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‘BATMAN ’66′ WRITER JEFF PARKER AND ARTIST COLLEEN COOVER: THE COMICSALLIANCE INTERVIEW, PART TWO

ComicsAlliance: Let’s talk about Batgirl
Jeff Parker: The first Batgirl story and the first Eartha Kitt Catwoman story, which was drawn by Colleen Coover.
Colleen Coover: And like you said before about never telling the origin story, we never tell why Catwoman is different.
JP: There’s no explanation for why she’s suddenly a foot shorter and black. She just is.
CC: And awesome, and a little bit more mean.
JP: Right, because her Catwoman was a little more mean. Although, Julie Newmar was pretty mean.
CA: She does suggest that she and Batman murder Robin so they can have an uninterrupted date.
JP: As if you can’t simply send Robin away for a while. You have to kill him.
CA: Boarding schools exist! But why did you want to do the Eartha Kitt version? You’d already used the Julie Newmar version in the first story with Jonathan Case, so was it just a matter of recreating the feel of the show and how sometimes you’d get John Astin as the Riddler with no explanation?
CC: And also so that I could draw Eartha Kitt.
JP: That was the main point, yes. You may remember that Colleen sang an Eartha Kitt song on your podcast, and I work a song into the story.
CC: It’s a different song, though, “I Want To Be Evil.” I sang “Santa Baby.” I don’t know if you remember, but Eartha Kitt was smokin’ hot.
JP: I guess the implication was that she was hooking up with the villains, whereas before, you never thought Catwoman was hooking up with the villains. She was only interested in Batman.

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