward Nigma has had enough of Gotham City and decides to start a crime spree in Metropolis instead, only to find its resident hero isn't up to the mental challenge and has to recruit Batman for help. While they're away, the Iceberg Lounge accidentally gets burned down.
• 52. Vault
  • While the Penguin is in Arkham, Sly sets up an interim replacement for the Iceberg, and Selina goes to Switzerland to investigate a robbery from the bank she uses there.

• 53. Short Tales
  • Interlinked tales of Bat, Cat, and Gotham.
• 54. War of the Poses
  • All Sly wanted was to get through Vault's opening night without running out of bourbon. He never meant to crown Catwoman queen of the underworld. Nevertheless...

• 55. I Believe in Harvey Dent
  • When Two-Face mysteriously reappears, Bruce and Selina must figure out what caused it. Meanwhile, Oswald Cobblepot is finally emerging from Arkham to rebuild the Iceberg.
• 56. Armchair Detective
  • Bruce is out of action thanks to his old back injury being aggravated, forcing Selina to act as his field agent while he solves a murder from a distance.
• 57. Not My Kink
  • While Bruce is out of action, Catwoman patrols the city in his place. She's not too happy about it.
• 58. Demon's in the Details
  • Ra's al Ghul is up to another scheme, seeking to take over an ancient Atlantean outpost and capture a number of scientists (including a disguised Tim) to work for him.
• 59. Do No Harm
  • While Tim works on a project for one of his college courses, he, Bruce, Selina and others reminisce about previously untold events from Bruce and Selina's first year as an official couple.

Book 6

• 60. Don't Fear the Joker
  • Scarecrow decides to try and learn how to make himself scarier by studying the Joker. Instead, he inadvertently inspires Joker to start copying the themes from the other Rogues and putting his own disturbing spin on them.
• 61. Electron 29
  • Riddler's suffering from a run of bad luck after getting conned into buying a bad cell phone, and works with Selina and Clayface to con the con artists back and turn his luck around.
• 62. À Bon Chat, Bon Rat
  • Bruce and Selina visit Paris and wind up taking down a ring of thieves together.
• 63. Trophies
  • A break-in at a jewelry store where Batman, Catwoman and Penguin once clashed leads to Bruce bringing home one of their now discontinued displays for the trophy room of his cave. While reorganizing, he tells Selina the story behind some of the stranger items in there.
• 64. Comedy of Errors
  • Somehow the Rogues get the idea that Bruce and Selina are engaged, and when some want to stop it while others are in favor, they wind up wreaking havoc on a wedding that was meant to unite two mob families. Meanwhile, Bane makes a return when Batman suspects he might somehow be involved in the strange events happening.
• 65. The Gotham Rogues
  • In the aftermath of the failed Pelacci-Marcuso wedding, war breaks out between the Rogues and the Falcone crime family, who are furious at the Rogues for their actions. Meanwhile, Bane finds himself in the middle of matters when he returns to Gotham in order to remind the city of who he is and what he once did to Batman.
• 66. Wayne Rises
  • There's a mysterious new cat burglar in town, and newcomer Falstaff Gregorian is stirring things up around Wayne Enterprises, the Wayne Foundation and their special events. These happenings are all leading up to a surprise... Bruce's proposal to Selina.

Book 7

• 67. Inside an Enigma
  • While the majority of the Rogues are in Arkham and Selina goes to Paris to investigate diamond thefts, a new theme criminal starts her career in Gotham... and upon returning, Selina must both identify her and persuade Jim Gordon to come out of retirement and become Police Commissioner again. She succeeds in both, not only confirming the new thief as Riddler's old girlfriend Doris, but helping her become better at what she does.
• 68. NMK Inc
  • Jim Gordon is back as Police Commissioner. Meanwhile, magic once again interferes in Bruce and Selina's life when some spirits they accidentally woke years ago prompt romantic rivals to appear in their lives - Lex for Bruce, who tries to woo Selina, and an unwitting Poison Ivy for Selina, who's showing interest in Bruce without even realizing it.
• 69. Spontaneous Generation
  • Poison Ivy has undergone a massive mutation that makes her more plant than human, and intends to use her new powers to finally satisfy her greatest desires... forcing Bruce to take extreme steps to end her threat and in the process, de-power her while saving her life once and for all.
• 70. The Neighborhood
  • Bruce and Selina adapt secret identities, including Bruce's go-to of Matches Malone, and go undercover in an effort to shut down the Irish Mob in Hell's Kitchen.
• 71. The Knight of the Mirrors
  • Lex Luthor decides to stir up trouble again, while Joker ends up causing some mischief all his own as a result.
• 72. Pearl
  • Under Catwoman's tutelage, Batman creates a new cover identity for himself as a thief.

• 73. The Engagement Party
  • This is really happening. Bruce and Selina's march down the aisle begins.
• 74. Gifts
  • Bruce Wayne's Bachelor Party, Selina Kyle's Bachelorette, and it turns out there are actually worse wedding gifts than Booster Gold's.
• 75. Ever Fixed
  • Bruce and Selina's wedding day has finally arrived.
• 76. Mrs. Wayne