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This is an image of Tigra (real name Greer Grant Nelson), a female superhero (superheroine) that appears in Marvel Comics.
In the near future, would you like a movie made about Tigra?
If so, is there an actress or actresses that you want to have play Tigra?
To show you what Tigra looks like and the sort of adventures that she gets involved in, a chronological series of comic book covers featuring her, from 1972 to 2023, are presented.
Tigra first appeared in The Claws of the Cat No. 1 in 1972 and was created by writer-editor Roy Thomas and artist Wally Wood, and Marie Sevrin was then brought in to help with the art.
Her early adventures were written by Linda Fite.
Tigra first appeared as the superpowered and gadget-wielding crimefighter the Cat.
She mutated into the superpowered tiger-woman Tigra in Giant-Size Creatures No. 1 in 1974 by writer Tony Isabella and artist Don Perlin.
Greer Grant was a sophomore at the University of Chicago when she met her future husband, policeman Bill Nelson.
She left college to marry him.
Bill was killed in an off-duty shooting, and Greer had to find a job of her own.
She ran into her old physics professor, Dr. Joanne Tumulo, and signed on as her research assistant.
Dr. Tumulo was working on human enhancement methods effective for women and decided to let Greer undergo the treatment, which gave Greer enhanced physical and mental capabilities, including the the peculiar tendency to feel others’ pain.
Dr. Tumulo also gave the treatment to another female, Shirlee, who due to mind control by Dr. Tumolo’s financial backer, Malcom Donalbain, was intended to be a mindless superhuman enforcer.
Shirlee died from falling when testing a grapple-claw and Dr. Tumolo gave Greer a Cat costume and a gadget set, as evidence of Donalbain’s plan.
Dr. Tumolo’s lab was bombed and Greer donned the suit and defeated Donalbain, resulting in Donalbain’s death.
Greer then embarked on a brief crimefighting career as the Cat.
In 1974. the Cat was revamped as the superpowered part-animal Tigra, starting in Giant-Size Creatures No. 1.
Greer, as the Cat, was mortally injured by a blast from an alpha radiation pistol.
Greer regained consciousness surrounded by a gathering of Cat People, who are a humanoid race created by sorcery during the Dark Ages.
Greer was offered one last hope of survival: a combination of ancient science, sorcery, and mental power that would transform her into Tigra, the Cat People’s legendary half-human, half-cat warrior.
She readily consented, began wearing only her black bikini from this time on, and arose from the ceremony as a superhumanly-powered human-animal hybrid.
Stripped fur covered her entire body, her hands and feet bore razor-sharp claws, her teeth became long and pointed, and her eyes were now cat’s eyes.
In addition to superhuman strength and senses, she also gained many of the drives and instincts of a cat.
Though initially unable to change back to her human self, Tigra received from the Cat People, a mystical cat-headed amulet that allowed her to first create the illusion of her human form and later to change at will.
She seldom made use of it, preferring her feline superpowered form and mostly abandoning her life as Greer Nelson.
Greer resumed her superhero career, with most of the world unaware that the woman who briefly fought crime as the Cat was now the feline Tigra.
She fights along side many Marvel characters, including the West Coast Avengers, and recently Moon Knight.
